Health of the Economy and the Feeder:

Are about the same. I think we’ve hit bottom and are beginning to move upward. Enough energy to pen a few pre-weekend this and that’s and events..

To Do’s (in no particular order):

County Fair: all weekend, always a unique event.

Student Recital – Today 3pm at SMCM Auerbach Aud in St. Mary’s hall. French horn and either piano or flute

Bass Sitar – Today Classical Indian musician, Ustad Imrat Kahn, lecture at 5 in Anne Arundel hall, concert 8:15

Chesapeake Explorers – Tomorrow 7pm – Calvert Marine Museum. A talk by Kent Mountford relating to his travels on the Chesapeake bay in a rigged ship following Capt. John Smith’s route. I think free.

Living History – Tomorrow Christ Church La Plata – 6pm. A docent from Dr. Sam Mudd house will portray Bridget, a servant there. Also a 5pm candelight tour of the church, and then a pre-civil war Dinner. 25 bucks. Not sure what that menu would be, but interesting.

Riverfest ’09 – Sunday, noon to six. Free. Historic St. Mary’s City , sponsored by the St. Mary’s Watershed Association. Lots of things to do.
Too bad nothing to do in St. Mary’s County

Feeder Feel Good

Sometimes I think I am being too severe in my “gripes” about servers, restaurants, etc. October Gourmet, pg 34, first annual “Golden Egg” awards. “The Six Words we’d Prefer to Never Hear from the Waitstaff Again”: 1st Place: “Are you still working on that?”; Runner up: “I’ll be your waiter this evening”. Hah. we're not so dumb!

Sports Bite:

Feeling cruddy on the couch yesterday, with no desire for anything else to do, I watched the first round of the Finale of the FedEx cup at Eastlake in Atlanta. Depite 500 year floods, the course was in great shape by the way. Anyway, it was interesting to see the networks vainly trying to put drama in this thing. If I hear the phrase “their destiny is in their hands” again, I’ll throw up. Excuse me, Tiger is in the field. Then, as coverage continued the silly woman commentator kept flashing up things like (remember, this is the first of four rounds): “(he) can win the cup if: Tiger finishes in a 5 way tie for 8th, (Furyk) places no higher that 17th, and Slocum is DQ’d. To his credit, Faldo pooh poohed all of this. And, to their credit, the players maintained all they wanted to do was shoot a good round and didn’t pay attention to the points. Faldo allowed as how the 11 Million was a drop in the bucket to tiger anyway. Oh, and the same silly woman started the coverage with a shot of aircraft overflying the course with “we’re having a flyover of F-5’s courtesy of NAS Key West”. They were dots before I could see what they were really.

have a fun weekend and
DFD