Bob and Debbie Conroy - Enjoying the Journey Together!

(…Penny Lane there is a barber showing photographs / Of every head he’s had the pleasure to have known …) I was digging through some files stored on a file server at home.  After writing that last sentence it occurs to me that not everybody has an 8 terabyte Network Attached Server (NAS) at home. Today that seems like a lot of storage, in a few years not so much, and of course, the preferred storage method will be in the cloud. (…And all the people that come and go / Stop and say hello..) Anyway, I found bit and pieces of blog posts from 2005-2008. I cleaned up the formatting as well as I could and posted them by year.   I did not try to fix any hyperlinks.  Most of the links were to pictures on the old site that no longer exists.  The lack of links does not materially affect the context of the blogs – at least it did not for me. (…On the corner is a banker with a motorcar / The little children laugh at him behind his back / And the banker never wears a mac...

Here are some old blogs from the archives. A note that might help make more sense of these posts: The primary audience was my mother. She was living in Arizona and this was before she was on Facebook.  My sister Deb or Mom’s neighbors would print the posts for her to read.  Also, note that none of the links from the original posts are active. Thursday, September 1. I traveled to Kansas City and back with Linda R. to pick up Mike’s niece, Joey (short for Josephine). Joey and her mother live with Mike’s sister and there have been several health issues in the house. Mike and Linda offered to watch Joey for a couple of weeks to let them “have a break”.  We picked up Joey and were about three blocks from her home when she asked, “Are we there yet?” I laughed and gave her the same answer I gave my kids, “Ten more miles!”. She asked again a couple of minutes later and I thought it was going to be a long trip. A few minutes later she was asleep and didn’t wake up until we reached...