In Biloxi...yet again (or: "My 100th Post")

No, I'm not staying at either the Hard Rock, Beau, or Imperial Palace...this time I'm staying at the Best Western--Oak Manor across the street from the Beau and Hard Rock. So once again, I get a room with a view...of the Beau (see first picture). No bother, we get better rates here and it's not nearly as asininely opulent. The two others are of my other view. Two nice quaint houses/offices, and part of a tall building in downtown Biloxi. If you ignore the big box right outside, it's a nice view...still with some of a small town feel to it. (Unfortunately, for the past three years or so, those big boxes outside are par for the course down here on the MS Gulf Coast). The pictures were taken on my cell phone camera, so I apologize again for the low quality.

Nothing particularly exciting going on down here. Just work. I did eat at The Shed over in Ocean Springs, which is a hole in the wall style BBQ restaurant, but is well known around these parts and almost always competes at Memphis in May.

I may actually head back to Oxford tomorrow afternoon...but I'm thinking it might be Friday morning still.

Oh, and I finally got the nerve to send my pictures from Japan in 2001 off to get on a CD (I had 200 or so 35mm negatives I sent off). I got a call today that they are ready. Just in time for my 7 year anniversary of being back. I may post some of the highlights here in a few days after I go through them and make sure Wal-Mart's photo processing didn't completely botch them. I suspect they will be all out of order (I stuffed all the negatives in one envelope), but I should be able to look through my photo album and get a general order.

UA Tag

So I got notice recently that the Alabama car tags in Mississippi have just been shipped out to the various counties in the state and will be available any day now. Its funny, way back when, when they were soliciting folks to cough up the money to reserve them, they said in the letter, "Auburn has their tags, so why don't we?". Well, by George, that was enough for me (and apparently the x number of people required to send the tag designs to print. Its a pity, really, I was hoping to be able to state issued tag with the Biloxi lighthouse on it (http://www.mstc.state.ms.us/mvl/LighthouseTag.jpg), it really would have "gone" with my South Carolina Native sticker on my back window...(see my post from September 16, 2006).

My current tag runs out here at the end of the month, and it is up for renewal in August anyway. IT's a good thing, because there is apparently some ambiguity as to renewal issues (i.e. if you get the tag before your scheduled renewal month, does your renewal month change, or does it stay as is? ). So, it may be next Friday (August 1) before I get around to getting this one, just in case there is a problem with it...they've advised us to wait until Friday anyway before calling ahead to make sure our reserved tags are indeed in. Or I could just call to make sure what the deal is with the renewal issue, and go ahead and have it on Friday.

The CT apparently stands for "Crimson Tide" (makes sense). Apparently the state requires two vertical letters on specialty tags. Supposedly they couldn't use either UA, RT, or and so forth.