Free-For-All Friday 4/28/17

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24 thoughts on “Free-For-All Friday 4/28/17”


  2. This looks like a great way to spend friday evening…

    http://www.decaturish.com/2017/04/decatur-high-baseball-hosting-state-tournament-playoff-game/

    Here’s the blurb…

    Why should you come? This is going to be a truly civic event. Us vs. Them. We are four square miles of parents and kids and neighbors, a real community of sports. Most of these high schools in Georgia bring in transfers and puff up their winning percentage with student-athletes that do not live in the district.

    We are homegrown here. You know these kids on the team. They live right next door to you.

    It will be nice outside…and you should have pride in your local team. The Bulldogs won Region 6 Class 5A with a 19-2 record. We are 22-8 overall.

    The field at McKoy sits down between two banks and is a nice little venue. The city of Decatur just renovated the concession stands and bathrooms. We will sell hot dogs and sugary drinks, and popcorn and candy.

    This isn’t staid Major League Baseball where the church mouse can sleep comfortably under the bench. This is raucous high school baseball where the other team shouts and yells and pounds the fence of their dugout to try and disrupt our pitcher.

    We do it right back.

    Go to Happy Hour in Oakhurst then walk up the street to the ballpark. It is going to be tense, but a lot of fun for five hours.

    Us vs. Them. Come help us win the biggest game in DHS baseball history in more than six decades.

    1. If you can’t make the DHS baseball game or just want more high school sports, you can support the Decatur Boys Varsity Soccer team tonight at DHS Stadium. The Bulldogs face Loganville in the first round of the 5A state championship playoffs at 7:30 p.m. The boys team won the state championship last year in the 3A class but moved up to 5A this spring.

      And congratulations to the Decatur Girls Varsity Soccer team. The Bulldogs defeated Johnson High School 6-0 last night to make it to the second round of the playoffs. The Girls Varsity will face Union Grove on Tuesday, May 2.

      1. Wow, that’s quite a jump (3A to 5A). Do you know why we moved up two classifications in one year? Is it just with soccer or with all sports? I thought it was based on high school enrollment, but that can’t have changed too much from last year, and the huge wave of kids is a few years behind in elementary and 4/5. Anyway, more importantly, congratulations to our baseball and soccer teams!

        1. I read somewhere at the time of reclassification that we are actually the size of a 4A but we chose to be bumped up to 5A due to the closer proximity of opponents and due to the fact that we expect to be reclassified to 5A in the next round of reclassification.

    2. 13th inning of game 2 and still tied at 12:20 am. Game 1 went 11 innings before Decatur lost.

      1. Decatur Baseball wins game 2 in 13 innings. Game 3 on Saturday. 24 innings of baseball over two games. WOW

  4. Not trying to bash the store .. they might not even know it.. but this morning on Nextdoor one person commented on having their debit card hacked after visting Valero on Dekalb ave. Then.. others chimed in with the same thing happening to them – me being one of them. I rarely use my debit card but used it at the pump 2 weeks ago. It was hacked and luckily my bank flagged it before someone spent too much $$. All I was hoping with this post is to make others aware and I will think about the best way to let Valero know.

      1. No need for snark. If an employee is involved, you don’t want to alert them by calling the store and speaking with what could be he guilty party. The best bet is to try and reach the owner if possible. Of course, it might not be an employee. Someone might have put a skimmer on a pump.

        1. Excellent point. The one time that I was scammed at a gas station, I didn’t know until my credit card company called me about a boatload of charges. I decided to call the police even though the credit card company said I didn’t have to. A day later I got a thank you call from the owner who said that it turned out to be an employee who was responsible for the scam and the owner was grateful that my call to the police uncovered the problem. If I’d called the station, I would have just gotten whoever was working there that day and it could have been the scammer or an accomplice.

  6. Hey​ neighbors, those
    SLOW THE F#*@ DOWN
    PLEASE NAMASTE
    lawn signs aren’t really all that clever and it isn’t fun explaining them to a seven year old. Thanks.

    1. I admit to swearing much more than I probably should, but I wondered the same thing about those signs. Although the fact that one of them is in the yard of Morningwood Manor on E-lake did not come as a surprise! Explain that one to your 7 year old!

    2. says the guy who made a clever little joke at someones expense who had been stabbed at a local restaurant. go figure.

    3. Right on FM fats…I also have a few 4 letter words to add to this line of posting. The first is, “STOP”.
      What is ambiguous about this being posted in large white letters on a large bright red octagonal sign at a crossroad? Stop…means Stop…not roll, not go…not run it wildly. While driving my kids to school over here in Winnona Park the other day, I was cut off by a driver blowing a stop sign right out into the main thoroughfare on which we were traveling. I thought, “Ok, they must be in a rush to drop if their kids, I’ll suspend my anger and judgement”. I followed them as we both dropped off our kids in front of the school, Then proceeded to follow the same car on my way to work and they blew through a total of 7 stop signs. I don’t mean rolling stops here folks…I mean ran them all with no concern for even braking. I am considering starting to report such violations by make, model and license plate # thru our local email group and cc DPD. I am sick of this crap. I want to become a traffic violation vigilante.

    4. Maybe because the ‘drive like your kids/pets live here’ signs don’t really work. Especially seeing posts on all the local forums of people complaining about people speeding on their streets. Since speed humps take bureaucracy, maybe some stronger language will get people’s attention.

  8. Yet another gripe for FFAF:

    My son had almost all of his day at FAVE today wiped out while his class was trying–unsuccessfully–to take the Milestones test on their iPads. Apparently there was some sort of login problem, and so he and his classmates spent most of the day sitting around and dinking around while folks tried to get things straightened out.

    Grrrr. I realize, from my own experience, that educational technology can crash. But if you realize this, it would be nice to have some sort of fallback plan for what to do if things go on the fritz.

    1. My FAVE kid said they spent an hour trying to log on in the morning and an hour trying to log on in the afternoon. In between was business as usual in her class and all of those around her. They still had lessons, lunch, and (EXTRA!) recess. Seemed to me the school handled it well. My other CSD kids took all of their milestones electronically with zero issues.

  10. There used to be a striped crosswalk across Fairview at the corner where Taqueria is. My family is probably solely responsible for the fact that it is barely visible anymore–we eat a lot of tacos. Is there a way to get that repainted?

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