The Baton Rouge trip is kind of a blur. It was really quick, the entire travel time was right at 24 hours, maybe 26 hours tops. I had a nice corner room in the hotel, and I could see the Mississippi River from the room. Across the street on one side was a place called Schlittz & Giggles (which was kind of hard to decipher since I have taken a vow to no longer wear my glasses) and on the other corner was a really nice neon Coca-Cola sign. Driving from New Orleans to Baton Rouge and back was no real problem, very little traffic to speak of...nothing like the challenges here in central Texas. There was a little bit of congestion going IN to Baton Rouge yesterday, but it was really a piece of cake. We are supposed to get some strong rain, maybe some storms in the next 36 hours or so...I am having a little bit of trouble pinning the time frame down...I just need to pay more attention.Rostrum -- Noun. a stage or platform for public speaking. The senator stood on the rostrum and announced to the boisterous crowd that she would indeed run for a second term.
Did You Know? The history of rostrum owes much to an elaborate party staged by the ancient Romans after one of their major maritime victories. After the battle, the Romans decorated the Forum, the center of judicial and public business in Rome, with souvenirs of their big win. Those decorations included beaks from ships they had captured (a beak is the pointed beam on the bow of a warship that is used to ram and sink other ships), which were hung behind the speaker's platform. The Latin name for a ship's beak was rostrum, and the plural rostra later came to be used to name any speaker's platform. English speakers adopted the word (plural and all) by the mid-1500s.
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