GAS
Gas is down ever so slightly. The ATL average is 3.892 vs. 3.899 yesterday. That's still high, but over a dime cheaper than just a week ago. The Shell at DeKalb Industrial & N. Decatur Rd was 3.89 this AM. Find the lowest prices near you, and report prices, at AtlantaGasPrices.com.
DECATUR
inDECATUR mentioned, some days ago, that Whit's End is now selling Decatur High sports items. Next Stop ... Decatur is now showing images of what's currently available. Doesn't the DHS bulldog look better than the UGA one? You can also buy most of these items before the football games. inDECATUR doesn't know if it makes any difference in terms of where the money goes.
Next Stop .. Decatur shows an image looking down E. Court Square in 1964, it says. Judging from the parked cars, this blogger would ascertain the image (which he's seen before - believe it's from a DHS yearbook) is from the 50s. Note Tatum's Drugs, one of the three drug stores downtown at the time.
Princeton ranks ASC #17 on its list of stone-cold-sober schools. [Apparently, drinking at the Trackside doesn't count.] UGA has slipped all the way to 7th among top 20 party schools. [Wizard of Odds - NSFW].
Mulligan's infamous Hamdog lives on in infamy, among those who use the internet to do their research. [Al Dente]
Columbia Mall was the first enclosed mall in the Southeast in 1964, and North DeKalb Mall was right behind it in 1965, apparently. [This old blogger's memory fails him on this.] Now, Columbia is gone, and NDM is considering going to an open "Market Street" design.
A good thing to do today (if you have time) is to drop by Mingei's [next to the Java Monkey on Church] and pick out the carving you want to buy at 6PM at the Decatur Library, before you listen to the presenters [scroll down to yesterday's post].
ATLANTA
The AJC has a good gallery of the famous Ramblin Raft Race down the Hooch, which was big in the 70s. Trivia question: How many letters in the full name for the "Hooch" appear 2 or more times? [see if you can figure it out in your head, without looking at the word]
The Atlanta Medical Heritage is donating the 1941 building, which is
on the National Register of Historic Places, to the Georgia Tech Foundation [AJC]. Isn't that the equivalent of giving the Chicken House to the Wolves?
DeKalb County residents should pray "Thank God for Clayton County" every night.
INFORMATION
A new search engine called "Cuil" is trying to unseat Google. A search for "Decatur Georgia" brings up almost 95K entries, but not in a particularly useful order. It's picking up inDECATUR posts, but sometimes attaches only subject-related images to the the summaries. Dvorak is not impressed.
HEALTH
Stay away from partially hydrogenated foods (trans-fat). Crisco is an example.
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This blogger's 7-day average weight is 179.4, 1.2 lbs. heavier than on 7/16, but currently headed back in the right direction.
Speaking of exercise, check out the muscles on these GT players.
