We went to Costco the other day to do some shopping.  I happen to like string cheese as a snack, and they happened to have this huge 3lbs bag of it, all individually wrapped, of the mozzarella variety.  So we picked it up, along with a gallon jug of marinara spaghetti sauce.

So the next day I come home from a long day from work, pop open the fridge.  Ah, there’s that cheese, I’d forgotten about it.  Time for a nice little snack.

An hour later, Lauren comes home.  I’m sitting there on the couch, pants unbuttoned, with my belly full like I’m 7 months pregnant.  Myself, and the couch, are covered in a blanket of discarded plastic wrappers and splatterings of spaghetti sauce, with the half-full sauce jar teetering in my lap.  My eyes were glazed over, my left eyelid drooping heavily, and I believe I was drooling a bit.  I managed to let out a gurgled grunt of recognition that she was home, but the cheese — oh my god, the cheese, too much cheese, I couldn’t speak or breathe.

So she just stands there, all condescending like!  As if I’d done something wrong.  Then she starts going off on about how I need “help” and that this stuff is “destroying my life” and that I’m going to shit white and red tonight and its my own damn fault.  I told her to bloody piss off and go get my puke bucket, cause the 2nd half of that damn bag ain’t gonna eat itself.

So for some reason today, I wanted a way to visually see where every single restaurant, cafe, coffee shop, pub, bar, bistro, club, and eatery was in midtown.  I’m always talking the talk about how many places midtown atlanta has to go, and that you could go to a different place every day and never see them all, but to what extent that is true, was hard to visualize.  Holy CRAP that was a run on sentence, and it doesn’t look like I’m going to rectify that situation at all, and instead, will continue on doing it, because the whole point of this was to explain how I went on to this GMeetUp site and started entering in the addresses and names of all the places that I could find.

Then I hit on citysearch for atlanta, did a proximity search to 800 peachtree street, and wow, that was a lot easier.  So I got a good ways in, here’s what it looks like so far:

http://www.blursoft.com/devFarm/gmeetup/index.php?m=68

Unfortunately I only got to about the 4th page and .25 miles away when I looked up and saw the total:  1,288 listed in midtown.  OMGZ!  I’m not manually typing in 1,288 addresses, besides it seems once you hit about 100 locations on this google map it starts to slow waaay down, Firefox was taking up 300mb of memory.  Anyway, for anyone googling this, the above is at least a pretty decent map of restaurants and bars in midtown atlanta.