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November 2011
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© 2011
McGehee
6 comments
56°
fair
Newnan, GA
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Not that one—I wish.
Here in Coweta County the only elections normally held in odd-numbered years are for city offices, and Castle McGehee is outside of any city limits. So it should have been an election day of no direct concern to me.
But then Gov. Nathan Deal appointed my state senator, Mitch Seabaugh, to an executive-branch post, creating a vacancy. Which led to a special election. Which is today.
One item to vote on.
Usually when we only have one item to vote on it’s to extend a sales-tax hike. The local powers-that-be love to have special elections for those because only the motivated bother to turn out—and the motivated tend to be the people who benefit from all the projects the local powers-that-be promise to fund from the tax if it’s extended.
For some reason that didn’t happen this time. Instead the tax vote is scheduled for the same day as the Georgia presidential primary.
Bet that won’t happen again.
Update, Wednesday: As might be expected with 275,000 candidates in the race, there will be a runoff on December 6. Will the candidate I voted for yesterday be in it? No.
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These Here Parts
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© 2011
McGehee
5 comments
68°
partly cloudy
Newnan, GA
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Maybe not quite. But one of the tires on my truck picked up a nail or a screw and was profoundly mushy last night when Chris and I headed out to run a couple of errands. I haven’t had the opportunity to inspect the tire yet today but if it isn’t downright flat I’ll be surprised.
And it’s a rear tire, which means my odd-sized spare won’t work there (Bronco rear axles don’t play well with the two tires being different sizes); I’ll have to put the spare on the front and switch the good front tire onto the rear so I can get to a tire place.
This will actually be a good opportunity to get a fifth tire in the same size so one of the tires I’ve been driving on can go to spare.
Of course, if the tire is no flatter than it was last night I can always just air it up for the drive to the tire store…
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© 2011
McGehee
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Newnan, GA
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I don’t want to be sitting here at home waiting for the cable guy. Even if his name is Larry, he won’t be as funny as the real Larry the Cable Guy and he’s going to cost me money anyway.
I don’t want to be stuck here with my only diversion being reading the internet, which has been even less fun this year than it was last year. I’m starting to see the fascination with zombie apocalypses—they’re starting to look like a right good time, with a more intelligent crowd.
Corrupt Bastards
Theftists
Crapaganda
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McGehee
67°
sunny
Newnan, GA
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Not only have I decided what I’m going to call next year’s blog—there’s a deliciously ironic twist that won’t get old until at least 10:00 a.m. New Year’s morning—I think I’ve also decided on a name for the blog for the year after that.
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Twenty Twelve
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© 2011
McGehee
1 comments
39°
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Newnan, GA
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Today I’ve been very iffy on that whole “member of the human race” thing. I think given a suitable offer from some other species, I could be persuaded to defect.
So far though, only pond scum has come close to meeting my price. Many more days like today and I might have to accept.
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October 2011
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© 2011
McGehee
1 comments
65°
sunny
Newnan, GA
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I’m not a number either, nor a line on a balance sheet. In less than two months I’ll be eligible to join your organization, but your ads are pissing me off.
People rant and rave about Wall Street lobbyists but they’re penny-ante compared to you guys.
I’m going to have fun coming up with ways to cost you money when you send me those application forms.
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Theftists
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38°
clear
Newnan, GA
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On Windows systems, I believe this site is easiest to read with the browser’s default serif font set to Palatino Linotype, and the default sans-serif font set to Verdana. I’ve tended to only define whether the preferred font family is serif, sans-serif or (rarely) monospace, but I probably should consider changing that to ensure the best legibility—for next year’s blog if not in time for this year’s.
I’d be interested to hear from people using Mac or Linux systems to know which fonts work best in their browsers, so I can include them in the font definitions.
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© 2011
McGehee
5 comments
73°
sunny
Newnan, GA
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Friday: The latest beta version of Thunderbird 8 can be configured to work with iCloud’s mail servers, so I’m back with TB—probably for good.
Now that all my eggs are back in one basket, I can get back to watching that basket.
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© 2011
McGehee
3 comments
57°
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Newnan, GA
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Twenty Eleven is powered by ExpressionEngine, which is much less widely used as a blogging platform than even Blogger these days—or at least so it seems. The few bloggers I know that have used EE have switched over to Wordpress these days. Last year I was even one of them.
Lately some of these Wordpress blogs have been on the receiving end of a variety of spam attacks, including—of all things—the spam trackback.
It amazes me that Wordpress still supports trackbacks. Even in their heyday they were not well understood by their users; there were actually serious discussions of whether it was really that big a deal if a sender of a trackback neglected to link the site on which his trackback link was placed. My answer was to blacklist any site that did it, and to encourage others to do the same.
Ultimately though, I joined the then-growing list of people who simply stopped putting up with the damned things. And trackback spam had a lot to do with it.
The list of back-end stuff in my EE installation doesn’t even include the option to support trackbacks. Why does Wordpress?
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© 2011
McGehee
2 comments
57°
sunny
Newnan, GA
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Twelve years ago when Chris and I moved here from Alaska, one of the first orders of business was finding a house to live in.
One place we looked at was kind of nice, though the colored wallpaper in some rooms was a little bold for our tastes. And it was in an HOA neighborhood with no real amenities. Still, it was close enough to Chris’ new office and in a nice enough area, we thought, that we made an offer on the house.
The owners’ counter-offer was higher than the listed asking price.
So, we resumed our search and wound up where we are, in a different nice area with no HOA fees and not all that much farther from Chris’ office.
Apparently quite a bit has changed in that other house since then.
More than half the 236 cats removed from a Coweta County home last week have died, but dozens survived and are expected to take their first steps toward adoption later this week, a county spokeswoman said.
Thirty-six cats were found dead in the house, and 105 had to be euthanized because “they were either wild, or feral, or sick,” said Patricia Campbell, public affairs director for Coweta.
The sick cats had tested positive for feline leukemia or the feline version of AIDS – both fatal, untreatable and highly contagious, Campbell said. “You don’t want them in your (shelter) population, or the other cats have a good chance of getting them,” she said. ► Of 236 cats taken from Coweta home, more than half died
According to public records, the people living there have owned the house far longer than 12 years, so apparently they never did find a buyer.
The linked story is from a couple of weeks ago; we first learned of it while watching TV news on an Atlanta station. Coverage in our local paper contained enough detail to confirm it was the same house and to determine when it had last sold.
I’ve complained in the past about having four cats in our house—but they are all happy and well looked after and there is certainly no danger of our collection getting any bigger.
Maybe if I watched one of those TV shows about extreme hoarders I’d have some grasp of what causes people to do that. But I’m actually kind of happy not to know.
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