I'm in want of a cigarette again. Well I have a pack of Marlboro Lights that I told myself would be the only pack of cigs I would ever smoke, but I don't feel like I'm in enough of an "emergency" mode to pick up a cig right now. I'm more in a, "so what in the world do I do now??" mood. I have general anxiety brought about by restlessness, not anything "real." I am craving a cig to relieve the general anxiety. And I'm resisting the urge to pick one up and go to the eight floor of my building to smoke it.
In other news. Today while taking a stroll downtown Hampton, I learned that the Confederate army burned down the city of Hampton on my birthday (Aug. 7) in 1861. Look:
I read about that burning briefly in the e-book about Samuel Armstrong (you can find it in my links). From the book, I also learned that about 7,000 "contrabands" (escaped slaves) settled the burned land during the Civil War. I found a pic of that "Freedman's Village" while I was downtown Hampton as well:
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