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Saturday, September 10, 2022

Back from the adventures...

We got home around 3:30, pretty well chilled, and more than ready for a good lunch. Luckily I roasted a chicken yesterday, and it was just waiting for some attention. We made sandwiches and sat in the warm--actually turned on the heat for the first time in months!--watching a couple of colorful fantasy shows on tv, while the rain came down softly outside. By 5:30 we were both ready for naps. Tomorrow will be warmer, mid 70s, and They say, no rain. But for one day, this has been refreshing. Sign in to see full entry.

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Not a cozy home Saturday

It is actually a chilly morning here, with off and on rain--an excellent day to spend home and relaxing--but it is not to be! Charlie's LARP group is meeting at their playground in Elbert CO to do what they call 'shed cleanup.' It's an hour drive from here and the weather won't be quite the same. In fact, it will be cold out there, in the 40s all day, but not as much rain is expected. Since it is a one-day event, I will hang out there, even participate though I am not feeling great. It's one of... Sign in to see full entry.

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Thursday, September 8, 2022

The Writing Process

It's around 7:30 and I have just had First Breakfast--one egg on a roll with a dab of mustard and two dabs of mayonnaise. The mug of hot coffee awaits my attention. Filtered sunlight plays in the bright green leaves of the big maple out front, a foreshadowing of the autumn colors to come. So begins the last day of highish heat for a while. Tomorrow, They say, a cold front will descend through western Canada, into Montana, Wyoming, and the Dakotas, and affecting us even here in central/southern... Sign in to see full entry.

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Tuesday, September 6, 2022

Charlie's birthday today

And here it is, all hot again. Friday, down from hot to warm, and Saturday, even cool! But enough whinging about the weather here. It's not nearly as bad here as much of the rest of the country, and the world. Charlie got another present. It was an impulse that hit me when I took his housemate, Rob, up to the computer store where I got my new old laptop last week. While he got his computer troubles sorted, I hung around, and happened to glance up... High on a shelf: drones! And not nearly as... Sign in to see full entry.

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Saturday, September 3, 2022

Memories and Reflections

I have a few memories of my very early childhood, all from the time we lived in Maryland in a town called Gaithersburg. I remember dancing about to Hot Diggity with my sister who was 2 years older than I was. I remember going to her kindergarten class one day to see ducklings swimming around in a bathtub. I remember the big round rosebush in front of the 1-up,1-down duplex we lived in--we had the down half--and the time she fell into it and indignantly told all the amused observers, " Don't... Sign in to see full entry.

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Wednesday, August 31, 2022

Memories...

A few years ago, I inherited my father's record collection, and the slightly archaic device on which to play them. In fact, I was thinking sadly only a couple of weeks back about how much of the music I grew up with--ethnic and folk--simply isn't played anymore, and felt such nostalgia, that I could only hear, distantly, the echoes remaining in memory. I remember crazy-dancing with my sister, when I was 3, maybe, to Hot Diggity! There was Catch a Falling Star, later on, and mygrandpa sang My... Sign in to see full entry.

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Tuesday, August 30, 2022

Changes and developments

Having coffee now with a new-to-me laptop on my actual lap. It's a Dell, so not nearly as hot at an HP which would literally burn my lap without a pillow and sheet of cardboard between us. For that, and other reasons, I have finally replaced the old dear. It took all day yesterday to get it and to get it up and running with my basic pages. That always means finding old passwords or setting up new ones which even when carefully made are forgotten in mere moments. And being a refurbished machine,... Sign in to see full entry.

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Friday, August 26, 2022

Start of the day: coffee and memories

I'm sitting here half-watching a British detective show while I slowly finish my still slightly warm coffee... When I was a kid, I sometimes went with my dad in to his work. He was an astronomer, working at the Hayden Planetarium in New York. One summer I quit a bad job--mother's helper for a bad mother...and he gave me a job at the Planetarium doing some paperwork, compiling reports on sun spots. Every day started with him and his colleagues having coffee and pastries along with casual... Sign in to see full entry.

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Thursday, August 25, 2022

Another Summer Thursday

This morning started early, and included a drive to Aurora, southeast of Denver, to deliver Charlie and his housemate Rob to a gaming convention. It's Rob's thing, an opportunity to show and demonstrate his games. He invents board games and invests in having them produced professionally. The hope is that he will sell a few, and also that he'll catch the eye of game publishers who attend such events. So on this occasion, Charlie is along as the helper. I was home again right after noon. I didn't... Sign in to see full entry.

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Another Summer Thursday

This morning started early, and included a drive to Aurora, southeast of Denver, to deliver Charlie and his housemate Rob to a gaming convention. It's Rob's thing, an opportunity to show and demonstrate his games. He invents board games and invests in having them produced professionally. The hope is that he will sell a few, and also that he'll catch the eye of game publishers who attend such events. So on this occasion, Charlie is along as the helper. I was home again right after noon. I didn't... Sign in to see full entry.

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I'm doubtful the events of my life will be of great general interest, but I'd like to share a little more of me to the several of you on Blogit I've come to feel are real friends, and the many I imagine are potentially real friends. We'll see how it works out. ______________________ all my words and images posted on Blogit are copyright 2005-present, all rights reserved.

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