On Aug 31, 2010, at 3:29 PM, Marc James Small wrote:
> I will be closing station at 0500 hours, Zone 5 summer time,
> tomorrow, and will not be online again until 10 SEP. To the
> astonishment of you digitally-enhanced folks, I do not own a lap-
> top or a Blackberry or an Iphone or Ipad or a Kindle or whatever;
> I do not afford such nonsense on my cell phone as texting. I might
> check in with my stepdaughter's computer but do not count on it. I
> am like a fine wine, and do not travel well, but this has to be
> done. And I might get to reconnect to my best friend from High
> School (last physical contact in 2000) and a former step-son (last
> physical contact in 2000, as well). Again, I do not travel well.
>
> I have long been told to go to Maine, but it is so friggin' far
> that it is a lot easier to get to Wasilla, Alaska, where my son
> lives, to visit Sarah Palin than it is to get to Maine. It is a
> LONG way from the real US. We shall see. I have animal problems
> -- my neighbor will toss lettuce and cabbage over the fence to my
> lawn tortoises, and it takes LONG time for a herptile to starve, so
> our water turtles and fish and frogs will do okay. Our cats will
> be gifted a huge quantity of dry food and water in the garage --
> and both are neighborhood pets, so they will not go hungry.
>
> I have stopped the newspaper, and they neatly extended my
> subscription. I have had my mail held and I am horrified at the
> thought of what will come in during our absence.
>
> In any event, I do want to see some things in Maine. I certainly
> will try to avoid those items fouled by the First Bitch, but I
> shall do my best to make this a positive experience. I really
> would like to see my ex-Stepson again but this makes me quite
> nervous as he sees it as a healing experience where I see it as a
> reconnection with a fellow whose head I held when he vomited into
> the downstairs toilet. I did a lot of bad things during my
> marriage to his mother, now dead, but, then, we made up before her
> death and I do own the archive of thousands of pictures of her. I
> probably ought to turn them over to him, but then, there is the
> issue of the Klepper Kayak. If I can negotiate his taking back the
> Kayak, the pictures become a calm item.
>
> I am travelling light -- only six books and two cameras (a Canon
> Rebel DSLR (shock and horror!) and a Rollei 35S with two rolls of
> film, one C41 and one chrome and a fresh PX625 from my declining
> stock, kindly passed on to me from Noel Charchuk, who keeps trying
> to get me up to the Stampede, and two optical aids, a pair of
> Docter 10x,40mm Asph glasses (one of the three best all-round
> binoculars I own) and a Docter 8x,21mm folding TURMON monocular --
> what other industrial product has been in continuous production
> since 1921? Eat your heart out, Henry Ford!)
>
> You folks behave. Eric and Richard will be on guard.
>
> Marc
>
>
> msmall@xxxxxxxxxxx
> Cha robh bàs fir gun ghràs fir!
>
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