Manly Day

MHamer and I carpeted a bedroom, made a door with some wood, and put a light fixture in. It would have only been more manly had we shot a few animals and drank root beer while watching baseball at some point.

Maybe next time.

I just finished reading The Notebook by Nicholas Sparks. I liked it. Now I will be starting on the sequel, The Wedding.
Not so manly.

I watched the AMAs last night. I like award shows for the live performances. I wasn’t too big on any of them. I missed Taylor Swift, a personal favorite, and I was looking forward to that. I was told today that the woman that came out to sing with Alicia Keys and Queen Latifah was from Portsmouth.

This is from her website, kathleenbattle.com

In her youth, this native of Portsmouth, Ohio, the youngest of seven children, sang in church and school, and envisioned a future as a music teacher. Fortunately for audiences around the world, she found other ways to share her love of music-and through her natural gifts, innate intelligence, and hard work, her soaring voice has carried her to the heights of the classical music world. Indeed, throughout a remarkable career that has brought her to the stages of the world’s leading opera houses and major concert halls, critics have never tired of rhapsodizing over her limpid, unmistakable sound. In quite poetic terms, they have compared it to “the ethereal beauty of winter moonlight” (The Washington Post), “a paradoxical meeting of earth and sky” (Philadelphia Inquirer), and “cream from a miraculous, bottomless pitcher” (The New York Times).

It’s nice to know that someone from my hometown actually did something awesome with music. According to wikipedia, she has received at least five Grammy’s.
Go Scioto County.