Rick KeirRick Keir - LiveJournal.comwhere are the ice trucks of bygone years- February 29, 2008 My mom turned 90 yesterday.I'm reading Fred Saberhagen's time travel story A Century of Progress, with its memories of Chicago in the 1930s, when he was growing up there. There's a detail about the sign with numbered corners ("25", "50", "75", etc.) that you put up in your window, the appropriate corner facing up so that the iceman would know how many pounds to drop off.I mentioned this to mom, and she remembered how the ice would be loaded in the truck, scored in 25 pound blocks, and how the...http://rdkeir.livejournal.com/136665.html resurfacing...ping!...ping!- February 21, 2008 Because all my local friends are doin' it: complaints about the weather.I got stuck in Illinois last weekend, after "Rain followed by freezing followed by snow on top of the newly formed ice, party on, dudes, because then the temperature is gonna drop below zero." We can't even hope for an early thaw, because there's so much snow piled up that everyone's basements will flood.It was 15 degrees below zero this morning. Fahrenheit. Bored now.http://rdkeir.livejournal.com/136411.html fish and guests, after 3 days- February 1, 2008 we went to Point Reyes for 3 nights and 4 days, of which I will write sometime (probably on the plane back home). Yesterday was largely taken up by getting Sean ready for his time down in southern California on his refresher course, printing maps of wireless access, getting paperwork finished, packing, and so on. I spent a lot of time trying to make an old Windows 98 laptop usable for him (Microsoft doesn't even support 98 anymore, and even getting it up to where MS stopped issuing patches for..http://rdkeir.livejournal.com/135941.html |