Tuesday, September 2, 2008
Vacation lag...
Here it is Tuesday after the Friday I got home... And I am still all sleepy halfway through the day, and mostly only motivated to be busy here at the keyboard in front of the TV, though it is an unexpectedly pretty day outside. It's a fine thing to sleep full-length in my own bed, with my cats keeping my feet warm (and a little crushed) instead of on an uncomfortable, unfamiliar bed in a motel, or in one variation or anothern of a slightly bent position in the front of my pick-up. It's a...
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Sunday, August 31, 2008
My Dad, The Gold Watch and Everything
My dad, Dr Kenneth Franklin, was an astronomer. A radio astronomer, in fact. One of my very earliest memories--I must have been around 3--is of waiting in the car (big old thing with no square corners, an a huge back seat, and lots of grey) while he walked out into a wide grassy field to check his radio antenna. It looked like a telephone wire strung along several shortish poles. My mother stood outside the car watching with some anxiety. Before he went out into the field, they had argued some...
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Saturday, August 30, 2008
Got an interesting email from a man in Holland
No, it did not ask me to help him collect several million dollars for which I would receive a million just for sending my bank info... This is someone who contacted me some months ago regarding a watch made by Helbros that used a time system for use on the moon. My dad created the time system, mostly just for fun, and Helbros made the watch for it, and offered it in the Neimann Marcus Christmas Catalog in the late 70s. He has found the watch offered on ebay, and sent me a link. Once I tracked it...
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I didn't see my Mom...
She has been feeling so poorly, in constant pain, and was just not up for a visit. I couldn't get in touch with her all that day I was driving up that way, and dawdled in the area, but didn't hear anything back until the next morning when I was well into Wyoming. My sister called then, and let me know Mom had been at the doctor. She has lost her sense of balance, and falls sometimes. She has fallen several times in the past couple of months, and is in constant pain. But like Some People We Know,...
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Tuesday, August 26, 2008
Tomorrow I head home...
Charlie and I will meet again after his morning class, have lunch at a great little place called The Peak Grill, and then I will be on my way. Adjustment time... going solo again. In the morning, I'll get in touch with my mom who lives north of here about 150 miles and see if she wants me to come by, or not. She has been having a rough time with her health, and of course it has been a hard year for her since my dad died. She moved last March, too--always a big stress. I'm never sure if my...
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