You know you're getting old if you actually know the band playing at the state fair.

After getting the templates for the granite countertop at the house complete this morning, I had to run to the office to fix a network problem that cropped up this weekend and had everyone offline. Once that was fixed, dad and I went to lunch and then took the rest of the afternoon off to hang out. Since neither of us had not been in a couple of years, we decided to visit the Florida State Fair. I remember when we used to go to the Coastal Carolina Fair in Ladson, South Carolina every year or so when I was a bit more young. The one thing I always looked for was the big yellow slide with the burlap sacks. So just for a bit of reminiscing, I had to buy a few tickets just to do it again. It is funny how in the good ol' days I would spend most of the time in the Midway area on old school favorites such as the Gravitron, Zipper, and pretty much every fun house they had, but now I enjoyed the exhibits even more, especially the photography and student art areas.

Of course, I also had to get an Elephant Ear, however I am sure my nutritionist friend will chastise me, so I promise to do penance by ensuring I have at least one more serving of vegetables for every meal for a week and even add some distance to my daily run. Hummmph, all this for just 2-3 bits of a sugared, deep friend piece of dough. Besides, who wants to grow up and have to completely deny themselves a few guilty pleasures? Speaking of guilty pleasures, I'll be leaving Friday for a trip to New Orleans to attend Mardi Gras and will return Wednesday the 28th. I'm looking forward to my second trip to New Orleans in a year, especially since I got to see it less than a month before Hurricane Katrina hit the area. This should be a pretty fun time and with that and Bike Week in Daytona the weekend I get back, I'm pretty sure that I'll be all partied out for quite a while.