K-Ville

The Tuesday levee ride. It was harder than I'd expected, largely thanks to Matt and Todd who were pushing the pace a bit. Every time they'd come off the front, we'd slow down a couple of miles per hour. It was a good workout nonetheless. For some reason I spent the rest of the day totally dragged out. Perhaps I'm coming down with something. I dunno.

So right now I'm watching the first episode of K-Ville. The only thing good I can say about it is that they at least didn't have all the actors speaking with fake Cajun or Atlanta accents. The rest of the plot is pretty much pure bull. You should never watch a movie company's version of something that's supposed to be shot in your own city because you notice all of the things that are wrong - like car chases that start in the French Quarter and end two minutes later on the westbank without ever crossing the river. Suffice it to say that I am not impressed. The plot is terrible. The acting, however, is not too bad. The fact that everybody seems to have a Cajun last name, however, is just stupid. Basically, it's just another show that goes to great lengths to perpetuate the stereotype in order to sell advertising.

Meanwhile, the sister-in-law's contractor is finally ready to get to work on the very first step in restoring her house on Willow Street. They have to get a few steel I-beams under the house so it can be raised a few feet. In order to do that, they will need to move the FEMA trailer in which she's been living for the last couple of years. So the bottom line is that her cat will be visiting for a day or so until they get that done. The Wife is up in Boston for a couple of days at a meeting, so this evening I'm finishing off a bottle of Clos du Bois merlot and putting off the many items atop my long to-do list, not the least of which is a summary of Tulane-LSU interactions for an upcoming meeting between the President of Tulane and the recently appointed President of the LSU system. When I ran into one of our senior administrators in the elevator today, he suggested I just find a photo of a bunch of LSU football players piling-on atop a lone Tulane football player. That's kind of how we feel sometimes. Well, OK, it's how we feel most of the time.

On the plus side, it's exciting that they are finally moving forward on fixing up the house that was flooded from the bottom and then had roof damage too. Add to that the fact that she had to sue the insurance company to get them to pay for the damage caused by the roof, and the fact that her husband died of lung cancer about a year before the hurricane, and the fact that everything she owns is currently in my basement, and you can understand why it's exciting to see some movement on the house repairs!