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Summer in Duluth GA

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Angie and I took the sports car to one of the many parks in Gwinnett county to walk. We saw signs for "free food / Comida". Being that I am always up for a snack, I decided to see if I could get some. Sure enough, they are handing out Breakfast and Lunch kits. We got a "lunch" and ate it in the park. I was pleased that there was no political literature in the bag only the normal commercial stuff for the products and the company that assesmbled the kits. It was a weird expereince. I have no idea of who these meals were intended for. I entered the Humvee in the Duluth car show. That was fun. It actually won second place in the "pickup" category. Car shows are like that.. somewhat self-congratulating. We signed up for drone home delivery. Although it is very unlikely we will ever use it. This squirrel was particularly tenacious on the feeder. I am sure the birds saw it as a spectacle. The bobcat came in quite handy this week, both for some str...
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Some pics for last week in Upstate NY and one of DTW airport Detroit. Click here for the DTW airport diagram.
I have been in NY state and Kansas in the last week. My main computer had a fatal HD0 failure. I just took it to the shop, got a new hard drive, all the data loaded/transferred and everything is good. I hardly noticed the failure. What a difference from years gone by where I would fight getting things back the way they needed to be. It helps living in Atlanta. Services, even computer services, are easy to get and there is sufficient competition to keep prices reasonable. I have enrolled in formal Portuguese classes that start next week.