I am still so in love with you. When you leave, I don’t want you to. When you are not with me, I want you to be. When I am away, I want to come back to you. I am ashamed.
Tornadoes tore through downtown and a few surrounding neighborhoods here in Atlanta last night. My experience with it was just of some hail falling at my house with heavy rain, a cancelled trip to the bar, and not much else so far. Apparently my office, the CNN Center, was heavily damaged, but when I checked my work email just a few minutes ago, I was told that we would be back open for business on Monday. I hope all of the news will just hold off until then. If you were planning to do something newsworthy, please wait. The upside of this is that the electricity at my house did not even blink during the storm. This in a neighborhood where the whole power grid will often fail when just one neighbor adjusts his or her thermostat in the summer. Not even a flicker during this storm and it was one of the worst I have seen in the 4 years I have lived here. And now, since it is an election year, we have to find someone to blame for the storm, and I am pointing our finger at the Georgia Governor, Sonny Perdue. If you do not recall, back in November the governor held a prayer vigil on the steps of the capitol to pray for relief from the drought that is going on in Georgia. A few days later, lo and behold, it rained. My friends joked that of course Sonny had consulted with weather.com before deciding when to plan his vigil so that he could increase the likelihood of his “rayers” being answered. It all...
After much thumb-twiddling and general time-wasting at my new job, I was called into duty last week just days before I was to head off to the warmer climes for a few days of spring training baseball (more on this coming soon). The result of a couple of full-day-late-night-early-morning shifts is CNN’s delegate counter game which launched sometime late on Monday or early on Tuesday morning of this week. It allows you to speculate on how the democratic race for the nomination is effected by different outcomes in each of the remaining primary states. I was not at work on Monday or Tuesday, but while at home on Tuesday I was floored early in the morning to see the thing being used live on the CNN TV broadcast. As I am a TV virgin this was a total thrill to me. In addition, when I checked the traffic numbers we have had to the game so far, we are nearing one million visits. Considering that most of my projects at the AJC were lucky if they received traffic in totaling 5 digits, this is a much bigger stage. So, check it out and make it one million one visitors. Addendum: So I don’t try to toot my own horn too much, but I haven’t been feeling as naturally full of myself since starting the new gig, so I will use the blog here to inflate my ego. When I arrived at work yesterday, the second in command for CNN.com had left a thank you card and a $50 gift card to Ted’s Montana Grill on my desk. That’s 4...
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