I headed to N.Ga for the annual BOD xmas party this past weekend. It was good to see everyone and catch up. A few pics are below. On Sunday, Clifford, Matt & his friend Chris went biking at Blankets. Wow,...
It's just too busy these days to write a lot about anything, but here are some stories being followed/worked on by the Ticket: Chattanooga Mayor Ron Littlefield wants to talk with Atlanta about trading water from the mighty Tennessee for his...
Gift giving is a constant in the Christmas tradition. Each family approaches it differently, but the result is the same. You give and get presents. In years past we haven't really thought about what to give Fuller for Christmas. Yeah,...
Here's to Chattanooga More pics here, photo by Katie Spent the day touring the urban wasteland that is most of Detroit. Was depressing to say the least, but it made me even...
The last few days I have lost my spirit of the season mostly because of the weather in Chattanooga , I mean you are not suppose to be able to wear shorts and flip-flops( my very favorite thing) 14...
to clean your laundry room floor. Last night around 10 o'clock, I hear Patrick exclaim that the floor was wet. Well, I set Luke down to go investigate. It wasn't just wet, it was standing water. There was at least...
It looks like Brainerd is going to get it's own set of traffic cameras. Does the city Council have any say in this? Do we as citizens get an opportunity to support or oppose it? Article on the Chattanoogan.com: City To...
I went to Atlanta with a friend today to do some shopping (Whole Foods, Trader Joe's and Costco! Yippie!)* and we shopped so efficiently that we thought that we'd be able to get back home early. Then we got stuck...
Autumn is breathing her last; Thanksgiving is long gone and I've gone and let it slip by without voicing my thanks. It hardly seems fitting since most days I sense daily how incredibly much I have to be thankful for....
..get thee to the City Council building by 4 pm, and make haste toward the Collins Committee Room. The city's Health, Human Services and Housing Opportunities Committee will be presenting. If you can't make it today (what? you need more...
As you well know, we are getting closer to my birthday. Every year there is a celebration in my honor and I think that this year the celebration will be repeated. During this time there are many people shopping for...
"You can feel 'safe' you know the white picket fence American dream, but every utopia has to have a jail and a graveyard: you're safer finding danger than wasting your time protecting yourself from it."Practical advice from a quotable...
calliope and i have been very busy lately putting gift card packages together. i recently had 2 new sets of note cards printed up: 10 different cards in all, and 8 of them entirely new from my gift cards in...
Americans are broad-minded people. They'll accept the fact that a person can be an alcoholic, a dope fiend, a wife beater, and even a newspaperman, but if a man doesn't drive, there is something wrong with him.Art Buchwald, "How Un-American...
Another final assignment: a lot of the same reading as the sugar plantation essay (sometimes even the same phrasing), plus some tendentious theoretical speculations. This was fun. It seemed to me that the mysteriousness that accompanied my seeing,...
Final assignment for the Latin American Colloquium . . . I don't think this is a very good historiographical essay -- too diffuse -- but here it is anyway. The different sugar-producing machines, installed here and there through the centuries, can...
so, i have always preferred cycling to running. enter, the treadmill bike! this thing is a riot. be sure to watch the video, but more importantly, click the "sweet jumps" link next to the video screen. good stuff,...
Jott, an awesome new web app lets you call an 800 number and receive your text transcribed as emails, text messages, or entries on your calendar or todo list. Very handy for me, since I still have neither a...
With 2007 nearly finished, I have started to look ahead to plan some hiking and backpacking for next year. First on deck is the Florida Trail in January. A few friends and I plant to hike approximately...
Corridor K continues to remain a concern for many in the hiking, conservation and environmental communities, not to mention hunters and fisherman. Concerns exist because of the potential impact of a new 25-mile, 4-lane highway that could potentially be...
INTERESTING...Al Gore just accepted the Nobel Peace Price for his work on Global Warming and here in Chattanooga, TN the temperature is around the high 70's.Other interesting environmental news from Chattanooga's American Hiking Society:Today, Wilbur Smith Associates released a long...
Rehema has not been feeling well so I decided to try the Minute Clinic at CVS before taking her to the doctor. They do charge the same copay as the your regular doctor but it is much faster and so...
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