OK, this week we went to PetSmart to get some dog food. Our bulldog - Bo Jackson - enjoys Royal Canin, and the PetSmart folks do good work.
So in the check-out line, the woman working the register had a name tag that read "April May."
I ask if it's two first names.
"No," she said with the distinct pause of someone who has fielded the question a time or 3,000. "My name is April, and I married Brandon May."
Hence, the April May connection.
"I chose love over being a walking one-liner," she said with a grace that made me smile.
And yes, friends, I asked about kids. No plans as of yet, but the Mays are getting a puppy.
Her name will be June. (Seriously.)
Do it, Bob
In 2015, we wrote that Bob Corker should run for president.
Many of you heckled me for that. Wonder what you think about that suggestion now, considering that Donald Trump was able to win an election in which anything on the ticket opposite Hillary - from a right-leaning three-legged stool to an actual elephant - would have won.
So we ask now, would America be better off if Corker, who had a meeting with President Trump on Friday, was the one in the Oval Office?
Who knows?
We do know know this: As TFP political reporter Andy Sher shared this week, Corker is weighing whether to run for a third term in the U.S. Senate.
"Very soon I'll make my plans known," Corker told Sher. "I realize just as a responsibility to the citizens back home and people who may be considering running and actually to people here, I need to be clear about what my intentions are. And that will happen very, very soon."
Here's one big yelp wanting Bob back in D.C. - for Chattanooga and for his rare connection to sanity that seems to be magically removed once most folks spend too much time in D.C.
Saturday star, national version
We enjoy the Saturday star. We like getting to share the good stories in this space.
Not sure how much you saw of the school shooting this week in Washington, but details are emerging about a custodian who real-life saved lives.
The custodian, whose name has not been released, confronted the shooter after he had already killed one and wounded other students. He made the assailant surrender his weapons before the school resource officer arrived.
Saturday stars, local version
Many thanks to all of the folks on all of the crews who made the weather this week as little an inconvenience to our area as possible.
We were without power for about 12 hours, most of it coming in the wee hours Tuesday morning.
We can all agree that for the most part we dodged what was forecast as some problematic fallout from Hurricane Irma. (For those still looking for ways to contribute, go to redcross.org.)
And the power pros made that even better.
Contact Jay Greeson at jgreeson@timesfreepress.com or 423-757-6343.