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A Fan Is Born

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Saturday’s game against the Dodgers was one of the longest, most exciting on record. The announcers said they’ve never heard anything as impressive and eerie as the sell-out crowd’s Indian chant that started spontaneously during the 10th inning. Kathy became a die-hard Braves fan that day.

Sunday, Kathy had to go to work, and I set up the computer downstairs, working hard on a the PriceMaker demo due Monday. At about 3:00, Kathy came home. Unlike her normal returns from work, she flew through the door yelling, “You don’t have the Braves game on! They just hit a grand slam!” She was whooping and yelling. I’ve always thought she was exaggerating her Marriott exhaustion. Or maybe it was simply offset by Braves fever.

Tiger Painting

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Today Kathy called me at work with a problem. She was painting the front door light green. While she was painting the door, apparently Danny picked up the paint-laden lid and went over and painted Tiger, the cat that lives next door.

I asked Danny about it on the phone. He said he did it. He’s an honest kid. Couldn’t tell him how funny I thought it was, of course. Wish I had thought to paint Tiger light green.

I told Danny that he and Mom would have to give the cat a bath. Didn’t tell him that painting the cat and giving it a bath was like hitting a double.

Candy Checks

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We had to give up using our Candy Checks because First Atlanta did not sell MasterPiece checks to its customers. Now that First Atlanta has changed its name to Wachovia, I thought we might have a chance, but Richard Bright announced in Monday morning’s meeting that Harland lost central Wachovia’s check business. The rest of Wachovia may very well follow.

We’ve got to get better at selling our Jelly Beans to big banks.

Nail Puzzle

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balance-spike-nails.pngHow to balance 12 8-inch spike nails

on a nail that’s in a cork that’s in a wine bottle. [See: Bet.]

As soon as Don Voshall showed me,

John Watson, Phil Brown, and Kevin

Spainhour, I went out and bought

the nails. They were 19ยข each.

Bennett and Alice donated the wine

bottle and cork.

Ted Regan donated the small nail.

I sure wish I had spent more time to

figure it out. Now I won’t know what

it’s like to solve one of the greatest puzzles

on earth.

Month 16

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Went to Oklahoma for two days last week to work on the price making program that will run off the Macs. Brought home two glass mug boots for the kids. Kathy liked them. She and I both had blue plastic boots as kids. The glass ones are better because you can see the milk in the toes.

Who says we’re not moving up?

Today was labor day. Nicole and I had a nice three days off. Danny would have been off anyway, and Kathy had to work at the Marriott Sunday morning. That’s why we were unable to join Mom and Dad down in Destin.

We watched Eric on Saturday while Carol and Bob went to a wedding. Nicole spent two nights out in a row, Friday night at Lauren’s and Saturday night at Jennifer’s for her birthday. They went bowling.

Ted and Nancy called us up Saturday to go out for Mexican food. Danny, Shawn and Brittainy had a sitter until 10:00 pm. She had another job, but we were lucky to get anyone at the last minute.

It was fun going out to dinner with another couple and no kids. We went to La Casuela’s, Kathy and my second time there. Afterward we drove by to harass Grant who was working at the Last Chance Bottle Shop around the corner.

I drove up on the curve right outside the window just to embarrass him. As we started climbing out, Kathy heard a “Mom! Mom!” which she should not be hearing.

There was Nicole and Jennifer! Jenise had driven them up to pick out a movie at the Movie Stop next door. We all went inside the liquor store and had a chat with Grant whom I am sure enjoyed it.

Ted moved into a new house this weekend (the reason he didn’t go to Destin with Mom and Dad.) I got a tour with the kids on sunday. Much nicer neighborhood and a much bigger house off Briarcliff near Clairmont.

We took the kids to see “What About Bob?” today, which everyone enjoyed, including Ted. Ted, Grant and I played a round of Frisbee Golf at the Livsey Course. Ted scored 7 over par, Grant 10, and I 31. I need to learn not to land them in the street. I thought it was pretty good just to go the distance my first time.

Our agreement with Sharon Applebaum ended saturday. We are not going to renew the contract. Kathy wants to try to sell by owner. This marks our 16th month that we’ve had the house on the market.

Soviet Union Collapse

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Aug. 19, 1991

GORBACHEV FORCED ASIDE; HARD-LINERS SEIZE CONTROL

President’s health cited as vice president takes over

Aug. 20, 1991

SOVIET HARD-LINERS CRACK DOWN AS YELTSIN CALLS FOR RESISTANCE

Elite troops join Russian president, guard headquarters

New rulers ban strikes, replace elected leaders

Aug. 22, 1991

THREE DAYS THAT SHOOK THE WORLD

A leader is restored, a hero created and freedom won courageous Russians hurtle closer toward democratic era

Aug. 23, 1991

SOVIETS FACE POWER SHIFT AFTER COUP

Yeltsin urges more authority for republics

Aug. 24, 1991

GORBACHEV, YELTSIN JOIN FORCES TO STRIP COMMUNISTS OF POWER

Reformers seize control of KGB, military, police

Aug. 25, 1991

GORBACHEV RESIGNS AS COMMUNIST LEADER

Move could deal death blow to ruling party

Aug. 26, 1991

Russian leader seeks to undercut Gorbachev, conservatives

YELSTIN FLEXSES MUSCLE IN MOSCOW

Byelorussa is latest republic to declare itself independent

Aug. 27, 1991

SOVIET UNION COMING APART

Kremline’s rule ‘dead,’ meeting told 13 of 15 republics want out of nation

Tucker Day

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Friday night we went over to Ted & Nancy’s for a game of Labyrinth. We never finished. The kids were very good and played quietly in Shawn’s room. We watched the movie “Naked Gun.” I was very tired, though, and kept dozing off. Everyone would laugh at a funny scene, which would wake me up. So I spent the entire movie asleep, or just missing the funniest parts. Yuck.

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Saturday was fun. Nicole went school shopping with Gramalie for a new outfit. Then we all went to Tucker Day to see the parade. The Viceroy’s were the feature band prior to the parade. Got to talk to Charlie for a while in line for Bar-B-Q. They had just played in Alabama the night before and had another show that night. Weekends are the hardest when you are in a band.

It was hot and muggy, so we finished the day with a swim down at the pool. I don’t know how many more days of swimming we have left, now that the weather is starting to get cooler.

Leak

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Last night I made a guest talk along with Will Cate at the AMUG monthly meeting. Stood on the stage at Emory’s White Hall to talk about my trip to the MacWorld Expo in Boston: “The Greatest Mall on Earth.”

I capped my talk my demonstrating a Video Postcard that showed me holding a lobster in front of a rolling street scene shot at Faniel Hall saying “Hi Mom I’m on Mac TV!” So I got to introduce QuickTime to the group. Pretty good for my first meeting.

Got a free mouse pad and some bright yellow sunglasses from Lotus. Nicole got the glasses.

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Kathy went job hunting last Saturday. She had a follow up interview at Ruby Tuesday’s yesterday. She has decided that working one or two nights during the week would give her back her weekends, let her work hours that are more agreeable, and probably lead to more money.

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I did something very stupid this morning. I thought I would clean my glasses by letting hot water circulate around them in the bathroom sink. Shut the plug and let the hot water run over them. I figured the water would be drained by the overflow drain at the top of the sink. Then I went off to iron my shirt.

Amazing how much water can come out of that faucet in such a short time. The overflow drain didn’t work, and I opened the bathroom door to see a bunch of water on the floor. Kathy hopped up, and we got most of the water up with towels. Then we discovered that everything under the sink was soaked, so we cleaned all of that out and dried it. Set up the fan to blow the bathroom dry.

Downstairs, Kathy felt a drop on her shoulder. The fluorescent light fixture had about an inch of water in it. The water had gone through the floor and was coming out of the light fixture hole.

I shut of the power and took the light fixture cover off, carefully tilting it toward one corner where Kathy held a bucket up to catch the water.

I had to take off the entire fixture. Light brown water started coming through stippled plaster. I set up a hair dryer connected to a vacuum cleaner hose to blow air up into the ceiling. Don’t know if that helped. Looks like we’ll have to repaint the kitchen ceiling.

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Danny Rides

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Ted & Nancy invited a bunch of people over for an impromptu cookout. We showed up after church. There were more people there than at most things we plan.

Bob cooked the hamburgers. Paul Barr brought his girlfriend over. It was unusual seeing Paul with a girl. She seems very nice. I think her name is Linda or Susan or Heather???

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Kathy earned $35 for a marketing survey that she didn’t have to do. She showed up, and they didn’t need her but gave her the money anyway. So we all went out for ice cream at Gorin’s.

We loaded up Danny’s scooter and Nick’s bike and stopped off at Holy Cross to let the kids ride into the sunset. I was surprised at some of the daring turns Danny could make on his scooter. As it got dark, I told the kids it was time to switch. I just wondered what Danny would say.

Danny took it very seriously, put down his scooter, and walked over to get Nicole’s bike. I helped him on it, and ran behind him with my hands under his arms as he road Nicole’s bike! He got going stable enough that I could hold my hands away from him, letting him solo. Kathy and Nicole cracked up! I thought he might be able to do it, since the scooter has similar balance and feel as a bike.

We’ll get Nicole a new bike for her birthday, I guess, and paint Nicole’s pink bike green. That’s the color Danny wants to paint it.

[Claire would beat Danny’s record when she learned at 3 and a half.]