Could this be a sign?

So, in this Sunday’s Dayton Daily News, on the front page of the Travel section, there’s a big article about Chattanooga titled “It’s a Brand New ‘Nooga”. First off, the title made me laugh because about 4 or 5 years ago I saw KISS (in Chattanooga) and the opening acts were Skid Row, then Ted Nugent. Ted Nugent kept hollering about “Nooga” and “Noogie” (somewhat derisively) and basically called the audience a bunch of dope-smoking hillbillies (I believe he may have even used those exact words). Terrible Ted then shot his guitar with a flaming arrow while repeatedly saying something about sacrificing his buffalo, or mojo, or something, and left the stage. Once again, I digress…

Lately I’ve been increasingly unhappy with life in Ohio. The “scenery” just doesn’t move or inspire me the way Tennessee did. Sure, there are lots of wonderful little backroads and small towns for my bicycling pleasure, but this is offset by the long, nasty winters and lack of any real topography, aside from a few rolling hills. Couple this with a rising level of job dissatisfaction and the fact that literally the only things keeping me here are; my apartment, which I love, and my work schedule (notice I didn’t say “my job”, just the schedule), which suits me almost perfectly. I work 3rd shift 3 nights, 14, 14, and 12 hours; it would be perfect if those 3 nights weren’t Friday, Saturday, and Sunday… it sucks having to use a week’s vacation just to get the weekend off.

Anyway, back to the newspaper article. It has several lovely photographs of some of the new 120 million dollar riverfront development and mentions that Chattanooga was recently named one of America’s top ten dream cities by Outside Magazine.

It also raises the prospect that “Sloop John B” might be trying to tell me something too.

Let me go home, let me go home
I wanna go home, let me go home
Why don’t you let me go home