Too long of a title. Too bad.
Spent the week in Orlando doing the Disney and Universal studios thing. More on that later. Spent the entire week without computer access, no reading papers and almost no TV news.
Found out on Friday that Dimebag Darrell was murdered in Ohio. That sucks. I've spent a lot of time listening to Pantera over the years. Not as much since 1994 when Far Beyond driven came out. I really liked that and Vulgar Display of Power and Cowboys From Hell. I wasn't that big on The Great Southern Trendkill or Reinventing the Steel. I saw them in concert the first time with Slayer and BioHazard sometime in 94-95, and a couple more times later at the vasrious Ozzfests that I've attended over the years. I bought a lot of issues of Guitar World Magazine in the 90's to read his articles...even though I've never gotten the hang of playing guitar. I haven't thought a lot about him or his band in recent years but it still sucks to go like that, and from what I've read by the people around him, he'll be missed a lot.
There was also a stabbing at the USDA last week. Normally, violence in DC isn't that big of a deal, but it's unusual to have it happen in federal office buildings. This incedent in particular happened in the stairwell next to where Margo worked, and the victim made his way down the hall and collapsed into the office across the hall where she worked. Wierd.
That's all for now. I'll get into the Disney things (and maybe update the above with links) later. I need to get going on putting the Christmas tree up.
