Whirlwind Missions

Saturday, June 10, 2023

Grandgirls! MARTA! Downtown! Hard Rock! Pool! Bike! 6.9.23

Tim A. Cummins @ 7:07 am  

Edited the video I shot on Saturday for our team. Sent the email with the links to video and photo gallery.

Español!

OYB!

Beautiful sunrise!

Walked 2.67 miles in Chamblee.

Class!

I tweaked the girl’s bikes including oiling the chains and pumping up the tires.

We had a great time riding the MARTA to Peachtree Center.

Chatted with Anthony on the ride.

Marta.

Everything is big in the ATL.

Cool! I remember when this was for sale in Chamblee.

We came downtown to eat here as well as to ride the elevator at the Westin, which wasn’t open.


The big finish, “Death by Chocolate.”

We stopped at the Atlanta Hard Rock Cafe. I always like to see their memorabilia.

My favorite piece.

Super cool.


My favorite artists.

So many groovy things.

One of my very favorite songs by the B52’s

Headed back to Chamblee.

Doraville pool to finish off the day.

Beautiful weather and the pool was nearly empty.

I took the bike rack off my car. I taped the top part together to make it easier to figure out how to put it back on.

Checked the mail at my office. Watered my ficus.

Spanish podcast.

Rode my bike 12.88 miles.

Keep pushing.

Stayed up late talking to Jessi. Went straight to sleep. Did this blog Saturday morning.

Thursday, June 8, 2023

Grandgirls! Stone Mountain Museum! Park! 6.8.23

Tim A. Cummins @ 8:34 pm  

OYB!

Español!

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.

Wednesday, June 7, 2023

Grandgirls! Class! Lazy River! Candles! 6.7.23

Tim A. Cummins @ 9:40 pm  

OYB!

Español!

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.

Tuesday, June 6, 2023

Class! Monkey! Bar Park! Doraville Pool! 6.6.23

Tim A. Cummins @ 9:20 pm  

Ordered groceries.

OYB!

Español!

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.

Tuesday, June 6, 2023

Summer School! Legos! Bike! Español! 6.5.23

Tim A. Cummins @ 9:00 pm  

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.

Español!

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.”

Sunday, June 4, 2023

Español! Walk! Bike! 6.4.23

Tim A. Cummins @ 7:27 pm  

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.

Español!


OYB!

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.

Saturday, June 3, 2023

Español! Deep Springs, BC! Temple! AZ! 6.3.23

Tim A. Cummins @ 9:06 pm  

Español!

OYB!

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!

Friday, June 2, 2023

Walk! Clean! Bike! 6.2.23

Tim A. Cummins @ 8:06 pm  

Interesting.

Looking forward to having teams in town.

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

OYB!

Español!

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.

Thursday, June 1, 2023

Walk! Book! Bike! 6.1.23

Tim A. Cummins @ 6:58 pm  

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.

OYB!

Español!

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.

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