tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-51624834198010517772024-03-13T01:29:08.296-04:00Thoughts From A Member of Life......Dear Reader, If you find a broken link, or have something to say, please leave a comment, or drop me a line at ironhorse306@yahoo.com. Thanks!Terrestrial Observerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02754192991252401137noreply@blogger.comBlogger246125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5162483419801051777.post-26118264625997464502021-12-03T15:27:00.000-05:002021-12-03T15:27:42.771-05:00New And Old<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-OBrmTua37Aw/Yapy525NSUI/AAAAAAAAEpk/6Xzi5oQVYX8dD67JnvAnjgU2ngXx7p1fwCNcBGAsYHQ/image.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img data-original-height="151" data-original-width="333" height="181" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-OBrmTua37Aw/Yapy525NSUI/AAAAAAAAEpk/6Xzi5oQVYX8dD67JnvAnjgU2ngXx7p1fwCNcBGAsYHQ/w400-h181/image.png" width="400" /></a></div><p><br /></p>Everyone says "Everything is changing all the time!" Yes, things are changing all the time, hopefully for the better. As in the picture for example, we have advanced to cell phones from dial phones over a half century ago. However, some things are changing and, regrettably not for the better. Instead of telling you where I am going with this, let me play a song for you and you can follow along with the lyrics:<p></p><p>Click <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_38SWIIKITE" target="_blank">HERE</a></p><div class="ujudUb" jsname="U8S5sf" style="background-color: white; color: #202124; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 12px;"><span jsname="YS01Ge"><i>Eve of Destruction</i></span></div><div class="ujudUb" jsname="U8S5sf" style="background-color: white; color: #202124; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 12px;"><span jsname="YS01Ge">The Eastern world, it is exploding</span><br /><span jsname="YS01Ge">Violence flaring, bullets loading</span><br /><span jsname="YS01Ge">You're old enough to kill but not for voting</span><br /><span jsname="YS01Ge">You don't believe in war, but what's that gun you're toting?</span><br /><span jsname="YS01Ge">And even the Jordan river has bodies floating</span></div><div class="ujudUb" jsname="U8S5sf" style="background-color: white; color: #202124; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 12px;"><span jsname="YS01Ge">But you tell me over and over and over again my friend</span><br /><span jsname="YS01Ge">Ah, you don't believe we're on the eve of destruction</span></div><div class="ujudUb" jsname="U8S5sf" style="background-color: white; color: #202124; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 12px;"><span jsname="YS01Ge">Don't you understand what I'm trying to say?</span><br /><span jsname="YS01Ge">Can't you feel the fear that I'm feeling today?</span><br /><span jsname="YS01Ge">If the button is pushed, there's no running away</span><br /><span jsname="YS01Ge">There'll be no one to save with the world in a grave</span><br /><span jsname="YS01Ge">Take a look around you boy, it's bound to scare you, boy</span></div><div class="ujudUb" jsname="U8S5sf" style="background-color: white; color: #202124; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 12px;"><span jsname="YS01Ge">But you tell me over and over and over again, my friend</span><br /><span jsname="YS01Ge">Ah, you don't believe we're on the eve of destruction</span></div><div class="ujudUb" jsname="U8S5sf" style="background-color: white; color: #202124; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 12px;"><span jsname="YS01Ge">Yeah, my blood's so mad, feels like coagulating</span><br /><span jsname="YS01Ge">I'm sitting' here just contemplating</span><br /><span jsname="YS01Ge">I can't twist the truth, it knows no regulation</span><br /><span jsname="YS01Ge">Handful of Senators don't pass legislation</span></div><div class="ujudUb" jsname="U8S5sf" style="background-color: white; color: #202124; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 12px;"><span jsname="YS01Ge">And marches alone can't bring integration</span><br /><span jsname="YS01Ge">When human respect is disintegrating'</span><br /><span jsname="YS01Ge">This whole crazy world is just too frustrating</span></div><div class="ujudUb" jsname="U8S5sf" style="background-color: white; color: #202124; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 12px;"><span jsname="YS01Ge">And you tell me over and over and over again my friend</span><br /><span jsname="YS01Ge">Ah, you don't believe we're on the eve of destruction</span></div><div class="ujudUb WRZytc" jsname="U8S5sf" style="background-color: white; color: #202124; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span jsname="YS01Ge">Think of all the hate there is in Red China</span><br /><span jsname="YS01Ge">Then take a look around to Selma, Alabama</span><br /><span jsname="YS01Ge">Ah, you may leave here for four days in space</span><br /><span jsname="YS01Ge">But when you return, it's the same old place</span><br /><span jsname="YS01Ge">The pounding of the drums, the pride and disgrace</span><br /><span jsname="YS01Ge">You can bury your dead but don't leave a trace</span><br /><span jsname="YS01Ge">Hate your next door neighbor but don't forget to say grace</span><br /><span jsname="YS01Ge">And you tell me over and over and over and over again my friend</span><br /><span jsname="YS01Ge">You don't believe we're on the eve of destruction</span><br /><span jsname="YS01Ge">You don't believe we're on the eve of destruction</span></div><div class="ujudUb WRZytc" jsname="U8S5sf" style="background-color: white; color: #202124; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span jsname="YS01Ge"><br /></span></div><div class="ujudUb WRZytc" jsname="U8S5sf" style="background-color: white; color: #202124; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span jsname="YS01Ge"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-wipNJpjmEe0/Yap4-xGDRMI/AAAAAAAAEps/WLL0Qg4WU6csRSM31zEzPUh24uagsrPWQCNcBGAsYHQ/image.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img data-original-height="183" data-original-width="275" height="133" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-wipNJpjmEe0/Yap4-xGDRMI/AAAAAAAAEps/WLL0Qg4WU6csRSM31zEzPUh24uagsrPWQCNcBGAsYHQ/w200-h133/image.png" width="200" /></a></div><br /></span></div><div class="ujudUb WRZytc" jsname="U8S5sf" style="background-color: white; color: #202124; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span jsname="YS01Ge">The song came out in 1965. The events are not too different from today, and it shares the same sentiment of panic and fear. It is difficult to drive this point home without getting political. The best I can do is point out how often history repeats itself. That we don't learn from the errors of others, present and past, weather it be the running of countries or the care of our earth. My heart cries, seeing the present state of Mankind. In the Book of Genesis, God saw the wickedness of the world and caused a great flood to destroy every living thing. If He is feeling the same way about the world again, He doesn't have to destroy us, we are doing a pretty good job of that on our own.</span></div><div class="ujudUb WRZytc" jsname="U8S5sf" style="background-color: white; color: #202124; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span jsname="YS01Ge"><br /></span></div><div class="ujudUb WRZytc" jsname="U8S5sf" style="background-color: white; color: #202124; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span jsname="YS01Ge">I am in the autumn of my life and probably won't see much change in Humanity's path. In some ways, it is a comfort to know that I will be spared that. However, I feel sorrow for generations to follow, if our worldwide behaviors don't improve.</span></div>Terrestrial Observerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02754192991252401137noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5162483419801051777.post-20928634505287955282021-09-12T00:24:00.004-04:002021-09-12T00:24:55.935-04:00My Journal Excerpts - Part 1<span style="font-family: times;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times; text-align: left;">There was a time when I kept a journal for awhile, or diary, if you will. I thought I would include some </span><span style="text-align: left;">excerpts here.</span></div></span></div></div></span></div></span><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: times;">1952-<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: times;">My
earliest recollections were when my family was at Camp Lejeune, North
Carolina.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I would guess that I was three
or four years old.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I remember, I used to
enjoy undermining our front walk with a tablespoon.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We were in base-housing, which I recall, even
as a child, nothing to brag about.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>All
the buildings were the same ranch-style type housing with asbestos
shingles.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Walking into the front door
brought you into an entry-way type of room with a big (at least big to a three
year old!) silver furnace off to one side.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I don't remember a thing about the interior of the house.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There was, I remember, a friend of the
family, her name was Gerry.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She had two
very pretty Afghan dogs.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: times;">It
was about this time period that I came down with double pneumonia.</span><span style="font-family: times;"> </span><span style="font-family: times;">I don't know how long I was in the hospital,
but it seemed like an awful long time.</span><span style="font-family: times;">
</span><span style="font-family: times;">While there, I was paranoid that I might get a shot in the behind while
sleeping, so I tried very hard to always sleep on my back and not my
stomach.</span><span style="font-family: times;"> </span><span style="font-family: times;">The day finally came to return
home.</span><span style="font-family: times;"> </span><span style="font-family: times;">Mom and Dad picked me up in the
car.</span><span style="font-family: times;"> </span><span style="font-family: times;">My sister, Kathy, was not with
them, she was about eight.</span><span style="font-family: times;"> </span><span style="font-family: times;">Standing on
the back seat and leaning on the front seat, I said to my parents, "When I
get home, I'm gonna give Kathy a big kiss!"</span><span style="font-family: times;"> </span><span style="font-family: times;">They laughed and said I wouldn't do that
because she had chicken pox!</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: times;">1954-<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: times;">When
it came to start school, we lived in Kittery, Maine.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I started kindergarten at the Frisbee
school.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I remember some experiences in
that class.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: times;">There
was a freckled-faced girl, named Patty, who had taken a fancy to me and was
always trying to get my attention.</span><span style="font-family: times;"> </span><span style="font-family: times;">Of
course a young man at the age of five was aloof to such things!</span><span style="font-family: times;"> </span><span style="font-family: times;">One day Patty was flirting with me and I spun
on my heel and walked away.</span><span style="font-family: times;"> </span><span style="font-family: times;">At the time
I was holding my snow suit as we had just come in from outside.</span><span style="font-family: times;"> </span><span style="font-family: times;">Well, the buckle on the strap snapped around
when I turned and it hit her on the cheek.</span><span style="font-family: times;">
</span><span style="font-family: times;">She cried.</span><span style="font-family: times;"> </span><span style="font-family: times;">I must have felt
pretty bad about it to still remember it today!</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: times;">Another
time, in that class, I came in from recess one winter day, thoroughly soaked
from snow.</span><span style="font-family: times;"> </span><span style="font-family: times;">My teacher (I believe her
name was Mrs. Philbrick) had me remove my wet pants and I sat in the chair with
a blanket over my lap.</span><span style="font-family: times;"> </span><span style="font-family: times;">The humiliating
part was that everyone could see my underpants through the open back of the
chair!</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: times;">We
were living in what was called the Admiralty Village.</span><span style="font-family: times;"> </span><span style="font-family: times;">It was housing provided for Navy
families.</span><span style="font-family: times;"> </span><span style="font-family: times;">It was there I met my first
Negro family who moved into the neighborhood.</span><span style="font-family: times;">
</span><span style="font-family: times;">I was glad to have new friends to play with, but I didn't understand why
their skin was dark.</span><span style="font-family: times;"> </span><span style="font-family: times;">In my young mind I
concluded that they had been caught in a fire and I didn't dwell on it anymore.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: times;">I
recollect having air-raid drills while in Kindergarten.</span><span style="font-family: times;"> </span><span style="font-family: times;">I didn't really understand what it was all
about, but I remember it was both fun and scary!</span><span style="font-family: times;"> </span><span style="font-family: times;">When the alarm sounded, we all filed out into
the hallway, got down on our knees, put our heads down against the wall and
covered our head with our hands.</span><span style="font-family: times;"> </span><span style="font-family: times;">I
imagined monsters going down the hall while we were doing this!</span></p><br /></div>Terrestrial Observerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02754192991252401137noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5162483419801051777.post-27824188795402009132021-04-17T02:01:00.011-04:002021-04-17T02:07:01.354-04:00Yes, My Radios And I Are Still Here.....<p> Again, my apologies for another long lapse since my last entry. I can't say it is because I am too busy. On the contrary, being retired and keeping to myself at home during a pandemic, I have way too much time on my hands, but my hands don't seem to find their way to the keyboard. I have become physically and mentally lethargic. Nevertheless, here I am and my subject choice probably won't move you, but more likely put you to sleep.</p><p> My primary distraction is my hobby of collecting and refurbishing vintage radios, both tube and transistor. The years range from 1936 to 2004, presently. Time passes very swiftly while tinkering in my workshop! In this entry, I am going to show you some of the process of resurrecting a radio. "Oh joy!" you are probably thinking. Not to worry, the pain will pass.</p><p>
</p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">This particular set (</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 16px;">Emerson 710B) </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">has serious case problems, as
you can see. Repairing this case would be a whole story on its own so I will
save that for another day. There are cracks on the front and bottom.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">So today I shall focus on repairing the innards.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">The first thing to do is give it a test. Not knowing
the history of an old radio, it is
best to use an isolation transformer and variac. Because many old sets have the
metal chassis connected to one side of the two conductor power cord, it can be a shock hazard so the isolation transformer comes into play.
And because the components are old and possibly unstable or shorted, a variac
is used to gradually bring up the voltage while monitoring the current being
drawn. If it hums loudly, the filter caps are bad, if nothing happens, maybe a
tube but more likely something else. I rarely find bad tubes. Sometimes
other capacitors are bad but they all get replaced anyway. Sometimes a bad
resistor, sometimes a bad coil.<b> </b></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Here is mine, built on a cake pan:</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Back view, before and after:</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Front view:<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-no-proof: yes;"><!--[if gte vml 1]><v:shape id="Picture_x0020_2" o:spid="_x0000_i1035"
type="#_x0000_t75" style='width:241.5pt;height:135.75pt;visibility:visible;
mso-wrap-style:square'>
<v:imagedata src="file:///C:\Users\Bob\AppData\Local\Temp\msohtmlclip1\01\clip_image009.jpg"
o:title="20210212_121405"/>
</v:shape><![endif]--></span></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-Eoa2a0grslM/YHp24v3D_yI/AAAAAAAAEd8/xc_yQm7BHHUssYW7hU0JZXNd2vNiXX2MgCLcBGAsYHQ/image.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="185" data-original-width="326" height="245" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-Eoa2a0grslM/YHp24v3D_yI/AAAAAAAAEd8/xc_yQm7BHHUssYW7hU0JZXNd2vNiXX2MgCLcBGAsYHQ/w431-h245/image.png" width="431" /></a></b></div><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><br /><!--[if gte vml 1]><v:shape id="Picture_x0020_14"
o:spid="_x0000_i1034" type="#_x0000_t75" style='width:183.75pt;height:138pt;
visibility:visible;mso-wrap-style:square'>
<v:imagedata src="file:///C:\Users\Bob\AppData\Local\Temp\msohtmlclip1\01\clip_image011.jpg"
o:title="20210301_173028"/>
</v:shape><![endif]--><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-j6a2TV_5SO8/YHp2933JvUI/AAAAAAAAEeA/xtiekPLF-UI0yhzDnuN7Z8l3If06_jiWQCLcBGAsYHQ/image.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="188" data-original-width="249" height="307" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-j6a2TV_5SO8/YHp2933JvUI/AAAAAAAAEeA/xtiekPLF-UI0yhzDnuN7Z8l3If06_jiWQCLcBGAsYHQ/w407-h307/image.png" width="407" /></a></div></b><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Top view:<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-no-proof: yes;"><!--[if gte vml 1]><v:shape id="Picture_x0020_1" o:spid="_x0000_i1033"
type="#_x0000_t75" style='width:243pt;height:136.5pt;visibility:visible;
mso-wrap-style:square'>
<v:imagedata src="file:///C:\Users\Bob\AppData\Local\Temp\msohtmlclip1\01\clip_image013.jpg"
o:title="20210212_121339"/>
</v:shape><![endif]--></span></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-VAePlsqSYTo/YHp3N2cdLcI/AAAAAAAAEeM/Zq9Y5j5loiEW1hocYlMOlVQhbIY9nZV9ACLcBGAsYHQ/image.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="186" data-original-width="328" height="242" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-VAePlsqSYTo/YHp3N2cdLcI/AAAAAAAAEeM/Zq9Y5j5loiEW1hocYlMOlVQhbIY9nZV9ACLcBGAsYHQ/w428-h242/image.png" width="428" /></a></b></div><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><br /><!--[if gte vml 1]><v:shape id="Picture_x0020_13"
o:spid="_x0000_i1032" type="#_x0000_t75" style='width:184.5pt;height:138pt;
visibility:visible;mso-wrap-style:square'>
<v:imagedata src="file:///C:\Users\Bob\AppData\Local\Temp\msohtmlclip1\01\clip_image015.jpg"
o:title="20210301_173003"/>
</v:shape><![endif]--><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-NSXPRO3MBE8/YHp3Q70V9zI/AAAAAAAAEeQ/-hc287VPo_gl3kmlQThykmJC9yC8riUIQCLcBGAsYHQ/image.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="188" data-original-width="250" height="311" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-NSXPRO3MBE8/YHp3Q70V9zI/AAAAAAAAEeQ/-hc287VPo_gl3kmlQThykmJC9yC8riUIQCLcBGAsYHQ/w413-h311/image.png" width="413" /></a></div></b><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Bottom view:<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-no-proof: yes;"><!--[if gte vml 1]><v:shape id="Picture_x0020_3" o:spid="_x0000_i1031"
type="#_x0000_t75" style='width:254.25pt;height:143.25pt;visibility:visible;
mso-wrap-style:square'>
<v:imagedata src="file:///C:\Users\Bob\AppData\Local\Temp\msohtmlclip1\01\clip_image017.jpg"
o:title="20210212_121433"/>
</v:shape><![endif]--></span></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-ksHruhGXcSo/YHp3eyLzT9I/AAAAAAAAEeY/oXzUgzXe57wGH1-tnZSBMGlEGDR65Rc4wCLcBGAsYHQ/image.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="195" data-original-width="343" height="245" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-ksHruhGXcSo/YHp3eyLzT9I/AAAAAAAAEeY/oXzUgzXe57wGH1-tnZSBMGlEGDR65Rc4wCLcBGAsYHQ/w431-h245/image.png" width="431" /></a></b></div><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><br /><!--[if gte vml 1]><v:shape id="_x0000_i1030"
type="#_x0000_t75" style='width:192pt;height:2in;visibility:visible;
mso-wrap-style:square'>
<v:imagedata src="file:///C:\Users\Bob\AppData\Local\Temp\msohtmlclip1\01\clip_image019.jpg"
o:title="20210307_134107"/>
</v:shape><![endif]--><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-7GEXe2AUMvI/YHp3hGqG1vI/AAAAAAAAEeg/SlaQ4qcfMYgbOOxIf1pcVWZFVFUkJ_bHQCLcBGAsYHQ/image.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="196" data-original-width="260" height="329" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-7GEXe2AUMvI/YHp3hGqG1vI/AAAAAAAAEeg/SlaQ4qcfMYgbOOxIf1pcVWZFVFUkJ_bHQCLcBGAsYHQ/w436-h329/image.png" width="436" /></a></div></b><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Various stages:<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-no-proof: yes;"><!--[if gte vml 1]><v:shape id="Picture_x0020_7" o:spid="_x0000_i1029"
type="#_x0000_t75" style='width:409.5pt;height:230.25pt;visibility:visible;
mso-wrap-style:square'>
<v:imagedata src="file:///C:\Users\Bob\AppData\Local\Temp\msohtmlclip1\01\clip_image021.jpg"
o:title="20210212_134421"/>
</v:shape><![endif]--></span></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-nROgoEzgV1E/YHp36UrC9oI/AAAAAAAAEes/W1SxWmBTE4IeAF6F_eRB2kifnSdn8SXzQCLcBGAsYHQ/image.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="311" data-original-width="550" height="249" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-nROgoEzgV1E/YHp36UrC9oI/AAAAAAAAEes/W1SxWmBTE4IeAF6F_eRB2kifnSdn8SXzQCLcBGAsYHQ/w440-h249/image.png" width="440" /></a></b></div><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">A 'whoopie pie' nearby is a very important factor:<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-no-proof: yes;"><!--[if gte vml 1]><v:shape id="Picture_x0020_8" o:spid="_x0000_i1028"
type="#_x0000_t75" style='width:261pt;height:333.75pt;rotation:90;
visibility:visible;mso-wrap-style:square'>
<v:imagedata src="file:///C:\Users\Bob\AppData\Local\Temp\msohtmlclip1\01\clip_image023.jpg"
o:title="20210213_155924"/>
</v:shape><![endif]--></span></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-M3FfFdyVrWw/YHp4Q9J40uI/AAAAAAAAEe0/pH-ovk16NwMPjnpOGU4fqxT2WGRSOx5lACLcBGAsYHQ/image.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="352" data-original-width="448" height="341" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-M3FfFdyVrWw/YHp4Q9J40uI/AAAAAAAAEe0/pH-ovk16NwMPjnpOGU4fqxT2WGRSOx5lACLcBGAsYHQ/w433-h341/image.png" width="433" /></a></b></div><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><br /></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></b><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-no-proof: yes;"><!--[if gte vml 1]><v:shape id="Picture_x0020_11" o:spid="_x0000_i1027"
type="#_x0000_t75" style='width:429pt;height:241.5pt;visibility:visible;
mso-wrap-style:square'>
<v:imagedata src="file:///C:\Users\Bob\AppData\Local\Temp\msohtmlclip1\01\clip_image025.jpg"
o:title="20210219_173835"/>
</v:shape><![endif]--></span></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-NI8xbbUiCGQ/YHp4cVQAUYI/AAAAAAAAEe4/QWEmBMiYODQ0_KAKpHBEuJOI3xvWQuYMQCLcBGAsYHQ/image.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="326" data-original-width="576" height="241" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-NI8xbbUiCGQ/YHp4cVQAUYI/AAAAAAAAEe4/QWEmBMiYODQ0_KAKpHBEuJOI3xvWQuYMQCLcBGAsYHQ/w426-h241/image.png" width="426" /></a></b></div><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><br /></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></b><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-no-proof: yes;"><!--[if gte vml 1]><v:shape id="Picture_x0020_10" o:spid="_x0000_i1026"
type="#_x0000_t75" style='width:429pt;height:241.5pt;visibility:visible;
mso-wrap-style:square'>
<v:imagedata src="file:///C:\Users\Bob\AppData\Local\Temp\msohtmlclip1\01\clip_image027.jpg"
o:title="20210219_173752"/>
</v:shape><![endif]--></span></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-2oED4XC5D84/YHp4fx8WYhI/AAAAAAAAEe8/4xK9MTbgPX8O-wZmqGzYrF7Qaimtjp3nACLcBGAsYHQ/image.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="326" data-original-width="576" height="241" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-2oED4XC5D84/YHp4fx8WYhI/AAAAAAAAEe8/4xK9MTbgPX8O-wZmqGzYrF7Qaimtjp3nACLcBGAsYHQ/w426-h241/image.png" width="426" /></a></b></div><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><br /></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></b><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-no-proof: yes;"><!--[if gte vml 1]><v:shape
id="Picture_x0020_9" o:spid="_x0000_i1025" type="#_x0000_t75" style='width:429.75pt;
height:241.5pt;visibility:visible;mso-wrap-style:square'>
<v:imagedata src="file:///C:\Users\Bob\AppData\Local\Temp\msohtmlclip1\01\clip_image029.jpg"
o:title="20210219_173712"/>
</v:shape><![endif]--></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-O56rVQDFi-U/YHp4jQeBaeI/AAAAAAAAEfA/5uNXzYLodFE-3h3-tlpxGJODNuhipcFugCLcBGAsYHQ/image.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="326" data-original-width="577" height="236" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-O56rVQDFi-U/YHp4jQeBaeI/AAAAAAAAEfA/5uNXzYLodFE-3h3-tlpxGJODNuhipcFugCLcBGAsYHQ/w417-h236/image.png" width="417" /></a><span style="text-align: left;"> </span></div><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">That's about it, of course it needs testing when it
is done. Sometimes they come up nicely, sometimes not. Further troubleshooting
is necessary. Could be a resistor or coil problem. More
often than not, it is a wiring error, hmmm, who did that?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Hope you find this meandering interesting!</span></p><ul style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px 0px 20px 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><li style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; list-style: disc; margin: 10px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><i style="font-size: 14px;">The mystery of life is certainly the most persistent problem ever placed before the thought of man. . . . . . The inability of science to solve it is absolute. This would be truly frightening were it not for faith. - </i>Guglielmo Marconi</li></ul><p></p>Terrestrial Observerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02754192991252401137noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5162483419801051777.post-78283511357804123272020-09-30T02:33:00.003-04:002020-09-30T02:33:45.802-04:00Looking Inward<p> While listening to Alexa the other day, this Bob Seger tune came on. He defines some personalities that you or I might identify with or know persons that fit it. Interesting. Click <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f5G_hchVRaA">here</a> to listen.</p><div class="kp-header" data-ved="2ahUKEwjxqqqamojsAhVPnp4KHRIkDr0Q3z4oAHoECA4QAQ" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><div class="kp-hc" style="display: inline-block; margin-bottom: 0px; padding-bottom: 12px; padding-top: 12px; position: relative; width: 652px;"><div class="Hhmu2e mod NFQFxe viOShc LKPcQc" data-hveid="CAgQAA" data-md="16" data-ved="2ahUKEwjxqqqamojsAhVPnp4KHRIkDr0QhygwAHoECAgQAA" style="border-radius: 8px; clear: none; overflow: inherit; padding-top: 0px;"><div class="Ftghae iirjIb" style="margin-top: 0px; padding-left: 16px; padding-right: 16px; position: relative;"><div class="SPZz6b"><h2 class="qrShPb kno-ecr-pt PZPZlf mfMhoc" data-attrid="title" data-local-attribute="d3bn" data-ved="2ahUKEwjxqqqamojsAhVPnp4KHRIkDr0Q3B0oADAAegQICBAB" style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87); display: inline; font-size: 30px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; position: relative; transform-origin: left top;">Beautiful Loser</h2><div class="wwUB2c PZPZlf" data-attrid="subtitle" style="color: #70757a; margin: 4px 0px; overflow: hidden;"><span data-ved="2ahUKEwjxqqqamojsAhVPnp4KHRIkDr0Q2kooATAAegQICBAC"><a data-ved="2ahUKEwjxqqqamojsAhVPnp4KHRIkDr0QMTAAegQICBAD" href="https://www.google.com/search?rlz=1C1CHBF_enUS841US842&q=Bob+Seger&stick=H4sIAAAAAAAAAONgVuLUz9U3MCxIqkhaxMrplJ-kEJyanloEAMKYUNcZAAAA&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjxqqqamojsAhVPnp4KHRIkDr0QMTAAegQICBAD" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1); color: #660099; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;">Bob Seger</a></span></div></div><div class="ZHyHcb"></div></div></div></div></div><div class="SALvLe farUxc mJ2Mod" style="background-color: white; border-top: 1px solid rgb(235, 235, 235); color: #222222; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><div class="i4J0ge"><div class="siXlze yp1CPe mod NFQFxe" data-attrid="kc:/music/recording_cluster:lyrics" data-md="113" style="border-radius: 8px; clear: none; padding-bottom: 16px; padding-top: 0px;"><div data-hveid="CAsQAA" data-ved="2ahUKEwjxqqqamojsAhVPnp4KHRIkDr0QsEwwAXoECAsQAA"><div class="uHNKed" style="margin-top: 12px;"><div class="Oh5wg" style="margin: 0px 16px;"><div class="PZPZlf" data-lyricid="Lyricfind002-1091602"><div class="bbVIQb" jsname="Vinbg"><div class="ujudUb" jsname="U8S5sf" style="line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 12px;"><span jsname="YS01Ge">He wants to dream like a young man</span><br /><span jsname="YS01Ge">With the wisdom of an old man</span><br /><span jsname="YS01Ge">He wants his home and security</span><br /><span jsname="YS01Ge">He wants to live like a sailor at sea</span><br /><span jsname="YS01Ge">Beautiful loser, where you gonna fall?</span><br /><span jsname="YS01Ge">You realize you just can't have it all</span></div><div class="ujudUb" jsname="U8S5sf" style="line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 12px;"><span jsname="YS01Ge">He's your oldest and your best friend</span><br /><span jsname="YS01Ge">If you need him, he'll be there again</span><br /><span jsname="YS01Ge">He's always willing to be second best</span><br /><span jsname="YS01Ge">A perfect lodger, a perfect guest</span><br /><span jsname="YS01Ge">Beautiful loser, read it on the wall</span><br /><span jsname="YS01Ge">And realize, you just can't have it all</span><br /><span jsname="YS01Ge">You can't have it all, you can't have it all</span><br /><span jsname="YS01Ge">Oh, oh, can't have it all</span></div></div><div class="bbVIQb" jsname="WbKHeb"><div class="ujudUb u7wWjf" data-mh="-1" jsname="U8S5sf" style="line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 12px;"><span jsname="YS01Ge">He'll never make any enemies</span><br /><span jsname="YS01Ge">He won't complain if he's caught in a freeze</span><br /><span jsname="YS01Ge">He'll always ask, he'll always say please</span></div><div class="ujudUb WRZytc xpdxpnd" data-mh="88" data-mhc="1" jsname="U8S5sf" style="line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 0px; max-height: 88px; overflow: hidden; transition: max-height 0.3s ease 0s;"><span jsname="YS01Ge">Beautiful loser, never take it all</span><br /><span jsname="YS01Ge">'Cause it's easier, faster when you fall</span><br /><span jsname="YS01Ge">You just don't need it all</span><br /><span jsname="YS01Ge">Oh, oh, you just don't need it all</span></div><div class="ujudUb WRZytc xpdxpnd" data-mh="88" data-mhc="1" jsname="U8S5sf" style="line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 0px; max-height: 88px; overflow: hidden; transition: max-height 0.3s ease 0s;"><span jsname="YS01Ge"><br /></span></div><div class="ujudUb WRZytc xpdxpnd" data-mh="88" data-mhc="1" jsname="U8S5sf" style="line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 0px; max-height: 88px; overflow: hidden; transition: max-height 0.3s ease 0s;"><span jsname="YS01Ge"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "helvetica neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><i>'To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man'</i> <b>William Shakespeare</b></span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "helvetica neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;" /><br /></span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>Terrestrial Observerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02754192991252401137noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5162483419801051777.post-11200678869872807162020-04-17T16:48:00.000-04:002020-04-17T16:48:45.261-04:00Stay At Home History Class of Not-So-Great LeadersOkay, Class, today the subject is <span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> </span><i lang="la" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Nero Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus</i><span lang="la" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> or <i>Nero</i> for short.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> In AD 68 </span><a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vindex" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Vindex">Vindex</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">, governor of the </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaul" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Gaul">Gaulish</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> territory </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gallia_Lugdunensis" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Gallia Lugdunensis">Gallia Lugdunensis</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">, rebelled. He was supported by </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galba" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Galba">Galba</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">, the governor of </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hispania_Tarraconensis" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Hispania Tarraconensis">Hispania Tarraconensis</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">. Vindex's revolt failed in its immediate aim, but Nero fled Rome when Rome's discontented civil and military authorities chose Galba as emperor. He committed suicide on June 9 in AD 68, when he learned that he had been </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trial_in_absentia" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Trial in absentia">tried <i>in absentia</i></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> and condemned to death as a public enemy, making him the first Roman Emperor to commit suicide.</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> His death ended the Julio-Claudian dynasty,</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Nero's rule is usually associated with </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyrant" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Tyrant">tyranny</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> and extravagance.</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 11.2px; white-space: nowrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Most Roman sources, such as </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suetonius" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Suetonius">Suetonius</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> and </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cassius_Dio" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Cassius Dio">Cassius Dio</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">, offer overwhelmingly negative assessments of his personality and reign; </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tacitus" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Tacitus">Tacitus</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> claims that the Roman people thought him compulsive and corrupt. Suetonius tells that many Romans believed that the </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Fire_of_Rome" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Great Fire of Rome">Great Fire of Rome</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> was instigated by Nero to clear the way for his planned palatial complex, the </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domus_Aurea" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Domus Aurea">Domus Aurea</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">.</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> According to Tacitus he was said to have seized Christians as scapegoats for the fire and burned them alive, seemingly motivated not by public justice but by personal cruelty.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> Thanks, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page" target="_blank">Wikipedia</a>!</span>Terrestrial Observerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02754192991252401137noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5162483419801051777.post-53406908758768163682020-03-31T19:28:00.001-04:002020-03-31T19:28:21.642-04:00Reoccurring Armageddon<div>
<a href="https://tse1.mm.bing.net/th?id=OIP.W9lB__hhmO3o3X3E1Y7UHAEsCU&pid=Api&P=0&w=344&h=171" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="98" src="https://tse1.mm.bing.net/th?id=OIP.W9lB__hhmO3o3X3E1Y7UHAEsCU&pid=Api&P=0&w=344&h=171" width="200" /></a><span style="color: #231f20; font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 18px;"> While sleeping, have you ever experienced something between a dream and a nightmare and has the same repetitive theme throughout? That is what life seems to be right now being confined to the same place and same routine and nothing but COVID-19 news on the tube. Don't get me wrong, I am grateful I still have my health and my heart goes out to those affected by illness or loss of life.</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #231f20; font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 18px;"> When I was seven years old, the country was hit with the Asian Flu. Being a kid, I was totally oblivious to it. I have no idea if it affected anyone around me. I was lucky, I guess, since it killed about 70,000 in the U.S.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #231f20; font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 18px;"> In 1968, the world was hit with the Hong Kong Flu. I was stationed in England at the time, and again, I have no recollection of it at the time, even though it killed a million people globally. I missed the bullet, again.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #231f20; font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 18px;"> By 1981, I was aware of the HIV/AIDS pandemic and, sadly, watched it spread throughout the world.</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #231f20; font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 18px;"> Nature has a way of thinning out overgrown forests with spontaneous forest fires. Could it be that Nature has a way of thinning out the world's population?</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #231f20; font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 18px;"> It is hard to imagine an upside to all this, but the human spirit is strong and you can see it in the media with people cheering hospital staffs. When people share what they have, whether it be food or rest or themselves. The worst events can bring out the best in people. To those that take advantage of tragedy for their own gain, I curse you!</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">Named for Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, who ruled during the outbreak along with co-regent Lucius Verus, the outbreak began in 165 and lasted until 180. An estimated five million people died from what is now thought to have been smallpox. It’s believed to have begun in the Mesopotamian city of Seleucia (in modern-day Iraq) and spread to Rome by soldiers returning from the city’s siege. At one point during the extended pandemic an estimated 2,000 Romans died each day. This isn’t a plague that discriminated—both emperors mentioned above are believed to be among its victims.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #443b3b; font-weight: inherit;">In the year 541, rats on Egyptian grain boats brought a pestilence to the Eastern Roman Empire that would ultimately leave approximately 25 million people dead. </span><a data-analytics-content-id="ext" href="https://www.ancient.eu/article/782/justinians-plague-541-542-ce/" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: content-box; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;"><b>The Plague of Justinian</b></span></a><span style="color: #443b3b; font-weight: inherit;"> quickly tore through the empire. Even the emperor himself—Justinian I, for whom the plague was named—contracted the disease. While he lived, many didn’t, with modern scholars estimating that at one point as many as 5,000 people died per day in Constantinople, the empire’s capital. By its end, about 40 percent of the city’s population was dead—so many and so quickly that bodies were left in piles—joined by about one-fourth of the eastern Mediterranean.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="border-color: currentcolor; box-sizing: inherit; cursor: pointer;">Smallpox</span> </span><span style="color: #231f20;">came to North America in the 1600's. People had symptoms of high fever, chills, severe back pain, and rashes. Starting from the Northeast, </span><span style="color: black;">smallpox</span><span style="color: #231f20;"> wiped out entire Native American tribes. Over 70 percent of the Native American population dropped. In 1721, 844 of the 5,889 Bostonian's who had smallpox died from it. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">By the mid-18th century, smallpox was a major </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endemic_(epidemiology)" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Endemic (epidemiology)">endemic disease</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"> everywhere in the world except in Australia and in small islands untouched by outside exploration. In 18th century Europe, smallpox was a leading cause of death, killing an estimated 400,000 Europeans each year.</span><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-83" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smallpox#cite_note-83" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;">[83]</a></sup><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"> Up to 10 percent of </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweden" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Sweden">Swedish</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"> infants died of smallpox each year,</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"> and the death rate of infants in </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russia" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Russia">Russia</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"> might have been even higher.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: bolder;">End:</span> In 1770, Edward Jenner developed a vaccine from cow pox. It helps the body become immune to smallpox without causing the disease.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Cholera</b> 1832-1866</span><span style="font-size: 18px;"> </span>The United States had three serious waves of cholera, an infection of the intestine, between 1832 and 1866. The pandemic began in India, and swiftly spread across the globe through trade routes. New York City was usually the first city to feel the impact. An estimated two to six Americans died per day during the outbreak.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Kansas was the site of the first U.S. case, in March 1918. Appearing in multiple countries around the world, the disease spread quickly, ushered along even faster due to the close living quarters of troops fighting in World War I. This first instance of the pandemic would be dubbed The Spanish Flu (despite the fact that it didn’t actually come from Spain). It burned out quickly and suddenly, by 1919, with the explanation still unknown today. But it left the global population decimated—with a mortality rate as high as one in five and an estimated one-third of the world population afflicted, as many as 50 million people are believed to have died. Approximately 25 million of those deaths came in the first 25 weeks of the outbreak.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #222222; font-size: large;">Asian Flu</span><span style="color: #222222; font-size: large; font-weight: normal;"> 1956-1958 </span><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal;"> </span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #222222; font-weight: normal;">The "Asian Flu" was a </span><a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pandemic_Severity_Index" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; font-weight: normal;" title="Pandemic Severity Index">category 2</a><span style="color: #222222; font-weight: normal;"> </span><a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flu_pandemic" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; font-weight: normal;" title="Flu pandemic">flu pandemic</a><span style="color: #222222; font-weight: normal;"> outbreak of </span><span style="color: #0b0080;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">influenza virus</span></span><a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Influenzavirus_A" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; font-weight: normal;" title="Influenzavirus A"> A</a><span style="color: #222222; font-weight: normal;"> that originated in </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; font-weight: normal;" title="China">China</a><span style="color: #222222; font-weight: normal;"> in early 1956 lasting until 1958. Some authors believe it originated from mutation in </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wild_duck" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; font-weight: normal;" title="Wild duck">wild ducks</a><span style="color: #222222; font-weight: normal;"> combining with a pre-existing human strain.</span><span style="color: #222222; font-weight: normal;"> Other authors are less certain.</span><span style="color: #222222; font-weight: normal;"> The virus was first identified in </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guizhou" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; font-weight: normal;" title="Guizhou">Guizhou</a><span style="color: #222222; font-weight: normal;">.</span><span style="color: #222222; font-weight: normal; white-space: nowrap;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-weight: normal;">It spread to </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singapore" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; font-weight: normal;" title="Singapore">Singapore</a><span style="color: #222222; font-weight: normal;"> in February 1957</span><span style="color: #222222; font-weight: normal;">, reached </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hong_Kong" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; font-weight: normal;" title="Hong Kong">Hong Kong</a><span style="color: #222222; font-weight: normal;"> by April, and US by June. Death toll in the US was approximately 69,800.</span><span style="color: #222222; font-weight: normal;">Estimates of worldwide deaths caused by this pandemic varies widely depending on source; ranging from 1 million to 4 million, with </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Health_Organization" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; font-weight: normal;" title="World Health Organization">World Health Organization</a><span style="color: #222222; font-weight: normal;"> (WHO) settling on "about 2 million".</span></span></span></h2>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #222222;"><b style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;">Hong Kong Flu</span></b><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"> 1968-1969 </span><span style="font-size: 14px;"> </span><span style="font-size: small;">Hong Kong Flu </span></span></span></span><span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">(also known as </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">1968 flu pandemic</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">) was a </span><a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pandemic_Severity_Index" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080;" title="Pandemic Severity Index">category 2</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"> </span><a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flu_pandemic" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080;" title="Flu pandemic">flu pandemic</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"> whose outbreak in 1968 and 1969 killed an estimated one million people all over the world.</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"> It was caused by an </span><a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H3N2" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080;" title="H3N2">H3N2</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"> strain of the </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Influenza_A_virus" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080;" title="Influenza A virus">influenza A virus</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">, descended from </span><a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H2N2" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080;" title="H2N2">H2N2</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"> through </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antigenic_shift" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080;" title="Antigenic shift">antigenic shift</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">, a </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetics" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080;" title="Genetics">genetic</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"> process in which </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080;" title="Gene">genes</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"> from multiple subtypes </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reassortment" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080;" title="Reassortment">reassorted</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"> to form a new virus.</span></span></span></h2>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #443b3b;">The HIV/AIDS pandemic is one we’re still battling. And while medicine has made great strides, making HIV in many ways a chronic condition that can be managed in many countries, the end of the pandemic still seems to be a long way away. Originating in Cameroon and first recognized as a disease in 1981, the earliest documented case is believed to be in 1959 in the Congo. As of 2011 at least 60 million people had been infected by AIDS and 25 million had died. Today its impact varies widely across the world—while in 2008 an estimated 1.2 million Americans had HIV, Sub-Saharan Africa alone was home to 22.9 million cases, with one in five adults infected. About </span><span style="color: black;">38 million people were believed to have HIV in 2018.</span></span></div>
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Terrestrial Observerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02754192991252401137noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5162483419801051777.post-37379868207261100552019-11-27T20:25:00.000-05:002019-12-15T00:38:46.322-05:00"And In Summary........" Here it is November and I am doing my SECOND post of the year! I profusely apologise all over the place! I will try and do better (fingers crossed behind my back).<br />
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<a href="https://tse3.mm.bing.net/th?id=OIP.IDs3LflZ0--M2hL8zjM3mQHaHa&pid=Api&P=0&w=300&h=300" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://tse3.mm.bing.net/th?id=OIP.IDs3LflZ0--M2hL8zjM3mQHaHa&pid=Api&P=0&w=300&h=300" width="200" /></a> While visiting my cousin, Phil, in Las Vegas, we got on the subject of my blog. He said it was very good, but suggested that I talk more about myself so my kids and grand kids could know more about me. I thought I was doing okay in that department but thinking about it, maybe I have a tendency to talk about everyone around me and not so much about me, but I don't think so. </div>
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<a href="https://tse1.mm.bing.net/th?id=OIP.4LPti2s25gDtYIWpUmQyEAHaEU&pid=Api&P=0&w=274&h=160" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="116" src="https://tse1.mm.bing.net/th?id=OIP.4LPti2s25gDtYIWpUmQyEAHaEU&pid=Api&P=0&w=274&h=160" width="200" /></a>1. As a child, I liked watching TV. Shows like <i>Mickey Mouse Club, Howdy Doody, Disneyland, Roy Rogers, Annie Oakley, Rough Riders, Sky King</i>, and <i>Sea Hunt</i> were some of them. I didn't care for <i>Andy Devine</i> and <i>Ding Dong School</i> so much. Food wise, it was cereal, pancakes, french toast, spaghetti, my dad's version of chop suey and his 'tuna pea wiggle' (tuna, peas and white gravy on toast) and desserts! Didn't like liver (yuck!), cheese (except as a grilled cheese sandwich or pizza), fruit jello (plain was okay), nuts (except for peanuts, but that isn't really a nut, it is a legume). As most people would agree, I don't like bullies. As a kid, I was of small stature and would sometimes get picked on. I spent a lot of time alone and didn't mind it because I enjoyed making things with <i>Tinker Toys</i>, <i>American Bricks, Lincoln Logs</i>, and my favourite, <i>Erector Set</i>. Once I got a crystal radio kit for Christmas. I was too young to read the assembly manual but successfully built it by looking at the pictures. Later on, I had three step brothers so had built in playmates in the house.</div>
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As an adult, I like drama and action TV and movies, though, occasionally I will enjoy something more poignant. My food preferences haven't changed much, maybe expanded a little to include a little of anything smothered in salsa. I do the same thing with ketchup on some things. I love swordfish but don't see it on the menu much, so second choice is halibut when I can get it. I really loved the pepper tuna sandwich at <i>Chili's</i>, but as luck would have it, they found out I liked it and took it off the menu.</div>
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Burger and fries are high on my list, but lately I go to <i>Blaze Pizza</i> any chance I get. I still like building things but now have grown up toys like power tools and really enjoyed my career as a cash register technician (now called a POS technician, short for Point of Sale).</div>
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2. Looking back, it amazes me how fast my kids grew up. I wish I took more time to enjoy the experience. Time lost. Makes me think of the song <i><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7OqwKfgLaeA" target="_blank">Cat's In The Cradle</a></i>. It also amazes me how six youngsters grew up under the same roof and all turned out differently, but loved everyone of them and still do when they are adults with children of there own. </div>
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My four grandparents were the mostest besterest ever. As a child, Christmas wouldn't be Christmas without them. They always fostered my interests and most of all put up with my quirkiness. Wish I knew my dad better. I don't have any memories of him until after I turned four when he was done with WW II and the Korean War. Even then the memories are faint. I think part of his distance was he came home with some form of PTSD and there wasn't much interaction between us. Some of my grammar school years and most of my teen years were spent living with grandparents. My mom had her own issues and my step-mom did the best she could. I had aunts and uncles on both sides of the family and my memory is that time spent with them was always a happy time. Unfortunately many relatives are gone now.</div>
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3. This one is easy. As stated in my intro on my home blog page, my comments stay apolitical!</div>
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4. Living in Idaho for the second time. First time was about 27 years ago when we moved west from Vermont via Utah and stayed for 20 years. Then came back almost 3 years ago to be closer to kids and grand kids that were still there. A great place to live, weather is moderate, economy is equal to or better then everywhere else. Only problem is, because it is a great place to live, the rest of the world seems to have found it and is moving in!<br />
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5. In spite of the political turmoil going on these days, America is still a great place to be. The diversity of opportunities and culture is amazing. I still favour the northeast where I grew up but I have had great times in many other places in the U.S.<br />
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6. There are so many fascinating places in the world of which I have only seen a few. I admire the well ordered life in Germany, and the charm and history of England and Ireland. Turkey is steeped in history but while I was a young G.I. stationed there, I pretty much was sequestered to the base by choice, my loss. There is one thing I wish the world could take more seriously and that is the matter of global warming.</div>
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It is amazing how something as big as the universe and something so small as quantum mechanics can be so closely intertwined. As Spock would say, "Fascinating".</div>
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8. On the subject of my favourite things, I am going to take the liberty of repeating an excerpt from a previous post:<br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "times" , "freeserif" , serif;">- When I first climb into bed and rest my face on the cool softness of my pillow, and if I want to have an encore, I flip my pillow over and do it again</span><br style="font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;" /><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "times" , "freeserif" , serif;">- The refreshment of gulping down ice cold water when I am very hot and thirsty.</span><br style="font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;" /><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "times" , "freeserif" , serif;">- The rejuvenation of a shower when I am tired.</span><br style="font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;" /><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "times" , "freeserif" , serif;">- Finding <i>Crème Brûlée</i> on the menu.</span><br style="font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;" /><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "times" , "freeserif" , serif;">- This one is corny but I like how snow crunches when you walk on it on a very cold and early winter morning.</span><br style="font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;" /><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "times" , "freeserif" , serif;">- Finding a parking space near the shop's door.</span><br style="font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;" /><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "times" , "freeserif" , serif;">- A free upgrade to business class or first class when flying.</span><br style="font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;" /><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "times" , "freeserif" , serif;">- Hearing from an old friend you haven't heard from in years.</span><br style="font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;" /><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "times" , "freeserif" , serif;">- A call from a son or daughter for no reason.</span><br style="font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;" /><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "times" , "freeserif" , serif;">- My favourite dish or dessert made for me.</span><br style="font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;" /><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "times" , "freeserif" , serif;">- Finding something that I have lost and thought I would never see again.</span><br style="font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;" /><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "times" , "freeserif" , serif;">- Waking up and thinking "ugh, it's morning" then realizing it is Saturday and going back to sleep.</span><br style="font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;" /><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "times" , "freeserif" , serif;">- How dogs are always happy to see you, no matter what.</span><br style="font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;" /><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "times" , "freeserif" , serif;">- A five payday month.</span><br style="font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;" /><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "times" , "freeserif" , serif;">- Brown paper packages tied up in string, no, wait, that is someone else's......</span><br style="font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;" /><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "times" , "freeserif" , serif;">- Needing something at the store and finding it is on sale.</span><br style="font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;" /><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "times" , "freeserif" , serif;">- Having someone to talk to about anything.</span><br style="font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;" /><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "times" , "freeserif" , serif;">- Having a favourite book or TV show to look forward to.</span><br style="font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;" /><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "times" , "freeserif" , serif;">- Going to bed one night in the fall, knowing I am going to get an extra hour of sleep because of Daylight Savings Time.</span><br style="font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;" /><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "times" , "freeserif" , serif;">- Pictures of grandchildren and the art they create. Better still, their company.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "times" , "freeserif" , serif;">Well, there it is, a quick synopsis or cross-section of me. Hope it was worth your time!</span></span></div>
Terrestrial Observerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02754192991252401137noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5162483419801051777.post-37012123529152630382019-01-08T20:12:00.000-05:002019-01-08T20:12:47.519-05:00That's Garbage!<a href="about:invalid#zClosurez" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Image result for wandering mind" border="0" height="134" 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width="200" /></a> The Beatles song, <i>Fixing A Hole</i>, speaks of a wandering mind. Guess what? I have one! (Mind, not song). So today, while my mind was wandering, I was taking the trash barrel out to the curb for pick up and wondered; "When did trash pickup start?" So, got back to my <i>Google</i> to find out about it. Thanks to <i>Wikipedia</i>, I learned that the concept of organised community trash pickup started in England in 1751. So my inquiring mind was quenched for the time being.<br />
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width="200" /></a> Way back in the olden days when I was a kid (1950's), I remember candy wrappers and the like being tossed out the car window while we happily motored along. No thought given to it.Somewhere along the line, Humanity (at least most of it I hope) developed a conscience and littering was generally no longer acceptable. If I have any virtues, one is that I do not and will not litter, unless it is biodegradable. I have no problem ditching a banana peel!<br />
<a href="https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTGXIvlglUKI0_KFeAULKK4cxvZNXJQTNxmbkmVqNj6ZuGTlEpphg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Image result for mother earth" border="0" height="200" src="https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTGXIvlglUKI0_KFeAULKK4cxvZNXJQTNxmbkmVqNj6ZuGTlEpphg" width="200" /></a> A couple times I have seen someone in a parked car toss out litter onto the ground. Both times I walked up to the car, picked up the offence and hand it back to the individual and politely say "Excuse me, you dropped this." Fortunately they weren't wrestlers or boxers.<br />
Of course, littering is only one aspect of protecting the environment, but important.<br />
So to all those who do there best to protect Mother Earth, good for you!<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "helvetica neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><i>I see litter as part of a long continuum of anti-social behaviour</i>. Bill Bryson</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "helvetica neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" />Terrestrial Observerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02754192991252401137noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5162483419801051777.post-35564709823596912822018-12-30T22:58:00.000-05:002018-12-30T22:58:00.649-05:00Memories...or the lack thereof....<a href="about:invalid#zClosurez" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Image result for cartoon tv" border="0" height="200" 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width="200" /></a> Lesley and I were getting to a very critical stage where we were all caught up with shows recorded on our DVR, the new season shows hadn't started yet, and we thoroughly plowed through everything on Prime Video, Netflix and Starz. Now what do we do?!?! <br />
I had a moment of genius and went over to our DVD cabinet to survey the multitude of movies therein. And guess what? There were some that we couldn't recollect if we had seen or not. Of course we have seen them all, otherwise they wouldn't be in the cabinet. Hence I created this axiom; "The length of time since a DVD has been viewed is directly proportional to what is remembered about it, assuming the subject is of Senior status."<br />
So the result is that we have a whole new resource of movies to watch!<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "helvetica neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><i>Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory</i>. - Albert Schweitzer</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "helvetica neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" />Terrestrial Observerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02754192991252401137noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5162483419801051777.post-77259876265165146312018-12-17T00:01:00.000-05:002018-12-17T00:01:03.824-05:00A Life Well Lived - Evelyn Berezin<a href="https://cdnph.upi.com/svc/sv/i/4051544639936/2018/1/15446424245919/Evelyn-Berezin-creator-of-worlds-first-word-processor-dies-at-93.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="132" src="https://cdnph.upi.com/svc/sv/i/4051544639936/2018/1/15446424245919/Evelyn-Berezin-creator-of-worlds-first-word-processor-dies-at-93.jpg" width="200" /></a> As you might guess, there are many unsung heroes, past and present in our world. <i>Sunday With Willie Geist</i> (Sunday morning show on NBC) has a segment about those that have passed on that have made a significant contribution. I found Ms. Berezin particularly interesting 'cuz I am a techy kind of guy and with the help of <i>Wikipedia</i>, I would like to share some of her story:<br />
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Berezin was born in the Bronx in 1925 to Jewish immigrants from Russian Empire, and attended <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Columbus_High_School_(Bronx)" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Christopher Columbus High School (Bronx)">Christopher Columbus High School</a>. She started university at <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunter_College" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Hunter College">Hunter College</a> in January 1941, studying <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economics" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Economics">Economics</a> instead of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physics" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Physics">Physics</a> she preferred because it was preferred as a subject for women at that time. After <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WWII" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="WWII">WWII</a> started, new opportunities made the study of physics possible with a scholarship at <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_University_Stern_School_of_Business" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="New York University Stern School of Business">New York University</a>, plus free classes at both Hunter and <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brooklyn_polytechnic" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Brooklyn polytechnic">Brooklyn Polytech</a> during the war years. At the same time, she worked full-time during the day as an assistant in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rheology" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Rheology">Rheology</a> Department of the Research Division of the International Printing Company (IPI). Going to university at night, she received her B.S. in physics in 1946.</div>
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Berezin began graduate work at New York University, holding a fellowship from the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Atomic_Energy_Commission" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="United States Atomic Energy Commission">United States Atomic Energy Commission</a>. In 1951 she accepted a job with the Electronic Computer Corporation and began there as head of the Logic Design Department. Berezin was the only person doing the logic design for computers being developed by ECC. In 1957 ECC was purchased by Underwood Corporation (originally known as the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Underwood_Typewriter_Company" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Underwood Typewriter Company">Underwood Typewriter Company</a>). Here, she designed a number of computers which were very general in structure but individual in specific application. Among them was a system for the US Army for range calculations, a system for controlling the distribution of magazines, and what is now considered the first office computer.</div>
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The Underwood Typewriter Company was not able to continue the development beyond 1957, and Berezin went to a company called Teleregister, formerly a division of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Union" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Western Union">Western Union</a>.</div>
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<a href="https://www.numerama.com/content/uploads/2018/12/evelyn-berezin-1024x611.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="119" src="https://www.numerama.com/content/uploads/2018/12/evelyn-berezin-1024x611.png" style="background-color: transparent;" width="200" /></a>Using <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vacuum_tube" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Vacuum tube">vacuum tube</a> computers and electromechanical switching, Teleregister had built one of the first <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airline_reservation_system" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Airline reservation system">airline reservation systems</a>, the "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reservisor" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Reservisor">Reservisor</a>." Using newly available <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transistor" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Transistor">transistor</a> technology, Berezin developed a computerized reservation system for <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Airlines" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="United Airlines">United Airlines</a> which was one of the largest computer systems at that time, controlling 60 cities in a communication system that provided 1 second response time. While working for Teleregister, Berezin also developed the first computerized banking system.</div>
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In 1968, Berezin had the idea for a word processor to simplify the work of secretaries, and in 1969 she founded Redactron Corporation, which became a public company and delivered thousands of systems to customers throughout its international marketing organization. The company's main product was called the "Data Secretary" and it was the size of a small refrigerator, had no screen, and the keyboard and printer was an <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Selectric_typewriter" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="IBM Selectric typewriter">IBM Selectric typewriter</a>.</div>
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In the 1970s, although the market continued strong the economy suffered a serious inflation, increasing interest rates to a level (16%) which was untenable for a business like Redactron which operated in a world in which equipment was rented. The Company was sold to the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burroughs_Corporation" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Burroughs Corporation">Burroughs Corporation</a> in 1976, and integrated into its office equipment division. Berezin stayed on until 1979. </div>
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In 1980, Berezin served as President of Greenhouse Management Company, General Partner of a venture capital group dedicated to early stage high technology companies.</div>
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Throughout her career she received honorary doctorates from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adelphi_University" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Adelphi University">Adelphi University</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Michigan_University" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Eastern Michigan University">Eastern Michigan University</a>. Berezin also served on the Boards of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cigna" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Cigna">CIGNA</a>, Standard Microsystems, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koppers" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Koppers">Koppers</a>, and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datapoint" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Datapoint">Datapoint</a>.</div>
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Berezin served on the Board of the Stony Brook Foundation at <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stony_Brook_University" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Stony Brook University">Stony Brook University</a>, the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brookhaven_National_Laboratory" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Brookhaven National Laboratory">Brookhaven National Laboratory</a> and the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boyce_Thompson_Institute" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Boyce Thompson Institute">Boyce Thompson Institute</a>.</div>
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<a href="https://static.seattletimes.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/c51d7039-6e33-4259-835b-16779fcb95c0-780x1180.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img alt="FILE â Redactron Corporationâs Data Secretary, the first computerized word processor, on Long Island, New York, Dec. 20, 1976. Evelyn Berezin, a computer pioneer who emancipated many a frazzled secretary from the shackles of the typewriter nearly a half-century ago by building and marketing the first computerized word processor, died on Saturday, Dec. 8, 2018, in Manhattan. She was 93. (Barton Silverman/The New York Times)" border="0" height="200" src="https://static.seattletimes.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/c51d7039-6e33-4259-835b-16779fcb95c0-780x1180.jpg" style="background-color: transparent;" width="132" /></a>Berezin established the Berezin-Wilenitz Endowment, which will give the value of her estate to fund either a chair, professorship, or research fund at Stony Brook in any field of science as stated in her <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Will_and_testament" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Will and testament">will and testament</a>. In addition to the endowment, Berezin and her late husband funded the Sam and Rose Berezin Endowed Scholarship, a full-tuition scholarship that is awarded to an undergraduate student who plans to study in the field of science, engineering or mathematics, in honor of her parents. Berezin and Wilenitz also established the Israel Wilenitz Endowment. This provides discretionary funds to the Linguistics Department at <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stony_Brook_University" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Stony Brook University">Stony Brook University</a>, where Wilenitz received a <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Master%27s_Degree" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Master's Degree">Master's Degree</a>.</div>
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Berezin was married for 51 years to Israel Wilenitz, born in 1922 in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="London">London</a>. Wilenitz died on February 20, 2003. Berezin died on December 8, 2018 at the age of 93.</div>
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<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">2006 Long Island Technology Hall of Fame</li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">2006 Women Achiever's Against the Odds Honoree for the <a class="new" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Long_Island_Fund_for_Women_and_Girls&action=edit&redlink=1" style="background: none; color: #a55858; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Long Island Fund for Women and Girls (page does not exist)">Long Island Fund for Women and Girls</a></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">2011 <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women_in_Technology_International" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Women in Technology International">Women in Technology International</a> (WITI) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Women_in_Technology_International_Hall_of_Fame_inductees" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="List of Women in Technology International Hall of Fame inductees">Hall of Fame</a></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Long Island Distinguished Leadership Award</li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Top 100 Business Women in the United States in <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BusinessWeek" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="BusinessWeek">Business Week</a> magazine</li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Honorary Doctorate from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adelphi_University" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Adelphi University">Adelphi University</a></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Honorary Doctorate from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Michigan_University" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Eastern Michigan University">Eastern Michigan University</a></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">In 2015, she was made a Fellow of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_History_Museum" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Computer History Museum">Computer History Museum</a> for "her early work in computer design and a lifetime of entrepreneurial activity."</li>
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<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Information Transfer Apparatus</li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Electronic Data File Processor</li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Information Transfer System</li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">On-Line Data Transfer Apparatus</li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Electrical Assemblage</li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Data Processing System</li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Arithmetic Device</li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Electronic Calculator with Dynamic Recirculating Storage Register</li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Control means with Record Sensing for an Electronic Calculator</li>
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Terrestrial Observerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02754192991252401137noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5162483419801051777.post-46882218787894305972018-12-07T01:25:00.002-05:002018-12-07T01:25:57.935-05:00Refreshing Some Memories<br />
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<span style="font-weight: normal;">Recently, a cousin asked about my thoughts on some family members that have passed. After replying, I thought I would add them to my blog:</span><br />
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"> My recollection of your dad
was that he was a smart guy. I always thought so because managing and owning
department stores must be no small task, especially since I have seen a lot of
stores in my work and met a lot of managers. I think Gram mostly affected Uncle
_____'s personality. He seemed to be a no nonsense guy where everything was
mostly black or white. I think Uncle J___ and Dad were more like Gramp where
they were both more mellow.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="about:invalid#zClosurez" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"></a><span style="font-weight: normal;"> I never heard that my dad
was the favourite of the three. Maybe that was the perception by his brothers.
My memory of my dad was that he was quiet unless I stepped out of line. I
remember that he was vehemently non verbal about his participation in WWII and the Korean War. Never talked about it at all. One exception when I was a kid lying
on the living room floor watching a war movie on TV and made a stupid remark.
He walked up one side of me and down the other for my comment. That was the
only time I got a rise out of him about war.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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dad because I really wasn't around him that much. When I was young he was
overseas for a good deal of time. The family split up later when I think I was
about ten and I then lived with Gram and Gramp. I think K_____ lived with Uncle
J____ and Aunt M____ at this time. Then Dad remarried and I moved back with him and my step mom, G____, and
three step brothers.. I think I was about thirteen
when I went back to Gram and Gramp's. Not sure why the move back. He stayed with G____ until his death. I am still in touch with her occasionally. I stayed with the
grandparents until I was on my own.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"> As far as Gram & Gramp </span>go, I cannot sing enough praises of them.
I often kick myself for not doing so while they were still living. You
are absolutely right, Gramp was a sweetheart. He was a sensitive guy who would
tear up when the occasion warranted it and even when it didn't. He loved everyone in the family and his
face often showed it though he seldom verbalized it. He worked hard and I loved
tagging along on those lucky days when he would let me be a bag boy at
Sampson's Market or hang out with him when he visited his buddies at Swift on
Commercial St. in Portland.</div>
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realize the sacrifices they made for me while living with them. Gramp continued
to work instead of retiring because they had a kid to support. When Gramp
passed away, Gram went back to work. Yup, I was a dumb kid.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"> Gram was a smart lady. Very
proper and no nonsense, though she did have her moments of levity. She could
hold her own in any situation, whether it was commanding the kitchen at Colby
College or discussing articles in the Congressional Record with Senator Muskie.
I have fond memories of the fantastic holiday meals that were laid before us on
the table covered with the protective panels and lace table cloth. The extended
family all gathered round. The yeast rolls and apple pies are most prominent in
my mind!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"> After Gramp passed away, I
would occasionally hear Gram sob late at night when I was in my bedroom.
Looking back, I wished I had gone to her and comforted her. Like I said, I was a dumb kid.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: "merriweather" , "georgia" , serif; font-size: 14px;">“This is what you shall do; Love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence toward the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown or to any man or number of men, go freely with powerful uneducated persons and with the young and with the mothers of families, read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life, re-examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your own soul, and your very flesh shall be a great poem and have the richest fluency not only in its words but in the silent lines of its lips and face and between the lashes of your eyes and in every motion and joint of your body.” </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: "merriweather" , "georgia" , serif; font-size: 14px;">― </span><span class="authorOrTitle" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "lato" , "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold;">Walt Whitman</span></div>
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<br />Terrestrial Observerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02754192991252401137noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5162483419801051777.post-19420882559716006352018-09-06T11:39:00.000-04:002018-09-08T08:17:43.265-04:00State Of Mind<a href="https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSBgznc91sXPOVPWm9nzpL1XDwXSHM_b0qbB8NvN5hF8zuh1UnJ" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Image result for depression" border="0" height="112" src="https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSBgznc91sXPOVPWm9nzpL1XDwXSHM_b0qbB8NvN5hF8zuh1UnJ" width="200" /></a> I don't know about you, but I have been depressed. Thinking on it, I equate it to how I would feel if my parents were squabbling, or I lost my best friend. Further thought leads me to this:<br />
<a href="https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTzun5Al_WyckE1wEc-gzmjxBYp7GbVocDRru1rg5wkpHuQ0DqpGw" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img alt="Image result for loss of best friend" border="0" height="113" src="https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTzun5Al_WyckE1wEc-gzmjxBYp7GbVocDRru1rg5wkpHuQ0DqpGw" width="200" /></a> It's my country that is squabbling. It is my country who is my best friend whom I am on the 'outs' with. I have watched more news in the past year and a half then I have in my whole lifetime. All I see is how the country is divided on how it is being run. It feels like there is a cloud over my head all day long. I'm sorry if I am yammering on, but I think it is affecting all of us to a certain degree. Even my readers outside of the USA might be affected. After all, we are a world community and the behaviour of one country can affect other countries.<br />
In contrast, it is nice, though sad, that we can celebrate the lives well lived that have passed on. Most recently, John McCain and Aretha Franklin. It is definitely a nice change on the media to be hearing about them instead of the political turmoil that dominates the news.<br />
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Though I offer no solution, don't you think it is therapeutic to talk about it? I know I feel better after venting. I do hear that spending time in sunshine is helpful, just remember the sun block!<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><i>Concern should drive us into action and not into a depression. No man is free who cannot control himself</i>. Pythagoras</span>Terrestrial Observerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02754192991252401137noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5162483419801051777.post-15510951725464347362018-07-04T11:18:00.000-04:002018-07-04T11:19:22.148-04:00The Reading Corner<a href="about:invalid#zClosurez" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Image result for book" border="0" height="149" 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width="200" /></a> I'm not a reader of books by a long shot. Over the years I may have read an occasional novel, usually a classic and usually Charles Dickens. I can't even tell you the last book I read or when. If I had to guess it would be <i>A Brief History of Time</i> by Stephen Hawking. Normal people usually read fiction so I guess I may be a lost cause.<br />
Today, however, I had a notion to read a book, shocking, right? So I scanned the bookcases looking for one. Unlike me, my wife is an avid reader. One of her favourite authors is James Patterson, consequently there are several of his books on the shelf. I pick one titled <i>The Murder House</i>. Okay, that will work. I found an unneeded business card to use as a book mark and settled in to read. Now, obviously I knew it was a murder mystery from the title, but I couldn't even finish the prologue. The beginning of the book started with a school shooting. Do I need to say anymore?Terrestrial Observerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02754192991252401137noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5162483419801051777.post-16630000490721076242018-05-20T10:55:00.001-04:002021-05-02T21:11:39.011-04:00My Life's Itinerary.....So Far - Part 16<br /> So we are in the last half of 1992 and living in a rented home in Boise, Idaho on a street called Breckenridge. Never knew why the street had that name. Researched it a little and all I found was a professor and a horse breeder by that name, from Idaho, of course. See how easily I get sidetracked? Which makes me wonder what the etymology of <i>sidetracked</i> is. See? There I go again!<br />
The family settled in and as I mentioned in Part 15, the Vermont house sold and all of it's contents were brought out to us. I still worked for the same company, but in the home office in Boise, servicing POS systems.<br />
<a href="https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQysTW1ex8rIIb9QaoxgkzKGyBpgV1VErRAIXWs_txP31l2Nq5c" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Image result for rat" border="0" height="200" src="https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQysTW1ex8rIIb9QaoxgkzKGyBpgV1VErRAIXWs_txP31l2Nq5c" width="188" /></a> I think the most memorable part of our stay here, was the night that a rodent ran across the living room floor. It didn't end there. In all my 'wisdom' I decided to combat our unwanted residents by laying out some poison here and there. Well, it worked, but not in the best way. I found one deceased in the garage. I didn't know how many there were, but assumed there was more then one. Time passed and we began to notice a horrible odor developing in the house. We contacted the management company of the house and they sent someone out. He discovered that a rodent had ingested the poison and succumbed in one of the HVAC ducts. Next time, traps, not poison.<div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>Later on, we bought a home on Mitchell St. Breckenridge was below 'the bench' and Mitchell St. was on 'the bench' which basically means we were up the hill. We were in this house for a few years, and a funny thing happened. The kids were growing up into adults and moving on and so did Mom and Dad.</div>Terrestrial Observerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02754192991252401137noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5162483419801051777.post-42669688341622064382018-04-28T12:58:00.000-04:002018-04-29T22:54:24.991-04:00OK, OK, OK, I Know, Dereliction of Duty....<a href="https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQjrK4Byc8H68lZyKQsJJ7ZxW609PMfUsGhFlCXvRGRfd5RBhN9iQ" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Image result for calendar" border="0" height="125" src="https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQjrK4Byc8H68lZyKQsJJ7ZxW609PMfUsGhFlCXvRGRfd5RBhN9iQ" width="200" /></a>Well, again, it has been another four months since my last entry. If it was three months, I could say I am doing quarterly entries. What do I call four months? Thirdly? Trimesterly? I dunno. Anyway, my bad. I could say I will try and do better but I don't like to lie.<br />
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width="200" /></a>I believe the route of my problem is a malady that is afflicting many of us. Depression. The reason is the current state of the World. There is a lot of chaos and uncertainty due to wars, threats of wars, uprisings, protests, political upheaval, acts of God, and acts of world leaders. All the bad news is getting us down. I think it comes down to taking hold of one of three concepts:<br />
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<a href="https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRvcMgJ5BlkesUtPJrclqS2vhBjW2aIuKCxsRVHlTnQ74SG0Y36AQ" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Image result for head in the sand" border="0" height="154" src="https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRvcMgJ5BlkesUtPJrclqS2vhBjW2aIuKCxsRVHlTnQ74SG0Y36AQ" width="200" /></a>1. Isolate yourself from all news and events and blissfully go on with your life. (Good luck with that)<br />
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2. Complain about and criticize everything that is going on but not do anything about it. (The easiest and the most self damaging way to go)<br />
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3. Accept things as they are but hope for the better. Participate in actions that embrace improvement and remember that we are all in this together. (I think John Lennon had a good hold on this)<br />
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Some may think that conditions of the World have never been this bad. I disagree, because of instantaneous communications of current events, we are just more informed then ever before.<br />
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width="200" /></a>My interpretation of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_condition" target="_blank">Human Condition</a> may be overly simplified but endeavors can be more productive by starting with baby steps.<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "merriweather" , "georgia" , serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">“Such is the influence which the condition of our own thoughts, exercises, even over the appearance of external objects. Men who look on nature, and their fellow-men, and cry that all is dark and gloomy, are in the right; but the sombre colours are reflections from their own jaundiced eyes and hearts. The real hues are delicate, and need a clearer vision.” </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "merriweather" , "georgia" , serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">― </span><a class="authorOrTitle" href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/239579.Charles_Dickens" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Lato, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: bold; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">Charles Dickens</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "merriweather" , "georgia" , serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">, </span><span id="quote_book_link_18254" style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: "merriweather" , "georgia" , serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><a class="authorOrTitle" href="https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/3057979" style="color: #333333; font-family: Lato, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Oliver Twist</a></span>Terrestrial Observerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02754192991252401137noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5162483419801051777.post-38768394188855321062017-12-22T15:59:00.000-05:002017-12-22T15:59:35.929-05:00Yes, I Am Still Alive!<a href="about:invalid#zClosurez" 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<a href="https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQPeiaVguZPEvDcqCLdVoU7Mm3eaQxbidTwcNPGcAKXs5rQ_tD4xg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><img alt="Image result for customer support" border="0" height="200" src="https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQPeiaVguZPEvDcqCLdVoU7Mm3eaQxbidTwcNPGcAKXs5rQ_tD4xg" width="195" /></span></a><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">The job that I had didn't work out after all. I learned that I didn't like doing customer service phone support for Verizon. I mean I really hated it. I HATED IT A LOT!! There, I feel better now. I wasn't really sure if I wanted to bail on it because, after all, I needed the job, so I let Fate decide: </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">The family was planning a reunion where we all got together from around the country for a week long fun fest. Well, I didn't want to miss any of it. The activities started on Tuesday and ended on Saturday. My work schedule went from Sunday through Thursday. I thought that wasn't too bad, I would miss three days of work. The job was still in the midst of 14 weeks of training. The way it dragged on, it could have been done in half that, so I figured I can catch up three days of it. I asked my trainer for the three days, she said she would have to check with her boss. Her boss said she would have to check with HER boss and would get back to me by the end of shift. Really? I have to go through three people to get three unpaid days off? So at the end of shift I asked what the verdict was. They said "No." I said, "Do I turn my badge in now?" I was feeling a lot of satisfaction when I walked out the door.</span><br />
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<a href="https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTeag_f4U8mayjqtHfvwia-FAdzbCtuC0j7xKi5-K8iMCz2QcOzag" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><img alt="Image result for technician" border="0" height="200" src="https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTeag_f4U8mayjqtHfvwia-FAdzbCtuC0j7xKi5-K8iMCz2QcOzag" width="199" /></span></a><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">It all worked out. I went ahead and started my Social Security benefits. Then I became a free lance technician, picking the jobs I want to do and loving it.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will</i>. Charlotte Bronte</span></span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" />Terrestrial Observerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02754192991252401137noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5162483419801051777.post-935311030840311832017-08-07T08:12:00.000-04:002017-08-07T08:12:06.854-04:00Remember Me?<a href="https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcS-LSHyO4DEeTQKq_goXf1sot9d2MLA5vtkT5wUzYztBFp1atUToQ" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Image result for my bad" border="0" height="199" src="https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcS-LSHyO4DEeTQKq_goXf1sot9d2MLA5vtkT5wUzYztBFp1atUToQ" width="200" /></a> Omigosh, it has been almost ayear since my last entry! My bad! So sorry, Readers. A lot has happened that has kept me too busy, or I have simply been uninspired. Maybe a bit of both.<br />
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Since my last ramblings, we have sold our home in upstate New York and headed West to the state of Idaho to be closer to family. As one gets older, one really can get attached to kids and grandkids and when they are far away, it really makes a void in one's life.<br />
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<a href="https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcR7jJ_fZGeRwwXjR_Ds2jhhqRsIZSC91rj2jJnRR2SC3NYb8K2f" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img alt="Image result for moving" border="0" height="144" src="https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcR7jJ_fZGeRwwXjR_Ds2jhhqRsIZSC91rj2jJnRR2SC3NYb8K2f" width="200" /></a> So here we are in Idaho. The place isn't foreign to me as I had lived here some years back. Which would explain why I have family here. Just call me Mr. Obvious. We bought a home and settling in nicely. However, my wife and I are not enjoying the aging process, who does? Ongoing afflictions are preventing her from resuming work and although I am able to continue work, albeit a bit slower then before, I have been finding it difficult to find employment in my venue. Although prospective employers never bring it up (that would be illegal), I think they tend to defer me due to my age.<br />
I have found a situation that may seem to work out. Time will tell.<br />
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<a href="https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSW5M_Y0iOAak6vcj-nCwjbLCTXWtR-K5PEhahYfXsxhkOuK6dO" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Image result for growth" border="0" height="100" src="https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSW5M_Y0iOAak6vcj-nCwjbLCTXWtR-K5PEhahYfXsxhkOuK6dO" width="200" /></a> I can't get over how much the area has grown. It was going through a growth spurt when I lived here before and it continues. It use to be a five mile drive from downtown would put you into farm country. Now it takes a ten mile drive to do that. And that is only certain directions, otherwise you are driving into neighboring towns.<br />
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My wife and I agree that one thing we DON"T miss from the Northeast is the humidity, bah!<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><i>Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future. - </i>John F. Kennedy</span><br />
Terrestrial Observerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02754192991252401137noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5162483419801051777.post-18039941155840785862016-09-26T07:49:00.000-04:002016-09-26T07:49:02.813-04:00Nostalgia via Madison Avenue Many of our memories are with the help of the advertising industries. Through them we have a prolific source of images that stay with us for life. Yup, you guessed it, I am going to review some of them right here and right now!<br />
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Not a nationally known business but one that I remember growing up in the northeast, was Cushman's Bakery. As a child, the Cushman's delivery truck would deliver to homes. In particular, I remember boxes of little cupcakes with different colors of frosting.<br />
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About the same time period, I remember my uncle 'Buddy' who I recollect drove a pickup truck, He must have been a mechanic at the time because it said 'Bear Wheel Alignment Service' on the side. The logo was often seen at garages.<br />
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Though I was never a smoker, I remember being permeated by Lucky Strike cigarette ads (and many others) before cigarette commercials were banned from television. Indelibly burned into my brain was L.S./M.F.T. It was their catch phrase for "Lucky Strike Means Fine Tobacco"<br />
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I think, while growing up, I had a relative that might have worked at Pepsi-Cola. I remember often having a wooden case full of Pepsi bottles on the back porch. There is a logo that had many changes over the years.<br />
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Probably the one that has stuck with me the longest is Coca-Cola. I have always preferred Coke to Pepsi. I have been told that I am addicted to the stuff, but I am not. I have gone a whole week without Coke and survived (barely).<br />
When I was stationed in Biloxi, Mississippi, in 1968, there was a store down on the beach that had an old Coke vending machine. Insert three pennies and you would get a cold bottle of Coke. That wasn't the prevailing price at the time, but I think more of a way to draw people to the store.<br />
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<br />Terrestrial Observerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02754192991252401137noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5162483419801051777.post-25768403954909929262016-09-05T08:01:00.000-04:002016-09-05T08:01:48.108-04:00Sunday Mornings<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-9S_-UIe_lys/V81cC8eZB0I/AAAAAAAABD0/qMr3vVwF0OUJvd8oRoUlXIvuFOEvDzJwgCK4B/s1600/15276259521_6de9862e68_b.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="119" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-9S_-UIe_lys/V81cC8eZB0I/AAAAAAAABD0/qMr3vVwF0OUJvd8oRoUlXIvuFOEvDzJwgCK4B/s200/15276259521_6de9862e68_b.jpg" width="200" /></a><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-pentNH9xf2Q/V81b1hrlvPI/AAAAAAAABDs/nGwvHykqSUYGqboTPChIE_VYE73avWh8gCK4B/s1600/depositphotos_2966170-Red-alarm-clock.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-pentNH9xf2Q/V81b1hrlvPI/AAAAAAAABDs/nGwvHykqSUYGqboTPChIE_VYE73avWh8gCK4B/s200/depositphotos_2966170-Red-alarm-clock.jpg" width="165" /></a><br />
The hardest part about Sunday mornings is waking up at 6:30 and getting up. After that , it's all good. Get ready and out the door and head to church. What I love about this time of the day and this day of the week, is how quiet it is. Except for occasional faint noises from the port, it is very peaceful. The dew is on the grass and the sun is breaking through. I climb into the car and unlike the norm, I don't turn on music. Heading through town, there are no cars on the road. It is like the movies where everyone has abandoned the place. All I hear now is the humming of the tires. No stop and go. No rude drivers.<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-rU_7yrHwf3k/V81cMo9qcSI/AAAAAAAABD8/Eb6qxQxFuLMUkeKvOLpMMPnhtPf-Fv6HACK4B/s1600/street-edited.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="133" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-rU_7yrHwf3k/V81cMo9qcSI/AAAAAAAABD8/Eb6qxQxFuLMUkeKvOLpMMPnhtPf-Fv6HACK4B/s200/street-edited.jpg" width="200" /></a><br />
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I am almost always the first one to arrive at church. Since I have a key, I let myself in and continue to enjoy the tranquility, walking down the halls to the offices. I have some responsibilities here to take care of and I engage in them until the others arrive. For me, it is a very good start to the day and a nice departure from the other days of the week!<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"><i>In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed</i>. - Khalil Gibran</span><br />
Terrestrial Observerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02754192991252401137noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5162483419801051777.post-30955943578533207192016-08-29T07:30:00.000-04:002016-09-05T08:02:34.245-04:00A Great Lady<a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-TGx7dsQw8Yg/V8QUAMAM9bI/AAAAAAAABDA/CrZQa5DOhRE0VlUL6lpRoP59_6ZghnTbwCK4B/s1600/Ruby%2BIrish%2B1950.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-TGx7dsQw8Yg/V8QUAMAM9bI/AAAAAAAABDA/CrZQa5DOhRE0VlUL6lpRoP59_6ZghnTbwCK4B/s200/Ruby%2BIrish%2B1950.jpg" width="142" /></a> This is my paternal grandmother. I have sung praises about her before and I am doing it again. As I had mentioned before, I had the great privilege of being raised by my grandparents during my teen years and a couple of my grammar school years. Too bad for them, I know! At that age, I didn't realize how much they sacrificed for me. I do now and I hope they are looking down and hear me.<br />
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<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-txkmcOTO6tk/V8QZaKYCIlI/AAAAAAAABDQ/0qBi_7jPeB0FWVdg2nC_aYITGf--8ycdwCK4B/s1600/download%2B%25281%2529.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="125" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-txkmcOTO6tk/V8QZaKYCIlI/AAAAAAAABDQ/0qBi_7jPeB0FWVdg2nC_aYITGf--8ycdwCK4B/s200/download%2B%25281%2529.jpg" width="200" /></a> As an example of her goodness, I have this story. Back in the 60's while I was in high school, we didn't have calculators, computers or smart phones at our fingertips to do all those mundane calculations necessary for our math classes. From my perspective, at the time, I thought it was great that we could use a slide rule. 'A what?' you say? A slide rule. An analog device that was used for calculations. Between that and the trig tables that were embossed on our desktops, I thought we were pretty well off.<br />
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My grandmother loved her grandchildren very much. She never used words to express that love, she showed it in her actions. Two of her many skills were sewing and knitting. Every year for Christmas she would knit mittens for all the grand kids She even sewed name labels in every article of my clothes including socks and underwear.<br />
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<br />Terrestrial Observerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02754192991252401137noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5162483419801051777.post-17180180581971267992016-04-18T06:26:00.004-04:002016-04-18T06:28:29.447-04:00Legends and Memories<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"> Families often have 'legends' that get passed down through the generations. They can vary from exciting, inspiring, intriguing, to heart warming and touching.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"> I know of a couple stories concerning my paternal grandfather, </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Frank. I am told that in his younger years he borrowed money from an individual, to start a business. It may have been the store he bought in Dixfield, Maine in 1924. During the term of the loan, the person he borrowed from passed away. Ultimately, my grandfather paid the balance of the loan to the deceased's son. The son was very surprised and told my grandfather that wasn't necessary or required. However, my grandfather insisted and explained that by his way of thinking it was the right thing to do.</span><br />
<a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-bK0i0H5QPLk/VxRCzQKLpOI/AAAAAAAAA_o/1scjyvDbc0kA9db-BWMwOgfMifLadpLywCLcB/s1600/images%2B%25281%2529.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-bK0i0H5QPLk/VxRCzQKLpOI/AAAAAAAAA_o/1scjyvDbc0kA9db-BWMwOgfMifLadpLywCLcB/s200/images%2B%25281%2529.jpg" width="149" /></a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"> The other story of my grandfather took place while he was a father of his first child. Now I have to stop and explain that my </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">grandfather was normally soft spoken and non-confrontational. He was living in an apartment with my grandmother and their small child. The story goes that it was winter time and the apartment was very cold. Too cold for a wife and child according to my grandfather's mind. The heat was controlled from an adjacent apartment that the land lord lived in. Eventually the problem was more then my grandfather could or would tolerate. He went to the land lord's apartment and made it very clear that the status quo would not be tolerated any longer. I do not know the details of the confrontation.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">In short order, the temperature of my grandfather's apartment was corrected.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"> This is a personal account from one of my cousins, Lori, that she shared with me:</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"> My father never spoke of his experiences in World War II and the Korean War. I had the impression that many of the memories were those he did not want to recollect. One of the few things I know of those experiences are contained in a commendation he received while in the Navy:</span><br />
<a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-S5RDb7baxZc/VxRCyyDEmoI/AAAAAAAABAA/M6KsUFE62qkbKSXUt-5MDhJHIfDBXvNyACKgB/s1600/download%2B%25281%2529.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-S5RDb7baxZc/VxRCyyDEmoI/AAAAAAAABAA/M6KsUFE62qkbKSXUt-5MDhJHIfDBXvNyACKgB/s200/download%2B%25281%2529.jpg" width="200" /></a><i><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"> </span><span style="font-size: large;"> Your performance of duty as pharmacist's mate on board the USS YMS 351 in Dec. 1944 has been brought to my attention. On Dec. 24, 1944, you performed outstanding service in rendering assistance to survivors of the torpedoed transport Leopoldville. On Dec. 26, 1944, your ship was called upon to help rescue wounded and survivors from a torpedoed British destroyer escort off Cherbourg Harbor. You showed initiative and fore handedness in aiding twelve men picked up by your ship. One of the survivors was in a very critical condition. You promptly injected blood plasma, bound a four inch gash in his head, bound a hole in his hip, placed splints on one of his legs which was broken in three places, eased his pain, and relieved his shock. Undoubtedly this man was saved by your skill and prompt action. For your initiative, judgement, and tireless devotion to duty on these occasions, you are hereby commended. This commendation carries with it the privilege of wearing the commendation ribbon. A copy of this letter will be forwarded to the Chief of Naval Personnel to be filed in your official record.</span></i><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><i> (Signed) Harold R. Stark, Admiral, US Navy</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> My memories of my mother are fragmentary, but my older sister, Kathleen, has some vivid memories:</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"> <i>Lorraine loved movies. Joan Crawford was her favorite star. She liked reading historical novels, mysteries and non-fiction. She wasn't a good cook but she made things kids like: BLT's, Franco-American spaghetti, pineapple upside-down cake, a layered graham cracker/chocolate pudding/whipped cream refrigerated cake and right-out-of-the-oven chocolate cake with melted butter on top. She herself liked Spanish rice, bread and milk or crackers and milk with sugar and eating onions like apples! She could crochet beautifully-wonderful pineapple design doilies and many, many afghans.</i></span><br />
<a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-6iFbCfMX50E/VxRCzwnzlGI/AAAAAAAABAA/xDMCf2Yy5eoKgqkJCc-w4dqFktpVs90NACKgB/s1600/images.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="149" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-6iFbCfMX50E/VxRCzwnzlGI/AAAAAAAABAA/xDMCf2Yy5eoKgqkJCc-w4dqFktpVs90NACKgB/s200/images.jpg" width="200" /></a><span style="font-size: large;"><i> She loved to color. As a child, I was always impressed with the choice and softness of her colors and how beautifully they were emphasized when she outlined them in black. There was one beautifully illustrated kitty coloring book in which I especially remember her coloring. I don't remember the pages that I did, but I can still see hers.</i></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><i> She could take the ugliest drab apartments/houses and within no time magically transform them into a warm nest. She loved yellow kitchens with ruffled shear or yellow tiebacks. She loved roosters and had a grand collection in her kitchen. And there was always the warm glow of wall lamps in the kitchen, she hated overhead lighting.</i></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><i> She really enjoyed doing laundry and bringing the fresh smelling clothes in from the outdoors, even in winter. She would sit for hours taking pleasure in ironing those clothes, including underwear and pajamas.</i></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><i> She was extremely generous, good-hearted and gentle.</i></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><i> She believed and taught that a person should be judged by what is in their heart and that a person should not be judged by the color of their skin, religion, origin, or their financial or educational standing.</i></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><i> She sincerely loved people and made friends easily and could talk to anyone. She had the "gift of gab" and could put people at ease. She was gifted with the ability to make people feel good. People instantly took to her. There was something sad, innocent and genuine in her which people could sense. She had many friends and I never met one of her friends who would say anything disparaging about her. On the other hand, there are those who can only see her weaknesses and failings.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> Again, another entry about my grandfather (might be a bit biased since I had the privilege of being raised by my grandparents during my teen years). This is f</span><span style="font-size: large;">rom <i>Maine-A History Vol III, Editor-Harrie B. Coe</i>:</span><br />
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<a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-EMeWUKgL31c/VxRCy6Z0mjI/AAAAAAAABAA/FqPha3LxaA0t7RrNW8GmmSY_sru8ZToVwCKgB/s1600/download%2B%25282%2529.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="149" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-EMeWUKgL31c/VxRCy6Z0mjI/AAAAAAAABAA/FqPha3LxaA0t7RrNW8GmmSY_sru8ZToVwCKgB/s200/download%2B%25282%2529.jpg" width="200" /></a><span style="font-size: large;"><i> After a varied experience in several different lines of business activity, Frank purchased a grocery store in Dixfield, Maine and here he has been successfully engaged since 1924. Frank received his early school training in the public schools of his birthplace. Later he continued study in the high school at Canton, Maine, for two years and when that course was completed he engaged in the grocery business in Peru, continuing there for three years. He then went to Rumford, Maine, where for three years he was employed in a creamery. His next job was in a grocery store in Rumford, but after spending one year in that connection, he purchased the grocery business of George Heffron, in Dixfield, in 1924, and since that time has been successfully conducting that enterprise. He is a Republican and an earnest supporter of the policies of that party, and he is also a public-spirited citizen, who is anxious to advance the interest of the town of Dixfield. He is a member of the Tuscan Lodge, No. 22, Independent Order of Odd Fellows; and of Peru Grange, Patrons of Husbandry; and his religious interest is with the Methodist church of Rumford, Maine.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> It would be unjust if I didn't mention something about my grandmother, Ruby, who was Frank's wife. This is an e</span><span style="font-size: large;">xcerpt from the <i>Pleasant Street Methodist Church of Waterville, Program of the Dedication of the New Sanctuary, June 13, 1954</i>:</span><br />
<i style="font-size: x-large;">....Ruby, who serves in a position of great responsibility as President (of the Woman's Society of Christian Service), expresses the hope in her report that all women of the Church may find themselves eventually in the working ranks of the Society, and adds: "In order to bring this about, I feel that it means unceasing work on the part of our members to promote fellowship among ourselves, practicing the Christian principles of love and forbearance, and to stamp out the evils of petty criticism and jealousy which are so prone to raise their ugly heads about us. Let us pray unceasingly that this may come to pass."</i><span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> Though I never personally knew the man, it's nice to know that my 6th great grandfather, James, is part of my roots. This is from </span><span style="font-size: large;"><i>Genealogical And Family History of the State of Maine, Vol. IV - Little</i></span><span style="font-size: large;">:</span><br />
<a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-hXNJbRwZzE8/VxRCztDQL2I/AAAAAAAABAA/dAN6_c4anVsWQZc87sscgfqdx-waatuVgCKgB/s1600/images%2B%25283%2529.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-hXNJbRwZzE8/VxRCztDQL2I/AAAAAAAABAA/dAN6_c4anVsWQZc87sscgfqdx-waatuVgCKgB/s200/images%2B%25283%2529.jpg" width="115" /></a><span style="font-size: large;"> <i>Numerous settlers came from England about 1715 and settled in the old seaport town of Falmouth, on the coast of Maine. When they arrived the town had been occupied by the descendants of the English settlers who first came under George Cleeve and Richard Tucker for forty-four years. The settlement was founded in 1633, on land known under the Indian name Mashigonne, but the Indians destroyed the town in 1676, and it was not rebuilt until 1680, under President Darforth. The town was again entirely destroyed by the French and Indians in 1690, and the inhabitants who escaped death took refuge in the surrounding towns and came to look upon Falmouth as impossible of again rising from it's ashes. It was largely with the help of new immigrants, who had not caught the pessimistic spirit engendered by twice fleeing for their lives from the horror of Indian warfare, that the place was re-inhabited. It took twenty-five years to overcome this spirit of fatalism, and in 1719 the town of Falmouth was organized and from that time a steady and determined growth was made. It was under such conditions that <b>James</b> found Falmouth in 1711, when he arrived on the coast of Maine from his home in England, looking for a home in the new world. He joined the band of hardy pioneers determined to rebuild a settlement so favorable located for trade and commerce. He was born in England, and was a young single man when he arrived in Maine. He needed companionship, and found his future wife in the person of a young woman named Elizabeth. They were married before 1723, and just as the town of Falmouth, of which he was a pioneer re-builder, had sprung Phoenix like from its ashes, after they had been undisturbed a quarter of a century by a scattered, indifferent and cowed refugee people. He was probably a member of the church community gathered by Rev. Thomas Smith, who organized in Falmouth the first church east of the Saco river, March 7, 1727. His children attended the first school under the pioneer schoolmaster, Robert Bayley, after its organization in 1773. He took his wife and children in 1738-40 to Gorham, a settlement ten miles west of Falmouth, known as Naragansett Number Seven, where a settlement had been started in 1736. The place became known as Gorhamtown, in honor of Captain John Gorham, and had been granted to soldiers who served in King Philip's war in 1728. When the Indians threatened to burn the town, he fled from his farm to the garrison for greater safety, and when this danger was over he returned to his farm, where he died.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: small;"> A little about my maternal grandfather, </span></span>Florian. He was a member of the "Blackwatch" in Regiment #23332 in the Canadian Cycle Battalion in the Canadian Expeditionary Force and served in France. He received his US Citizenship on September 30, 1929. He was a driller where he would drill into rock so that explosives could be placed into the holes for blasting them in Vermont quarries. He was also a fireman on the New York Central Railroad. </span><span style="font-size: large;"> My grandparents divorced so I only remember meeting him once, though there may have been other times. Though I was a child, I remember him as a broken man in a dead end job washing dishes in a restaurant. Not all stories have a happy ending.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> Knowing something about past family members gives me a sense of connection to them. This knowledge sometimes helps me recognize traits and mannerisms in the family that gets passed on. Is it programmed in our DNA or influenced by our environment? I love hearing stories and reading histories about my progenitors.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 20px;"><i>Every book is a quotation; and every house is a quotation out of all forests, and mines, and stone quarries; and every man is a quotation from all his ancestors. - </i>Ralph Waldo Emerson</span></span>Terrestrial Observerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02754192991252401137noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5162483419801051777.post-78590731523651393352016-04-12T08:15:00.000-04:002016-04-12T08:15:33.118-04:00Stuff<div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #282828; font-family: georgia, serif; line-height: 26.88px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em; max-width: 640px;">
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Had a dream the other night. We were ordered to pack a suitcase and <span style="font-size: 19.2px; line-height: 26.88px;">prepare to leave. What with the instability of the world, it is easy to see that current events can affect the subject matter of our dreams. I don't know who ordered this or where we were going. I had the sense that it was to leave the country or the planet, not sure which (I do watch my share of sci-fi movies and shows). I remember it being a difficult process to decide what few items to take and what to leave behind.</span></div>
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<i>Humanity has a “stuff” problem. Even in frugal Germany, the average person owns 10,000 objects, and as a whole, our trash has clogged the oceans’ surfaces with 18,000 pieces of plastic per square kilometer. But in his new book, Empire of Things, which chronicles the history of material culture, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Trentmann" target="_blank">Frank Trentmann</a> suggests we can’t reverse course without acknowledging how emotionally attached we’ve become to our possessions. Six centuries ago, the average person owned limited, utilitarian goods. Now, with the modern market’s cheap prices and abundance of choice, more people can (and do) make personal statements about their identity through cars, clothes and kitchenware–and they change those statements often. In this sense, “things are an inextricable part of what makes us human,” Trentmann writes. But to protect our planet–and ourselves–he concludes that we need to better appreciate “the pleasures [that come] from a deeper and longer-lasting connection to fewer things.”</i></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> Something to think about, just don't ask me to give up my antique radio collection<span style="line-height: 26.88px;">!</span></span><br />
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Terrestrial Observerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02754192991252401137noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5162483419801051777.post-43773885815017138302016-02-27T11:10:00.001-05:002016-02-27T11:17:05.655-05:00My BFF<a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-edCQzDsFNdk/VtHIVO3_5bI/AAAAAAAAA-g/5e_DX5gQShs/s1600/images.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-edCQzDsFNdk/VtHIVO3_5bI/AAAAAAAAA-g/5e_DX5gQShs/s200/images.jpg" width="144" /></a> During my formative years, I spent a lot of time living with my paternal grandparents. Everyone knows how great it was as a kid to visit grandparents. Trust me, it is just as great to live with them.<br />
<a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-gu-CpcPSX4s/VtHIUqUb5jI/AAAAAAAAA-U/dszIS9UO0ug/s1600/images%2B%25282%2529.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-gu-CpcPSX4s/VtHIUqUb5jI/AAAAAAAAA-U/dszIS9UO0ug/s200/images%2B%25282%2529.jpg" width="200" /></a><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-A434_qePOC8/VtHIUtco_JI/AAAAAAAAA-c/T6I-WkHMNMQ/s1600/images%2B%25281%2529.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="149" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-A434_qePOC8/VtHIUtco_JI/AAAAAAAAA-c/T6I-WkHMNMQ/s200/images%2B%25281%2529.jpg" width="200" /></a> When I was about 9 years old, I was living with them for a couple years in Saco, Maine. I recollect that I only had two friends my age in the neighborhood, Derrick and 'Chip' (short for Charles). The majority of the time, I was by myself, quite contented to play with my toys, putter in the basement (I still do), or watch TV. However, there was one activity I enjoyed and that was to sit on the floor in front of the big RCA Victor radio/phonograph console and listen to my grandparents small record collection of 45's and LP's (remember that term for Long Play?). I would play them over and over again until I knew the songs by heart. I didn't care what kind of music it was, even Christmas, like Dennis Day singing <i>O Holy Night</i> or Patti Page singing <i><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2AkLE4X-bbU" target="_blank">How Much Is That Doggie In The Window?</a></i> I think my favorite record was an LP called <i>Remember How Great?</i> It was a promotional record of old songs that Lucky Strike cigarettes put into Super Markets to promote their product. Since my grandfather's career was a meat manager in these markets, he would often bring things home. I remember him bringing home cases of sample size jars of Tang breakfast drink. Anyway, there were a lot of great songs on this album (which I still have!). My favorite was <i><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHoXMS5IyuE" target="_blank">The Wayward Wind</a></i> by Gogi Grant. I would listen to it over and over again.<br />
<a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-tr3Caoj5Ue8/VtHIUmT1mJI/AAAAAAAAA-Y/o0oyDI-ZLQ4/s1600/download.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-tr3Caoj5Ue8/VtHIUmT1mJI/AAAAAAAAA-Y/o0oyDI-ZLQ4/s200/download.jpg" width="197" /></a> When I was 13, I was living with them, again, in Kennebunk, Maine. My old friend, the RCA, was still with us and I would still listen to it. By now, however, I started to expand my musical horizons and started my own record collection starting with singles like <i>Time Won't Let Me</i> by the Outsiders and <i>Red Rubber Ball</i> by Cyrkle.<br />
<a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-LYOlSjcXZi8/VtHJKDstQUI/AAAAAAAAA-k/8yWfg-43fjw/s1600/images%2B%25283%2529.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="129" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-LYOlSjcXZi8/VtHJKDstQUI/AAAAAAAAA-k/8yWfg-43fjw/s200/images%2B%25283%2529.jpg" width="200" /></a> Eventually, I betrayed my friendship with the old RCA and built a record player of my own and had it in my room. It was crude but did the job. I built the amplifier from a schematic I found in my high school science book. I turned an old cabinet into a speaker baffle, filling it with a bunch of old speakers I had. For a turntable, I actually sprung for a new Garrard turntable. The system was monophonic, not stereophonic, but it was a start. First albums I owned were The Beatles: <i>Revolver</i> and <i>Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.</i><br />
The last time I saw the old RCA was several years later in the attic of my aunt and uncle's home in Salem, Mass. That was a long time ago and now I imagine it is dust. Do you think it ever forgave me?<br />
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<br />Terrestrial Observerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02754192991252401137noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5162483419801051777.post-60962042813465513882016-02-08T05:55:00.000-05:002016-02-08T05:55:26.846-05:00Time Lines<a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-2llhksz2H6Y/Vrhy4gxJ-cI/AAAAAAAAA-A/1qflp0CuBtc/s1600/images%2B%25283%2529.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-2llhksz2H6Y/Vrhy4gxJ-cI/AAAAAAAAA-A/1qflp0CuBtc/s1600/images%2B%25283%2529.jpg" /></a> Sometimes I get into a contemplative state of mind. It also might be perceived as day dreaming, or just 'spacing out'. Anyway, I may think about where I am in my life and where I am going, a common event for many, I'm sure.<br />
It is a complex fabric we weave as we make so many choices during the course of our lives. As many do, I will sometimes question and even regret a choice I have made. Then I think about what it would have been like if I made a different choice. Although what may seem like a wrong choice leading to undesirable results may also lead to other things that are good. So if I had it to do over again, would I make a different choice, knowing the good things I would miss out on?<br />
There are those who feel that our lives are predestined, that our fates cannot be changed. And there are those who think we are the Captain's of our souls and we make our own fate. I don't know the answer to that but I have a feeling it is a mixture of the two. Our future is somewhat predetermined by the environment that we are in when we come to be. I was born in 1949 in Virginia into a family and well taken care of. I could have been born in China where the Chinese Civil War was just ending and the Communist Party of China had just taken control. Fortunately that was before the late '70's when China passed a law allowing only one child per family, otherwise I may not have existed at all.<br />
So other then our place of birth being a vary large factor in dictating our future, the rest is a matter of choices, or is it? Are the choices made by our parents and later ourselves done by free will or are <span style="font-family: inherit;">they guided by the Hand of Fate? Or is it the Deity that has some say in the matter?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"> Ah, we think we know so much but actually we know so little. Either way, if we are predestined or if it all by chance, I will take it. It is a great ride with its ups and downs. Maybe we will know more in the Hereafter. Oh! Now there is another topic we can work on! But not today.......</span><br />
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<i>I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act.</i> - BuddhaTerrestrial Observerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02754192991252401137noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5162483419801051777.post-34311876820809810222016-01-29T10:39:00.000-05:002018-12-17T00:12:44.490-05:00"And Now For A Word From Our Sponsor....."<div class="post-header" style="line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">
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