Pretty banal, really.  This letter was sent 11 years after the birthday card in an earlier post, yet the postage had only gone up a single penny.  My grandparents had that same post office box until 2006!  The return address is General Delivery, Atlanta, Texas.


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I'd seen these before, but it was only today that I figured out what their significance was.  These originally belonged to my Grandfather's Grandmother, Leila Grubbs!  I have a photo of her wearing them!


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I was digging through some boxes today and came across a birthday card sent to my grandmother from her aunt in 1949!


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The antenna arrangement I was using had one major flaw: since the various UHF TV stations are in a 90 degree arc and my old UHF antenna was highly directional, pointing the antenna at one group of stations would cause reception problems with the others.

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Looks like the official LiveJournal app has finally been updated to suck much less, though it's still not getting as much love as the iOS version.

It's still a little buggy in a few spots, and it crashes every time I try to stay out on my tablet, but it works fairly well now on my phone.

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The old gate to the barnyard here was in pretty sorry shape.  The wood was pretty much rotten, particularly around the hinges.  The outer screws holding the hinge had ripped through the wood and the heavy gauge metal had bent 90 degrees from the weight of the door.  It was just barely hanging on, and it was very difficult to open or close.  Any ( Read more... )

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