Mike Schwartz
7629 W Kristal Way
Glendale AZ 85308
(623) 561-1223
schwartz@acm.org
Aug. 08, 1999
(w/PS Aug 15/16)
Dear Friends and relatives,
I have been meaning to write one of these for a long time,
I regret that it has taken so long to get around to it.
Since the internet is becoming more popular, I now have e-mail
addresses for about half of you - or more. In fact, if I can
manage to post this letter on the web (www) ("World Wide Web"),
then I can probably just e-mail you the URL where I put it
(kinda like a web address), and I can even economize on bits.
If any of you get this message on paper, or by forwarding,
and would like to (or, would not mind) providing your e-mail
address so I could send it more directly next time, then
please send to me at:
mailto: schwartz@acm.org
Among those that I wrote to via e-mail around the beginning of
this year, among the speediest to [check their e-mail and]
reply, were Danny Sterman and Janet Jo Sterman. Of course some
of the readers of paper ["snail"] mail also replied, but the
speediness is not as apparent there, because even if they turn
around a reply within (say) an hour of when they get my letter
on paper, it is still more like a week for the total round trip
time.
One of the big events since my last bulletin, is that I have
been contacted via e-mail, by someone who I think is a distant **
relative of [my great grandfather] Avrom Fischel Sterman of
Berdichev. Her name is Vera Sterman Kanas and her e-mail address
is
vsk@bcth.com.br ("Vera S. Kanas")
** that "distant" means, in more ways than one. The ".br' at
the end of an e-mail domain name, means BRAZIL.
I think she may be in Israel now so please be patient if your are
writing to her. Most of you who are Stermans, probably have
already seen an e-mail from her, if not sent directly to you,
then at least a forwarded copy of the first e-mail message that
she sent to us. She OK'd forwarding it, and I still have the
original, so let me know if you need it. Actually maybe I will
post it on the web, if there are no objections.
My mother did get a new word processor. It sounds like it has
a computer chip in it. (SSShhhh, don't anyone let on, but I
wonder if it could be used to send/receive e-mail. Wouldn't
want to upset anyone, now.)
New Area Code
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As shown above, our new area code is (623). The old one still
works until the end of August, but they recommend to start using
this new one if you are going to call us.
Jeremy in School Play
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This spring Jeremy was in a school play. It was Neil Simon's
"The Odd Couple, Female Version" so the main lead parts were
for girls. There were two minor parts for guys, and Jeremy got
one of them. Despite the fact that his close friend, Matt Lemm,
(the talented magician) was going out for the same part. Matt
had already had several major, [even lead] parts in other school
plays. Anyway, Jeremy did well in the auditions. The role
(Jesus - pronounced Hay Soose, or, sometimes, Hay Zoose) was a
guy who is from Barcelona (pronounced lispily, with the letter
after the 'r' pronounced as a 'th' sound). He had a Spanish
accent. I tried to help Jeremy sound like someone with that
kind of accent but Jeremy thought that I just sounded like Speedy
Gonzales. (I was thinking, what is wrong with that?)
The play was very funny, a comedy. There were 4 performances,
of which I attended all but one. Bonni also attended all but one.
Several of our friends, such as Jay Rivin and Shimon and Connie
Zilversmit, went out of their way to go to the play. On Sat.
night, the finale, all 4 of us were there (Melody attended all
4 performances!) and I video taped it. Unfortunately the sound
was not very good on the tapes I made. I was not using a remote
mike, or a directional microphone. We can understand the words
on the tape, but that is partly because we all saw the play 3
to 4 times already. In person.
Jeremy is signing up for drama class next year at school. He
will be a junior (school starts a week from tomorrow). Melody
will be attending the same [High] school as a freshman.
Melody attends Camp Ramah
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This was Mel's second time to go to Camp Ramah in Calif. She
was very happy to see a lot of the old friends that she already
knew from last year. Also, in Mel's tent was a girl (2 years
younger) named Katie, who is from the Phoenix area. They were
on the same airplane, and got to sit next to each other on the
bus between the Burbank, CA airport and the camp in Ojai, CA.
Ojai is near Ventura.
Bonni and I went to LA for the whole weekend when it was time
for visitors' day. Jeremy stayed here, with his friend Matt
Lemm. We got together with Bonni's friend Paula Sonkin, and
her mother who happened to be visiting from Cleveland. On Sat.
I went to services at Valley Beth Shalom. It was very nice.
Honeywell Merger
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Next month will be the 20-year anniversary of when I started my
current job. Actually then it was Sperry Flight Systems, but
since the end of 1986 we have been part of Honeywell. Honeywell
is in the process of getting approval, and working out all of
the arrangements, for a merger with another company
("Allied Signal"). The other company is actually bigger, so that
they are expected to make up about 70% of the combined company.
(Not that Honeywell is small!)
Of the 2 company HQ buildings, they plan to close one (the Honeywell
HQ in Minneapolis), and keep the other (The Allied Signal head-
quarters building, in Morristown, NJ.) I think my friend Gershon
Beck lives in Morristown.
I just got the proxy statement in the mail, for the voting on Sept
1. The stockholders of both companies have to approve it, in order
for the deal to go through. I think it will be approved.
The news about this merger broke the exact weekend when we were in
Texas for the big Lauren Baum bat mitzvah celebration.
Trip to Texas
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We had been planning for over a year to spend June 4, 1999 in Houston
along with all the other family and friends, congregating to observe
the ceremonial and other events, for Lauren Baum's rite of passage.
Bonni and Melody wanted to fly, but Jeremy was happy to have a chance
to [help] drive, and I agreed, partly so we would not have to rent a
car. Also, we only had to buy 2 plane tickets [not 4].
So Jeremy an I left early, May 31. We drove as far as El Paso.
We stopped there, and checked in to a hotel - I think it was a Quality
Inn. I took a walk, in the neighborhood, over to a mall nearby while
Jeremy watched some kind of wrestling special [Monday Night Raw] on TV.
Later Jeremy and I both took a walk over there, and got some food at a
grocery store.
The next morning we went out for breakfast, but Jeremy went back
to sleep in his bed afterwards. I packed up all the stuff and loaded
up the car, but I suspect that he had stayed up late watching TV,
because he still wanted to sleep more. So I told him, he could continue
his 'nap' in the car. We checked out of the motel and hit the road.
East of El Paso there was some construction and in some places the
roads were down to one lane [heading east]. So the traffic was required
to go a bit slower than usual. After a while Jeremy took over and did
some of the driving (so I could sleep). We had a bit of an incident
in Balmorhea Texas (the exact bull's eye middle of no where) (see
separate chapter for details). To make a long story short, no one was
hurt, and we were only out a few bucks to get the car fixed, but we
lost about 6 or 7 hours and did quite a bit a sweating in the heat.
Incident in Balmorhea TX
------------------------
You can skip this chapter if you don't like the boring parts. At some
point, around mile marker 201 or 202, the car went out of control and
we went off the road to the right. This was on I-10 where the speed
limit is pretty fast (65 I think). Jeremy apparently still could not
get the brakes to function to stop the car. The car spun around (180)
and went through some scrub bushes and eventually came to a stop.
The left front tire was flat, and (as we later found out) there was
something jammed in the brakes there, and the rim was damaged beyond
repair.
Some police men came by, and some other motorists made some phone calls
for us. Some "street sweeper" trucks cam by and cleaned up some rocks
from the shoulder of the road, before the officers eventually showed up
to take the police report. This was June 1, 1999 in early afternoon.
Eventually the police also gave us a ride to a sorta gas station /truck
stop where we could use the phone. Also the men's room. Also, get a
beverage. (I did, but think Jeremy passed up the opportunity). We
called the AAA and they took down the information.
The guy with the tow truck picked us up first from where we had called.
He drove us to where the car was. Our car was so far off the road that
he could not get the tow truck near it. He did manage to put the spare
tire onto the car, but he had to use our jack, which, along with the
spare, was way on the bottom. We had so much stuff in the trunk, because
the girls had sent most of their luggage ahead with us, so they would not
have to shlep it to / at the airport. Also, it was very hot an dusty,
and the scrub brushes had stickers and thorns.
Whatever had gotten in to our L front brakes apparently was still
causing a problem, because after the spare was on, I drove the car about
maybe 30 or 50 feet, to get back to the shoulder [side] of the road.
(I-10). By the time I got there, we could all hear the L front tire
going "PSSSSsssssssssss" and it was already about 1/2 way between flat
and still OK. The guy with the tow truck suggested that if we were to
hurry, we might be able to drive it to a place to repair the flat-tire
(and, whatever else was wrong with that car!) before it got flat enough
to not be driveable. I thought this was ridiculous, since we were miles
from anything but desert. So finally the tow truck guy did put our car
onto his truck - it was one of those platform kind where they use a winch
and your whole car goes up onto the platform, and then none of your own
tires are still touching the road. (Good!) He drove us in to the town
of Balmorhea (not a very big town -- if your map has it, then in my humble
opinion, it is a pretty good map.) The first place he took us to, was
just a sorta gas-station type place, and Jeremy got a Gatorade there that
was like $1.69 even though it was only about 16 oz. He gave me a sip.
Boy were we thirsty.
Eventually we got directions and went [about 1 block] to a car repair
place called "Martin's" [as in, Chon Martinez being the owner? or other
eponymous founder]. He fixed our flat tire, but then there was still
something rubbing against it, but when we told him how it had gone flat
in about a minute, he took it apart again and got some kind of rock or
something out of the brakes. He also fixed several other minor things
on our car, including one that required removing and re-installing the
left rear time from its rim. At some point we had to wait for a long
time, because he was radio-dispatched or something, to go fix something
somewhere else for someone else. He told us about a motel about half a
block down the street. We looked at a room, but told them that we were
hoping to get out of town rather than spending the night. They did let
us watch TV in the lobby (it was the day of a CNN news item about Merril
Lynch deciding to make electronic trading available for their customers,
over the internet or something like that. They interviewed lots of
people about whether or not this would be good overall for Merrill Lynch.
The gist of it, it seemed to me was, that even if this was not good, if
they ignored the trend, then they would be history. That may be true.
Eventually our car (the 1992 car with over 90,000 miles on it) was
ready to go. I test-drove it, going up to full speed and it drove OK.
Chon Martinez said he also had a detailing service and so he wanted to
wash and wax the car too. It did really need it, but I was in a hurry
and it's not as if the car were going to stay clean, over the next 500
miles or so. So I compromised, on paying him the extra $15.00 (which
was well deserved) but just asking him to hose off the windows and not
to much more. There was no place within 60 miles that we could get a
rim to replace the one that was shot, so we basically had to drive that
far (about an hour) on I-10 with, in essence, no usable spare. When
we got to the next 'big' town (Fort Stockton) (this one probably is on
your map, in most cases) we found the tire-fixing place and they started
looking around town (by this time it was dark) to try to find a rim that
would work. Meanwhile Jeremy went across the street to the Burger King
and got some food and beverages to soothe his weary self. I for some
reason was not very hungry. We phoned the girls a time or two in AZ,
so they wouldn't worry about us. When the car was ready we got back in
it and were determined to drive at least as far as Ozona. We did, and
called the girls again, but we were not tired, and it was much nicer in
the cool air now that it was night time. Jeremy for one, did a lot of
sleeping while we were making good time. We got as far as a truck stop
near Sonora or something like that, and slept (in the car) but only for
a couple hours. After that it seemed like a good idea to go on ahead
to Austin, and just sleep there (in the motel.) That is basically what
we did. Since it was Wed. morning by the time we got to Austin, they
only charged us for one night (Wed. night). We felt this was a good deal
as it came with a free breakfast both days, and most of what we did on
Wed (until about noon or so), was sleep in the beds there. Boy was
that comfy.
Trip to Texas - continued
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resume here if you skipped the part about our little mishap
The girls were flying in to Austin (using the new airport) Thursday
afternoon. We had reservations at a nice hotel, near the airport,
that Bonni's brother recommended. And we had been invited over, by
him and his wife, for dinner that night, at their house.
Since the hotel provides a free shuttle to/from the airport, we
just checked in there, get all the luggage in to the room, and left
the car there and had them take us to the airport and wait for the
girls. One of the guys we talked to, swimming in the pool at the
hotel, had actually flown in to the "old" Austin airport, a few days
(maybe a week or two) before. He was from Calif. I think he was
supposed to return his rental car at the new airport, since it was
now in use by all the major airlines there. I think they had some
kind of provision for people who live in Austin, who had parked
their cars at the old airport, and found themselves at the other one
when they got back in town.
So we got the girls, (Bonni and Melody) and the shuttle driver
took us back to the hotel. It was very similar to the [beautiful]
one in Houston that Bonni had selected as the HQ for out-of-town
guests for the Lauren Baum rite and gala and reunion.
Thurs. night we went over to the house of Mike Jacobs (Bonni's
brother) and his wife Hanna (also known as Hania). We had a lovely
dinner there, and talked, looked at pictures, etc.
Fri. morning we were supposed to drive in to Houston. We didn't
end up getting the car loaded up and some batteries purchased, etc.,
until late in the a.m. It was mid afternoon by the time we got to
Houston so Bonni said not to stop off at Lauren's house. We just
went to the hotel. We did see Kenny there, and some of the other
relatives from up North etc.
Fri. night was a charming dinner at the Temple, and then services.
The food was delicious, provided by a caterer who I think is also a
friend of the Baums. Photos galore were taken, including some with
those one-use cameras, which Donna had very thoughtfully provided on
each table. The Friday night services were very nice, they had my 2
sisters and brother and me, and my parents, up on the bima, not to
mention some of Kenny's relatives, and a similar number from the [very
prominent] family of the other Bat Mitzvah girl.
The Oneg Shabbat (reception) afterwards was a big hit, I enjoyed
seeing a lot of old friends, such as Irving and Bertie Wilson.
Sat. morning Lauren [again] participated in leading the services,
and did very well. We sat up near the front, where they have a special
section for people of about Lauren's age, most of her friends were there.
Then we went for lunch at a Chinese place near the Galleria. The
speeches (started Fri. night) and photos, etc., continued even more.
Then Sat. night was a big gala party at a country club. A good time
was had by all. The food, and music, and games, and so on, were just
remarkable. They got much of it on video tape, which I haven't seen
yet, but I was there to see the original, so I am looking forward to
an excellent tape when I do watch a copy of it.
Sunday there was a brunch at Susan and Barry's house. Their yard
looked very nice, I think they had just had it 'done' professionally.
Andy was able to give some of the kids a ride, as he now has his
drivers license. We stayed over at Andy and Lauren's house, and Monday
did laundry. This was almost overdue for me and Jeremy, as we had been
away for a week, and when we packed we had not planned on sweating out
doors in the heat in the desert on Tues., for about 6 hours.
Tuesday all 8 of us went to Galveston - Donna and Kenny and Andy
and Lauren, and Bonni and I and Jeremy and Melody. We did not stay
over night but a little time there was jam packed with fun. First we
went swimming in the Gulf of Mexico. Then we went to the "Down Town"
area for some shopping. Then we all went out to a pizza place that
Kenny likes, going way back to the year when Kenny and his friend
Aubrey spent the summer in Galveston.
Some time after we got back, Jeremy spent one night sleeping over
at Scott and Brian's house. He had a good time. Scott does not have
his drivers' license yet. They wanted to go bowling but some of those
kids (such as, Brian) are not good enough to bowl well, unless they use
bumpers. I think they found a bowling alley that had some of those
('bumpers') available. I didn't go along that day (I think it was
Thurs.) because that was the day I was getting together for lunch with
Paul Hlavinka. But I think a good time was had by all, or perhaps most.
Including Donna.
Friday we left to drive to San Antonio, and picked up some bagels
to take there. However, the driver's side window of the car kept opening
when it was not supposed to, and we could not close it with the ordinary
mechanism, we had to get someone (Jeremy) to push up on the glass from
the outside with his hands. We were starting to get tired of having to
pull over and do this every few minutes. Things eventually got severe
when Jeremy got the idea (of trying to 'start over', I guess) by closing
the window all the way. We were only about 1/2 hour outside of Houston,
so we had a good 3 hours more of driving before we would get to San
Antonio. In a way I am glad Jeremy did this. Now, there was No way,
including manually, that we could close that window. Although the
opening of the window, had been letting out "some" air conditioning
before, and letting in some rain, now we really had no choice but to
stop. We asked for directions, and the first place we came to only
had one person there (it was a very big place but I guess everyone else
was out to lunch) and none of us knew Spanish, and this guy seemed to
not speak ANY English, so we started back, and asked a police man for
advice. He directed us to a place located behind an old broken down
gas station building. But the guy there did know what was wrong, and
said he could fix it for $70. In fact, he even [eventually] determined
that he could replace the part that was needed, if we were willing to
wait a few hours. So we ended up losing a few hours and it cost close
to $300, but we were back on the road in time to get to San Antonio
while it was still light. With no air conditioning escaping and no
rain coming in. I had not been so glad to have someone finish fixing
the car, since June 1. Whoo.
Bonni and the kids had walked back to the place near the interstate,
and gotten some refreshments, etc. I had stayed with the car because
all of our stuff was in it, and it could not be locked, since the
window could not be closed. The heat was severe (no air conditioning)
but they did have a big fan, and if one stayed in the shade it did help.
What a relief to finally get to San Antonio, and top Bonni's parents'
house.
Sat. am. I went to services at the shul there. It is called Agudath
Achim, the same name as the shul in Shreveport. They told us that, since
there is also one by that name in some other town (Laredo?) that someone
had said (jokingly?) that it must be a franchise.
Sat. night we went out to eat with Bonni's sister Sue, and David,
and their kids Jack and Halley. Also Bonni's parents. Jeremy wanted to
go to the old San Francisco Steak House. We did. The next day we drove
up to Austin (Sunday). We wanted to get together with Richard and Jackie
Neuman but they were still very hectic from moving in to their new house
(right near where Richard's parents live) (in West Lake Hills I think)
so we just spoke to them on the phone, which was fine. We went out to
eat. Since Jeremy and I had started to prefer driving at night, and
since the girls would be flying home Monday (and could use the free
shuttle from the hotel to get to the airport) Jeremy and I took off
Sunday night and drove all the way home without stopping (in a motel).
Actually, by the time we got to El Paso, I was tired, and it was getting
to be the hot part of the day (noon-ish) Monday. But Jeremy (having
done a lot of sleeping while I was driving) was nice and fresh and
wanted to drive. So he drove all through New Mexico, and half of the
part of Arizona that we had to cross. We stopped somewhere between
Tucson and Phoenix to eat. Then I started driving. When we got in to
town, I took a Freeway (The 'Squaw Peak Parkway') that had recently
been extended, and now goes all the way to Bell Road (near our old house).
We got off the road and phoned Melody from Chompies. Bonni was not home
but she was only gone for a short time. She got home about the same
time we did, Monday evening. Overall it was a very nice trip.
Trip to LA July 9-11
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Visitors' day at Camp Ramah was July 11. We left Jeremy here with
his friend Matt, but Thurs night before we left we offered to take
them all out to dinner. Matt's Mom, and sister were supposed to join
us too but they were unable to go so it was just the 5 of us, Matt,
and his girl friend Emily (who is also his "Magician's Assistant")
and Bonni and me, and Jeremy.
We flew to Burbank, and rented a car. We went to the AAA to
get a map, and had lunch near there Fri. Then we checked in. We
stayed at the Beverly Garland (Holiday Inn) motel in N Hollywood.
We had found it [their web page] on the internet.
Overall it was a very nice hotel. One thing that did seem a
little strange was, that in the bathroom there was a sign that said
that they were in compliance with all LA County water conservation
rules. This struck me as strange mainly because, in the shower,
there was a way to control the temperature of the water, but no way
to control the current (one size fits all -- the max.). Also, the
toilet was one which flushed kinda slowly, and seemed to be using a
lot of water. Our old house in AZ (which we still own) (built circa
1976) probably has toilets like that. However, the house we live in
now (built circa 1989) has toilets that flush very quickly, and only
use about a gallon or so of water per flush. So, my thinking is,
that those LA County water conservation regulations, might be from
before about 1989 or so - - in fact, maybe that *sign* is from quite
a few years ago!
We had a good time getting together with Paula Sonkin, and her
mother. Sat. night we went out with them, and with some others (Pat
and Linda). We even brought Paula some copies of the business section
of the Thursday newspaper from Phoenix (The AZ Republic) because it
had an article (starting on the bottom half of the front page of the
business section) about house builders here etc., and it quoted Paula
Sonkin by name, and it had some charts and graphs with data provided
by JD Powers and Associates, which I think is who Paula works for.
Sunday we drove to the camp and saw all the kids. Melody was
having a great time and getting along well with her tent mates, including
one (Katie) from Phoenix, and at least 3 (Blair, Alexis, and Denise)
who see each other all year round, and attend the same Sunday School
(with a 'Special Ed.' dept.) at Valley Beth Shalom in Encino.
We did see some of the parents (and kids) that we recognized from
last year. I also saw not only Rhonda and Sheldon Kottle (so far not
too big of a surprise), but also Glen Yago (who lives in LA but I think
his parents live in AZ) (Scottsdale) and also Gilbert Shearer (who lives
in Seattle but sent 3 daughters to Camp Ramah in Calif.!) Glen and
Gilbert were in the same HS class (C E Byrd 1968) with Michael Renov
and me, and they are both cousins of Sheldon Kottle and Gail [K] Scharf.
Gail's youngest son (Reed) is all set for his bar mitzvah celebration
here in Phoenix (at our shul, Beth El) in about a month. Right around
the time of the Jewish New Year. I think Michael Renov, who lives in
LA, must have been out of town or something. I did not see him.
On the way back we stopped for gas, and to eat, in Woodland Hills.
But after that we came to a traffic jam (log jam!) on the freeway, due
to an accident, and almost didn't make it to the airport, to return the
car and get on the plane in time. However, our plane was delayed, so
we needn't have worried. We did get home OK, but just bit late.
Thanks to everyone who wrote to Melody while she was at camp. Including
Auntie Donna, who even sent some photos from the big family reunion in
Texas the previous month.
Other News
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Yesterday Andy got some new Reebok shoes to use for tennis, at the
outlet mall in Sealy. This weekend they are having sales (and a "no
sales tax" weekend) in Texas. Tomorrow he is to have all 4 of his
wisdom teeth extracted or amputated or whatever it is. He will have a
week to recover from that before school starts. He is also still
waiting to see if he gets accepted to "Strake", an exclusive private
school that he applied to. If he does get in, it will probably be due
partly to the 4.0 grade-point average that he achieved recently.
Donna said that today would be his last day [at least for a while]
working at Alby's. That is what I call Albertson's. That is a store
that is close to Andy's house.
Donna reports that Danny Sterman's wife Jamine is expecting twins.
I think she said that they were to be due in Feb. [...] Ooops,
correction: later on, Janet Jo forwarded a recent e-mail from Jamine
which says that the twins (1 boy, 1 girl) are to be due Feb. 16, 2000.
Mazel Tov.
Uneven Coverage
---------------
I was in a hurry to type up this letter, partly because I have
already been procrastinating so long, I did not want to let it go any
longer. I know I may have devoted a lot of words to some parts that
you find disappointing. If so feel free to call or write us, and
we may not be able to even out the coverage, but perhaps we can
compensate for the imbalance, and maybe partly by taking some advice
from you, the readers. Thanks to everyone who called or wrote last
time, you know who you are, and it is appreciated.
Melody got a nice letter from her "buddy" from camp, and she
wrote a note to send to some of her friends. It was very short
compared to this.
Looking forward to hearing from some of you,
Keep well,
love,
Mike.
"PS:" Sunday Aug 15 1999:
I saw Reed Scharff in shul yesterday, and his picture was
already in our shul bulletin, because his bar mitzvah
celebration is coming up. Both his brother and sister
(from Shreveport) were honored yesterday, Erin for the
4th anniversary of becoming a bat mitzvah, and Spencer
doing the prayer for Peace (2 years after becoming a
bar mitzvah).
My mother was telling me something about her friend Dorothy
[Davison] (probably about her being a docent at the museum)
and I asked which Dorothy, and she did give me a bit of
news about Dorothy Rosenfeld (from Shreveport). She said
she just got a letter recently from Carol Ginsburg, saying
that Dorothy R. had a heart attack and had to have a bypass
operation.
Today I mowed the lawn and put a new light bulb into the
light over our front door - which we leave on all night.
I went over to Don and Sally Rosenbloom's house to help
them get their computer set up. They moved about 5 years
ago, this is my first time to visit since their previous
house. I brought some bagels from Chompies and we had a
little brunch too.
One of their daughters just got married June 12 (while
we were in Texas), they showed me the photos. On the way
home I bought some nectarines and lamb chops, and even got
some lamb tongues. I thought Jeremy would like them.
Jeremy cooked some "Rice Krispie Treats" to take along
with his lunches to school. He and Melody will both be
going to the same high school starting tomorrow.
My car went past 100,000 today. All my cars have done
so, but, in the past, they always went back to zero.
This [1992] car actually has a digit there for 100,000.
"Red Letter day."
Monday Aug 16 1999:
Today I downloaded micro-av ("FreeAccessSetup.exe").
Jeremy got a job working at the new grocery store.
It opens Wed.