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Memory Lane

(…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...

2005 July - September

  July 2005 Tuesday Morning July 5. We had an enjoyable 4th of July weekend. On Friday afternoon I cleaned out the garden in the traffic circle across from our home while Debbie stayed at work. Debbie and I have officially adopted this garden. It gave me the excuse to buy a heavy duty garden wagon that was on sale at Costco. This wagon is big enough for four children and it is cleverly designed to fold up so it can be stored against a wall in less space. On Saturday Debbie, Ronna, Mikki, and Aimee got up early (funny how they can do that for shopping!) to drive to the outlet mall in Williamsburg, IA. I stayed behind to work on the “honey do” list. Here are the results: Cleaned out the traps under both sinks in the master bath (there was enough hair in Debbie’s drain to make a wig), installed a flow restrictor in the shower, installed a towel rack in the hall bath, hauled a load to our storage unit and cleaned the garage, picked up Mikki’s car keys from the dealer (with a stop at Me...