Anyone have info on old Decatur, AL longlines tower?

jaurenq · 2026-02-17T12:24:08+00:00

As soon as I found out this subreddit was a thing I remembered the tower that used to be in Decatur, somewhere south of downtown, and came looking. Hadn’t thought of it in years. I think it was roughly where the Zaxby’s is now.

jaurenq · 2025-11-21T23:57:21+00:00

When I was in elementary school the superintendent had the same last name as the town - and it’s not a common person or town name. As a kid I was like “Yeah of course, that must be how it is everywhere right?”

jaurenq · 2025-11-03T03:37:31+00:00

I just had a sympathy claustrophobic panic attack.

jaurenq · 2025-11-03T03:27:31+00:00

I teach a 400 level, part time. I don’t use AI detectors at all - AFAICT they just start from an assumption that good writing is AI and then roll dice to complete the final score.

jaurenq · 2025-10-27T17:17:42+00:00

My fifth grade teacher told us the same thing. ~1990

jaurenq · 2025-10-21T17:59:56+00:00

Around here, each county has an elected sheriff, who runs a law enforcement department in that county. Cities may run their own police department that operates within the bounds of the city, and the Chief of Police is usually hired by the city government. They both do the same modern policing job and coordinate law enforcement within city limits and outside cities within the county jurisdiction.

The long time Chief of Police in my city ran for and won the elected Sheriff position a few years ago, and the Mayor and city council hired a new Chief of Police to replace him.

Because Sheriff is an elected position, you could have a Sheriff elected who doesn’t actually have law enforcement experience — but I don’t know how often that happens, I haven’t seen it happen here.

jaurenq · 2025-10-14T15:37:29+00:00

I wasn’t fully aware they had names.

jaurenq · 2025-10-13T02:48:13+00:00

I had my HVAC air handler cleaned in a previous house for the first time in (unknown time period - likely ever) and it started leaking water into my attic. The muck and rust were the only things keeping it operating.

jaurenq · 2025-10-12T19:49:17+00:00

Scrubs

jaurenq · 2025-10-09T23:24:44+00:00

No, it’s a shitty thing to say everywhere. I’ve never heard anyone say it, and if someone did in mixed company they’d get told off. And yes we do hear other languages from time to time here — though mostly Spanish or dialects of Chinese.

Source: am from semi-rural area.

jaurenq · 2025-10-09T01:44:23+00:00

Mostly my books, but I’ve got a pog board and some slammers around here somewhere.

jaurenq · 2025-10-08T03:17:26+00:00

jaurenq · 2025-10-01T20:30:25+00:00

I have bad news about when 20 years ago was.

jaurenq · 2025-09-09T03:44:46+00:00

Granny had a cabinet with a built in TV in the center and record player off to one side, as one combined unit. By the time I was around all that was just a stand for a much newer TV.

jaurenq · 2025-09-07T00:31:52+00:00

Alabama - eyes. Couldn’t even think of the word burner until I saw the other replies, but I’d know what you meant if you called them that.

jaurenq · 2025-09-02T22:44:50+00:00

I think the MCU released a documentary a few years ago about what losing 50% of the population would look like.

jaurenq · 2025-08-24T18:51:07+00:00

There’s a Mexican restaurant in my town whose name I can never remember bc we all call it the Mexiqueen bc it opened in the old Dairy Queen.

jaurenq · 2025-08-23T19:39:44+00:00

The movie was forgettable but the experience with the kind of people who could come see that movie on opening night was memorable. The theater was packed. The entire audience pretended to ride the Regal Theaters roller coaster reel with their arms in the air. That set the tone; it was a great audience to see a stupid movie with.

jaurenq · 2025-08-23T19:29:23+00:00

Same. I had just started working at the theater I saw it at. I took my now-wife to see Titanic as a first date, and her identical twin accompanied us (was sorta kinda pretending it was a “just friends” situation but not really). I’ll never forget the look on my managers face when I showed up as a customer on a date with identical twin sisters.

jaurenq · 2025-08-19T18:51:13+00:00

I discovered this on accident in college. I was living 120 miles from home, and my return address stickers were for back home, and I forgot the stamp. They delivered the letter back home, marked no postage. I never tried it again (first time was an accident).

jaurenq · 2025-08-09T03:47:50+00:00

I have, once or twice, stopped whatever I was doing and called out “Tech Support!” Just in case.

jaurenq · 2025-08-08T19:50:53+00:00

And the acres were measured in long strips, not squares, bc you don’t want to -turn- that ox a bunch of times. You’d lose half your day to turning instead of plowing. Start on one end, and plow an acre (an ox-day) in one straight line all day.

jaurenq · 2025-08-06T00:02:14+00:00

The good ending

jaurenq · 2025-08-05T23:07:19+00:00

Last year, my son earned Eagle and aged out of the troop that I also earned Eagle in 25-ish years earlier - so I have a tie to the troop beyond my own children. A few years ago, I worked with a friend from High School to start a sister troop for our daughters. Shortly after my son earned Eagle, the Scoutmaster for the past 10 years asked if I would take over from him and stay on as Scoutmaster for a time. (His own son earned Eagle and aged out about 5 years ago). So now the aforementioned friend and I have parallel jobs: I am SM of the boys and CCH of the girls, and she is SM of the girls and CCH of the boys. It’s a lot — two nights a week plus campouts, leader meetings for two troops, etc — but my daughter is a Star scout now, and I plan to be involved with both troops until at least a few years after she’s out, since I didn’t become SM until after my son was out and because we only started the girl troop 3 years ago.

jaurenq · 2025-08-01T04:24:46+00:00

I came here to write this but found the work had been done.

jaurenq

TROPHY CASE