* Had breakfast at 1:30 p.m. to-day ( Read more... )

Flew by United to SF. Marisa and I were separated because we checked-in too late. I almost lost my paper notes which fell onto the floor of the plan and slid back to the seat behind me. The man handed them back to me toward the end of the flight after I worried about losing them ( Read more... )

Some time after June 25, 1969 and before June 1970 I went to a movie theater with my dad where there was a double feature. I estimate we saw the movies in July 1969.

I am specific about the start date because according to the Internet Movie Database, that was when My Side of the Mountain premiered ( Read more... )

The town I lived in for about six years growing up has changed in some ways and yet has not changed ( Read more... )

I grew up, during my elementary school years, in San Bruno, California. Up until around 2004 it was pretty much the same as I remember ( Read more... )

There are now 1350 books in my list of books on Library ThingThanks to some nice gifts from Stacey, some purchases here and there and some books I have owned from the late 1960's and early 1970's, I have managed to bring up the total cataloged to 1350 ( Read more... )

A large part of the neighborhood where I grew up was destroyed Thursday night by a natural gas explosion! Looks like a battlefield! Four (no make that seven as of Sept. 13), persons have died, more than 50 people injured, 37 houses destroyed (at last count...others may be red-tagged and too damaged to be saved ( Read more... )