ATL 10/15/07 - Fitness, v'ball

This week's scan goes back to 1966 - it's me at my height of cuteness, blondness, and precociousness. It's all downhill from here - like Britney turning 16. We are in my great-grandmother's backyard (in Bakersfield, CA?) - me, my namesake Uncle Dayne, his wife Aunt Agnes, Dayne's mom & my great grandmother Granny Clark, and my Mom. Gotta love that flip. How does she do it?

"What gives a girl
Power and punch?
Is it charm, is it poise?
No, it's hairspray!"

An experiment in fitness photography...a direction, at least, if not yet a final product.

...and on such a beautiful, fall day, what makes a day out in the sun complete? "Volly-bull!" No lie...our little volleyball session was happily interrupted by the "Red Bull Girl" who was walking around wearing a cooler backpack and handing out refreshing samples of the high energy drink. Just what you need before continuing your tough afternoon in the sand pits!

ART/LOCAL/PLANT/WORLD NEWS

ART NEWS - Jazz Night at the High and Eartha Kitt at Symphony Hall on Friday, 10/19.

L5P Halloween Parade at 5:00 on Saturday, 10/20. 2nd best parade in Atlanta!

'Wedding Singer' is at the Fabulous Fox Theatre from 10/16th to the 21st; just in case you forgot how fabulous the 80's were.

Piedmont Park has a party on the dock (7-11) on Thursday, 10/18. "A $20 donation gains you access to this trendy event, featuring an open bar..." (more info here, but I stopped reading after "open bar").

LOCAL NEWS - After months of threatening reminders and lots of rearranging dirt along the downtown connector, the new 14th Street bridge project is getting serious. Here are some of the links describing the phases of the project - all of which are rapidly getting to major pain-in-the-ass level - through March 2010. YIKES! -1- -2- -3-

PLANET NEWS / THE DROUGHT - S. and I are trying to quantify a baseline for water usage in our condo - average dishwasher & washing machine use, shower, etc. So far, we've measured the toilet flushes at 1.6 gallons each. We'll let you know more as we nail it down. If it's yellow, let it mellow!

WORLD NEWS - With climate change becoming harder and harder to ignore, the Japanese are doubly aware that they pledged to reduce their contribution to greenhouse gases by 6%, but they have actually gone up 7.8%. A recent children's book, is helping to make children more aware of conservation - "Mottainai Grandma", the grandma who preaches "don't waste".