Tue Sep  3 07:32 EDT 1996
Weekend Update: Labor Day - no wind for us

It was very good to see the new baby last night, Phil!  What a doll!


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| On Friday night, the Burgess' came over for some Teryaki Chicken and fun.
| Mark is a good pinball player, and I should have practiced up before he
| arrived, but they would tell you that it wouldn't do me any good.  I often
| plany better when there is competition, but Mark beat me anyway.
|
| On Saturday, Russell III came for a visit, and as he said in his family
mail,
| we had a good time, although too breif.  I would have extended their visit
| longer, had they accepted my invitation to dump some of the kids and
| have 8 of us go to the Lowell Spinners baseball game (a farming team for
| the Red Sox).  But it would have extended their stay way too late for them
| to get back to Marshfield and they insisted that I take my family instead
of
| giving all 8 tickets away.  That meant we cut our visit short (at 6pm).
| But I was able to format what is now Jennifer's 286-computer and
| reload the operating system.  It was tricky and I almost installed my
| old 120-MB drive (which I would have) but the last try worked and the
| disk was erased so the operating system could be reloaded.  I also
| doublespaced her 45-MB drive so that she can store around 70-MB
| of data on it (after the OS and Windows).  It is tough to run a 286, but
| it will do all of her term papers.  Miranda will likely get this
once-spiffy
| 486-DX/2-450 when she goes to college and I'll upgrade to something
| Russell III will have to envy.  :-)
|
| Russell's system, though, was greek to me because of Windows '95.  I wanted
| to load all kinds of games through DOS, and in fact used a DOS window to
| do just that.  The "jet flying" one to which Russell III refers is
"Terminal
| Velocity"
| and it was a shareware CD with three levels.  The game is playable but a
| little
| choppy on my system, but on his system it was smooth as silk!  I'm jealous
| again!  Because of the choppiness on my system, I wouldn't run out and
| buy all the 30+ levels of heart pumping exiliration and flight.
|
| After my rude departure, leaving my brother in the driveway (Joy did not
| go with us), I met up with the Pastor (White) and his son Tim, at the
| baseball
| park.  Cadence reserved a block of tickets; what a company.  The team
mascot
| is a green alligator (ever hear of purple Barney?) called the Canaligator.
|  The
| stuffed animal patted my belly on the way into the park!  But he kissed
| Miranda's
| hand!  I think I'm more upset about the affront to my personal space!
| The game was dominated by the Spinners until the 8th inning when the
visting
| team made a rally to bring them within one run.  We left to beat the crowd,
| and
| to get home in time to be rested for Sunday.
|
| Sunday's pace was constant as well.  After morning church, we headed over
| to the Trecartin's for a surprise 40th birthday party for Cheryl Greenwood.
| Cheryl takes delight in pretending she's 29 and tried to say that she was
29
| before she opened the birthday card Joy and I got for her.  It said, "there
| is
| this hole in the universe that can swallow anything... except the story
that
| you're 29."  Excusing ourselves from the party, we rushed home to take
| the laudnry off the line so that the much-anticipated hurricane didn't soak
| the clothes.  We were home 10 minutes before having to turn around
| for church.  (Kind of sounds a bit like Kendra, doesn't it?)
|
| After church, we headed up to the Bickoms for Paula pizza and fellowship.
| A good time was had by all and we were all glad for an extra day off the
| next morning.
|
| Today (Monday) I arose to complete the Fred and Tracy Hatcher wedding
| video compilation from pre-rehearsal to the goodbyes of the newlyweds.
| We've been mellowing out, playing competition Tetris, writing this memo,
and
| other lazy-type things.  That's before everyone arrives.  Since the
hurricane
| fizzled, we've invited a bunch of unrelated families to join us for the
| evening;
| one last hurrah to summer.  We got no wind overnight and barely a breeze
| during the day.  I doubt that we'll get any rain in Nashua NH.  Dad's cape
| house and probably Russell got drenched.
|
| Mark
|
| P.S.  Russell, let me help you write up a resume to send to companies.  I
| wish you had told me about your situation, I would have spent some time
| on the resume (although we pretty well filled up what time we had.  Still,
| I've done some good work on resumes and will help in anyway I can.
|
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