I had a really busy day yesterday, at least until 3pm when I hit the couch and crashed for a while. I strained my back a little yesterday while volunteering with Trees Atlanta; not their fault, mine.
It’s crazy, even though I thought that I made two critical passes over my driveway, it wasn’t until after I backed the car into the carport that I found errant two roofing nails. I will be going out to see if any of my tires also have nail(s) in them, but I hope that I dodged that bullet.
Wordle: five, my starter was SPADE. Looking at my stats, it’s been ten days since I’ve scored better than four!
FYI, some of you may recall Gary McKee:
“Iconic Atlanta morning man, Gary McKee died Monday at the age of 81.
At the height of his tenure, Mckee built a cast around him that included memorable characters like “Red Neckerson” (Gary Lee Corry), “Willis the Guard” (Bob Carr), and high-profile news and sports anchors who also served as sidekicks for the show, including Yetta Levitt, Beau Bock, Tom Sullivan, and Neil “Hondo” Williamson.
McKee dominated the Atlanta airwaves for most of his almost 2 decades at the station (from 1971 thru 1989), first on WQXI-AM (790), and then as a simulcast on both the AM and the 94.1 FM frequency, sometimes getting an unprecedented 20-share of the Atlanta morning radio audience.
After leaving then-Star 94 in 1989, McKee worked at WSB, then B98.5, then Z93, but the market had become fragmented, and he was never able to return to the level of success he had enjoyed at WQXI. He retired from radio in 1989, and led a quiet life in East Cobb, having – as he told the AJC’s Rodney Ho –been a smart manager of his money.
He told Ho in a 2014 interview, “I was known as a cheapskate.” At his peak, he recalled getting paychecks every 2 weeks of $17,000, and would take $3,000 to live off of and put the remainder in savings and investment.
He is survived by his son Parker McKee, and daughter Cassidy McKee. The family has not finalized plans for a celebration of life.”
73 de JG/HamWithCam
I feel like I remember him, but I didn’t move here until 1990
We actually rode our bikes last night – a nice 18+ miles along Lower Roswell & down by the river.
My neck is finally a feeling better today – that was a tough ride with it being so tight, but I survived. Forgot my Wahoo, so I had no idea how fast we were going, that bothers me, I “need” that little computer on my handlebars.
We plan to ride down south with Steve (& whoever else is interested) – I’m thinking meet at Cochran Mill park at noon? If we plan earlier, Allan will have a busy night at the firehouse & will need a nap. This way he might get some sleep tonight. We could always possibly move the time to earlier in the morning, once he gets home.
Sunday I’m thinking a ride around Roswell – maybe even a beer/lunch stop somewhere. If anyone is interested in that.
Wordle in 4 and while my usual starter was a big help, I had to throw something up on 3 to get me home.
HwC, thank you for the news on Gary McKee. He was a large part of my formative years (which are still happening, BTW). I was even able to get on air a few times being the clever lad I was. Seems I recall him playing Christmas music on July 25th and denying it on air. Gray and Willis (the guard) used to have a gag they’d run every so often-
Gary- “Hey Willis, I’m sorry to hear about your barn burning down”
Willis- “Shhhh… that’s not ‘till tonight!”
Rest in peace, good sir, and thank you for all the laughs..
We have some puppies with open eyes! Not all, and I don’t think anyone has both yet.
45 minute hard on the trainer. By the time I stopped choring, I just couldn’t get outside to ride.
-FP
McKee was a real character.
A one-of-a-kind legend.
Everybody listened to McKee.
My sister is best friends with McKee’s ex-wife, Anita.
Oh, the stories….
Spring done sprung. Pollen!
Regards to all for a fun weekend.
73 de JG/HamWithCam
I can only imagine..
St Thomas More in Decatur for fish fry tonight – I am INSANE to driver to Decatur to meet Stacy over there.
Nahhhh… you just LOOOOOOOVEEEE me that much! 🙂
Ohhhh…. I have a friend I need to see in the hospital. Maybe I can make it all work out!
Dang. I would’ve considered that if we were in town.
Greetings from the Delta Skyclub in Concourse A at the Atlanta Hartsfield Jackson International Airport! So it matters what time you get here in terms of security wait time. At 8 am it was an 80 minute wait. We got here at 10:30, went to the international terminal, and got through in 9 minutes. Having a glass of bubbly while we wait in the Skyclub.
Braves vs Red Sox tomorrow at JetBlue Park.
I figured out how to turn off the liquid glass effect and I am much happier (and old).
Then I must be really old as I don’t know what you’re talking about.
You don’t have an iPhone or iPad, I assume. It’s an annoying Apple feature.
I’m okay with it.
Kevin is too! I offered to turn his off and he said he didn’t mind it. Of course, he also doesn’t have ANY folders.
liquid glass doesn’t really bother me – just another thing to adapt to
I thought that too until I stumbled on how to turn it off and then I was like: oh, this is better.
Came inside for lunch after working all morning in Wee Little Farm. Since my ad-free Amazon Prime Video continues until April 5, I’ve decided to binge watch the second season of “Last One Laughing”.