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Comment on Day 4: Van Buren AR to Cookeville TN by Andy

Andy — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 04:14:02 +0000

Pyramid, eh? Check out the original Memphis, along the Nile in Egypt.

Comment on Day 4: Van Buren AR to Cookeville TN by a.b.

a.b. — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 22:43:06 +0000

The pyramid is the old arena in Memphis, named “the Pyramid”.

Comment on Rack and ruin averted by Shaun McGowan

Shaun McGowan — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 01:54:39 +0000

Well done Tom.

Also, must commend you on your dedication to this blog. Awesome

Comment on Rack and ruin averted by Gerald Himmelein

Gerald Himmelein — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 21:20:14 +0000

“So this man walks into a job…”

Congratulations, Tom!

Comment on A fatal turn down the road by San Jose Native

San Jose Native — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 21:00:08 +0000

Ah, to add to my story…I was told that there were Albinos with shotguns living in the Calaveras Hills…? lol. Seriously, ppl in high school stated that.

Comment on A fatal turn down the road by San Jose Native

San Jose Native — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 20:57:43 +0000

I grew up in San Jose all my life and still to this day. Being that we’re a neighboring city to Milpitas I also heard different versions of the killing up at Marsh Road. The main version that was told was that a ‘football’ player killed his ‘cheerleader’ girlfriend for reason I can’t recall. But that the bridge was haunted by the young lady that was murdered. If you wrote a person’s name on the bridge that you didn’t like or whatnot something bad would happen to them or they would die. Harsh, right? Also, if you drove back down Marsh road and looked in any of your mirrors you would see the ghost of the girl.
I came home from college either from winter break or the summer…2002 or 2003. I recall going up there one night with my younger sister and 2 friends from high school after a house party. We somehow got on the subject of ghosts and one of my guy friends were like, “let’s go to Marsh Road!!” And being on the excited hype we drove up there. And let me tell you, once we got up there we were freaked out. Nothing paranormal happened…but we were in complete darkness and the only light we had to see the actual road was our headlights. The road leading up to the bridge is quite narrow, and if you needed to make a U-turn you had to reverse/drive 2-3 times. Anyways, we got to the bridge and ALOT of grafitti and names were on that bridge. None of us in the car wanted to get out.
We turned the car around and drove slowly down the road. I turned around to look even though the story tells you to look at one of your rear-view mirrors…totally black and creepy. No one in the car wanted to look at any of the mirrors. Just driving up there and looking at the bridge spooked us enough.

Comment on Rack and ruin averted by chuck carroll

chuck carroll — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 08:30:17 +0000

Who’d a thunk indeed! … Say, why can’t you telecommute from California?

Comment on Rack and ruin averted by Molly divine

Molly divine — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 04:25:13 +0000

Howdy. Nice to find that which keeps you sane can also put dinner on the table. Love to follow your good fortune. Gives us all hope. Happy trails. Molly

Comment on Rack and ruin averted by Bryan DeVasher

Bryan DeVasher — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 03:43:39 +0000

Tom

Good to hear that things are working out. I didn’t know you landed in Winston — not a bad place overall. I get down that way every now and then. Next time I do we’ll have to hoist a couple and relive some DE days.

Comment on Rack and ruin averted by Marion Vermazen

Marion Vermazen — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 02:46:46 +0000

This is so right. I don’t know if you have read Outliers but Gladwell talks about how important timing is. People like Bill Gates and J P Morgan were in the right industry at the right time. You were in the wrong industry at the wrong time. Your blog leading to a job is not a coincidence. Congratulations!!