It's Monday, Again

Donations to Habitat for Humanity:
Here it is Monday again, the day before Fat Tuesday. Maime and I have decided to
sell some of our many, many beads and trinkets from our trips
to NOLA, here at work. We'll collect all sales and
donations and send them to the Habitat for Humanity - I
haven't checked the website yet but I hope we can
earmark it for New Orleans and/or surrounding area.
I'll find out.

I'll also find out how generous these folks around
here can be. In some ways they're the cheapest
skinflints you can imagine, in other ways they can be
generous. I hope this swings to the generous side
because we'd like to send a big check to Habitat.

Throw Me Something, Mister!
Poppy has gone to about a dozen parades this year.
That's partly because they can't move back into their
house yet (or maybe ever) and the apartment they're living
in is closer to St. Charles Avenue, which is the designated
parade route for most of the parades. The hotel we
stayed at last time we were in NOLA is right on St.
Charles, at about the 2100 block (about 21 blocks from
Canal/French Quarter) and is right on the parade
route. I think it would be so cool to just have to
step out the hotel door and be right at the
parades...so cool. Maybe next year we can swing it.
I bet it's expensive though. And, I can buy new
pieces of luggage at the French Market to haul my
treasures home in! Oh, wait, I've done that everytime
I've been there.