"Second Helping…"
In case anyone is counting, this is my second contribution
to our newest addition to the SERA web site collection of available
literary offerings. The initial response to the first installment
has been convincingly positive. No one is more surprised by this
development than I am. With full intentions to continue to make
available quality informative & entertaining moto-journalistic
literature (but with absolutely no guarantees either expressed
or implied), I take this, the next step, into an uncharted &
previously unexplored cyber-territory. I feel somewhat like Dorothy
must have felt upon embarking on her journey with no concept
of what to expect along the way, with only the encouragement
to "Follow the Yellow Brick Road…"
Several people have encouraged me to continue this
potentially treacherous journey, but no one is really certain
what I may be getting myself into as time goes by. Previous experience
with other editorial endeavors tend to support my concern that
the time will come when one or more of several possibilities
will develop. A deep-rooted desire not to scare anyone convinces
me not to list some of those unpleasant possibilities here today.
But I digress…
A few 'observations' I made while attending the 2007
SERA Awards Banquet is the originally-intended topic of today's
composition. For various reasons (none of which seem like such
a large deal in hind-sight) I missed the last couple of Awards
Banquets after a long run of attending every annual Banquet since
my first one in 1990 (when my old pal Jonny Kemp was SERA Chairman
& one never knew precisely what to expect in the way of 'off-the-wall
entertainment' during the festivities). I was looking forward
to the Big Event this year...
'Observation' # 1: While the Holiday Inn Express definitely
is just "across the parking lot" from the Pelham Civic
Complex (as advertised by SERA Vice President Ed Bowen), it is
also across a somewhat intimidating & possibly substandard
wooden bridge a few 'football field lengths' from the Complex
Building; not the precise vision suggested by the phrase "across
the parking lot…"
'Observation' #2: A locked glass-door entering the
hallway of a Holiday Inn Express, while probably a good idea
from a security stand-point, apparently is beyond the comprehension
of several of our associates who appeared to be confused by the
inability to open & enter through the locked door.
'Observation' #3: Said group of confused & bewildered
associates peering through said locked glass door at the opposite
end of a long hallway makes 'mooning' the group irresistible
(from what I understand / without having any actual first-hand
knowledge of such an incident…).
'Observation' #4: Through the years, I have heard
a few of the female members of our SERA Family make slight variations
of the speculation that "Royce Guidry might be a 'nice-looking'
guy if he would get his hair cut & trim his beard… "
As it turns out, our old pal Royce showed up at the 2007 SERA
Awards Banquet sporting a fresh hair-cut & neatly-trimmed
whiskers.
It didn't help…
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posted 3/6/08 |
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