Posted on August 26, 2008 by Turkish Prawn
As I drove up the rural onramp to get up on I-91, I knew that something wasn’t right. The notion that car just didn’t seem as peppy as it should be floated through the back of my head but the alarm bells were hardly going off. I was driving an elderly, but good and solid [...]
Filed under: Helpful People, Humor, Travel, Vermont, Writing, family, home | Tagged: AAA, break down, car, family, green mountains, I-91, mountains, new england, New Hampshire, summer, Vermont, wedding, winter | 4 Comments »
Posted on August 22, 2008 by Turkish Prawn
I went out to the movies with my Dad last night. It was a rare and happy opportunity for both of us to get together and just be guys. Mom had gone to stay over night with one of her sisters and Action Girl had taken the kiddos up to her folk’s house for a [...]
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Posted on August 20, 2008 by Turkish Prawn
As I typed away on my trusty, dusty, highly abused laptop, I decided that it was time so save what I had thus far. Command-S
“An Error has occurred. You can not save to this disk. It is either full or you do not have access.”
Hmmm. That’s not good. I try saving a different file in [...]
Filed under: Computers, Helpful People, Kids, Nostalgia, Ruminating, Writing, family | Tagged: apple, crash, daugher, early american tools, eric sloan, fire vault, hard drive | 7 Comments »
Posted on August 19, 2008 by Turkish Prawn
Mine hard drive of olde hath eaten its self and posts yet made hath been lost to the aether! I shall have to rewrite much to catch up with mine pithy remembrances and observations. Perhaps tomorrow.
Oof. that’s enough old english from me for now.. I’ll leave you today with some Elizabethan humor…
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Posted on August 14, 2008 by Turkish Prawn
There is no point in me denying that I’m a hopeless romantic. Freely, I will admit to having a rose tinted view of things that I have done or seen in the past. Hind sight might be 20/20, but perception can be heavily altered when viewed through the filter of nostalgia. The bad times fall [...]
Filed under: Helpful People, History, Kids, Religion, Ruminating, Writing, family | Tagged: catholic school, childhood, keene, New Hampshire, old schools, private schools, school, tradition | 6 Comments »