Alice Marie

You've got to have a look at this one by Bucket. Not very nice, but pretty funny.

Rolling over to 100,000 miles

I was "next blog"ing and ran across 100,000 miles and thought about my 1st 100,000 mile rollover in my 1964 Oldsmobile Jetstar 88 some time in 1979. This was an excellent car, but I lost it on a ski trip to Stowe because it broke an axle on the way home. We all (brother Steve, his girlfriend, his friend Steve and me) took a bus back to MA. Kind of sad to lose such a classic, but teaches you to pay attention to the little noises. The ad shows its beauty, but to make mine even more of a loss, it was green and was like driving around with 2 living room couches!

The 2nd time was in the 1982 Dodge Omni we called Ginger because of the color, probably sometime in 1989 between Waterbury and Hamden, CT, when I was commuting 40 miles each way. I sold it to a guy, Brian, at Sensor Engineering, and he was still driving it several years later.

The 3nd time was in my 1996 Dodge Ram 1500 on the day in April 20, 2002 when I took my daughter, Melissa, to get her permit on her 16th birthday, so she was driving. I think that was a pretty cool way to start out a driving career. She passed the written test - no problem.

When Christopher got his permit in South Carolina at 15 in 1998, he drove around Florence Airport for a while, then I asked him to turn right. I told him I'd buy him lunch in Myrtle Beach if he could get us there alive. He did, I paid up and he drove home too!

The 4th time I was commuting to work with my programmer, Amanda, in my 1998 Olds Regency, Pat's Dad' last car. I was driving and asked Amanda to watch and let me know when it rolled over to 100,000 miles. She did and we "high fived". Then, at 100,001 she yelled out, "33!" and I laughed!! (100001 = 33 in binary). What a bunch of nerds we were (are), but you can't say we don't know humor when we hear it!

32 16 08 04 02 01

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My Children are not so Small

Melissa is on the left, a rising sophomore at Worcester Polytechnical Institute, pre-Vet, working this summer for College Pro painting houses in and around Pepperell, MA, cleaning my apartment once a month and sitting for my sister Julie's children Ila Rose and Adele every other week or so. She's got some very cool roommates - Kevin Videoman, Mike Army and Jamie Lobster, whom I agreed she could room with after the 5 of us had our own personal version of "The Dating Game" a few months back at the Boynton.

Christopher is on the right and can also be seen in June 2005 posts concerning housebuilding. He is a pre-med Senior this year at Fordham University. He is working hard for room only in Manhattan at Sloan Kettering doing research in immunology during the day, and studying for MCAT in a Kaplan course all summer, very intense program of study and work for the summer, but he is quite focused on the goal of Med School. His main squeeze, Theresa, is featured in the Saratoga visit post in June also, but no picture yet, I really need to get a digital camera.

Lightning, The Diving Horse

Pat and I had a craft show at Schroon Lake on Saturday. It was an excellent day for sales since we listened to our customers last year and brought plenty of Schroon Lake and Paradox Lake postcards this year. Schroon Lake is much more of a 2nd vacation home lake than Lake George. We found real pride in the area in the visitors to our booth. We met the owner of the Wood's Lodge and the owner of the Tera Alta. The booth next to us was a no show, so we were able to setup the old tent and have some shade.

On Saturday, we met Pat's cousin Mark and his wife Chrissy and their two girls, Isabelle and Elizabeth, at the Magic Forest which Pat has always wanted to take me to, but we never had any small kids to act as cover for our inner children. They have a really old Disney display of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs which is very old timey being all cast figures with motorized motion, all little kids rides many of which adults are allowed to accompany the small ones, a juggling act with a most excellent Devil Sticks demonstration, a magic act that will bore the smallest children, but that Isabelle got to volunteer in, and, the best act, the Diving Horse! Not without controversy from Animal Rights activists, but as a former horse owner, I thought the horse seemed to enjoy the swim both times we watched.