August 2004
Three US Brown Ales
Posted by on Tuesday, August 31, 2004 in - 8 comments
Brooklyn Brown Ale, Ithaca Nut Brown Ale, Tröegs Nut Brown Ale • Brown Ale is a difficult style. It is really a bunch of styles from England, Belgium, Scotland and the USA. When you think of it...pretty much all beer is brown. And, really, so it ever was until someone figured out how to dry pale …
Horse Show
Posted by on Tuesday, August 31, 2004 in - leave a comment
While at the fair, we took the advice of NYCO and used the horse show to get in out of the sun. And the timing was perfect because there was the miniature horse pulling cart competition right ahead of us. Here are a couple of short short movies: • Horse and Rider [2.8 MB]Horse and Cart [2.9 MB …
Bridge
Posted by on Tuesday, August 31, 2004 in - leave a comment
John 3:16 Guy
Posted by on Monday, August 30, 2004 in - 12 comments
Daydreaming the other day as I was again not impressed with the Olympics coverage, I wondered what had happened to that nutbar in the clown wig with the John 3:16 sign who had forced his way into sports TV camera shots for much of my life. Apparently he is in jail: • “In the confusion that …
Summer's Done
Posted by on Monday, August 30, 2004 in - leave a comment
'cause Brent is back on All in a Day after two months away. All of a sudden it is cords and pencil case season.
Posted by on Monday, August 30, 2004
Digger Dance
Posted by on Monday, August 30, 2004 in - 11 comments
The last thing we stuck around the New York State Fair yesterday afternoon for was the JCB digger dance. Basically, six heavy construction vehicles are run around a parking lot to music doing a sort of Ed Sullivan era pop ballet. Here are some short short movies: • Starting Up [8.0 …
Sunday at the Fair
Posted by on Sunday, August 29, 2004 in - 1 comment
Here are some pictures from the New York State Fair. The first is actually a diner we passed half lost but near the fairgrounds. You'll see crawdads, spiedies and dinosaur ribs. Maybe I have not gone to many fairs, but the amazing thing to me about the place was how there were more food booths …
Galeville Grocery
Posted by on Sunday, August 29, 2004 in - 1 comment
So we hit the road at 8:00 am and were at the fair at 10:30 am after a few stops - one of which was the Galeville Grocery. Unlike Pennsylvania and its restrictive distributor system, New Yorkers have some of the most civilized laws relating to the purchasing of ales. As in Quebec, any corner store …
Lake
Posted by on Saturday, August 28, 2004 in - 12 comments
Maritimers like me have this twisted view of Ontario as a land of concrete and no Alpine beer. At the east end of Lake Ontario, however, a cottage on a clean lake in the woods is far closer than it is from Halifax. This spot is 40 km from downtown Kingston.
3:20 am
Posted by on Saturday, August 28, 2004 in - leave a comment
Alarm. Down flights. Trucks. All clear. Up elevator. Maybe Sunday for the fair. Yah, that'll do.
Posted by on Friday, August 27, 2004
Stuff to Read
Posted by on Friday, August 27, 2004 in - 2 comments
Some recommended reading: • Brian with the legal office of the 10th Mountain in Iraq has some interesting experiences he is sharing. It is very strange to correspond with someone in a war zone. • Living in Dryden is just that, an indexing of public events in the town of Dryden, New York. It is …
Blue Team
Posted by on Friday, August 27, 2004 in - leave a comment
Newness
Posted by on Thursday, August 26, 2004 in - leave a comment
Even though I am half way to the grave from the cradle, I still look forward to the new rather than find solace in the familiar. The end of summer should be one of the great turning points into the new - moving into or from something. This fall, the kids get new teachers, we get to leave the …
Government Repeals Freedom
Posted by on Thursday, August 26, 2004 in - 1 comment
In an effort to crack down on a whole lot of stuff that shouldn't be going on, the government has decided to crack down on everything and cancel everything but going places accessible by asphalt. Fraternity and egality are getting a hard look at, too.
Gmail Privacy?
Posted by on Thursday, August 26, 2004 in - leave a comment
Darren Barefoot raises a pretty big concern over Gmail privacy and agreements Google has signed allowing unspecified nations read everything on their servers. • That is why I have a tiny little bill I pay every month to the little firm and the one guy I know who will not sell me out to the …
Favorite T
Posted by on Wednesday, August 25, 2004 - 2 comments
Coming up to the 16th anniversary of seeing Bill Bragg at the Club Flamingo in Halifax. Taught him Canadian bar suffleboard during an afternoon warm-up break, shook his hand and bought the tour t-shirt. I have to find a big enough scanner to scan the tissue-like tee so I can iron the images on to …
Another Game
Posted by on Wednesday, August 25, 2004 in - leave a comment
One Goog
Posted by on Wednesday, August 25, 2004 in - 2 comments
Lord Goog has granted me one invite. Who wants it?
Who to Trust Revisited
Posted by on Wednesday, August 25, 2004 in - 7 comments
Call me El Predicto. From today's New York Times piece on the reasons for the prison failures in Iraq: • “Beginning in late 2002, the panel said, Mr. Rumsfeld and his staff set the stage for an environment in which abuses later became widespread. They did this first by sowing confusion about …
Fair
Posted by on Wednesday, August 25, 2004 in - 6 comments
Looks like we are going for a day-trip this weekend to get our fill of spiedies, white hots, Dinosaur ribs, Millbrook Cabernet Franc, Palmer Gewurztraminer, and Cornell chicken at Baker's Chicken Coop - apparently it is opperated by the family of Dr. Robert C. Baker, the originator of the Cornell …
Market Day
Posted by on Tuesday, August 24, 2004 in - 3 comments
Market day is Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday. Right now it is all peaches and tomatoes. In a few weeks it will all be apples. Here is a short short movie, 3.8 MB for 10 seconds of a view from above, taken off the fire escape under the dome at the lower right. Below, a panorama from north to the …
Beer Heist!
Posted by on Tuesday, August 24, 2004 in - leave a comment
From CBC in the Maritimes: • “RCMP officers in Woodstock, N.B., have discovered more than 5,000 of the 50,400 cans of Moosehead beer that went missing en route to Mexico last week. Police were investigating a crash involving a trailer that went off the road at East Newbridge, near Woodstock …
My New Cause
Posted by on Tuesday, August 24, 2004 in - leave a comment
For a moment this morning my world stopped and all I could do was think "why?". Apparently the Canadian Customs and Revenue Agency - aka the taxman - has been treating member of board on corporations like...employees: • “A group representing Canadian corporate directors is calling for changes in …
Judge Not
Posted by on Tuesday, August 24, 2004 in - 4 comments
This • is why there should be no judged sports: • “ • Competition was halted for several minutes Monday after the crowd hissed and • booed the judges after they awarded Russian Alexei Nemov, a 12-time Olympic • medalist, a 9.725 score on his high bar routine. The judges eventually …
Isn't the internet great #1: when old university pals get in touch. [Post-deletion image here]
Posted by on Monday, August 23, 2004
Sputtering Yankees
Posted by on Monday, August 23, 2004 in - 2 comments
That is what the New York Times headline read this morning: "The Sputtering Yankees Look for a Jump Start". Amazing. • With the Bosox now only 5.5 back of the Dark Forces, after being down 10.5 not that long ago, the gods are setting me up again, taking me once again from despair then hope then …
Five Foot Square Brewery
Posted by on Monday, August 23, 2004 in - leave a comment
Happy news from Wales where they have the common sense to allow tiny batch breweries to exist - the smallest in the world in a former outhouse has just reopened. Practically impossible in Canada where a whacking excise fee has to be paid unless you fall into section 172(1) of the Excise Act …
Dell Inquisition
Posted by on Sunday, August 22, 2004 in - leave a comment
Next time you are subject to a service tech guy going through a list of 273 apparently innane questions before getting to the one that you think is the problem with your so-cheap-it-would-cost-less-to-buy-another printer, just remember that once in a while #157 or so is the question that asks …
More Soccer Jersey Problems
Posted by on Sunday, August 22, 2004 in - leave a comment
Not so much a problem as a fixation...err...psychosis...err...hobby. Ya, that's it! • So, I have been looking for a photo of the jersey of the now idle Australian Olympic team to illustrate how awful the new Nike design truly is. I caught a clip of the Aussies slumping off the field after losing …
Beeton
Posted by on Saturday, August 21, 2004 in - 6 comments
Market Run
Posted by on Saturday, August 21, 2004 in - leave a comment
With the humidity gone and little chance of seeing 30 C before we see -30 C, Market Square beckoned this morning, as did a trip to the Baltic Deli just to ensure I had my fridge full of Polish labelled food. • That'll be a Lwowska sausage on a Krakowska in the lower left, black current juice …
Captain Mario
Posted by on Saturday, August 21, 2004 in - 6 comments
It is fairly sad when the Olympics rank as the third most interesting sporting event (after Golden Nugget Old Timers soccer) of the summer but its definitely true. Euro 2004 was a real treat that had great coverage here in Canada. A high play to analysis ratio was a big part of it. As discussed …
Hmmm - what is in the juice these days that finds me wanting a little sailboat?
Posted by on Friday, August 20, 2004
We Win!!!
Posted by on Friday, August 20, 2004 in - 27 comments
So far Canada has won medals in synchronized diving and now trampoline. What next? Ferris wheel endurance riding? Sledge hammer bell ring?
14 Bucks to Nap!
Posted by on Friday, August 20, 2004 in - 2 comments
From the op-ed pages of today's New York Times: • “Manhattan now has MetroNaps, a collection of high-tech individual sleep pods on the 24th floor of the Empire State Building. There you can go offline for about the same cost, $14 for 20 minutes, as going online in the Atlanta airport. It's not …
Hello, Pulitzer Committee?
Posted by on Friday, August 20, 2004 in - leave a comment
From • CBC PEI today: • “People are smashing bottles all over the • place.” • Notice it is not a quotation but a statement of fact. The • thing it...it is probably true.
My Clansjerk
Posted by on Friday, August 20, 2004 in - leave a comment
It had to happen sometime. Today I learned about our clansjerk. You see being in the Clan MacLeod is not like being Mr. Green or Herr Schmitt. Other MacLeods I know have been in the habit of shouting the motto across a bar room to me, have asked if I knew the story of the flag, have taken the …
For the Reds
Posted by on Thursday, August 19, 2004 in - 2 comments
I've written about Memorial Hall before. Here are a couple more of the stained glass panels. Not only did Sir John A. lay in state in the room, but it is Canada's greatest testimony in art to the war dead of 1914 to 1918. With the advent the Red Ensign Bloggers, I want to do a better job providing …
Frost
Posted by on Thursday, August 19, 2004 in - 1 comment
Pray for the Prairies, folks. The harvest is no where near in and there is a frost warning for tonight. • Saskatchewan is illustrated at the left, its risk areas in red. For portland's benefit, a simple click will enlarge the map to life size. • Later: CBC Regina on the story.
Noooooooo!
Posted by on Wednesday, August 18, 2004 in - 11 comments
Here is what the CBC says: • “Considered the dean of Canadian sports commentators, with more than a quarter of a century of broadcast experience, Brian Williams maintains a youthful exuberance that is appreciated by fans of every sport he covers.” • I have never met a human who shares this …
Slipping Away
Posted by on Wednesday, August 18, 2004 in - 4 comments
I knew it. I have never been the kind of person to gaze into the future thinking things will be better then. Retirement is no different. Like most my age, there was little opportunity to stick cash away during the career-less decade after undergrad starting in 1985. Fortunately, Ontario has …
Amazing Race
Posted by on Tuesday, August 17, 2004 in - 1 comment
Watching tonight's Amazing Race it is amazing how conditioned I have become to the premise of a reality show that we are watching for the worst of human behaviour to come out. No one appears now with six teams left to consider that it is a game. Like Survivor, they are obsessed, they are mean and …
Joey Asks A Musical Question
Posted by on Tuesday, August 17, 2004 in - 8 comments
The Accordion Guy asks for "Must • Know" Canadian tunes from roughly 1985 to 1995. What are yours? Push the limits either way. My Canada includes Doug and the Sluggs.
Posted by on Tuesday, August 17, 2004 in - leave a comment
Does it serve any purpose anymore? I use it to: • gather spam for mebe provided at times of registration to then advise that now I do not what the newsletter sent to it,provide me with a New York Times once a day because I am too lazy to link it to my sitegive and receive eBay and paypal …
Five From Penn And One New Yorker
Posted by on Monday, August 16, 2004 in - 17 comments
As part of a continuing tradition of investigative reporting, I present five Pennsylvanians and one south central New Yorker: • Click on the picture for, really, nothing more than a slightly larger picture of the same thing. • I've give some detail as I pop a few of these starting with the …
Shinty
Posted by on Monday, August 16, 2004 in - 1 comment
Good to find a sport whose teams read like single malt scotch.
Blork's Tough Life
Posted by on Monday, August 16, 2004 in - leave a comment
The being called Blork in Montreal has a loverly pace of life that only comes with a good city. From his trip to the market yesterday we read: • “...today, among other things, we saw tomatoes still dirty from the field, potatoes that smelled of moist earth, and corn straight from the back of the …
Posted by on Monday, August 16, 2004
USA Loses Basketball Game
Posted by on Monday, August 16, 2004 in - 13 comments
Scotland used to beat everyone in soccer. Right up until the 1950s. Canada used to beat everyone in hockey. Right up until the 1950s. So what is happening this year to the US's Olympic Dream team might be the acceptance of the game, the passing of the torch. Or they might just suck as the best of …
Keeper, Four Years Old
Posted by on Sunday, August 15, 2004 in - 2 comments
Nike Style Crimes
Posted by on Sunday, August 15, 2004 in - 1 comment
I was quite surprised to see how poor the new Nike Arsenal shirts were until I noticed how bad the new Nike Man U shirts were, too. Not only that but the world has gone mad over the new Nike socer ball, illustrated left as placed behind Everton's keeper by Arsenal today, with its bizzarro three …
Question after watching <i>Network</i>
Posted by on Saturday, August 14, 2004 in - leave a comment
How does the aims of the UBS after the CCA's takeover differ from the goals of the blogosphere? Compare and contrast.
Charlie
Posted by on Saturday, August 14, 2004 in - 2 comments
High school. In someone's parents' living room and the Stones are on SNL. Keith and Mick kiss and Charlie is the metronome. God love the only Stone that isn't a freak.
No More Mr. Nice
Posted by on Saturday, August 14, 2004 in - leave a comment
No more Mr. Nice Guy, Mel: • “ • GOAL: Morton 2-0 Stranraer: F Wright (og 40)” • If only from 10:00 am to 11:45 EST Saturday mornings four or five times a season.
Ham String
Posted by on Saturday, August 14, 2004 in - 5 comments
I have no idea why I even think it is my ham string that I pulled during soccer last night. I mean, to which string of the ham am I comparing the back of my leg which now has a perma-noogie which will take a few days to wear away. I blame wrestling. All the mis-identification of body parts stems …
Vintage Adidas
Posted by on Friday, August 13, 2004 in - leave a comment
If I had more money than sense, I'd load up on 1970s vintage adidas sneakers, like the pair below or one of the others seemingly always available on eBay, kept hermetically sealed by careful collectors for decades, wearing them out proudly through the course of my daily perambulations as I did 30 …
Inverse
Posted by on Friday, August 13, 2004 in - leave a comment
I have noticed an odd thing. When I would assume you the reader have the time to read you read less than when you do not. As a result, Friday afternoons are a bit slower as are lunch hour eastern and Atlantic time, weekends and this month generally. Now the last two make some sense - as I hope you …
13 Up 9 Down
Posted by on Thursday, August 12, 2004 in - 3 comments
It is tough. Playing really well and have 13 games in hand above .500 baseball. Fifth best in the entire system. But you play in the same neighbourhood as the Yankees so you are still nine back and pretty much just hoping for the wild card weeks from now. • White Sox against the Red Sox Saturday …
No Pharmacare
Posted by on Thursday, August 12, 2004 in - leave a comment
PM Martin say it • will cost too much. Hmmm. • “ • X = being the amount of drugs now being bought by governments and • individuals • - cost savings through buying bulk • + alleged • administration inefficiencies of government • - alleged • administration inefficiencies of …
Red Ensign Standard
Posted by on Thursday, August 12, 2004 in - leave a comment
Laying in my sick bed today, surrounded by old New Yorkers and empty asprin bottles, I rise to turn on the computer to find I am one of the Red Ensign Brigade importalized in the first issue of the Red Ensign Standard at a blog called the Raging Kraut. Thought up by the goodly Flea, the underlying …
Classic Dairy Queen
Posted by on Wednesday, August 11, 2004 in - 2 comments
I don't know if it sells a good dillybar, but this old-style Dairy Queen is • just off Quebec Highway 20 at the west end of Montreal at the Ile de Perrot turn • off.
Key information: Brazil's soccer league and Soccer TV listings for Canada.
Posted by on Wednesday, August 11, 2004
GLLOB Update
Posted by on Wednesday, August 11, 2004 in - leave a comment
Much to my surprise, I am not alone in GLLOB anymore - GLOBB being the "Great • Lake League of Bloggers". Astute readers will recall that I have postulated • on the need to come up with a circle of bloggers from around the Great Lakes • basin to explore what might be shared in common on the …
Incite
Posted by on Wednesday, August 11, 2004 in - leave a comment
I have gotten a headache trying to read this stuff now that the Appeal Division's ruling is out. For the record, here is a set of definitions from an on-line dictionary: • “v 1: give an incentive; "This moved me to sacrifice my career" [syn: motivate, propel, move, prompt] • 2: provoke or …
North Country Neighbours
Posted by on Wednesday, August 11, 2004 in - 6 comments
"More maps! More maaaaaps!!!", you cry. • Through the wonders of the internet, I chat here and elsewhere with others some of whom I had met and knew but no better now and others who I may never meet. Today, I realized after a quick visit to mapquest how close I am to the locale or a couple PEI …
Pop or Soda
Posted by on Wednesday, August 11, 2004 in - 25 comments
Click on the map for a larger version • I had no idea. Growing up in the Maritimes, I knew that Mainers called it soda but I thought that there was a uniformity to it, no doubt enforced by a federal statute. But it seems that different areas use different words. Hard by the Nevada-Utah border …
Athens
Posted by on Wednesday, August 11, 2004 in - leave a comment
More to monitor whether I get sucked in or not, let me state for the record that I have never cared less about an Olympic games than I do about this one.
Danger Room
Posted by on Tuesday, August 10, 2004 in - 5 comments
The trip from Montreal to Moncton started at 6:45 pm and ended at 1:15 pm the next day looping 1350 km down the St. Lawrence to the beginning of the Gaspe and down to the south east of New Brunswick. I was nicely located in a deluxe double bedroom to myself. Something like living in a walk-in …
Vets May Yet Win Something
Posted by on Tuesday, August 10, 2004 in - 12 comments
Here is one for the Red Ensign • bloggers. • Last summer the Supreme Court of Canada rejected the claim in a class action • suit brought by vets and the heirs of vets who had been incapacitated and had • had their affairs managed by the Federal Government. The Supreme Court of • Canada …
Posted by on Tuesday, August 10, 2004
Message to portland
Posted by on Tuesday, August 10, 2004 in - 6 comments
Fish-head, too. I take it you have read this story about the chunk of the volcanic island of La Palma in the Canaries falling into the water. • “Computer models of the island's collapse show the first regions to be hit, with waves topping 100 metres (330ft), will be the neighbouring Canary …
Futebol
Posted by on Tuesday, August 10, 2004 in - leave a comment
During my 12 hours in New Brunswick Saturday, I spent the weary hours on the train passing through bog and mill town reading Futebol: The Brazilian Way of Life by Alex Bellos. I put off buying this book due to the amateur cover illustration which I am sorry to say I did not realize was the …
Round Up
Posted by on Tuesday, August 10, 2004 in - leave a comment
All these wonderful pictures are sure sucking bandwidth and slowing down time for the pages to unfurl here. So some idle points: • the internet needs to take on more nautical references. Pages should unfurl. Pages should not be created but made ready. Further suggestions can be made for the use …
Posted by on Monday, August 9, 2004
Border Bridge
Posted by on Monday, August 9, 2004 in - 1 comment
I don't know if this is the last bridge on the Quebec side, the end of highway 20, or the beginning of the 401 in Ontario but I have always liked its cool style.
Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania
Posted by on Monday, August 9, 2004 in - leave a comment
John of Argghhh asked about the Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania in Strasburg, PA so here are the pictures. Right across the street from the steam railway, it is a perfect counterpoint, a cool dark place full of giants after the scorching outdoors full of kids's squeals. But then there is that …
Posted by on Monday, August 9, 2004
Only 8 Hershey's Strawberry Cream Kisses left: white chocolate and strawberry. Good Lord.
Posted by on Monday, August 9, 2004
Private Space
Posted by on Monday, August 9, 2004 in - 2 comments
The X-prize, perhaps the last vestige of the wacky days of the new economy bubble...well, other than Segway, has proven itself to be a great opportunity to get yourself killed as a private for hire astronaut: • “We need to raise some more money...fix our problems and launch another low-altitude …
Montreal
Posted by on Sunday, August 8, 2004 in - 4 comments
I have been through the Montreal train station maybe ten times in my life, maybe fewer. Heading to or from the Maritimes for work, fun, to get myself married off in Ontario or take the kids to the grandparents. Above is the main hall above the trains and below some close-ups of the murals or …
Textures of Rivière-du-Loup
Posted by on Sunday, August 8, 2004 in - leave a comment
From the rather good if a wee bit odd Hotel Universal in Rivière-du-Loup at the corner where the road south to the Maritimes meets the road west to Ontario at a buffet offering beans and pork pies for breakfast... • Hey - it's a new theme!
Off Again
Posted by on Friday, August 6, 2004 in - leave a comment
Train to Moncton and in a van back retrieving the folks. Back Sunday. Will this amusement never end? • BTW, things I failed to get a photo of this week: • The Bunny Burger sign at the Red Rabbit Drive-In north of Harrisburg, PA; • "The House of 10,000 Items" shop on highway 6 in north …
Morton defeats Man U! A dream is shared
Posted by on Friday, August 6, 2004
Strasburg Steam Train
Posted by on Friday, August 6, 2004 in - leave a comment
Just so you won't think it is all about the ales, here are some short • short movies taken from and around the Strasburg Rail Road steam trains: • rocking carriages [1.3 MB] • coming into the station [2.8 MB] • taking tickets [1.3 MB] • steam passing steam [3.0 MB] • our steam engine …
Distributors
Posted by on Friday, August 6, 2004 in - 3 comments
One thing to note from any trip to Pennsylvania by a beer fan are some of the strange laws of vending said beverage. Simply put, they try to deter you from doing so by making it difficult and taboo. To buy a six-pack or a 12 pack you have to go to a bar with a sign that says "six to go" or some …
Parkview Hotel
Posted by on Thursday, August 5, 2004 - leave a comment
In Lititz amongst the good and early to bed set. Festooned. All I could think of was "festooned". And of cold beer. Mighty fine looking.
Technology
Posted by on Thursday, August 5, 2004 in - leave a comment
While I've been away on a short but richly deserved holiday, Gen X at 40 HQ has been busy installing what our executive has described as technology. We trust we are adding some of the finest technology available with the hope of bringing you better blogging to meet the dynamic demands of the future.
Ugly Site
Posted by on Thursday, August 5, 2004 - 6 comments
I am looking at this my site on hotel internet set at 800 x 600. Does anyone else leave their setting there nowadays? [I have been amongst the Amish so am using words like "nowadays" nowadays.] At this setting, the photos look worse than Obidiah's boy Jerimiah did after he fell into the …
Notes from the Road
Posted by on Wednesday, August 4, 2004 in - 4 comments
Observed: • Not all hotels still have bottle openers which means you have to choose which part of the bathroom to lever the bottle open with. • Hershey ChocolateWorld (except for 5 year olds) is overrated but the Pennsylvania Train Museum is underrated. • Pennsylvania discourages beer buying …
Zooming South
Posted by on Sunday, August 1, 2004 in - 5 comments
It being an exceptionally clear evening, I went up to the roof and did the binocular trick looking south and this is some of what I caught. • Above: over Simcoe Island, a laker and a lighthouse. The light may well be the East Charity Shoals Light I saw from Cape Vincent facing fairly straight …
Cheap Zooming
Posted by on Sunday, August 1, 2004 in - leave a comment
Rooting around packing to go, I found my old 80 buch 1994 Canadian Tire special binoculars. I help them up to the window and got this photo of the Collins Bay Pen. Opening up MS Paint I got the detail in the lower frame cutting and pasting off of the 3.2 MB photo. Has this solved my need for 75 …
Orange Alert Holiday
Posted by on Sunday, August 1, 2004 in - 2 comments
Off to hit I-81 tomorrow morning down through central New York heading to the Pennsylvania Dutch region when O'Sammy burps and up go the security levels. We can expect an extra minute delay at Cape Vincent. • We shall not be deterred. We shall convert currency and shall seek out the hots and BBQ …
Unexpected Big Day
Posted by on Sunday, August 1, 2004 in - 7 comments
This happened over a few minutes this afternoon and I was struck how this event was a turning point in my life in that it was a turning point in the life of my first child. In the late 60's the fairy brought dimes. I am sure the fairy has had to deal with inflationary pressures like the rest of us …
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