Top US States listed in my journal index 1986-2000:

California... 6 lines in index
New Hampshire... 5.5
Massachusetts... 4.5
Florida... 3.5
Texas... 3.5
Arizona... 2.5
Iowa... 2.5
Maine... 2
Pennsylvania... 2
Washington... 2

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More personal history from 10 years ago...

June 2011 - Started working on June 1 at the fish factory in Annan... getting good info for my technical report / dissertation.  It's about variable speed drives on refrigeration compressors and the associated energy savings / carbon reduction ( Read more... )

Trying to think of trips up north to New Hampshire when I was young... There were several hiking trips my family took, including stays at AMC huts like Lake of the Clouds and Mitzpah huts, as well as others. Those are the ones I remember and I think we stayed in those particular huts more than once each over the time period of the '70's and early ( Read more... )

Looking at some old pictures.... I found that in summer 1973, my family traveled  to Washington State to visit my grandparents and other relatives ( Read more... )

I have this map thing on my LJ that supposedly records where visitors to my page are from...  I put it on there over 10 years ago and I don't pay much attention to it these days... but I just checked it.  Why so many visitors from Maine in the past couple months ( Read more... )

Bernie Sanders won Tuesday's contest in Michigan and Hillary Clinton won in Mississippi...

This is a map from the NY Times showing where the support for each candidate has been so far...


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Bernie Sanders beat Clinton in Maine on Sunday, and Marco Rubio had a large victory margin in Puerto Rico...

Looks like Trump has won in Kentucky and Louisiana by not a lot over Ted Cruz... and Cruz has won in Kansas and Maine. I think the anti-Trump sentiment of late is starting to work, but is it too late ( Read more... )

June 1991 ( Read more... )