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.   April 2005 April 15. We had a great time in AZ. Merge and Pete have promised to visit Iowa this summer while Deb K. is still on the fence. Now what to do with the DVDs and CDs?? We visited the Biosphere 2 on this trip. It was interesting but I still am not sure why anyone built it! Debbie and I have rescheduled our New York City trip until June. Too much going on and too many people moving in May. We are waiting for Merge and Deb K to commit to a trip back to Des Moines in July and then we will schedule the rest of our vacation time. April 18. We watched Grease at the DM Civic Center. The “we” included Debbie and me along with Mikk...