Where Has The Time Gone?
I can't believe it's been ten days since I've added anything here. Shannon was down this weekend, so I had better things to do than sit down and write. We walked some of the Ocmulgee Heritage Trail, along the river in downtown Macon. If you get the opportunity, check it out. If it's constructed according to their plans, this thing is going to be incredible. Lots of families, kids and pets on the existing section now.
We also did some walking and talking at the Ocmulgee National Park (referred to here in Macon as "The Indian Mounds"). The weather was perfect, and we had a fun time. Shannon got her first introduction to Geocaching. I hesitated bringing her into the fold, so to speak, for fear that she might object to the nerdy-ness of the hobby. Maybe she faked it, but she seemed to enjoy herself. If you aren't familiar with Geocaching, it's like a giant scavenger hunt, with items to be found all over the world. Just here in Georgia, there are over 1,000 caches to be found. I warn you, it can be addictive.
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From The Wall Street Journal's Opinion Web Page...
Readers keep sending us e-mails about scholars, medical professionals and others with funny names, so here's another list of them:
Astoria, N.Y., has an optometrist named Anastasios Fokas. Writes reader George Lenz: "We all got a laugh when my wife started going to a new optometrist and the receptionist said: "Dr. Fokas, Mrs. Lenz."
In Fort Collins, Colo., there's a urologist named Peter Standard. San Francisco dentist Les Plack "lives up to his name," Wired News reported in 2000. Let's hope Eagle River, Alaska, orthodontist Eldon DeKay doesn't live up to his.
If you needed your cornea reshaped, wouldn't you worry a bit if Dr. B. Stuart Trembly were conducting the procedure?
Along similar lines, would you go to a chiropractor named Alan Bonebreak? And then there's Stubbs Prosthetics & Orthotics of Chattanooga, Tenn.
Assembling the following list proved quite an undertaking:
the Bruce & Stiff Funeral Home, Appomattox, Va.; the Amigone Funeral Home, with 12 locations in the Buffalo, N.Y., area; Boxwell Brothers Funeral Directors, Amarillo, Texas; the Cease Funeral Home of Minnesota; Knell Mortuary, Carthage, Mo.; and the Deadman Funeral Home of Manchester, Tenn.
It's not clear if that last one is related to the Dedman Life Sciences Building at Southern Methodist University. And check out this 1999 announcement from International Jeweler magazine:
The American Gem Society's Jewelers Education Foundation, Las Vegas, NV, has named Lynn Diamond, executive director of the Diamond Promotion Service, to its board of governors. Diamond was formerly editor in chief and associate publisher of National Jeweler magazine. She has received the American Defense League's Torch of Liberty Award and the ORT Community Achievement Award.
Finally, there's this twofer--come to think of it, their first names make it a fourfer--the authors of the 1997 book "The Imperial Animal" are Lionel Tiger and Robin Fox.
