October has become the most event-full month on our calendar it seems- and that doesn’t even include Hallowe’en. Here’s a list: Oct 2 – Sarah’s birthday. Oct 9 – Sarah and Dave’s wedding...
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Month: October 2016
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It’s been a long time since I’ve done any real hard core programming or coding. I learned FORTRAN (with punch cards) in university and then I had a long and useful dalliance with BASIC...
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That’s how old Susannah said she is today, when her Nonna called. Actually she’s 3 on the nose since it’s her birthday. She wants to celebrate a half birthday like her older siblings do....
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In 35 years three great cats have lived with us. All three have shared the feline grace and beauty. All three combined contemplative calm with explosive energy. All three exhibited the “it is what...
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I’ve been reading some Financial Independence (FI) blogs lately. The most interesting ones seem to be based in the UK, and are written by younger folks who primarily work in the IT business. The...
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I’ve always enjoyed the chance to write and publish it online. I have been at it now since the late 1990s, first by having a website and later a blog. My very first website...
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Most of us are familiar with this wonderful 1962 film. However my grandma knew about Helen Keller far earlier than this. She and Helen were contemporaries, after all. This item was pasted into her...
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Here is a news item copied from Grandma Hawley’s scrapbook – pasted in there a century ago: DRIVER NARROWLY ESCAPED Car Killed Horse Yoked to Sleigh- Driver JumpedBirch Cliff, Mar 3, 1916. A collision...
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In an earlier post I mentioned that the site of Albert M. Prices’s home on E. 110th Street in Cleveland is now a vacant lot. However thanks to Aunt Helen’s family history book I...
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I’ve impressed the seniors in Almonte that I help with IT problems by telling them that my computing experience goes back close to 50 years – all the way to punch cards, keypunch terminals,...