Hi, I’m Maura. This is my blog about the internets, food, running and living in Atlanta.

Running in the heat

There’s barely a spring in Atlanta, we just go straight to summer, and with global warming that may be how it is for you as well. Last summer I had an exceptionally hard time with the heat, and more or less gave up on running until the fall. I …

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11 may

 

Eat food? Check. Mostly plants? Check. Not too much? FAIL.


 

Raw sausage and peppers


10 may

 

Crispy Black Bean-Bacon Tacos


 

Stimulus refund received. Savings account or digital SLR? 9:52 a.m.


09 may

 

Sometimes template logic is easier than programming logic. Thank you, render_to_string! http://tinyurl.com/5t2hwj 1:42 p.m.


08 may

 

I love falling asleep to rain. 11:46 p.m.


 

Braves beat Padres in ninth inning - MLB - Yahoo! Sports  /  Finally, FINALLY, we win a one-run game. Pretty ugly for the Braves, but the Padres made a few errors and had to pay for them. #


 

Eating strawberries, which are nature’s candy. 3:33 p.m.


 

Working from home; watched the first few innings of the Braves game at lunch at Taco Mac. 2:08 p.m.


07 may

 

Makin’ Music with John Mayer  /  “Having not been inspired since 2004…” Almost makes me want to like his new stuff. (via) #


 

Clinton fights on as focus turns to superdelegates - CNN.com  /  Way to Mike Huckabee it, Hillary! #


 

MARTA, why did you close all of the good escalators? 9:05 a.m.


06 may

 

YouTube - Authors@Google: Michael Pollan  /  To watch. #


 

A few of my favorite southern things

You have an inalienable right to free refills of Coke products until your stomach wants to explode. Why has this not caught on everywhere? (I love Diet Coke way more than I should.)

Sometimes at weddings there are two cakes. The second one is called the groom’s cake. Here …

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Pitchers who have struck out three batters on nine pitches - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia  /  Buddy Carlyle appears to have been the most recent pitcher to do this, and against the Padres! #


05 may

 

Number of times I remember to bring my reusable bag to Target: 1 in 5. 8:51 p.m.


 

Who met the AP today? Oh, right, I did! 2:45 p.m.


 

The plight of the older sibling - Kids and parenting- msnbc.com  /  “That stricter parenting style often shapes the first-born kid into a play-by-the rules perfectionist…” #


 

I’m still sad about Eight Belles. 11:45 a.m.


03 may

 

Filly Eight Belles breaks down, is euthanized - More Sports - SI.com  /  This is incredibly sad. #


 

Kentucky Derby: it got very exciting here at Taco Mac for two minutes. Alas, Cowboy Cal did not win. 6:21 p.m.


 

Cowboy Cal! 6:13 p.m.


 

#7155 (dates() querysets don’t work after qsrf) - Django Code - Trac  /  Ohh…this just bit me. Problem is, it took me forever to identify what was going on. My investigative skills must be atrophying. #


02 may

 

Just saw Tim Hudson pitch a complete game shutout! Brian McCann hit a two-run homer. 10:03 p.m.


 

Cautiously trying some SMS updates from Twitter. I may be nuts. 5:43 p.m.