Signs you'd rather not see along the path at the park you sometimes jog in...

Man, I gotta:

A) Steal this sign

B) Take it on a plane during my next trip

C) Take a photo of it on the plane.

Hmmmmm.....maybe I can Photoshop it.....

I [Heart] Georgia Navigator

I live 35 miles north of downtown Atlanta. I work in downtown Atlanta.

Thus, I commute.

Until recently, I had no use for http://www.georgia-navigator.com/ - the Web site for the Georgia Department of Transportation's Intelligent Transportation System. I used public transportation - or only had one route to choose from.

Now I drive, and I can choose three options. So, I use the Web site twice daily.

The Web site, and the "Intelligent Transportation System" is a typical weird, disjointed seeming IT driven communication system. There's traffic cams and trip times and maps and incident lists and dipictions of the traffic signs along the Interstates, etc.

Humans like to hear stories or have their questions answered in a straight forward manner. Humans using the "ITS" dig around for nuggests of facts in snippets that might give them an idea of how long it'll take them to get home and what routes they should avoid.

In the digging, I come across found objects that amuse me. Here are two of them I found this morning.

NASCAR is in town this weekend...








This could describe my life...

Here comes Fall

Two things have happened around the house recently.

#1 – Windermere Parkway opened two weeks (approx.) ago.

#2 – Fall is here.

And I’m excited about both.

Windermere Parkway

Windermere Parkway runs by the entrance of my neighborhood. It’s a four-lane road with a tree-strewn median and sidewalks. It connects the busy Georgia State Highways of 141 (Peachtree Parkway) and 20 (Mall of Georgia), and rambles through various neighborhoods – Laurel Springs, James Creek, Windermere, and my neighborhood – Three Chimneys.

Why am I excited about a road? Well, it connects my neighborhood directly and quickly with 141 and 20. The shopping centers at both ends of the parkway are great.

It’s also a nice road to bicycle down, and it connects our neighborhood directly with the Chattahoochee National Recreation Area and Lake Lanier.

Now that it is more accessible, we’ve been driving down Windermere Parkway and over to 20 more often.

HATCHERY

This weekend, we went driving in the Chattahoochee River Club, which is right across highway 20 if you go straight after the Windermere Parkway ends, and discovered the Buford Trout Hatchery with its Family Fishing Pond.



How cool is that? Going down Windermere Parkway, there’s at least six subdivision playgrounds, a golf course and two parks (one is under construction), and if you follow the parkways across the street – it ends in a fish hatchery on the Chattahoochee River, with a little fishing pond.



I plan to bike down to the Hatchery soon. It’s about six miles or so. I had been biking about two miles down the Windermere Park, then taking a jog on the bike trail. But I like to mix things up. I'll just bike and bike from the house down to the hatchery. I suppose if I really went crazy, I could job around the hatchery, but biking 12 miles and running one seems like a bit much right now. We'll see...

Fall

Temperatures have been mild, and it’s been chilly from time to time. And we put up our Halloween decorations. They aren't much, but they are fun. I’ll post some pictures later...