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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There is sooo much good information coming in from Costa Rican residents Margaret Aliff, Bev Berry and Terry Young. (Carolyn Kelley was right: “If you don’t ask, you don’t get!”) I’ve joined several Costa Rica Facebook pages and reached out to their members to ask questions. I’ve contacted Pet Lounger CR to
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I’ve decided to delay my move to Costa Rica until September 2025. Why? September through mid-December is the “low” (off-tourist, rainy) season in CR, and since I’ll be taking about six boxes of stuff on the plane with me, I’ve decided to go when fares will be at their lowest so I can
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I have new plans for moving to Costa Rica. I’m going to be moving to the San Jose region instead of the Lake Arenal region. Why? I need to be near medical facilities for warfarin checks and kidney function checks. I want to be in a more moderate climate than Lake
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My immigration attorney tells me that I will need to get myself to the Embassy in San Jose to have my paperwork accepted and my fingerprints taken. No way do I feel comfortable taking public transportation or renting a car that soon after my arrival, so I’m reaching out to private drivers to see what
My San Jose Costa Rica Embassy Trip Will Be SOLO! Read More »
Yesterday I bought a medium-size Canadian and Bacon pizza at Papa Murphy’s and drove it to Jessie Richards’ place near Enchanted Island in Spanaway. She popped it into the oven and we started to chat, catching up on some of the stuff that has happened to each of us since the last time we got
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