Accolades and things like that

Saturday night was the Shreveport-Bossier Advertising Federation's Addy Awards, recognizing the best in advertising in the area during 2007. I had entered three items and was informed that I won something, so we went to the awards banquet that was held at Independence Stadium in the suites in the south end zone. Pretty cool place to hold a party I'd say. I won a silver and a bronze for work I'd done for Goodwill Industries for their Tour de Goodwill bike tour last year...got to go up to the front both times to get my certificates and pose for photos with a couple of young ladies dressed as cheerleaders. The awards had a sports theme this year and the girls actually WERE cheerleaders! The food was pretty good and the video presentation of the awards could be seen on the monitors in the suite as well as the Diamond Vision screen on the north end zone scoreboard. The interesting part of the evening was a huge storm raging outside...the rain could be seen going sideways outside the large windows as the awards were handed out. It was a nice evening and I like wearing my tuxedo when the chance permits, plus seeing everyone else dressed to the nines. Jonnene looked great which probably made me look better than I deserved when I was next to her.

The weekend was busy and we got a few things done although it doesn't feel like it. Weather and time kept me from getting a ride in and I ended up doing a wind trainer ride in the living room while watching the prologue time trial in the Tour of California on Sunday evening. I mention the weather because with all the rain we got (that same weather system spawned tornados in Alabama a day later that hurt 40 people) we got to see how the water gathers up in our back yard and driveway. No chance of water getting into the house but it sure looks like it could happen when you look out there! Here it is Monday morning and there's still some water left in the driveway, and the ground in the backyard is quite saturated....just another project to work on this year to make the house even better!

We might have a interesting take on the old house...our next-door neighbor's daughter is moving back here from Texas and is interested in possibly renting our old place. It's something we'll have to look into.