45 degrees. Rain, high wind.
This is going to be a "toss and pack" week as we get our house ready for sale. Want to get out of Lakeland before the city policies destroy the residential living environment.
Coming through Arkansas, I wondered if I had taken a wrong turn and was at the Port Authority for New Jersey! Continued traffic tie-ups and delays created by road construction. For some reason, Arkansas allows very long stretches of road construction to stall traffic. The State does do a good job of providing notice of the construction and providing recommendations for taking an alternative route.
The on-line version of USA Today has been quick to read the past week or so, since a large of the stories were on the "South by Southwest" event, which I have absolutely zero interest in. Nothing against the event, I think the overall intent (to provide bands and music and now tech, exposure is great). However, this morning, in the New York Times, I read that corporations have taken over the event and corporate logos, required use of corporate social media to get into the publicized events etc. gave me the reason. Again, nothing against corporate sponsorship. It seems USA Today could have set up a section for South by Southwest instead of littering its "news" section with what was really advertising. (The actual story concerned how the corporate sponsorship of big names who are frequently advertising in themselves may be hurting the original purpose of the event, to provide exposure to new musicians.)
A lot of wind and rain yesterday. Hopefully it will be much better this week, as Spring approaches, at least on the calendar.
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