so yesterday i brought some stuff home, including my computer, and am back on the normal mode with having fast internet, everything up and running at my house. i don’t think you can appreciate broadband until you’ve used a 28.8K modem for a month. anyway, one of the good things about having my computer back, is that i was able to post pictures of my house and the tree and all.

i was supposed to have a friend come over yesterday and we were going to seal up the hole in my ceiling with some plastic. he couldn’t come because the interstate was just a parking lot. the problem apparently is all these people from the N.O. area have moved to the parish i live in. according to the official parish website, the population has gone from 216K to 300K.

the traffic is horrible! for instance, i went to walmart at 10:30 today. this is pretty much on me because i overslept and should have been there when it opened (their hours are 8-5). it took me an hour and a half to go and then get home, and i wasn’t really in there that long. there were whole families in there, i’m talking 6 and 7 people to a cart! it is insane! my head was about to explode. people were just walking around without carts like they just wanted something to do. hey, how about they just go walk outside or something?

getting home last week proved to be almost 3 hours! most of the people were leaving for rita. i think gov. blanco should have been at the state line with TX telling people “do not come into louisiana, there is nothing for you here, GO NORTH!” oh well, so much for that. and now all these people are just hanging around. i don’t even want to attempt the red cross place across town. people sleep out in their cars to get there early. no thanks!

oh, and my friend chad told me the post office has all our mail from during katrina. so last week, i drove over there, people were parking on the U.S. highway that runs in front, lined up on the street, causing a massive traffic jam. i called chad and told him i have nothing at that post office worth waiting 2 hours to get right now.