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journal - 2000-0806 - sun 2300 Hot, Slim Shady, Lucas Ridgeston The sunny southland, the heart of Dixie, the crossroads of the South is hot. When I went out for a very late lunch at around 3:00, the temperature gauge near the Interstate showed 101. Obviously, the heat index was more like 115 or up. Not only is it hot, but the air feels depressurized, as though most of the oxygen has been depleted. The heat seems to ricochet off the pavement. And as you breath, you can feel the heat attacking your nostrils and filling your throat. Whenever I've eaten out the last few days, everything has bothered my gastrointestinal system because of last week's tummy bug. Last night I had a Cobb salad, which was a big mistake. But then even on a good day, lettuce can be an irritant. So I wanted to be careful with lunch. And Chili's was the winner since I've never had their food, even the spicy stuff, to be a surprise. On the way, I stopped at Books-A-Million for the Sunday "The New York Times." This is always my prop to give me that indefinable cosmopolitan panache. (Actually I hide behind the Arts and Entertainment section as I read a porn novel.) When I got there I noticed they had introduced those coaster-size pagers: the ones that are six inches in diameter and about an inch in height that blink and twinkle when your table is ready. These are all the rage and have replaced the pager-type pagers. I've often wondered how they were activitated and the assigned frequency, since each pager has to respond to a different frequency. Then I noticed the control panel and how it was being used. I asked what was the range, and the manager said a couple of hundred feet. Just then, my table was ready, and he asked if he should punch in my pager number - 16. And being the swell guy I am I said, "Go ahead, I know you dying to do it!" My server was a blond college-aged guy named Bryan. As a minority couple across from me left, I know I hear the man call him "Slim Shady." I have a feeling that doing the Sunday lunch crowd must be a tiring proposition. And I think I heard him mention that he was tired. There are some places I've guit going to because the servers are so poorly trained. However, so far, this group has been fine. A few actually even remember me since I've become an irregular regular. Earlier I was checking the eXTReme web stats service for my site. I glanced at the last 20 visitors and the geo listing. Then I looked at the list of terms, entered into a search engine, that have resulted in matches with my site. Under Google, there were six or seven references to my site when the words, "Lucas Ridgeston Fucking" had been entered. Huhhh! Also popular at Goggle were references to my site under the term, "ball shaving." Huhhh! I can only think of a couple of instances when these terms have popped up in my pages. So it is very surprising that Google would reference my site. I also wonder how far down the list my site was. My guess is someone must have done some serious browsing to get to my site based on those terms. PAX!
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