Amazemerize

School has not started yet and kids are getting the flu already. How bad is it going to be when school starts and the real flu season gets here, I am not looking forward to the flu season this year, this might be the first time in a long time that I get myself one of the flu shots. My wife gets them most years and we seem to get sick about the same but I can not take a chance on getting the flu this year, I have no one to cover for me at work and it would be bad if I missed any work at all this year.

Ever year on the Fourth of July there is one event that is above and beyond all of the others held on this date, the Nathans Hot Dog eating contest is one that catches my attention every year and this year will be no different. I watch it on ESPN every year and I am amazed at the amount of hot dogs consumed every year. In no way do I consider myself a competitive eater but I might be willing to give the hot dog eating contest a try someday. Well on seconf thought if I eat more than two hot dogs I get gas so I better pass.

I know it is the summer season and I know it is going to be hot and humid here in the south but this last week has been horrific. It has been very hot with a terrible humidity and I am not doing very well in this stew pot we have going on here in Nashville. The A/C in my truck just stopped working and every day I am a wet mess when I get home from work. I need to get it fixed and soon or I might just melt in the heat before fall gets here. I do not worry to much about the cold of winter, we have very mild winters but the summer season here is hat and humid two things I have had enough of this year.

The wonderful state of Tennessee has decided to close one of the busiest freeways in Nashville over the weekend. This has made if very hard for me to do my job. In our delivery business we use I-40 a lot and it is the way we get to several of our biggest accounts. If I can not make it my delivery sites in the time we have set I could lose their business. It is foolish to close a busy Interstate road to make repairs to a bridge that could be done at night. Just another way to harm the small business man here in Nashville.

This week the streets of Nashville have been filled with tourists and with some streets closed it has been very hard to get around and get any work done. Not every business in Nashville caters to the tourist and they simply get in the way of people trying to make a living. I had several times I was dispatched to Broadway and could not get my work done in a timely manner because of all the tourists in the way. I for one will be glad when the CMA junk is done and the tourists go home.