I was rummaging through some dresser drawers and came upon a key chain from the old City Club. It had a plastic “bob” on the chain advertising the telephone number of the “Club”. The number was 36. You would pick up the phone and connect with Mable at the telephone company and she would “plug you into 36”. Today we have 10 digits for a phone number unless you are dialing internationally in which case you have 13 or more.
Mom and I traveled to Camelot over Memorial Day weekend. Camelot is my description of Minneapolis. They are dominated by white collar jobs and lots of “professional types”. We ended up at the $100 store (Ikea). You go to Ikea to buy some miscellaneous items for $5-$10 and always buy more than you expected. It has something to do with impulse buying.
I do get surprised occasionally. No.5 bought a new 50 inch HD Sony. I expected the TV to be hooked up to a cable network or DISH. Her main hook-up is through an antenna to public broadcast TV (free). The picture is spectacular in HD. And then (0f course) she has hook-ups to Wi-Fi like Netflix, Vudu, and Amazon. The surprise is the national trend seems to be to dump the cable broadcast.
I still need my ESPN. I think the only way to get ESPN is through cable.
My twin turbo 4 cylinder German car got better than 37 miles per gallon of gasoline. It does make me smile.
I earned some extra money by bringing No.5’s old HDTV back home. She sold it to her brother (Grasshopper No.4). No.4 owes me for a delivery.
Memorial Day was lazy. It is supposed to be!
Love,
Dad