We just completed (actually wednesday) a splendid 2-week trip to Scotland. It was a Road Scholar trip "The Best of Scotland". Our second trip with them (used to be called elder hostel) and there will be more with them. There were 24 of us - an excellent leader, DaveCrowe, and local guide: Alisdaire MacDonald ( Read more... )

I have lived in Cambridge in my house since 1966 + 4 years in Baker House while a student at MIT in 1956-1960. From 1967-1986 I worked in a ~40 person Cambridge office of a computer company working on Multics, a very advanced computer sysem for the times - for the last several years I was the manager ( Read more... )

Today is Memorial  day, Of course I am young enough to remember when it was called Decoration Day.

You have to give a lot of credit to those who did military service in  the many wars we have been in and sadly too many lost their lives.   My personal experience was a year of so in Army ROTC at MIT.  When I went there it was required for freshmen ( Read more... )

The US has the highest incarceration rate of any country. 639 per 100,000 people or a bit more than 2 million people. For comparison Canada's rate is 107 ( Read more... )

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We slept:
-  at home in Gloucester and Cambridge
- 2 nights in Springhill Suites hotel in Columbus attending Dean and Tim's wedding
- 3 nights in Robert's brother's house in Philadelphia

We danced:
- at several virtual Contra dances in the kitchen in Gloucester and the living room in Cambridge
- at a English Country Dance in Harvard Square
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Our new tradition is to listen to some of our records and CDs instead of WQXR or WCRB - classical music stations - that play too much Christmas stuff. The first 4 in this list were CDs, the rest were records.  A couple of them are not in good shape  even after cleaning.

A pretty wide range of music types

Boston Cecilia: Brahms   (Robert was a ( Read more... )

When I was a kid I was a Yankees fan - I lived in NYC. My father was a NY Giants fan. We occasionally listened to games on the radio and I went with my father to several games at the Polo Grounds, Ebbets Field and the original Yankee Stadium. And to several more at Yankees games with a school friend. Then I lost interest ( Read more... )

Yesterday was National Armed Forces Day.


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