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Phone Numbers

Thinking about phone numbers. Remember when we all many less numbers, but we knew them all. I used to know all of the numbers of relatives, freinds, work, pizza delivery, etc. The only numbers I actually know today are the ones that haven't changed in 20 years. There are over 200 numbers in my cell phone and I probably don't know 10 of them. Is speed dial causing us to lose our memories and making us dumber?

Dad's Book

I have posted most of the contents of Dad's birthday book to www.juniormcintire.blogspot.com. Thanks again to all who contributed.

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Tonight or tomrrow I will publish the book online we did for Dad's party. This image was used for the invitation. Everyone had a good time at the party and Dad was very pleased.

Nothing Runs Like a Deere, Revisited

I guess no one who knows Dad and has seen him make such a rapid recovery from his accident (see entry Nothing Runs Like a Deere), will be surprised. Monday, two days shy of two months since his accident and two weeks short of his 80th birthday, Dad was back on one of his farm tractors.

Whole Foods

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This is my first attempt at audio content from a cell phone. There is now the option not only to not read but not listen as well.

The Texas Legacy Project

School Days

One of my high school teachers, Mrs. C. retired a couple of weeks ago after 44 years of teaching. By my estimation, she must have taught around 1,200 students during that time. She was the business teacher and because the school was small, all students in my day took her classes. We learned our original keyboarding skills on full size manual typewriters. None of us could have predicted that 25 years later, keyboarding skills, would become such a valuable skill for everyday life in the computer age. There was a reception of sorts at the high school after school one day last week, which was attended by probably over 100 students. Mrs. C. had been my class’s sponsor, advisor and homeroom teacher for several years so our class was particularly close to her. 8 of the 13 students I graduated with were at the reception. Because the school was so small, we obviously knew students well from many other grades and it was fun to see them. We are not all the same age and state of health a...