Joann Foley

This weekend we had a Crawfish Boil downtown that featured several different bands that played one after another for the entire day and well into the night. The festival is usually held downtown on the riverfront. But all this rain has caused the Cumberland River to overflow and Riverfront Park is mostly underwater. So they moved it to the parking lot south of LP Field, where the Tennessee Titans play football.

I have to admit that most of the bands were too obscure and too strangely alternative rock for my taste. But it was good to have some different music offered besides country, and the crawfish was a nice treat for this seafood starved city.

About the only I drink these days is vodka or an occasional glass of wine. Vodka goes with or in just about anything, so it is a good all-around alcohol. But we don’t drink very often. In fact, I can’t remember the last time I had a drink other than a glass of wine at an Italian restaurant a couple months ago.

Luckily I have never had a drinking problem nor been around anyone with a drinking problem, other than 1 boss that was a single guy and very socially active on the DC bar scene. He drank about every night and would come into work hung over. I think just seeing his pitiful self every day was enough to keep me away from too much alcohol.

The town that I live in now has just about every fast food restaurant that you could think of and new family restaurants are popping up left and right, no wonder we are turning into such an obese society with food at each and every street corner and leading you to their temptations that are advertised so delightfully and appetizing.

One of my favorite fast food place in town is Taco Bell, the food is fast and cheap and they have a drive in window with a decent speaker system that allows you to actually hear and understand what the clerk is saying to you. That is a rarity these days.