Tag Archives: Georgia

Weathering the storms

5/21/2008 – 3:46 pm

We had a batch of bad weather come through here yesterday. I had seen a severe thunderstorm warning earlier in the day, but didn’t think much about it. [...]

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Snow

2/16/2006 – 5:17 pm

Falling Snow

Snow falling last Monday

I originally wrote this up on Monday the 13th, but didn’t get to post it until now because I wound up tracking down a WordPress bug.

Just about everyone knows about the blizzard up in the northeast last week. [...]

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Katrina

9/2/2005 – 12:59 pm

I have a lot of family in the areas affected by Hurricane Katrina. Fortunately, my closest relatives — my mother, father, step-father, grandmother, plus some aunts, uncles, and first cousins — were not in the most heavily affected areas. [...]

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Redneck

6/6/2005 – 1:06 pm

I’m a redneck.

Not because I was born in Alabama and spent most of my life there. And not because I now live in Georgia. And definitely not in the sense of chawin’ tobaccy and watching NASCAR.

I’m a redneck because I spent most of hottest portion of Sunday out in the hot sun. [...]

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Civic Duty

11/3/2004 – 9:32 am

Susan and I did our civic duty yesterday and voted. We had heard of long lines in many areas, with waits up to six hours. But at our polling location, we didn’t have any wait at all. We arrived around 4:00 p.m., parked in one of the handful of empty spaces, filled out our paperwork, showed our identification, and voted using the newfangled electronic voting machines (yes the controversial Diebold machines). [...]

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Priorities

10/23/2004 – 5:31 pm

Today’s Final Jeopardy Answer is: “Computers, television, and sleep.”

And the Question is…

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Stone Mountain Highland Games

10/19/2004 – 10:49 am
Bagpipers on Parade

Bagpipers on Parade

Susan and I went to the Stone Mountain Highland Games last Saturday. [...]

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The DMV Secret Society

8/14/2004 – 5:07 pm

Those of you who have read my past writings know that we recently moved our family from Alabama to Georgia. Of course, this necessitates a lot of bureaucratic tasks such as change of address forms, setting up utilities, changing our drivers licenses, car registration, etc. [...]

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Help the Hunter Become the Hunted

4/21/2004 – 4:21 pm

Since I expect I’m getting a lot of new visitors here due to the recent launch of Ping-O-Matic, and the associated linkage thereof, I guess this would be a good time to ask for some help.

For various reasons, too complicated to detail here at this time, I am relocating my family. [...]

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