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My partner and I both work all the time and then spend our weekends running all over town being social. We are awesome about trash, dishes, laundry, cat boxes, making beds, and more. However, it's like pulling teeth for either of us to actually dust and mop all the hardwoods, bathrooms, and kitchen. With 2 cats and a dog, it can be tedious, and we're considering offloading the floors and dusting. We're in the Decatur area. Any recommendations?

Also: Have you always had to pay to stare at the reviews on Angie's List? This is the first time I tried the site and was...surprised it was a paid membership.

The Canterbury Tales!

Join us for a medieval romp through boisterous and bawdy olde England. Drawing on the Celtic British influences of Geoffrey Chaucer's writing, this hilarious adaptation reintroduces the tales in forms ranging from classical to spaghetti Western! We’re bringing back all your favorite tales. 

Two weeks left!

www.ShakespeareTavern.com

An Employee of The Varsity, assisting an investigative officer who locked his keys in his patrol car. Care for some fries with your Slim Jim?

Shot as we were waiting at the light. I saw what happened and burst out laughing. The cop shot a killing glare which prompted a squeaky "I didn't mean to laugh!" and a giggle to my passenger "yes I did."

OK techie peeps, I need helps with an old laptop. I think the motherboard is shot, it wont boot, even when plugged in, even when plugged in with the battery removed (I think the batter is fubar too, due to blinky lights). The lights come on and the fan starts to spin but then nada, no bios, no blue screen, nothing.

As it is old I am skeptical of having the motherboard replaced, figuring that for the cost of the part and the service would be better off buying a new one.

I just did a huge backup about a month ago, but I do have stuff from the last month I'd like to recover. Any ideas on how to get the files off the hard drive? Can the hard drive be put into another machine or some kind of adapter?

Once again, with the recent spate of 3 crimes in the news targeting women (two very brazen kidnapping attempts and the rape near Kennesaw State University), I suspect more folks (especially women) are thinking about security again. If anyone reading this in the Atlanta area (ITP or near) would like some gratis introductory firearms training, I am willing to help out and provide such training.

Does the Coke museum and CNN building and ATT building have cafeterias for employees?

Hey all,
GreenLaw has come out with a giant report for the metro area in case anyone else is interested in reading it.

Also, they have in Beta a very handy neighborhood pollution map thingy here - http://greenlaw.org/info/96472 - you can check out where you live, where you work, where you take your kids to play, etc. It doesn't take into account pollution from road traffic and some other sources, but it's a great starting point for learning, and is a lot better than other maps I've seen around. It will generate a PDF of your specific area with relevant demographics.

Just an F.Y.I. in case you haven't heard:

-) Beltline Eastside Trail Construction this weekend (-


~ excerpt ~
Reminder! Ponce de Leon Avenue will be closed this weekend and next weekend for Eastside Trail construction.

Beginning the weekend of March 23, 2012, the bridge over Ponce de Leon Avenue will be raised off of its existing abutments to be remediated, retrofitted and repainted as part of construction. The stretch of road between Ponce de Leon Place and the Midtown Place Shopping Center (across from Ponce City Market) will be closed from March 23 through 26 and again from March 30 through April 1, 2012. All of the shops at Midtown Place will be open and accessible during this road closure!

The closures will start at 9 p.m. on Friday evening and will reopen by 5 a.m. Monday morning. Road signs have already been in place for the two weeks leading up to the closures to alert drivers on Ponce de Leon Avenue.


So if you take E. Ponce from downtown to Decatur, or from Decatur to Downtown, you will have to find an alternate route at Boulevard or Freedom Pkwy...

A burglar, cat or otherwise, stole a van over the weekend in East Point that an animal rescue organization uses to transport cats to the veterinarian and to stores for adoption, leaving a LifeLine Animal Project official yowling.

LifeLine field coordinator Mickie Blair acknowledged that the 2000 Dodge Caravan, which the nonprofit purchased just four months ago with $1,100, can be replaced once another round of donations can be raised. But she considers file boxes inside the van filled with microchip information, rabies certificates and cat adoption records going back a year irreplaceable.

"I just want to know what dumpster they put it in," Blair said. "Just tell where the file boxes are. I will dig through any dumpster."

Blair had delivered cat food and litter to an elderly volunteer in East Point late Saturday night and then decided it was safest to spend the night at a friend's residence nearby, to avoid driving on roads shared by St. Patrick's Day revelers. By 6 a.m. Sunday, the van was gone.

The van also contained cat supplies and carriers that Blair valued at $300, but she was less concerned about that than the records. "All that stuff," she said of the paperwork, "can't be replaced."

The van is considered virtually a satellite office for LifeLine, based in Avondale Estates, which holds as its mission to stop the euthanasia of healthy and treatable dogs and cats in metro Atlanta animal shelters.

In addition to providing care to homeless dogs and cats and spay and neuter services, as well as serving as a pet adoption resource, LifeLine operates Catlanta, a program for feral and stray cats that has provided more than 13,000 below-cost sterilizations and vaccinations.

For information or to help, contact Blair at 678-914-4364 or mblair@lifelineanimal.org.
By Howard Pousner

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution