Barbara J. Hamby
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Mentoring Adopted Grandparents
Some days trying to do seemingly simple tasks on the computer confounds these old brains. This morning Al suggested we should adopt a ten-year-old child to help us with our computers. I think that’s overkill and raising another child would do us in. However, I’ve heard of programs for mentoring a child. How about a program for mentoring an… click here to continue
January, 06th, 2006
Jumperoo
Jumperoo is the title little Kyran’s parents gave this picture. Kyran is Al’s great-grandson who will soon be six months old. I know we’re biased, but I think he’s cuter than any New Year baby. There are lots more adorable pictures, but I don’t want to bore you.
… click here to continueJanuary, 05th, 2006
Update of My Website
If you check my website as well as reading the blog entries, you may have noticed the Writing Contests page is missing today. The service that was updating that page discontinued doing so. The out of date page was of no use, so we eliminated it.
Many writing contests are announced in various writer’s ezines and many more… click here to continue
January, 05th, 2006
Enjoying Christmas Gifts
Note: After seeing the above picture on the preview, I’m not sure the photographer will want to claim it. My attempts to make it lighter and sharper seem to have misfired.
After a telephone conference with my webmaster son, I finally mastered the trick of adding photos… click here to continue
January, 05th, 2006
My Barista
In a blog I read last night, the writer referred to “my Barista.” For years, we have referred to “my hairdresser, my masseuse, my chiropractor,” and others. Most of these people have many patients, clients or customers and, oddly enough, it seems each thinks of that service person as their own, apparently. I’m sure that if a Barista counts… click here to continue
January, 04th, 2006
Remote Starter
About fifty years ago, when I was working at Boeing plants in Seattle where we parked blocks away from the buildings, I yearned for a remote starter for my car. The idea occurred to me when I was working swing shift and not in a carpool that would have allowed me to park closer. It was dark and cold when… click here to continue
January, 03rd, 2006
What’s Your Excuse?
While working on memoir stories today, I recalled that I had on-the-job training at a local hotel on several types of accounting equipment. All of it is now, and has been for some time, obsolete. I began to wonder if anyone would recognize what I was talking about when I mentioned Addressograph, Comptometer, and IBM Keypunch.
I Googled… click here to continue
January, 02nd, 2006