Just in case anyone was wondering we made it through the tornado weekend unscathed. The storms were intense, Fridays more than Saturdays, but Mableton faired pretty well. Saturday the storms were looking like they were going to hit us pretty hard but they stayed closer to Highway 20 and slightly below so we were ok. Downtown, obviously was a different story. I stayed home today and worked out of the house. I tried driving downtown but the traffic was bad even here in Cobb county and I was listening to the radio and it sounded like it'd be a 2 hour commute. So i turned around and went home. My office is literally 3 blocks from the CNN center and all that and a few of the buildings near mine were hit pretty hard but ours is sort of smaller than the ones around it so I think it was pretty well shielded.
Today I'm studying for my Certified Benefits Specialist Exam next week. Essentially its a certification saying "This guy took an exam to prove he knows a thing about benefits." The stupid thing is I do know a few things but they phrase the questions so that you'll fail. I mean it doesn't test knowledge, it test whether you can figure out how to decode their questions and answers. Thats why I never test well, because questions aren't ask coherently or in layman's terms... otherwise I'd get them.
We're trying to do a bunch of home improvements to the exterior. The big one being putting in a fence to sort of mark our land boundaries. Our yard situation is unique as we have alarge hill in our backyard that half is ours and half is the neighbors behind us. However their portion is downhill from them and unusuable for the most part, still its theirs. But in their minds out of sight out of mind so they don't take care of it. So if we fence it off we won't have to see it. Which will be nice.
If you know of any good fence folks in ATL let me know.
Posted by holtonian at March 17, 2008 04:03 PM