JACK’S BIRTHDAY!
Happy Birthday, Jack!
Rigt now:The Marching Yellow Jackets are marching.
Muggy, wondering when today’s 90% chance of rain becomes 100% actual rain, but having fun at the game.
Again, HAPPY BIRTHDAY, JACK!The Marching Yellow Jackets are marching.
Don Farmer is a Jerk
fool, idiot, jerk, offensive idiot, soulless gasbag9/24/2009 at 10:01 pm Comments (0)
Thirty Seconds on MARTA
A small slice of my commute, paralleling GA 400 between the stations at Buckhead and near Northside Hospital.
9/24/2009 at 9:42 pm Comments (0)
A Lottery Winner’s Tale and WikiTravel
Jason Kottke pointed to “this fascinating Reddit discussion, I won a $30 million lottery jackpot and have spent the last 5 years traveling the world. I find myself contemplating what I’d do with a fortune when I see the tens of millions in lottery prizes on the billboards around town. I try not to spend too much brain time on it; I haven’t bought a lottery ticket in years. There is some entertainment value in it, but it’s distracting as well, and even vicarious greed is greed and thus needs to be avoided.
The Reddit poster seems credible to me. If he’s a pretender, he’s good at it. I won’t comment on his values and choices, other than to say I appreciate that he’s not miserable as many lottery winners apparently become. I really appreciate his pointer to Wikitravel as an travel information resource:
Started as a beach traveler but became organized about it after I ran out of beaches. I tackle sections of continents at a time now. Wikitravel has all the information guides have for free.
“Ran out of beaches.” Oh, what problems to have! Anyway, I poked around Wikitravel, and looked at the page for Boulder, Colorado – Ellen and I are going there in October – and found some really good tips. Favorite!
Gadberry-Merritt Falls
We had unprecedented amounts of water running into the culvert in our front yard, but nothing like what happened in other places around Atlanta.
Rain rain rain rain rain.
We have had rain, we have it now, and they say we’ll have it for the next week.
Map image grabbed from the excellent WunderMap site. You can have your Weather Channels; this is way mo better.
9/19/2009 at 11:15 am Comments (0)
Surprise
About to leave to pick up my mother for her 80th birthday celebration. It’s a surprise, and my sister Janine has worked for a long while to make this happen. We’ve got a room reserved at Violette, a French restaurant well north of downtown Atlanta but still within the inner burbs. We’ll have about 70 people from what I understand.
I’ll compose some thoughts about her to publish here. In the meantime, look for pictures soon!
The Wayne at Fox Bros. Bar-B-Q
Wayne extolls the virtues of the local brew.
Two tasty things | Omnivore Atlanta
I want to eat these Two tasty things that Creative Loafing’s Omnivore blog writes about.
9/3/2009 at 10:55 am Comments (0)