A Redneck in Cajun Country

If you're reading this blog, you're either lost or you wanted to see what I was up to. So, I'm wondering, why do we blog? I mean, some tweet, others myspace, and I myself facebook. Is what I do day-to-day really that interesting? Go to the mall and watch people. Everyone is looking down at their fruit phones...you know, Apple iPhone, Blackberry, etc. I'm surprised more people don't run into each other. Hey, look up! Come one, people. When did we have to be constantly updated? Always in touch....Heck , I can remember going to Howard Bros with a dime and a watch, with my dad telling me where to meet back at what time. And you were there, or you'd get a status update to your bottom. Ouch.....


Ok, don't know what this was about, just thought I'd write something.

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Getting away from it all

So, the family and I have escaped the life that is Lafayette and ventured to Perdido Key, Florida. As I type this it's just after midnight of Friday the 13th of April 2007. I'm sitting out on the balcony of our condo at Spanish Key, facing the Gulf of Mexico and listening to the surf roll in. It's an amazing sound, I'll tell you. I could really get used to something like this. We spent the morning on the beach, just like we did yesterday. Come to think of it, it's what we're going to do tomorrow, too. Quite a life, huh?

Anyway, no real news to talk about. Oh, of course there's the Don Imus fiasco (Amid the outcry over his on-air racial slur, Imus said Thursday that he had "apologized enough" and that he will not go on "some talk-show tour." "I'm not going to go talk to Larry King or Barbara Walters or anyone else," Imus said on his flagship station in New York, WFAN-AM, which is owned by CBS Corp. and distributed "Imus in the Morning" nationally. "The only other people I want to talk to are these young women at the team, and then that's it," Imus said.Imus' disparaging remarks about the Rutgers players prompted eight companies to pull their ads from his show: Staples, General Motors, Sprint Nextel, GlaxoSmithKline, Procter & Gamble, PetMed Express, American Express and Bigelow Tea. ), D.A Nifong's blunders (On Wednesday, North Carolina Attorney General Roy Cooper threw out the case against the three young men, pronounced them innocent and delivered a withering attack on Nifong, portraying him as a "rogue" prosecutor guilty of "overreaching." Cooper said Nifong rushed the case, failed to verify the accuser's allegations and pressed on despite the warning signs.), and of course the War in Iraq (The bomber slipped through the tightest security net in Baghdad and blew himself up in the midst of lawmakers having lunch in the parliament dining hall Thursday. U.S. officials said eight people, including at least two parliament members, were killed in the deadliest-ever attack in the American-guarded Green Zone.) , but you can read about that anywhere...

Goodnight, and have a pleasant tomorrow....

LYNDA CARTER ON SMALLVILLE

Lynda Carter, star of the Wonder Woman television series, is the latest actor from the world of DC Comics to guest-star on Smallville.

Carter will guest-star in the April 12 episode, a show representative confirmed for The Continuum on Monday.

Carter will play Moira Sullivan, Chloe Sullivan's mother, in "Progeny."

Now 56, Carter will always be linked as Wonder Woman, playing Diana for four seasons. Her recent credits include The Dukes of Hazzard and Sky High films, and, on television, NBC's Law & Order.

Comics legend Stan Lee will appear in an upcoming episode of NBC's Heroes.

According to two publicity photos released by NBC, Lee will play a bus driver in the "Unexpected" episode scheduled to air on Monday, Feb. 19.

Lee appears with Masi Oka's Hiro Nakamura.

Lee has appeared in many of the Marvel films and has also had parts in such films as Kevin Smith's Mallrats.

Lee will appear in two Marvel movies this year: Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer and Spider-Man 3. In Fantastic Four, he plays himself in a humorous scene involving Reed and Sue's wedding. Lee has said his role in Spider-Man 3 will have him talking with Tobey Maguire's Peter Parker.

Lee will not appear in Marvel's other 2007 film, Ghost Rider. Director Mark Steven Johnson, who used Lee in Daredevil, said he did not use him this time because the film was shot in Australia and because Lee did not create Ghost Rider.

From the Files of "What Were They Thinking?"
OR Astronaut Charged With Kidnap Attempt
Feb 5, 11:07 PM (ET)

By MIKE SCHNEIDER

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) - An astronaut drove 900 miles and donned a disguise to confront a woman she believed was her rival for the affections of a space shuttle pilot, police said. She was arrested Monday and charged with attempted kidnapping and other counts.

U.S. Navy Capt. Lisa Nowak, 43, who flew last July on a shuttle mission to the international space station, was also charged with attempted vehicle burglary with battery, destruction of evidence and battery. She was denied bail.

Police said Nowak drove from her home in Houston to the Orlando International Airport to confront Colleen Shipman.

Nowak believed Shipman was romantically involved with Navy Cmdr. William Oefelein, a pilot during space shuttle Discovery's trip to the space station in December, police said.

Nowak told police that her relationship with Oefelein was "more than a working relationship but less than a romantic relationship," according to an arrest affidavit. Police officers recovered a love letter to Oefelein in her car.

NASA spokesman James Hartsfield in Houston said that, as of Monday, Nowak's status with the astronaut corps remained unchanged.

"What will happen beyond that, I will not speculate," he said.

Hartsfield said he couldn't recall the last time an astronaut was arrested and said there were no rules against fraternizing among astronauts.

When she found out that Shipman was flying to Orlando from Houston, Nowak decided to confront her, according to the arrest affidavit. Nowak raced from Houston to Orlando wearing diapers so she wouldn't have to stop to urinate, authorities said.

Astronauts wear diapers during launch and re-entry.

Dressed in a wig and a trench coat, Nowak boarded an airport bus that Shipman took to her car in an airport parking lot. Shipman told police she noticed someone following her, hurried inside the car and locked the doors, according to the arrest affidavit.

Nowak rapped on the window, tried to open the car door and asked for a ride. Shipman refused but rolled down the car window a few inches when Nowak started crying. Nowak then sprayed a chemical into Shipman's car, the affidavit said.

Shipman drove to the parking lot booth, and the police were called.

During a check of the parking lot, an officer followed Nowak and watched her throw away a bag containing the wig and BB gun. They also found a steel mallet, a 4-inch folding knife, rubber tubing, $600 and garbage bags inside a bag Nowak was carrying when she was arrested, authorities said.

Inside Nowak's vehicle, which was parked at a nearby motel, authorities uncovered a pepper spray package, an unused BB-gun cartridge, latex gloves and e-mails between Shipman and Oefelein. They also found a letter "that indicated how much Mrs. Nowak loved Mr. Oefelein," an opened package for a buck knife, Shipman's home address and hand written directions to the address, the arrest affidavit said.

Police said Nowak told them that she only wanted to scare Shipman into talking to her about her relationship with Oefelein and didn't want to harm her physically.

"If you were just going to talk to someone, I don't know that you would need a wig, a trench coat, an air cartridge BB gun and pepper spray," said Sgt. Barbara Jones, a spokeswoman for the Orlando Police Department. "It's just really a very sad case. ... Now she ends up finding herself on the other side of the law with some very serious charges."

If convicted of attempted kidnapping, Nowak could face a maximum of life in prison.

It was not immediately known whether Nowak had an attorney.

Oefelein and Shipman did not immediately return phone messages Monday night.

According to NASA's official biography, Nowak is married with three children. During her 13-day mission in July she operated the robotic arm during three spacewalks.

Oefelein is unmarried. He piloted the space shuttle Discovery in December. He has two children, according to a NASA biography.

Nowak and Oefelein were both first-time fliers during their shuttle missions last year. They trained together but never flew together.

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Associated Press writers Kelli Kennedy and Jessica Gresko in Miami contributed to this report.