That was the adieu Ali bid me as they (Ben / Ali) dropped us off at the Savannah Airport yesterday, so here I am to render the things happened. Per usual, there is no prayer of getting this down in any kind of chronologicalish order, so here's a pieced together account (broken up into smaller, digestible posts because Ben apparently had the attention span of a 21st century twelve year old and requested shorter posts. He also admits he "sometimes just skims" The Ballad. Sigh). Just to show I'm not bitter or anything, here's an austere Ben getting psyched for SPRING BREAK '08!!!!!!!!!!!!!
When Ben wasn't rock and rolling all nite and having a wonderful time, he had one ear firmly attached to his cell phone. Ben's business is swinging as mentioned here previously, and as a result he had to check in with the peeps now and then. Here are a couple of shots of Ben enjoying nature at the state park we visited on Tuesday:
Okay, that's enough Ben-mocking for the time being. He actually is up and rolling in business land, and we even watched his award-winning presentation to prove it. Quite a show; you might think that watching business plan presentations is, how do you say, antithetical to the vacation ideal, but it actually was cool to see the Ben in his natural habitat. The presentation was clear, enthusiastic, and had an echo of CHA-CHING, so it's not at all surprising that he won. Incentive Targeting: keep an eye out for it, and note that it has some serious parallels to Google in terms of ideology. And, you know, Google has done alright (he said on the Google hosted blog).
We channel-surfed for a bit after watching Ben's DVD, and boy are we glad we did. We were delighted to catch the - hmmm, what's the phrase I'm looking for - INCOHERENT RAMBLINGS of one Rod Parsley, Televangelist Supreme and spiritual advisor to presidential candidate John McCain. He delivered a 15 minute diatribe on Adam and Eve, David and Goliath, and several other miscellaneous topics. Did I mention he spoke no complete sentences the whole while, nor did he complete a thought? He did give us ample joke fodder for the week:
"David had five smooth stones in his pocket - and they weren't p-retty: they were smoove."
"Can I get a 'What the?'" ("What the!"). "Can I get a 'What the??!?'" ("What the!").
"And now, this fine young group of musicians will open your soul - Ladies and Gents, I give you: Pocket Full of Rocks!"
And Pocket Full of Rocks did rock our collective faces off with their unobtrusive bland stylings. So that was highly entertaining. I thought maybe we were being a little judgmental and exhibiting our own rational, linear-narrative bias, but whatever. The whole affair was terrifying if you consider that this crazy dude has immediate audience with a future leader of the free world. I suppose we already knew things like that, but experiencing the rhetoric first hand - at least first hand over a broadcast feed - made our brains smoke a little.
Alright, I have to get back to the high-fallutin' tutoring lifestyle here, so more posts on the way. Here's a pic of a super-cute baby to tide you over - a cute baby (with emo facial expression going) who sports the hat in a slightly more fashionable manner than the Grin:
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