Running on city of Atlanta sidewalks is akin to running on broken lava flows.  I think I'll be going back to Lavista Park.

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Here is where I went today!
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johnskreet, This is just for you!  As seen in the Creative Loafing.
JUST PLAIN CREEPY: A woman on Lenox Road called police and said her neighbor had set up a tent in the front yard of his house. She said she's seen what looks like young men coming in and out of the neighbor's house. An officer went to the neighbor's house and talked to a 26-year-old man in the front yard. The officer asked why the man was sleeping in a tent in the front yard. The 26-year-old said he lives in the house, but he just bought the tent and set it up. The officer asked who else lived there. He said a 60-year-old man owned the house and also lived there. The officer asked, "How long have you lived here?" Two months, he said. Next, the officer talked to the 60-year-old homeowner. "He then said he had guests in the house at the time, but they did not live there." He gave police permission to look inside the house. "We went inside the house and found there to be several children's DVDs and stuffed animals around the house. We asked [the owner] if he had any kids, and he said no. We asked [the owner] what he had all the videos and stuffed animals for, and he said he drove a limo." Police asked whether his clients wanted to watch children's videos, and the 60-year-old man said no. Police only found adult males in the house (including a 28-year-old man and a 36-year-old man).

On Saturday I was cleaning the house and noticed a crunken electrical smell coming from the kitchen.  After worrying for a while I determined that everything was OK an went on my merry way.  Sunday morning rolled around and Bobskreet woke me up at 7 am to tell me the fridge had failed and everything was in the process of defrosting.  Decay.

Now I am in the process of contacting Lanny Adams (he got the highest satisfaction score on Angies List, gitrdun) so he can come show some crack in my house while fixing the fridge.

I went online and determined that the start relay burned out.  I could buy the part and fix it myself for $33.00 but I have a sneaking suspicion that the repair adventure would end up in a not so fabulous way.

Yay for coolers of food

A few weeks ago we went to Mason Mill park near Emory.  The park is primarily a tennis center; however, if you cross the train tracks into the woods the old Decatur Waterworks resides deep in the forest beside Peachtree Creek.  The old facility has many concrete walls that are constantly spray painted.  I took some pics.

Atlanta Pride at the Civic Center is hot, treeless, and not so comfortable.  On top of that to get to Pride one must walk through a three block "no man's land" between the Civic Center MARTA station and the Civic Center.  I'm sorry that the Pride committee was forced to move to this venue cause honey, it's rurint.

Why do all the stages contain angry lesbians doing spoken word poetry and rants?

I went to the Atlanta Botanical Gardens today and saw a bunch of neat pieces of art.  One that was particularly interesting featured "ferro fluid".
http://www.boingboing.net/2007/04/02/ferrofluid-sculpture.html

This piece of art was installed in the desert house part of the gardens.

I cannot believe that I have been working at Children's Healthcare now for six months!  Two months ago they fired my boss and her replacement is much nicer and we have a good time together.  The Children's company is very corporate and they use phrases like "let me help you manage her expectations."  Other than the odd jargon, things are great.  I also like the 2 mile commute.

BW is going on his 14th month (yes, month) with no job.  This is problematic.  I wish very much to make this get resolved.  It makes me not want to post.

In other news, our yard looks great (since certain people have a lot of time on their hands) and I wish it would rain.

Sometimes when you eat too many hamburguesa and do not exercise and have a very stressful life, you die.


I bet he didn't want that. 
Girl, I thought she was 60.

In 1991 I bought a Macintosh LC from CompUSA on Jimmy Carter Boulevard.  It was underpowered, required an expensive memory upgrade, and was basically obsolete after only a few years (plus is had a 12" screen that wasn't compatible with many games).  Later in life our office used Macs exclusively.  I started off on a G3 and moved my way up to a G5.  I was always surprised at how Apple jumped at the chance to make things incompatible, adapters not fit new models, and the like.  I watched in amazement as Apple came out with the iPhone last year.  I was actually kind of impressed with the neat features it had.  As usual, Apple has gone and shown those early adopters that they made an expensive mistake.  If I had spent $699 on a phone that is now a crappy afterthought for a $199 2nd gen much faster replacement...I'd be a little bit mad.

Anybody want to play with my Apple Newton?

This pic was taken in the spring of 2002

A few weeks ago a bluebird family moved into one of our bluebird boxes.  The babies have hatched and the dad is trying very hard to keep the five babies fed.  Tashi ate the mommy :(

In two days this tent will be in the sand :)

I give Hannah Montana nee Miley Ray Cyrus 4 years until she has Britney-esque hoedown meltdown.  One can only hope it is as spectacular.

Also, I hate American Idol.  It is a stupid show with stupid hosts.  That man that won in the past (Chris Daugherty) looks like his hands are fatty  chicken fingers.  He grasps the mic in a very ignunt way.

I lived a quiet life
a stranger to champagne
I never dared to venture out
to cities of the plain