surepip

Hey, I am supposed to be in Destin come red snapper season to go fishing for the better part of a week. Red fish and trout in the bays as well. Last thing I need for this little holiday is an oil slick or a hurricane. Both will put a bad twist on it. Normal seepage does not bother fishing. The guys in the gulf are concerned this oil rig explosion can, ..... and will. Let's hope not. An oil slick hitting the redneck riviera the beginning of May would put thousands and thousands more out of work, and devestate their economy. Tourism, food service, commercial fishing, charter fish

Shallow, off shore drilling is very expensive, and carries huge risk because of the challenges of capping a renegade well such as this. Cost per barrel is high. Land based rigs are so much easier to work with. To me, to cripple the beach tourist industry from Mississippi to Tampa is a ridiculously high price to pay for using offshore rigs.

I am not so sure we REALLY can justify the costs, and risks, to put these rigs off the coast of Georgia up the Eastern seaboard. Oil Platform burns The oil slick, and whatever is still spewing from the wellhead is now headed NE, towards the Florida panhandle. The oyster beds from Mississippi to Port St Joe Florida could take a pretty bad hit from this, not to mention the shrimping and tourist industry in general.

Dry rubbed baby back pork ribs on the grill, with asparagus [also grilled] and an oriental cole slaw with sesame' oil. And I guess I am eating by myself. Just got back from taking MrsSurepip to the doctor.......and she has the H1N1 flu.

Where is it ? Beer and Wine ?

The bypass when finished will also allow Westbound traffic on 278 to take the Bypass to 120/278 by the new medical building and unless they LOAD the Bypass up with lights, you won't have to creep along through hiram.

NIMBY, I presume. Let's face it, the Paulding Airport is not exactly in the position of having to put arriving planes into a holding pattern or anything. From what I understood, the lack of much of a current use of the runways is what made it appropriate to use.

Check your maps......not all of the SPRAWL is in Hiram. I mentioned both the county and the city. Part of it is in the county as well, and the county is and will be responsible for the roads that are not GDOT.

Rotary Club Fish Fry at an undisclosed location.

Don't get your panties in such a wad....its bad for your stress level. I am all for the East Hiram Parkway, and I will even give King Jerry credit for getting some State funding for the West Hiram Parkway by agreeing for the county to work with GRTA for the commuter buses which run from Movies 278 in Hiram to downtown. My wife rides the GRTA bus. As I recall, we got $9 million or so for the Parkway, and we gave GRTA something like $1million to join their commuter bus program, and that is a pretty good trade off. But as for the rest of your rant, the only planning done on 278, the comme

Assuming our PDOT design the road with adequate turn lanes, it will help alleviate some of the "Sprawl" from the county line through Hiram in the afternoon, and take some of the congestion off of 278 and 92. But, the whole premise, is I agree, water over the dam after the bridge washed out. Had there been some reasonable planning in the early 1990s when 278 was widened for both the East/West Hiram Parkway and the Hiram Retail Sprawl, we would be in much better shape. Stop and consider if the South side of 278 through Hiram was actually built as a mall, going all the way to Rosedale, wi

Japanese food is I would imagine, probably one of the more healthy diets around. Miso soup with fresh or aged tofu, edame, kelp, bonita flakes and green onion is wonderful. All types of shashimi ..... different raw fish with wasabi and other dipping sauces. And sake' of course.

I guess an "experience" I had years ago has saved me lots of money which might have otherwise gone to scotch. I was a Maker's Mark bourbon drinker, and would occaisionally drink scotch as well. And the older single malts definitely had their finer points. I was working part time at night in a liquor store in Smyrna and got robbed. Luckily, instead of shooting me, the perp took me to the back room and hit me over the back of the head with a half gallon of Black & White scotch [what was on the end of the shelf next to the back room door]. Needless to say, I retired from the liquor s

Lentils and the last of the Easter ham, and basmati rice with a garden salad. And a double dirty gin martini on the rocks.....it is Monday.

We like to grill the larger diameter asparagus. Also its very good lightly battered and then baked on a baking sheet in the oven.

Thanks! There, but for the grace of God, is where we would be stuck.....or at least in all likelyhood at an airport between Atlanta - Minnesota - and Paris, having paid to rent a flat we could not get to, nor get a refund. I do feel for those at the VIV who have paid out fortunes to rent the space and set up equipment to sell, only to have half their customers show up.

This agricultural show takes up 50 or so acres of exhibit space, with 2000 exhibiting companies and 50,000 turnstile visitors per day for 3-1/2 days. A 100 square foot booth with carpet, chairs, a table and backdrop willl set you back about $2500, and a great many of the exhibit stands are 1000 or 2000 square feet. You are talking some serious money spent, and the exhibitors, attendees, etc. cannot get to Utrecht.

Status as of this morning is the same. Schipol Airport near Amsterdam, along with Paris, Brussels, etc. are all still closes. VIV this year is turning into the most expensive non-event ever held. Boy am I glad we backed out.......

The costs for the VIV show are enormous, and it is scheduled out years in advance. I am so relieved we did not get involved with a booth, or make the committment to go on our nickle. I had missing it, but I sure am glad we are not sitting in an airport somewhere waiting for a flight.

And if you want to sue the county for zoning fraud, and violation of consitutional rights, be prepared to spend a great deal more. The county has paid Holland & Knight out of ATlanta over $1million to keep us out of court. But we are awaiting a ruling from the judge now, and will keep on fighting because we refuse to just roll over and let them and the developer "have their way". $80 bucks sounds like a joke to us.....

We don't usually eat the beef filet.....I just refuse to pay the price. But Hiram Kroger had some reduced for quick sale yesterday, sliced about 2" thick. I put them on a rack last night with kosher salt and ground pepper. I will sear them for 90 seconds per side. And grilled fresh asparagus. Garden salad with baby arugula, endive, escarlole and romaine. A nice red rhone wine and some crunch baggetts.

Halves, quarters, breasts, or what? The whole birds we get in the stores now are really too big to cook properly on a grill. When cooking for a large crowd, I am luckily able to get relatively small birds from the Carrollton Pilgrim's Pride plant. Their birds go 2-1/2 to 3 pounds, and split do nicely on a gas grill on low to medium. We use "Magic Sauce", an old traditional carolina vinegar based BBQ sauce. Onions, lemons, garlic, vinegar, sugar, mustard, and spices/herbs to season. And I dunk the half birds when I turn them. I have gotten spoiled using a large trailer mounted grill

VIV Europe, one of the 3 major agricultural equipment trade shows in the World starts Tuesday the 20th in Utrecht, Holland. Held every other year, for the past 25 years or so MrsSurepip and I have attended, and spent a holiday in Paris part of the week before the show and after the show. The we would arrive in Utrecht on Tuesday morning and depart Friday afternoon by train. Had we followed our typical agenda we would be stranded at an airport somewhere between here and Paris. Typically we would fly over Northwest KLM via Detroit or Minneapolis, to Amsterdam, and then on to Paris. When we w

You don't suppose our EX-Speaker Glenn, pissing off Sonny to where he line item vetoed our $4million for the terminal building 2 years ago had anything to do with the delays do you ? Did Blake ever get his gas tanks installed ? Where is all the hanger rental income we were supposed to start getting 2+ years ago that was going to cover all the overhead?

Thanks dude, I could not have said it better.