Saturday, October 17, 2015

Ah, the reds and purples this year!



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  1. Early to bed tonight, but not without noting that as always Howard is first.

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  2. Yikes! We almost didn't make it. Thanks for the save, Bill.

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    1. I meant to get in earlier, listener, but the computer gods were not cooperating.

      Alan

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  3. Busy past twelve days at work, long day today, and the rest of the evening for R&R. We went up to the Bay Area and visited with Naomi--my choice of restaurant this time, on account of being a year older. Old Port Lobster Shack in Redwood City.

    On the way back we noticed that the cotton harvest is underway; more and more of it is in big round plastic-wrapped bundles made by modified circular hay balers. Evidently the costs are lower and the quality better than with the conventional big cotton modules.

    listener--I am going to install a converter in a Preppy 02 fountain pen, so I will have both a Preppy 02 and an 03 with the manufacturer's black ink cartridges, and another 02/03 pair with converters and Noodler's Black Eel ink for comparison. I am also narrowing in on the forms of capital letters I want to train myself to make. This morning I found some real Palmer examples from 1904 which have the M, N, U, V, and W the way I think I would like to learn them. Palmer wasn't dictatorial about exact letter forms, and changed them here and there over time.

    It was really amazing to read about and see photos of the highway/freeway mudslides down in the Tehachapi mountains (at the south end of the Central Valley) a day or two ago--twenty feet of mud, and hundreds of vehicles trapped! We had a very little rain, and the odd short rain shower hereabouts; part of a road flooded in the most flood-prone area of the county.

    I saw some information about the Presidential campaigns' financing reports--just bits and pieces, but HRC continues to burn through money faster than everybody else combined; her campaign folks say it is on so-far nearly invisible campaign infrastructure that will swing into action in time, you just wait and see. Well, maybe so, or maybe not. Bernie is looking more competitive to me all the time. The support for the GOP candidates seems to range from very poor to pathetic.

    --Alan

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    1. One last source of letter forms to check--John Jenkins "Art of Writing," anno 1813.

      Alan

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