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Recent Additions
Ebby
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January 15, 2015
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January 15, 2015
Ebby was cook on a river towboat. They ran barges on the Mississippi and Ohio rivers; the work was hard and they ate well.
My Neighborhood
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January 14, 2015
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January 14, 2015
Picardy Place, later Picardy Street, is shaped like the letter “T” but laying down.
First Full Week of Retirement
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January 11, 2015
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January 11, 2015
One down, many to go.
Finished the laundry room fix-up with paint and a new washer and dryer.
Retirement So Far
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January 3, 2015
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January 3, 2015
Saturday chores on the list. Toilet paper from CostCo. Bathroom remodel to commence momentarily.
A Great Disturbance In The Force
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December 31, 2014
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December 31, 2014
Last day, 5:00PM: I’m out’a here.
Day Zero
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December 31, 2014
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December 31, 2014
The company computer is gone, the company cell phone is gone, all the little gizmos and doodads that go with them are gone.
El Primo
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December 30, 2014
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December 30, 2014
I have nothing planned other than a few final tweaks to the work I’ve been doing for the past couple of months.
Binary
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December 29, 2014
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December 29, 2014
Everything in your computer is, at its lowest level, remembered as a set of binary “bits” each of which can be either a “1” or a “0” and if you arrange lots and lots AND LOTS of those together in just the right combination, you can see this web page on your LCD; How synapses between nerves work – they either conduct or they don’t, very much like those “1"s and “0"s in the computer; and Work-days I have left before retirement.