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Walked 1.74 miles with Everly.

Class.

Stone Mountain Park/Museum.

Inner core of the Earth.

Park!

El Torero. Great to have Ashley with us!

Sewed up a hole in my comforter.

Due to the Canadian wild fires.

Went by Aztec Cycles to get my brakes tightened up on my bike.

I didn’t ride because of the bad air. Didn’t seem all that bad to me.

Deposited checks. Amen.

Just keep going.

Walked another 2.09 miles this evening while I studied.

Watered my plants.

Edited video I shot on Saturday.

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Walked 2.46 miles in Chamblee.

Met the girls at 8:00 AM.

Waffle House with K.

Class!

Went to Goodwill to check on pool gear and toys.

We had fun at Lazy River. The girls were so much bigger this year than last Summer and didn’t have any problem in the water. Of course I stayed right there with them.

They ate great at Hot and Cold Asian buffet.

Jessi had a candle making session with the girls.

Robot arm fun.

Hard group this week. Everyone seems motivated. Unusual.

Penelope read Green Eggs and Ham to Everly, Jessi and I before bed time. They went to sleep right at 9:30 PM. We were all tired.

Ordered groceries.

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Walked 2.40 miles.

Class.

We worked on our Summer calendar.

The girls helped me do the scanning and entering of the fruit we bought.

Monkey Bar (aka Brook Run Park.)!

Taco Veloz for lunch.

We had fun at the Doraville Pool.

Drying out the pool clothes while we played at the park.

We played our new card game with Miles when he got home.

Checked the mail at my office.

Drove home through absolutely torrential rain, including some small pea sized hail. Wow!

Then picked up groceries.

Spanish podcast.

I’ll repot these plants soon.

No bike ride today. Too wet, although the rain gauge didn’t measure any thing. Sorry to hear that. It’s been pretty dry at my house.

Whirlwind server wasn’t working last night. Here’s what happened on 6.5.23.

Came in #1 on Duolingo.

Worked on multiplication pages. After further thought, I doubt I’ll use them till school starts again.

Beautiful dawn with rosy full moon and sunshine.

Summer schedule gets me to the mission at 7:00 AM.

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Walked 2.18 miles.

First day of Summer Fun/School!

Waffle House breakfast.

Reserved the Fellowship Hall for the teams.

Put my gear up from The Show on Saturday.

Fun at the Church Park.

Walked .52 miles up and down the big church hill.

Took the girls to the Lego exhibition. We just saw the free stuff which I thought they’d have the most fun with anyway.

We colored in all these images.

Interesting.

Warm.

Gassed up the car.

Biked 10.94 miles.

Serious competition this week. I’ll probably come in #2.

Released Verbal Surgery “Tiny Picture.”

I follow these rules.

I liked this from Seth Godin’s blog this morning.

Magritte is one of my favorite artists.

Good employment numbers this month. Glad to see the economy is still humming along.

The regularity of our solar system intrigues me.

My ATM card was worn out. Got a new one in the mail yesterday. Set it up this morning and got it working.

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Beautiful weather.

Love my little rose bushes.

Walked 2.08 miles.

Deposited checks.

The UPS store now has a machine that reads the QR code for my return to Amazon and prints the return label for a bag you put it in. Then you just drop the little package in the slot for the UPS guys to deliver. Cuts WAY down on wasted packaging and waiting in line.

I bought a microphone with the cables I needed, but decided it wasn’t going to work for what I intended to do with it.

Got my new reading glasses in. They look identical to my old ones: two pair for about $10.00! Can’t beat that. I have several other pairs at my house that are larger that I keep on my desks and with my reading material. These have been a great design, although I pull the little clip off of them. I keep them in my pocket.

Had a visitor in my yard. Looked about the size of a dinner plate. Seemed to be digging a hole, perhaps to lay some eggs! Me and my neighbor were checking her out then she decided to go to my next door neighbor’s yard instead.

Biked! I got about nine miles in and looked at the weather radar. Seemed to be a big storm bearing down on me. Pumped up the speed!

Dug down a little more into my health stats. And what I did on my bike.

It’s hard to hear on my bike.

I normally would have ridden about another four miles but cancelled out because of the impeding storm.

About nine miles in was when I saw the radar.

I’ll come in #1 again this week. I don’t see Ricky making up 5,000 points in one night.

I’ve really enjoyed Duolingo since they added a bunch of new material. I studied medical stuff this week.

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This is when I got to FBC Doraville.

And this is when I finished setting up for the team. Pretty quick, because I had all the equipment I needed just right next door in my office.

New lessons on Duolingo since the upgrade.

Dig these clouds.

Walked 1.23 miles at the church while I studied Spanish.

Finishing strong this week. No catching me tomorrow.

GREAT to have my team from Deep Springs BC, Dandridge, TN today!

We toured the Muslim Book Store.

And Al Madina.

The BAPS Hindu Temple.

Playing with the kids at Azalea.

One of my very favorite teams!

Interesting.

Looking forward to having teams in town.

Anthony’s daughter’s 21st birthday today. It’s been fun watching her grow up.

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Walked 2.10 miles.

Ordered some new reading glasses. Mine got bent up this morning.

Vacuumed the house and cleaned the vacuum afterwards.

Warm today. Felt great.

Spanish podcast.

Bank to deposit money. Amen.

Scrubbed and soaked my England hat today.

Tried to use the DVR capabilities with my cable box. Apparently, I have to subscribe to the service. Figures.

Enjoying Kevin Kelly’s book.

Learning how to tie a bowline knot.

Swept the kitchen.

Trimmed some gardenia blossoms from my plants to enjoy them inside.

Taking out garbage and recycle is practically a daily job.

Enjoyed a fun bike ride. Around 80 degrees is perfect for me. Went 12.73 miles.

This is the Muslim’s version of Kosher. Not sure what it tastes like.

This robot was mowing the soccer fields by Parkview HS.

If people don’t work hard every day it’s impossible to beat me.

Canada puts messages on their cigarettes now. Weird, because most kids vape. Think this would make adults quit? Doubt it.

Enjoying reading this book.

This really was extraordinary. The scale of it was amazing.

Had to look this up.

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Walked 2.09 miles.

This little loop is a very steep hill. In the newest addition to my walk, I go up and down this little beast three times.

I’ve been biking every day. That means I generate a LOT more laundry. I’m doing my own once a week, K does it for me once a week too. I usually dry out my sweaty clothes every night so they don’t stink. I use a fan. I’ve started drying my clothes in the drier after my walk. Starts the rest of the day nice and dry. Only takes about ten minutes.

Loving this weather. Great to have it nice during my week off.

My sister-in-law is in the hospital. Her sodium got so low that she passed out and crashed her car. She told us she hit Marco’s Pizza. I went to see it today. No sign of any damage. Zero. She must have hit something else. I was going to try and see about getting the car for her.

I ate at El Torreros for lunch. Man, was it ever good.

Always learning words.

I liked the look of this.

I read an article that said WD-40 would take off this mildew. We’ll see. I used to use bleach, but that stuff is so corrosive.

Rested after lunch then went for a 12.89 mile bike ride. So good. Remember that short loop with the steep hill I do on my walk? I did that twice on my bike. Super hard after that long a ride. Biking up a hill is WAY harder than walking up a hill. No comparison really.

Duolingo just did a massive upgrade of the hardest material. Excellent!

Section 8 is totally brand new.

Working hard. I also listened to my Spanish podcast for 1.28 hours while I rode my bike.

I bet this would be super popular in the USA. Not.

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Babies getting some screen time.

This was super loud.

Just keep learning. And walking. 3.42 miles to be exact.

Nice chat with my Mom. I always enjoy that.

Went to FBC Doraville to get my newsletters printed. Then folded and stuffed them.

I listened to this podcast in Spanish about three hours today.

Got all the envelopes ready to go. Took them to the Doraville Post Office. The outside mail box didn’t work. Took them inside and the inside mailbox was having problems too! Talked to a couple of the employees about it. I’ve never seen that before in my life. BOTH bad?!

Checked the mail at my office.

I have a team on Saturday. I organized everything I need for The Show and took the stuff upstairs. The Fellowship Hall was booked. Fortunately, the team’s not very big so I can do it in the meeting room right next to my office.

Updated the operating system for my phone this afternoon.

Neither of the cars I have need an emissions check. Both are over twenty five years old. Paid the tax to get the stickers.

A friend of mine in Houston in interested in tigers. I sent him this link. Did you know they are available?

Today I got my three banana plants in the ground. It was a big job. Hope they do ok. They were definitely root bound.

Always learning the finer meanings of words.

The squirrels knocked the birdbath over and broke it. I improvised a solution. I may have to put some silicon caulk in a crack. Don’t know if it will hold water yet.

Cleaned the other bird baths out.

And the hummingbird feeders.

Mixing up the nectar.

Mileage log.

Dog food got delivered. Or should I say “raccoon food?”

I love these little banana plants. They remind me of home. I hope they do well.

Cleaned my bike and checked the air pressure.

Lotta garbage.

I rode my bike 7.97 miles. I was really tired at the end. I pushed myself hard today and got up about two hours earlier than I normally do.

This Ricky guy has been giving me some competition. I’m sure he’s not pleased that I keep coming back strong.

Downloaded the recording I did yesterday onto my Mac Air this evening.

I’m going to sleep early tonight. Whipped.

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Cleaned the front glass door.

Walked 1.90 miles.

I was sorry I didn’t let the kids borrow my underwater phone case while they’re at the beach. That could’ve been cool.

Went to Goodwill to check on jackets for the girls. Found a couple that might have worked, but there was a HUGE line that I didn’t feel like waiting for.

Ordered groceries.

Gorgeous.

Spanish podcast.

Went to the Post Office to get stamps for the newsletter.

Went to the bank to get help ordering a new debit card. Mine is worn out. One of the ladies helped me do it by using the Bank of America app.

Stone Mountain to record an episode of Verbal Surgery called “Always Branching.” Also talked to the staff there about the Summer schedule.

Printed the labels for the newsletter.

Produced and printed the newsletter. I’ll make copies tomorrow in Doraville.

I put the labels and stamps on the newsletter and stuffed the donation envelopes.

Picked up the groceries. Put them up.

Blew the garage and driveway.

Rinsed off the walls.

Blew the deck.

Cleaned the dashboard in my car.

Biked 6.02 miles. Beauty.

Some competition. We’ll see if he lasts.