At long last on-line from home! Got a Dell desktop and signed up witha cable company for an IP and TV, since I lost half of the few local channels I had when the digital revolution went through in June. Here I had converted a year previously and enjoyed the HD and extra channels-only to have half of them yanked away..... So anyway I am now busily expanding my horizons and am about finished transferring all files accrued at work. I have managed to scan a large number of old family photos all the way back to the 1850s. My apartment got new windows and screens so now I finally can open the windows and patio door during the hot days.
Took advantage of the window thing to rearrange my storage spaces. Moved all the paper boxes into the closet or the pantry, dug through the old box of family photos, the best of which I took to work and scanned.
Dental and doctor appointments galore for annual physical process. Am officially downto 170 pounds from 211. Good blood pressure and cholesterol. Another Urology test at the end of the month. Maybe a camera in my future...
Posted another historical piece on the staff blog entitled "What's in a Name?", about famous folks with nicknames denoting an affliction of some sort. Ivar the Boneless, Blind King John of Bohemia, Baldwin the Leper King of Jerusalem, the Scarfaced Dukes of Guise, King Carlos the Bewitched, etc. The boss said he liked it. I'm already roaming the earth on new topics, like a comparative view of libraries and such. The library at Nippur , Alexandrine Library,preceded by purge of Persian Avestas, Bagdad, Cordoba, Cathedral schools like Reims, Mesoamerican "walking bookmen" etc. Upbeat all the way!
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