Update March 31 to April 13
-- Every Five Years in Vegas - Maybe Not
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| Patti at Sonoma |
When Patti and I got married, we went to Las Vegas. On our fifth and tenth wedding anniversary, we flew to Las Vegas to celebrate. This was our fifteenth year, and we decided not to go to Vegas. That doesn't mean we didn't celebrate, we just were less flamboyant about it this year.
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| Sea Scallops |
Patti went with the Filet Mignon, and I had the special Sea Scallops. Both were delicious, and Patti even had leftovers, which I got to enjoy the next day. In effect, I got a surf and turf out of it. We split a desert, as usual, as we couldn't resist. Maybe we will do Las Vegas five years from now?
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| Olive Makes a Break for it. |
Olive has enjoyed playing in her play yard for many months. It has four flexible overhead arms that are perfect for hanging various toys that she can grab. When she's particularly aggressive, she can make the arms swing and sway. Today she rolled enough to put her legs into a flexed position, and when she exploded her energy, the arms nearly caved in. The opposite corner of the floor mat curled up, and the whole play yard nearly toppled over.
She was clearly busting out of the place, and nothing was stopping her. She's able to roll over, and now that makes her twice as curious as she can propel herself toward enticing new objects which she can explore and decimate. I sense that we have practically outgrown the play yard and we need a better cage.
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| The young Dick Wright |
When Dad was writing his twice-weekly columns for the Worcester Gazette, he became fully entwined in the local political picture. His commentaries extended to how the schools were run, how the city planners ran trash pickup or street cleaning, to municipal budgeting and the tendency of the incumbent City Manager, Francis McGrath, to bedazzle the part-time city councilors.
The sixteen loose-leaf binders with copies of his articles have been a very time-consuming task to review and edit. I'm still working on how to preserve and present them for the family and for the general readership.
-- Lucy is a Gamer - Board and Electronic
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| Lucy with Candyland |
Lucy likes to play a variety of electronic games on her tablet. The games are instructional in math and language as well as fun. She also likes traditional board games. Even though she is five, she still wants to play Candyland. She likes to win, mostly. But, if she loses, I can generally get her to try again.
She knows the object is to win, to get there first. But, she has a hard time understanding why she doesn't get a favorable card draw each time. Her concept of chance is very narrow. There is no chance aspect for her. She just wants to win. And for you to lose.
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READING UPDATE: I have just finished reading, My Father Marconi by Degna Marconi. His daughter provides a personalized view of the life and times of the inventor and scientist that made the first trans-ocean radio broadcast in 1901. Guglielmo Marconi is today remembered as the father of wireless communications. Little would he have suspected just how prolific wireless would be in today's age? His early fascination with electricity, another scientific Adventureland of the day, occupied a lot of his youthful time making experiments and daydreaming about what he could accomplish. And, as usual, we discover that governments, who refuse patents, and challengers, make the difficult road he was on even more so. Eventually, he became the toast of two continents as he proved that worldwide communications were possible.