It feels super weird to be burning my first 59 journals, even though I have preserved them as PDF documents. I mean, I poured my heart and soul into each of those many pages. They were written in my own hand. They’re the “children” of my evolving personhood; they carry my decades’ younger essence in […]
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While going through my treasures as I’m downsizing, twice this week I have run across two items that have/had the potential to be worth upward of tens of thousands of dollars each. The first is a wall hanging I bought 40 years ago. This one: Based on the info on the reverse side,
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OK, it’s time for an update on my doings… SPANISH LESSONS I’m progressing with my Spansh lessons day to day. I listen to two disks per day (there are 60 total, I believe) and do all of the exercises therein. So far, I’m doing very well, but we’re just into the basics right
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If there’s a heaven, God designed it for people like Jimmy Carter. He knew who he served as President. The people. And his God, which wasn’t the Southern Baptist God of his youth. He outgrew that denomination and became a true Christ follower. I’m watching the tributes to him all this week, which
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My Spanish language book and its accompanying 30+ CDs follow-along arrived in the mail today, and I’m already on page 13 and through the first lesson. So far, I’m doing very well. My Spanish lessons from high school fifty years ago, along with my infrequent use of DuoLingo over the past few years, have
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Yippee skippy, I’m making great headway. There are just eight hardbound volumes to preserve (you can see them, in the photo below on the left) and then I start on the remaining stash, which are stored in folders of various sizes, some of them just a quarter of an inch thick, others 2″ thick, as
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So far, 29 volumes of my journals are preserved for all time in PDF images. That’s an average of ten per day, and I hope to keep up the same pace during the entire project. It takes about four hours per ten volumes. Some volumes are shorter, others longer, and some of them have
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The good news is that I’m up to Volume 20 in my journals preservation quest. The bad news is that I found additional (fat!) volumes after I took yesterday’s picture of the scope of my project. So, there are still a s**tload to be scanned and preserved. I’m going to do my best
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” Gimme Jimmy!” “Grits and Fritz in 76!” (Campaign slogans for the 39th President of the United States, the first one my own. ) Our dearest, living ex-President Jimmy Carter passed away yesterday at age 100. I am both sad and glad. Glad, because he will be remembered on January 9th with a
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WOO HOO! My niece Sirkka solved my journals’-preservation dilemma! She told me there are scanning apps available that turn written journals into PDF files so they can be saved in Dropbox or on my PC. So, I got Genius Scan and tried it out. I was able to scan and save four (4!)
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