Haste Is Not A Virtue Here...

It really is true. Nobody is in a hurry in the south. I learned this very quickly at a Walmart Super Center. In Maine the cashiers just scan stuff at blurring speeds sometimes. Many times they have to rescan an item because they move so fast. Not the case in Tennessee. I didn't buy that much stuff but it made me laugh how long it took the cashier to scan all of my items. He would slowly run an item across the laser scanner. Then he would pick up another item, look at it for a moment, then scan it. Then he would look like he was pondering something really heavy. Then finally he would start scanning stuff again. I've been seeing this at every retailer I shop at.

In other news, I had an awesome time last night performing in Sweetwater, Tennessee. I want to personally thank any of you who came to the show. The house was packed and the audience was a lot of fun to perform for. I learned something that I never knew there. Apparently the word "crap" is considered a really bad word in Tennessee. It's kind of funny. People in the north use it all the time. My family uses it regularly, my pastor and church family use it, and my friends use it. It makes me kind of chuckle because there are words that they use frequently here in the south that in the northeast we consider to be offensive slang or vulgarity, but here it's no big deal. It's amazing how different cultures can be just in our own country.

Finally, I planned on having some video available for you until I realized that the cable that connectst the camera to the computer was left back in Maine. No worries. It is being shipped to me tomorrow so I'll have some tour footage both on stage and off stage for you during the beginning of next week.

AND FINALLY... I just added some new music to my MySpace page. The New Mercy Morning music has been removed. It's a new song that I wrote for my wife, Shanon, a few weeks ago called, "Color." I won't be finishing up and releasing my album until I get back from the tour, but this is something I did on a rainy Chattanooga evening. I hope you enjoy the song. I'll be releasing a better produced album version in a few months.

That's all I got for tonight.

Representin',
SL