2025-11-12

Posted on November 12, 2025 by Paulie [eatl/ga]

I have made it to Day #800 in Duolingo. However, I have to admit that my lust for using the app has waned over the past six weeks, and I have no intention of renewing my Super Duolingo subscription at year’s end.

Wordle: three, my starter was COUPE

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22 Responses to 2025-11-12

  1. Steve says:
    November 12, 2025 at 7:55 am

    Wordle in 4.

    Yesterday, a stop at Highland Hardware for band saw blades (and not a stop at George’s!), eye doctor appointment, and pre-meeting meeting. Home by 10:15.

    The Games post mortem went well. No numbers, but we know it was a poor Sunday due to the rain. Many accolades for us on setting it up and tearing it down. All in all, a good year. December’s meeting will have year end numbers and we’ll get to make our charitable contribution.

    -FP

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  2. Paulie [eatl/ga] says:
    November 12, 2025 at 8:54 am

    Just saw a video from the news about Weaver D’s in Athens imminent closure; the owner is retiring after nearly forty years. Weaver D’s is the origin of the slogan “Automatic for the People” immortalized in a REM album title.

    I’ve been an Atlanta resident for thirty years, and never made it there during any of my trips to Athens.

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  3. Barb says:
    November 12, 2025 at 9:06 am

    Went to a restaurant at the Marietta Square last night – Kiosco – it used to be more Colombian (or some sort of Central/South American cuisine) but now it is Turkish/Mediterranean.
    What I ordered was good (salmon), Mindy liked her dish ok (chicken pesto pasta), Annette wasn’t overly fond of hers (meatballs & orzo).
    But it was half priced wine night, and we only had 1 bottle, so it really was half priced wine night. (Allan always calls it twice the wine for the same price night)

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    • Steve says:
      November 12, 2025 at 9:18 am

      “Meatballs and orzo” doesn’t sound good to me, but double the wine sounds good!

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      • Barb says:
        November 12, 2025 at 9:54 am

        the picture looked good, but the spices on the orzo was interesting – it tasted very “earthy”. I think it was what it was supposed to be, just wasn’t what Annette liked, and I tasted it, it didn’t thrill me. I don’t know much about Turkish food.

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    • Paulie [eatl/ga] says:
      November 12, 2025 at 9:40 am

      The concept of all that food sounds great to me, but it doesn’t sound as if it were executed well.

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    • Jenka says:
      November 12, 2025 at 12:37 pm

      I love it when a restaurant calls itself “mediterranean” and then everything on the menu is Italian. I mean, Italy IS in the Mediterranean, I guess. There a place in Inman Park (Kitty Dare) that calls itself mediterranean and everything on the menu is pasta with red sauce. *Eyeroll*

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  4. Paulie [eatl/ga] says:
    November 12, 2025 at 9:39 am

    Trying to decide if I will be satisfied with an 11” iPad Air for $325 (including sales tax) less than an 11” iPad Pro. Since I don’t seem to develop software any longer it’s not like I need the most powerful iPad in the family…

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  5. Barb says:
    November 12, 2025 at 11:16 am

    wordle in 3 – Paulie & I matched perfectly today

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  6. Jenka says:
    November 12, 2025 at 12:30 pm

    They don’t make an appointments for a bioptic lens road test so we had to just show up and they would fit us in when they had an opening.The DMV down in South Dekalb mall is quite the hellhole. We were there soon after they opened and only waited about an hour and a half before they called Kevin up for his road test. He did the test and we were out of there by about 11:00. Now he can drive in the daytime again! We are going car shopping this weekend.

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    • Barb says:
      November 12, 2025 at 1:53 pm

      ooooohhhhhh – car shopping? what are you thinking about getting?

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    • Steve says:
      November 12, 2025 at 3:09 pm

      I had to look up bioptic lens… very interesting. Is he (are you) comfortable driving?

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      • Jenka says:
        November 12, 2025 at 3:48 pm

        I was in the car during the driving test and he wasn’t nearly as confident a driver as he usually is. I asked him about it afterward and he said that the road test lady made him nervous. But under normal circumstances I think he’ll be fine. With the bioptic lens he can read things he couldn’t before, so that makes me feel a lot better.

        When we’re going somewhere together I’m still going to drive, though.

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