Well, Here We Are

A bit of snow, today. While shoveling my walk, I was remembering my youth: I lived on East Grand Ave., the main drag to the school, and had to hustle to get the walk shoveled before it got trampled, or someone slipped and sued us. I also did old Miss Davis's walk and driveway down at the end of the block.

Today I was wondering where all the neighborhood kids were, as I shoveled at 7:00 am-- later than usual: the joys of my job allow me to telecommute on occasion, and this seemed like a good occasion-- not only am I fat and out of shape, the one neighbor has a heart condition, and an enterprising youth would find plenty of opportunities to earn a few bucks. There are piles of kids around here, and they all came out to play after I was done. I played "mean old man" and told them to quit playing on my freshly cleared walk: they had the whole block at their disposal, and they chose to run and kick snow where they had just watched me shovel. Grump, grump, grump. Here's an old picture of my wife doing some shoveling (she volunteered!).

So I sent out the gmail invites, and I hope you will sign up (did I mention it's free?) and join me-- it gets kinda lonely here by myself. Tell us what you're up to. And invite some more grads. The more the merrier.

Steve E 

Welcome To The Blog!

I thought it would be fun to keep in touch using a blog-- we all will be able to post, and then to add comments to the post. This will be a little easier than Classmates, perhaps (which always seems to jam my browser), and limited to just us and the friends we invite (although anyone can comment).

Why a blog? Well, who doesn't want to say they have a blog? Welcome to the 21st century. It lets you carry on a "conversation" with a group of people without having to CC: a bunch of addresses in an email. You can put links to other pages, and (I think) add pictures-- although you may just want to link to pictures to make the page quicker to view. And you can come and view it whenever you want, and add comments to anyone else's post.

You have to have a gmail account (Google mail); email me and I will send you an invitation. I have an account, of course; I use it only to access the blog and for testing for work; but it is not a bad system and a lot of people use it for their personal email.

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I want to put a "Fighting Scarlet" logo in the upper corner, but I can't find one: not even in the yearbook. If anyone has one they can scan and send to me I'd appreciate it.
-- Steve E