It is possible to both know something and have an experience that perfectly crystalizes what something actually means. That’s the way I felt on a recent morning when I had two such experiences within minutes. I needed to drop my car of for some work and didn’t have anyone who could give me a ride.…
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Someone gave me the card game Deduckto as a gift. I played a few times with friends and immediately liked the game play. It is effectively Clue played with cards instead of pawns on a board. You are trying to guess three attributes based on feedback from the other players.…
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Texas is reopening for business and I’m not sure how I feel about that. Last month I started seeing more masks appearing in public. Maybe one in three people wearing masks at Total Wine. Yesterday I made a quick dash into a local convenience store and there was no one but me wearing.…
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I submitted a request for records of Ezra Rounds. The follow document arrived today. I have submitted a request for more detailed information but even this little bit is more information about Ezra Rounds with exact days. I am very excited to have received even this.…
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While at her 102nd birthday lunch, my grandmother mentioned that she and my aunt had learned of a memoirs written by the son of one of her cousins on the Munn side of the family. She told me the stories in the book were “scandalous”.…
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This really goes under the heading, “did not really think this one through”. It all started simple enough. A co-worker is having a milestone birthday. Someone suggested filling cube with a bunch of balloons. It sounded like fun. I recruited a co-conspirator and made a plan.…
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It occurred to me that I have a lot of old t-shirts. Most are not fit to wear anymore. I thought I would create a photographic archive of these old t-shirts. This will be a long project. I plan to just add the pictures to this posting and display them in random order.…
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Program Guide, November 14-19, 1960
Sixty years ago my father was serving on board the U.S.S. Franklin D. Roosevelt in the mediterranean. In his day job he used a Babbage computer to calculate firing solutions. He was also on the ship soccer team. I thought I’d share a page from the ship’s newsletter, “PRESS-I-DENTIAL”, page 10, from May 1960.…
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We left Saint Lick¹ yesterday morning and after marching about twelve miles arrived at this place about 8p.m. I have had no letter from you since I left Richmond but I expect to hear from you soon. We shall not stay here long.…
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My Dear Wife
We left camp near Richmond yesterday morning about 7 o’clock and arrived at this place about 3 in the afternoon. It rained all day long and some of the time very hard. I was no to the skin when we got into camp but a soldier must not mind a little rain.…
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My Dear Wife,
I received a letter from you last Friday and you can imagine how glad I was to hear from you after waiting so long. I am well as usual. The health for the regiment is very good, no one being in the hospital here to my knowledge.…
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My Dear Wife,
Since my last letter we have moved from Winchester and are encamped about two miles from Richmond near the Richmond and Lexington Turnpike and left camp at Winchester last Wednesday about 6. We marched as far as the Kentucky River and rested for the night.…
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