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Monday, December 26, 2005
An update on 2005 blog topics
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
This will be our last blog of 2005, so I wanted to take a look back at the past few months and update some things we’ve talked about since we all got together in August.
My name is at the top, but this belongs to everybody. It’s like talk radio, only we don’t have to create controversy and point-of-view to get the ball rolling.
Looking back:
*More and more older homes around the city are being knocked down to make way for what a friend calls “McMansionsâ€? - big homes that don’t have a lot of outward style or personality.
But if the money is right for the seller, who cares in the homes lack sizzle? As an owner of a home built in 1958, my wife and I may have to make this call down the line.
*Son Zach is home from his first semester at Indiana University. He made his grades, joined a fraternity and has seen Duke play Indiana in Assembly Hall on the Bloomington campus. He’s in heaven.
*The mayor and city council are on the job. The campaign was delightfully low-key, which put to rout rumors that some mud was going to fly. Indeed, as modern politcal races go, this one was boring. How refreshing.
Congratulations to the honorable Eva Galambos, the first mayor of the city of Sandy Springs.
*The other day on my way to work - and I have to be at the office at 5:30 a.m. - I encountered no less than six people at various places on Roswell Road, strolling across the avenue not in a crosswalk or near a traffic light.
I continue to be surprised there aren’t people bouncing off fenders on a weekly basis. It’s only a question of when, not if, it’s going to happen.
*I still get a lot of questions about my dogs, Jake, Molly and Sydney. They are fine, thanks for asking. They are also collectively dumber than a box of rocks.
*My daughter will be taking her driver’s test soon. The more I drive around Sandy Springs, the more convinced I am that I worry more about the pinheads she will have to deal with than I worry about her rookie driver’s skills.
If common sense and etiquette were prerequisites to circumnavigate Roswell Road and the streets of Sandy Springs we’d look like a ghost town.
*My wife Carol is still one of my heroes. She is still running and helping Team in Training raise money to fight leukemia. With her in the game against leukemia, take Carol and the points.
*The sex trade in Sandy Springs is under the spotlight of the mayor and city council.
I think we have more important things to fret over, but the naked-lady dance clubs are being scrutinized.
At a recent council meeting there was testimony about what takes place in these clubs that was reportedly quite racy. I was hoping to get a transcript of that meeting for Christmas, but I guess Santa felt that would have been in the naughty category.
I thank all of you who have made the time to post comments on the above. I appreciate your thought and passion, even when I do not agree with it, or when your vitriol is aimed at my red head.
See you all in 2006.
