How can it be? On the jury summons I received yesterday it said “Greetings! This is your summons for jury duty.” How pleasant. Now if they would only send me something that said “Salutations! This is your property tax refund.”
So Lazy
There were two conditions which needed to hold yesterday so that I could make it to George’s by 6pm with the attitude to run.
1) get out of work early enough to ride Marta back to the Highlands — PASS!
2) Marta could experience little-to-no delays — FAIL!
There was a train broken down at the Lindbergh station yesterday afternoon which caused my train to have to wait so that we could do the “go South on the Northbound rail” manuever. I pulled up to George’s just in time to see my friends depart for their run. Eventhough I was highly encouraged by my friend Sarah to hurry up and change, Crotchety Old Man(tm) reared his ugly head and I decided to go into the bar for a meal instead.
But I Am So Wired
No, not because I’ve had too much coffee (yet), because I am a sucker and just fell victim to Wired Magazines $10 per year subscription offer sent to me in the mail. Sadly I’ll probably only read half of the issues delivered (you do remember who this is typing, no?) but I really like Wired so I had to succomb.
Atlanta: A City Too Gridlocked To Move
That’s what our next slogan should be. Developers are building hi-rise condos, excuse me mixed-use developments, at an alarming rate in Midtown and Buckhead. With America’s push to Corporate Shopping (malls, centers, internet, etc) what is going to fill the retail segment? We are not Manhattan, Starbucks will not be putting in a store on every corner (umm, thankfully).
How are the people who move into Midtown going to get around? The streets are already saturated with cars, and I don’t think that Marta has the ability to handle an increased population (besides, only a minor segment of the city finds Marta useful even with elevated gas costs).
I am no civic leader, just someone who believes he sees a problem.
[update @ 9:30am] apparently I am not the only one noticing a problem, see also Dying Peach.
Looking For Business Cards In All The Wrong Places
Fuck looking for love, I want business cards for Inside The Perimeter. Anyone know of a good source? If the company also does design consulation that would also be a benefit to me. Thanks!
Is That ‘Happy Birthday’ I Hear Playing?
The aforementioned Sarah is celebrating a birthday today! I know which one she is celebrating, but I am far too polite to give it away. Suffice to say, she is younger than me (who isn’t?). Sarah is a hasher, Georgia Ultrarunning & Trailrunning Society (GUTS) member [psst, Sarah, I can’t find the website], and really great friend. Happy Birthday Yo!
And now for some ideas stolen from LiveJournal…
Current Mood – more eh
Current Music – Sirius Satellite Radio, channel 26 playing Bright Eyes — “The City Has Sex”
Website Of The Day – Local props to Big Peach Running Co. the fantastic running store located near the Brookhaven Marta station in the same shopping center as Starbucks (arrgh). Birthday Girl Sarah turned me onto Big Peach and on the rare ocassion that I run my feet are so happy that she did.
If you ever want a quick glance of the sites I’ve picked for my Websites Of The Day, you can check them out on del.icio.us, my user name is InsideThePerimeter (go figure), and they are all tagged as “blogged.”
Yesterday’s Exercise (b)Log – nothing
Cheers!
Paulie [eatl/ga]
Try http://gapingvoid.streetcards.com/ for some pretty cool cards.
And hopefully more density will lead to better mass transit. Last week in San Francisco I would see buses going back and forth full of people every 5 minutes. Granted it was late afternoon, but you know, a boy can dream.
365 days from being as old as you are right now 🙂
Oh, and try getguts.com
…sarah
wow, this is a record…two comments in one day!
DyingPeach link is awesome. I’ve always been a believer in supporting the local mom’npop stores as opposed to the national chains. One point of dissention with DP, though. Places like Moes are franchises, like Ace Hardwares. The franchise owner actually does have an interest in the local community as they may live there. I’m sure this isn’t always the case, but in general it seems to be so. If you’ve ever been in the Moe’s on Ponce, I bet you’ve seen the owner of that particular franchise slinging beans and rice like his employees. But how many of you have seen the owner of the Home Depots of the world in the trenches….
…sarah
Well well stated, Ms. Pour. 😉 Oh, and we need to figure out how when you google for GUTS getguts.com comes back. I even tried googling for Georgia Ultrarunning & Trailrunning Society to no avail
Interesting, when I google “georgia ultrarunning’, getguts.com is the second result. Are you sure you’re using google? 🙂 You have to be much more specific than simply ‘guts’, since google is now indexing almost 6 billion (!!) pages.
…sarah
WHATEVER! I tried MANY combinations and never came close to getguts.com.
See what will happen to you next year? 😛
Dying Peach is right on point. My roommate was one of the owners of Teaspace (one of the restaurants mentioned) and I’ll miss Tortillas until the day I die.
As for business cards, my employer Artlite Office Supply Co. on Piedmont (locally owned family business) does them, and I could probably get them at or near cost. Can’t help with the design, though…
Oliver, is your roommate the guy who was on the Food Network (reality) show a few years ago? I remember that one of the contestants opened Teaspace.
Once I get a design in place I’ll get a quote from Artlite. I’m into supporting the locals.
Yeah, tha’s my roomie Ward. He’ll get a kick that someone actually watched, and remembers him from that show. He was at Johnson & Wales at the time several years ago. Now he’s doing personal chef, catering, consulting and meal plans for the Inman Park/surrounding neighborhoods. I’ve started a website for him (I know, it needs work) at http://www.herbnfare.com