Makes sense.

Progress!

Dreary but dry.

Anthony asked me to give a friend a call.

OYB!

Studied Español and walked; twice, once in our neighborhood and also at Stone Mountain.

Good talk with my buddy, Dan Perez.

Brought Thai food home.

Listened to almost the end of the Harry Potter book.

I got some Christmas lights, a timer, and an extension cord to decorate the front of our house with rainbow meteors.

They look better at night.

Pushed ahead but not catching the top two. I don’t really even try.

OYB!

Ordered groceries.

Español!

Rained most of the day.

Did my timed test on Duolingo at the top of my hill where my internet is faster.

Went to PNC bank to check to make sure that the bi-weekly auto debit was set up for sure this time. She assured me it was.

Ashley’s been getting her packages at my house.

I’ve been experimenting talking with the new GPT-Chat bot.

Picked up my groceries. Put them away.

Listened to Harry Potter in Español.

Gassed up my car and checked the fluids.

I usually score about the same each week. Sometimes I just get clobbered by smarter, harder working students.

Enjoying playing Battlefront II.

I want Argentina to win the World Cup. Messi is my favorite.

OYB!

Español!

Walked 1.08 miles while I studied.

County trimming trees to avoid the ice breaking limbs and power outage.

This is a bad fire ant mound!

K and I ate curry for lunch.

Incredibly mild weather.

I loved this picture of Everly in the bath tub.

Little sweetheart. She was eating a big piece of chocolate.

Helped the kids with their homework. They had finished what they needed to do for this week for the most part.

Beautiful clouds at sunset.

I don’t see the top two slowing down. I’m fine with third. The top three is all that Duolingo counts.

I got a letter from my bank today. Looks like everything is ready to go for the bi-weekly auto payment. I still made an appointment to make sure. If I need to give them a check to make double sure I’m prepared to do that.

Went to Stone Mountain to record an episode of Verbal Surgery called “Manual Focus.” Good one. Uploaded it to my Mac this evening.

OYB!

Español! I did a lot of exercises while exercising. It’s kind of my new thing to walk while I’m studying.

I called the Ear, Nose and Throat doctor’s office today. Left a message with the lady who is in charge of scheduling J’s surgery for the deviated septum repair.

Sewed another hole in my map jacket. I really need to collect all of my jackets and do a systematic repair and evaluation of them. My guess is I have around seven of them. I bought a new one every year for over twenty years. Many of the old ones I gave away to friends around the world and to one rock star.

Took J to the laser hair removal place.

Had a good talk with my Mom. Glad J was in on it.

I walked 1.02 miles while I was studying Spanish in my neighborhood. Later. I went to Stone Mountain and also studied for about forty-five minutes.

I’ve watched this tire go slowly flat over the last few weeks. It’s parked on the road where I walk.

Refilled water bottles.

Vacuumed the living room.

Cleaned all the internal parts and dried them out. Put it all back together this evening when I got home.

Cloudy and some rain. Actually, poured down rain in Chamblee for about twenty minutes.

I enjoyed my walk at Stone Mountain.

Refilled my gallon jugs of tap water. I use them to water the orchids and to clean out the dog water bowl that the raccoons use. I dump out the old water every couple of days and just refill it. The bowl holds one gallon. Way easier than using the hose.

Refilled bird seed.

Listened to Harry Potter and to radio from Madrid.

Whenever it’s foggy like this I always think that Stone Mountain looks like Mount Olympus.

I can see the dinosaurs from my walk.

I enjoyed eating my veggie burger at the German Bakery and got a Bear Claw for dessert. Super good.

I like the stained glass there.

I look like I have old man’s hands.

The apartments continue to go up across the street from Azalea Place. The guys were singing super loud over there yesterday. It was pretty funny.

Heavy band of weather blew through Chamblee while I was working with the kids.

I studied how many lessons I needed to do in order to trigger this award. I walked 1.83 miles while doing them.

Helped the kids with their homework.

Cat hangs out near our apartment. Always wants to sneak in. I named him Copy. As in Copy Cat.

Turned the library books in that the girls checked out a couple of weeks ago.

Two really good learners in this week’s league. Besides me!

OYB!

It’s Election Day so the kids had off from school to do on-line learning. Arrived in Doraville around 7:15 AM so I could study.

Español!

The girls worked on their homework for about thirty minutes before we piled in the car and headed back to Stone Mountain.

Love their artwork.

We did Waffle House.

We got back to my house and I sat in with Jessi for her initial appointment with her new psychiatrist. I thought she seemed very knowledgeable and friendly. We had kind of a hard time getting the technology to work right at the beginning of the appointment.

I got my end of the year review from Duolingo tonight. I’ve never seen them do that before. “World Champion” has a nice ring to it.

I met up with my buddy and Treasurer for Whirlwind Missions today for lunch. The grandgirls also came along although they were still full from a late breakfast.

Helped the kids with their homework. We finished up Penelope’s assignments. She’s very bright. It was very foggy. Extremely damp. The paper started feeling weird from the water in the air.

So foggy! Living in the clouds, baby.

It’s been a while since I’ve had people that work harder than me. I usually aim for 10,000 points of work a week. Sometimes that creams everyone. Others it’s just not enough. I don’t usually put in more than that amount.

The blue globe indicates the top .1%. Certainly helps you gauge how hard the competition is. You have to be able to answer a lot of questions correctly rapidly and do it consistently day after day. But man, does it pay off. My abilities in Español have skyrocketed.

Listened to radio from Madrid. It’s so fast.

Went by my office to check the mail. Processed the checks. Went to the bank on the way home to deposit them.

A lot of early voting!

Did well in Spanish last week.

I look forward to these!

Anthony sent me 1,135 photos. I made Keynote slide shows for 335, 300, 200, 100 and 50 slide versions. Took several hours. It was fun.

I’m watching a show called Peripheral. Cool music.

I’ve been watching a lot of videos about Messi and Reynaldo.

Good ideas from Eric Barker’s newsletter.

Rained all day. Miles called me to let me know he’d be there to pick up the girls. That was good because I had a headache most of the day.

OYB!

Español!

K and I ate Mexican food today. This food truck was in the parking lot. No idea what they serve.

Cool.

Watered my indoor plants.

Juggling assignments between Jessi, the grandgirls and my buddy Jon Paul.

I’ll pick up the girls at 8am at Azalea. Bring them to my house for the doctor appointment with J and lunch with Jon, then take them back to Azalea. I’ll help the kids with their homework.

Released a new episode of Verbal Surgery called “Value of Loss.”

So good!

Tough competition this week.

Beauty!

Studied Español over an hour. That’s pretty standard for me.

Walked 1.02 miles while I was learning.

BFII high score last night.

Cooler.

OYB!

Got the car letters to the churches in the mail.

Got the fresh sheets on K’s bed.

Cleaned my lens cleaners. Meta.

Finally heard back from the credit card company. They are crediting my account back $322. Amen.

Checked and added oil to K’s truck.

Went to Stone Mountain to record Verbal Surgery.

I’m enjoying going through my buddy Anthony’s images that he’s created using Dalle AI art. I really think it is something extraordinary.

I’m creating a Keynote presentation for him of the best of the images.

Glad I’ve had my flu shot.

Interesting.

Español!

OYB!

Mileage!

Mild and wet.

Went to Walmart to pick up medicine for Jessi and check on cappuccino flavored coffee for her.

New blue jeans! What!?

We’ve had some major car repairs this year. I’m asking some churches is they could pitch in to help a bit with those costs.

New words.

OYB!

Weather getting milder.

Español plus walking 1.02 miles.

Picked up Thai for for the family. Took lunch to K’s work.

This is how many people have voted in Georgia so far. The more voters the more likely Democrats will win.

Recorded a new episode of Verbal Surgery called “Child Like.”

Gassed up my car and checked the fluids.

Wrote a letter to some churches about helping pay for some car bills that I had this year.

Blew the driveway and deck.

Sewed on a button.

#1 by a lot.

I think this interview with Ray Kurzweil was super interesting.

I looking forward to having some people help Jessi.

OYB!

Cold weather today. My week to come.

Español!

Had a great talk with Anthony. We went on Zoom and did file sharing of the art he’s working on now.

J and I voted today. It was a big line but still only took about 25 minutes. There was only one item to vote on so that made it faster.

K came with me to Chamblee. Helped the kids at the mission. I was there till way after dark. Finally left because K was with me and needed to get home.

One of the things I like about working outside is shooting sunsets.

Went to my office to check the mail.

Released a new episode of Verbal Surgery called “Tippy Toe.” Excellence.

Dominating.