Busy day at work today, and long. Some stuff saved up for me, lots of communications. MD visit tomorrow/this AM.
I received my most recent eBay slide rule purchase; a major German brand (Faber Castell), date code = August 1953, in very good condition, with an addiator (stylus-actuated adding machine) built into the back. I had never seen one before. It came to me from Peru, but seems to have been intended for a francophone country. Just needs a bit of superficial cleaning. Now when someone asks if I have a calculator I have a good one to hand them...
Oh, young brown pelicans moving inland in California looking for food; changes in the ocean have caused the anchovies to move further offshore, beyond the range of the juvenile pelicans, so they are exploring the Delta.
Many years ago, Edwin and his then wife (living in LA during his soap opera career) were having dinner at a beach restaurant, on the deck, and a pelican swept in, gobbled the entree, and retreated, leaving two very startled diners. . . . He was laughing about the experience thirty odd years later. . . . Guess hongry pelicans is nothing to mess with.
Alan ~ Congrats on such a find! Do you have a whole collection of slide rules? I remember when Mah*Sweetie used one at the start of his college career (Electrical Engineering). They soon switched to the new Texas Instruments calculators.
Be sure to let us know how your doc visit goes!
puddle ~ great story! I can imagine seagulls doing the same thing, but you can't ignore a big ol' pelican! LOL!
Kitties got another round of fleas last night, so today they got Capstar, which kills all the fleas on them in three hours. Tonight they get bathes with Dawn, then on Thursday they get more Capstar and Frontline. Just read that one way to quell them is to put a flea collar inside your vacuum cleaner bag! I am sooo going to do that!! If the Frontline doesn't do the deed by October (when our supply runs out) we'll switch to Advantage. Hoping we won't need to do a flea bomb and leave with the kitties for a day or two. Heh.
Woo! Just got buzzed by three Navy planes, flying WAY too low. And they have to KNOW they're flying way too low. Sometimes, ya know, I can't even think of swearwords to cover what I am feeling. This is one. Tomorrow, the claims from the chicken and turkey houses will start going to the Norfolk office. The turkeys pile in a corner, and smother hundreds of themselves; the chickens won't lay for two or three days.
I just wish they'd put the damned hotshots that pull this chit on public trial, and sentence them to having whistles blown in their ears for life. . . .
Another evening (about 6 - 11) of the Microsoft tech working on the computer. No real change, but I'm not sure this wasn't preliminary to something he expects to do tonight -- didn't fully catch was he said to start.
The one good thing is that this lets me fire up my netbook and get some novel reading done. Finished the last if the Hugo nominees -- Jo Walton's Among Others -- last week and have now started on Robert Sawyer's Illegal Alien, which one of my book discussioin groups will be doing in September.
Thought I'd hear from the Microsoft tech this evening, but it's 11:30 and it hasn't happened. (I *think* he normally goes off work at midnight my time (10 p.m. his time.)
Howard is very firstly!
ReplyDeleteBusy day at work today, and long. Some stuff saved up for me, lots of communications. MD visit tomorrow/this AM.
I received my most recent eBay slide rule purchase; a major German brand (Faber Castell), date code = August 1953, in very good condition, with an addiator (stylus-actuated adding machine) built into the back. I had never seen one before. It came to me from Peru, but seems to have been intended for a francophone country. Just needs a bit of superficial cleaning. Now when someone asks if I have a calculator I have a good one to hand them...
http://sliderule.mraiow.com/wiki/Faber_Castell_1-54A
Mine is in better condition.
TTFN
Oh, young brown pelicans moving inland in California looking for food; changes in the ocean have caused the anchovies to move further offshore, beyond the range of the juvenile pelicans, so they are exploring the Delta.
Many years ago, Edwin and his then wife (living in LA during his soap opera career) were having dinner at a beach restaurant, on the deck, and a pelican swept in, gobbled the entree, and retreated, leaving two very startled diners. . . . He was laughing about the experience thirty odd years later. . . . Guess hongry pelicans is nothing to mess with.
DeleteAlan ~ Congrats on such a find! Do you have a whole collection of slide rules? I remember when Mah*Sweetie used one at the start of his college career (Electrical Engineering). They soon switched to the new Texas Instruments calculators.
ReplyDeleteBe sure to let us know how your doc visit goes!
puddle ~ great story! I can imagine seagulls doing the same thing, but you can't ignore a big ol' pelican! LOL!
Kitties got another round of fleas last night, so today they got Capstar, which kills all the fleas on them in three hours. Tonight they get bathes with Dawn, then on Thursday they get more Capstar and Frontline. Just read that one way to quell them is to put a flea collar inside your vacuum cleaner bag! I am sooo going to do that!! If the Frontline doesn't do the deed by October (when our supply runs out) we'll switch to Advantage. Hoping we won't need to do a flea bomb and leave with the kitties for a day or two. Heh.
Woo! Just got buzzed by three Navy planes, flying WAY too low. And they have to KNOW they're flying way too low. Sometimes, ya know, I can't even think of swearwords to cover what I am feeling. This is one. Tomorrow, the claims from the chicken and turkey houses will start going to the Norfolk office. The turkeys pile in a corner, and smother hundreds of themselves; the chickens won't lay for two or three days.
ReplyDeleteI just wish they'd put the damned hotshots that pull this chit on public trial, and sentence them to having whistles blown in their ears for life. . . .
Grrrrrr!!!
DeleteAnother evening (about 6 - 11) of the Microsoft tech working on the computer. No real change, but I'm not sure this wasn't preliminary to something he expects to do tonight -- didn't fully catch was he said to start.
ReplyDeleteThe one good thing is that this lets me fire up my netbook and get some novel reading done. Finished the last if the Hugo nominees -- Jo Walton's Among Others -- last week and have now started on Robert Sawyer's Illegal Alien, which one of my book discussioin groups will be doing in September.
Thought I'd hear from the Microsoft tech this evening, but it's 11:30 and it hasn't happened. (I *think* he normally goes off work at midnight my time (10 p.m. his time.)
DeleteAmazingly...we all survived the kitty baths!!
ReplyDeleteThey even came and cuddled with me afterwards!
It's wonderful how well they don't hold grudges!!
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