EEG!

OYB!

Español!

Hot!

K and I went on a weekend together to Toccoa, GA. We stayed at Toccoa Motel. If you’re from Africa you’d think it was nice. Otherwise not so much.

I’m always glad to be on Safari. These shots are from Cornerstone Antiques. I have a picture of one of the things I bought. Can you guess which one?

Team for next March.

Keep going.

K and I went to Los Amigos for dinner. I thought their salsa verde was too sour.

Magnificent clouds.

I’ve enjoyed creating fractals based on the Mandelbrot set. The patterns are math.

EEG training.

Ordered groceries.

Med notification.

OYB!

Español!

I left a brown paper towel in the back pocket of my shorts. What a mess in the washing machine. I had to shake out every single thing.

Got hot.

These big AI facilities take up enormous resources.

Toccoa research.

Scrubbed the carpet. Just used water.

Beauty.

Penelope and I figured out about how many little tiles they had on one wall of Cici’s Pizza.

I saw this sign at Huntley Hills.

Helped the kids at the Mission.

The kids have enjoyed having the Nintendo 64 Mario Kart in the Mission.

Always great to see Ashley.

Fireball in the sky.

Checked the oil and got gas. Want to make sure everything is good for the trip to Toccoa tomorrow with K.

Picked up groceries.

Keep going.

EEG!

OYB!

Español!

The chairman of my board, Pastor Bill Cordrey, sent me a nice note today.

Hot!

Cleaned and refilled the birdbaths and feeders.

Took care of my Mom’s business stuff. Mainly checked on accounts and cut checks.

Went to the UPS store to send back the plant hangars to Amazon.

Stopped by my office at FBCD to pick up checks. None.

Called my health insurance agent to check on whether we could upgrade J’s coverage. No changes until November.

Helped the kids at the Mission. Lots of homework.

One of the girls was memorizing a song in Spanish for her church. Made me so happy.

Feeding neurons is a long-term project.

EEG from brain training.

Confirmed to go to Pat Barrington’s party.

Always checking meds.

OYB!

Put a camera lens cover on K’s phone.

Español!

Got pretty hot. It’s the humidity.

Had a fun chat with my buddy Anthony. I always send a text with the word Status. Depending on how he answers me, I know if he’s available.

Went by my office to check the mail.

Interesting bee.

K and I took the girls out for lunch at Cheeseburger Bobby’s.

Helped the kids at the Mission.

Mileage. Just finished calculating and printing the document for my treasurer to look at next month.

I ordered an extra package of plant hangars by mistake. I asked for a refund from Amazon. I’ll take it by UPS tomorrow.

I’m using whitening strips. This will be the second set I’ve done recently.

Keep going. Set the pace.

Storm in the Gulf.

Vitamins for J.

I’ve enjoyed creating fractals with this Mandelbrot Metal.

Brain Training. I’m interested in what brain waves are being created when I am in different states of consciousness.

Still trying to figure out where my shirts from adaychic are.

Quotes from Kevin Kellly’s blog.

Food recalls are scary.

OYB!

Español!

Second place last week in the Leagues.

Warm.

My little peppermint roses are blooming.

I brought a little plate of droseras from J’s room. It had gotten dried out. Sad. Plants are tough. Hopefully, they’ll come back.

I had the carnivorous plants separated. I decided to mix them together like they would be in nature.

Beauty.

K lost her sunglasses. She thought she left them at the Doggie Park. I didn’t see them at the table

Don Cheto.

There are supposed to be two helicopters in this picture but I don’t see them here.

Research on how to use the Mandelbrot Metal app.

I’ve never seen this before. Cool. Pileated Woodpecker with a hanging suet cage.

I installed two feeder/plant hangars today. One is by my window where I just installed screen mesh. The other is on the deck by J’s chair. The usual process of getting all the equipment I’ll need together first.

Hooking up power for the drill. Getting the drill bit in. Pre drilling holes is really the way to go.

Then I screwed the Phillips head into the frame of the window. One screw is sufficient. That hummingbird feeder isn’t heavy. I may put hanging plants there during the winter.

Put stuff away.

I cleaned the glass door on the deck and put a suet feeder there.

The feeder by my window is back in business.

I use wire to hang them. Works great.

I got the two new feeders by Amazon today. Cleaned, filled, and hung them out.

Drilled a hole and put screw in the hangar on the deck.

Deck feeder.

Recorded and released a new episode of Verbal Surgery called, “Look See”

Duolingo has us competing against friends. We are usually at the top.

EEG brain training!

I find this type of research interesting.

OYB!

Español!

Cooler and some rain.

Did laundry.

Watered my upstairs plants.

Most of my day was spent on the phone with Mint Mobile. I waited for a call back for over four hours. Finally got it all figured out. K has a usable phone again. Amen. Thank you, Father!

Her old iPhone 11 Pro Max used lightning cables. I had to change her cables out to USB-C for the iPhone 15+.

I put the screen protector on for K’s new phone and ordered a protective cover for the back cameras.

I wrote Thank You notes while I was waiting for Mint Mobile to call me back.

The new AC window unit has saved us money.

Second place this week. Just keep doing the work.

Did my brain training.

Blood Moon.

OYB!

Shared contact info with a NoZe brother.

Español!

Warm.

After the dental cleaning yesterday, I did the whitening strips today.

I decided I’d like to get some fresh cool air in my room from time to time. Mosquitoes made opening my window impossible. So I got some black replacement screen mesh and covered my window. Before I did that I needed to cut the bushes away from the house. They looked like great candidates for rooting. Cut them all down to size and got them in water to root.

Then cleaned up and put away the table.

Covering my window with screen mesh was a challenge. Once I got the bush cleared out, I scrubbed all the surfaces with my leather gloves and made a careful measurement of the material and the window opening. Got a window planter off with window ledge and loaded the staple gun.

Staple guns are a really useful tool.

J’s new containers came in.

I moved a feeder from the back yard to the kitchen window. I’m trying to provide enough feeders that they can feed without too much fighting. He can’t fight what he can’t see.

Mixed up feeder solution and cleaned the feeders.

Getting more feeders and stands.

Went to the Post Office to measure and send Jim a priority mail letter with the $5K check in it.

Worked on getting K’s phone squared away with an e-sim. I went to Burger King for wifi and great cell signal. Spent over two hours this afternoon and another four hours this evening trying to make calls or expecting a call from Mint Mobile Tech. Ay caramba.

I changed the email on K’s phone.

I wrote Thank You cards while I waited on phone calls.

You can see Stone Mountain from this spot in Burger King.

Kept working on the Mint challenge.

Post Office to mail the letters I’d done and get more stamps.

Got more Thank You cards.

Charging K’s phone all the way up.

You know the drill.

OYB!

Storm rolled through. Blinked the lights. Had to reset clocks.

Español!

Called Tucker Family Dental this morning to ask about the ramp in front of their building. It’s a hurdle for my Mom. She made it fine.

Got news that K’s Rollator was NOT affected by the recall. That’s good news.

My Mom and I went to the dentist for our cleaning and x-rays today. We both got good reports.

Tropical storm Dolly! I was a big fan of hers.

Lunar eclipse this evening. Supposed to be cloudy.

Jessi is looking forward to get her stuff organized.

Apparently, there was some issue with the shipment of my shirts.

OYB!

Español!

Heating up again.

Ordered groceries.

Don Cheto while I was in the car.

I wrote and produced my newsletter last night. I also did all the labels. Today, I went to FBC Doraville to make copies and stuff the envelopes. I always want to leave the place like I found it.

Cleaned out the trash can in my office and put it in the dumpster. I’ve been in this office a long time.

Went to the Post Office to get the newsletters in the mail.

I went to my favorite Antiques place in Chamblee. Always something fun to see. I just had a few minutes and didn’t see anything I had to have.

Picked up Penelope at the bus and went to the BHFM for lunch. It was exceptionally good today.

Then went to Huntley Hills to pick up Everly at Flaggerrets. It’s her cheerleading team.

I opened up the Mission to the kids today. I hope they’re going to be careful.

I was outside helping with homework.

Part of my route home has been closed the last few days. This afternoon, I went to see the construction. Looks like they’re completely redoing the asphalt between the tracks. That’ll be a LOT better. I had to go over that crossing in the Lincoln at nearly a dead stop.

Picked up groceries on the way home. As I expected, they didn’t have the extra large boxes that J wanted in stock. I had to return these. Wasn’t too hard because I had a team leader helping me.

There’s been a possible recall on Kathy’s Rollator chair. I emailed the company back. They asked for a picture of the Ref and Lot numbers. I provided that in an email to them this evening.

Keep going.

Came in second place in the Duolingo leagues last week.

Practiced with my EEG headset.

Putting plans into motion for Homecoming this year.

I’m researching putting a fine mesh over my window to keep out bugs. It’s been cool outside in the evenings. Might be nice to have some fresh air. Still in the planning stages. I need to measure where the material will go.

OYB!

Cooler.

Ms. Thais is Penelope’s teacher. She’s been a great volunteer at the Mission.

Deposited checks. Thank you so much, Father!

Picked up the girls at the bus and went to Pho 24.

New picture from Penelope. Recognize the figure?

I got this email from Amazon about K’s collator. I followed up with an email this evening.

Penelope and Everly go up to Alexa’s house when we get to Azalea.

Very little homework. Most of the kids are doing MAP testing. That helps the teachers figure out which kids need to work together.

Don Cheto on the ride home.

It’ll be close this week.

Wrote my newsletter. Haven’t produced it yet. This is the first part.