Be careful around new roommates and the iron

If you've ever had a roommate in college you didn't know beforehand, you have a story. It's a fact of life. I would suspect the girl on the tail end of this beatdown would rather she didn't have this story, though. Don't mess with any Barkley women!

Dean blasts Bush for endorsing intelligent design

Why does this scare some people so much? Having an open mind means allowing concepts to be discussed that might threaten your own "concrete" convictions, right? I was taught one perspective during my entire time in school. It was seen as fact. I didn't raise a fuss about it, yet I didn't buy it. It would have been interesting to have been presented another theory or origin, such as intelligent design.

Hilton Head was pretty nice

Spent the last week in Hilton Head, SC. It was my first time there and I must say, very enjoyable. Before the trip, the only time it seemed I had heard of the place was whenever a hurricane was going to hit it.
Getting there had some problems. It's about a five-hour drive from where we live. We got a late start due to attending a funeral. This resulted in us getting on the road at 8:00, with a five-hour trip ahead of us. I drove the whole way. At one point, it rained so hard that we slowed down to a crawl.
We got to HH around one in the morning. It was still raining and extremely dark. Basically, there is one main road on the island with all the side streets nearby. Our resort was on this main road, we thought.
I say that because we didn't get our package in the mail before leaving. I had booked the cond online, and evidently, our info packet got a little hung up. My wife got in touch with the guy who owned the condo and he passed the code to the key box for us to get in.
Back to my story. We're driving along and never see the place. I start wondering in my mind if we'd been scammed, going over the name of our contact and the resort, now convinced they were both fictitious.
A guy at a store tells us that he thinks the place we're looking for is back in the direction we came from. I'm not encouraged by this, knowing I had looked carefully along the road.
We go back and there it is the Hilton Head Resort, lit up in bright lights. How did I miss it? The lights on the side of the sign facing the direction we came in were out. Nice marketing.
Oh, yeah. The key broke off in the lock. Luckily there was a spare inside. We got to bed around two in the morning.
The rest of the trip was great. We had to get used to the half-mile walk to the beach over the boardwalk, but got used to it. The walk to the beach, private beach houses being on our left and right, and hotels/public access areas being a mile or two down the beach on either side resulted in us having a semi-private beach.
One day we went into Savannah and toured the city on a trolley. That night we ate at The Lady and Sons. We had heard that this place was a little overhyped, but we loved it. I made only one trip to the buffet. I couldn't believe it. That had never happened to me before. Maybe there's some kind of Viagra-like pill for my stomach so I can perform again.
All in all, it was a good trip. The water was warm and very calm. The beaches were pretty clean. HH is known for its golfing, but I didn't feel like shelling out a hundred bucks or so just to get mad at myself. I can deflate my ego for 11 dollars at the hacker's course down the road.