Meeting Louisville's Mayor Jerry Abramson

I walked out of my house with my wife to run some errands with my wife last Friday when lo and behold I got to meet my city's mayor! We saw a group of people in Shelby Park a stone's throw away from our house and I decided to investigate. Undeterred by the news cameras and dozens of people wearing suits and seeming to be a little more important than me, I took my stand in the midst of the group and listened to our mayor.

If I'd known I was going to meet him today, I might've walked out of the house looking a little more like a grown-up. As it was, I was in sandals, my hair was wet from my shower, and I was sporting my (awesome) Mega Stega t-shirt... not bad, except it's a screen print t-shirt with neon pink writing. Classy.

Mayor Abramson was discussing a government initiative to tear down or sell to property investors foreclosed and dilapidated homes in our neighborhood. This is great news, as our streets here are riddled with abandoned homes. I live next to one of said homes, and I can vouch for the fact that it was being used as a crack house until I was able to get the city to board it up. (Well, it was being used as one while it was still occupied, too, among other unsavory uses.)

After the mayor finished speaking, I walked up and waited a minute to shake his hand and introduce myself. It was fun, if not a little awkward. He's tall. And so is my councilman, David Tandy, who was hovering by his side. It was nice to be able to introduce myself as a property owner in the neighborhood who's actually interested in purchasing and tearing down some of these worthless properties. I was able to get a couple of good leads on ways to cheaply reclaim abandoned properties. Gotta put my master plan of a double-wide lot into action...

I think he was impressed by the Mega Stega.