I love stuff like this….
Aug 11
Reliving my state by state travels… (or how to kill 30 minutes writing)
Where’s Ed-O?
This was prompted from a Facebook posting. Someone had charted out the states they’d visited and I got to wondering about how many states I’d been to.
Here’s my list with some thoughts about each one I’ve visited. (Some states have thoughts best left to my own mind)
The post that prompted this said airports don’t count, but you can do it any way you like. I included them. Only gave me one extra anyway.
Alabama – Pressbox at ‘Bama is like a museum
Alaska –
Arizona – Hotel had barbershop quarter convention going on. (Noisy)
Arkansas – Flew there for job prospect. Interviewer was a no show. Got free lunch.
California – Greatest dinner experience of my life one night. (plus Disneyland)
Colorado – Sign on a casino “Dunkin Donuts with jackpot!”
Connecticut –
Delaware – Drove through it after picking up a car in Baltimore. The car barely lasted longer than my time in Deleware..
Florida – Must you even ask?
Georgia – Ahh.. the old double barrelled cannon in Athens
Hawaii – Most beautiful hotel I ever stayed in. (since torn down)
Idaho –
Illinois – Bought a model Batmobile in Rock Island as a child
Indiana – Used to pass some big popcorn place on way to Bloomington
Iowa – I was a kid. I remember corn.
Kansas – Remember wondering if I’d ever see civilization again.
One time… in Kansas….
Kentucky – Go Big Blue!!!
Louisiana – Cab ride from hell with Jack Hanna
Maine –
Maryland – Bad memories. Need a follow up trip to establish good ones.
Massachusetts –
Michigan – Two weekends in a row Northwest stranded me in Detroit
Minnesota – You could see your breath in August
Mississippi – ‘Bozo the Clown’ at the Mississippi State Fair
Missouri – Cardinals, bay-beeeeee!
Montana – They sold Unabomber T shirts in the airport
Nebraska –
Nevada – Vegas, Reno!!! (and I don’t even gamble)
New Hampshire –
New Jersey – Caught a TD pass at the Meadowlands! (on top of Jimmy Hoffa)
New Mexico – Best chili beans I have ever eaten! (or expect to eat)
New York – World Trade Center, Empire State Bldg, Statue of Liberty all in a day
North Carolina – Ate alligator. First and only time.
North Dakota –
Ohio – Went to Cincy night the Reds won the World Series in ’75. EPIC!
Oklahoma – Cowboy Hall of Fame
Oregon – Fools visiting fools
Pennsylvania – Attempted landing on a mountaintop in winter; runway not visible
Rhode Island –
South Carolina – Moe Williams, 299 rushing, 427 all purpose yards (in the rain)
Moe Williams!!! (We’re not worthy… we’re not worthy….)
South Dakota –
Tennessee – Family Gatlinburg trips as a kid. Best ever.
Texas – Only time in my life I went to a ‘line dancing bar’
Utah – Great Salt Lake would NOT be my reason for going there.
Vermont –
Virginia – Drove from DC home through there. Pretty place.
Washington –
West Virginia –
Wisconsin – I was a kid, but I remember a cow or ten million….
Wyoming –
Summary findings. Eight is the average I’m told. I have 35. (Not counting Delaware)
Other thoughts:
- I need a trip to New England to up my numbers
- Best french fries of my life came from some little snack bar in Exton, PA.
- The ‘Frog Pond Lounge’ in Athens, Georgia was the best time EVER!
- Every time I hear ‘Wild Thing’ by Tone Loc, I’m taken back to a bar in Charlotte, North Carolina.
- Great elevator rides – Casey Kasem (and his hot wife!), Snake Stabler, Mike Love, Fran Tarkenton
- I received a phone call in the 80’s from either Tommy Boyce or Bobby Hart, and for the life of me I don’t know which one it was. (RIP Tommy Boyce)
Aug 07
Eddie Owen – R.I.P.
Rest In Peace Eddie Owen.
I didn’t know you. But I followed you for years.
I don’t know what happened to you, but I hope it wasn’t anything major. I hope you just had a bit of forgetfulness.
BTW, we’re talking the OTHER ‘Eddie Owen’.
If you started reading this thinking it was about me, sorry. (Especially if you HOPED it was about me!)
A bit of history. I’m a fan of URL’s. You know. Web addresses. The things you type in that little open box at the top of the page that takes you to all those magical places on the web. Sometimes for fun I play with a little availability engine I have that tells me whether certain URL’s are available. (It is most disturbing when I enter some off the wall idea and discover that there are minds out there as strange and warped as mine!)
I bought my first web address years ago. I don’t even remember the first one. Since then, I’ve probably had 30 or 40, which for people who fool with these is a pretty small number. From my active sites, to a number of them “on hold” for future projects.
Eddie Owen – Famous Yachtsman (not me)
But one I could never get. EddieOwen dot com. I remember checking early on and the let down feeling of knowing it wasn’t there. Yes, another Eddie Owen had beaten me. (I often wondered if it was the famous yachtsman of the same name….)
You see, I’ve been ‘Eddie’ to the people who’ve known me the longest. ‘Ed’ or ‘Edward’ to a few, especially if you met me after I came of voting age. Since I couldn’t have the ‘Eddie’ URL, I had an ‘Edward L Owen’ site. I had an ‘Ed Owen’ site. But ‘Eddie Owen’ remained elusive. Until now.
Richard Gere as ‘Edward Lewis’… (That’s my name you know…. well, Louis. Just thrown in for the hell of it.)
One day last week I thought, “I’ll check again”. Like I’d done dozens of times before. I expected nothing. To my shock it was available. Ninety seconds later it belonged to me.
That was all the incentive it took me to reopen my long dormant blog. Which you are reading. I took some of the old stuff, updated it, redated it and started the site redesign. It’s not complete. Never will be.
I’ll keep you posted on what’s going on personally and professionally. Sign up in the upper right corner and get email updates when I post.
I do hope nothing happened to the other Eddie Owen. No tragedies, etc. I just hope that for whatever reason the URL wasn’t renewed.
Regardless….
“I GOT YOUR SITE SUCKAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!”
