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New Hampshire has spoken, as has Iowa. I think we're (relatively) free from campaign news for maybe a week.
(aside: The raccoons are here for supper. I just heard the lid of the ice chest hit the ground.)
I continued working at the latest bit of archiving. The subject spent a year in Bolivia as an exchange student, and she and her friends wrote LOTS of letters. Frequently. Many of the letters are beyond my reading capability, since they're in Spanish, but the others give a marvelous picture of high school life in the early 1970s. I read the ones in English and then feel frustrated because I can't read the others. A word here and there, but that's it.
I finally figured out what all the slips of paper about 1" x 2 1/2" were. They had denominations and at first I though they might be small change. I concluded that they are (probably) lottery tickets. Therefore, I could toss out most of them. I saved a couple of each denomination and mounted them in archival photo holders. That keeps them in place and preserves them.
[Paper "small change" is not all that unusual. When we visited China almost all currency was paper. And in Romania a 10,000 lei note was worth about 30 cents American. (A bottle of coke was 25,000 lei, or about 75 cents.) They have since dropped some zeros from the end of their lei value.]
I have to be sure to get to work nice and early tomorrow. The computer guy is supposed to be there to fix the librarian's computer, and the librarian has something which will make her late. The student computer guy looked at it today, found the problem, but couldn't fix it.
We have a new secretary at the Women's Center. His name is James. He's settling into the environment quite nicely. He did mention that the director described the job as "mostly answering the phone." He first task was figuring out how to replace the ink cartridge in the super-duper-deluxe printer that can do everything except scramble eggs. That was when he commented about the minimalist job description. But he's a nice sociable guy and is picking things up really quickly. (I wonder if he knows that he also orders supplies, etc.)
'Nuff blithering--time to watch TV.
(aside: The raccoons are here for supper. I just heard the lid of the ice chest hit the ground.)
I continued working at the latest bit of archiving. The subject spent a year in Bolivia as an exchange student, and she and her friends wrote LOTS of letters. Frequently. Many of the letters are beyond my reading capability, since they're in Spanish, but the others give a marvelous picture of high school life in the early 1970s. I read the ones in English and then feel frustrated because I can't read the others. A word here and there, but that's it.
I finally figured out what all the slips of paper about 1" x 2 1/2" were. They had denominations and at first I though they might be small change. I concluded that they are (probably) lottery tickets. Therefore, I could toss out most of them. I saved a couple of each denomination and mounted them in archival photo holders. That keeps them in place and preserves them.
[Paper "small change" is not all that unusual. When we visited China almost all currency was paper. And in Romania a 10,000 lei note was worth about 30 cents American. (A bottle of coke was 25,000 lei, or about 75 cents.) They have since dropped some zeros from the end of their lei value.]
I have to be sure to get to work nice and early tomorrow. The computer guy is supposed to be there to fix the librarian's computer, and the librarian has something which will make her late. The student computer guy looked at it today, found the problem, but couldn't fix it.
We have a new secretary at the Women's Center. His name is James. He's settling into the environment quite nicely. He did mention that the director described the job as "mostly answering the phone." He first task was figuring out how to replace the ink cartridge in the super-duper-deluxe printer that can do everything except scramble eggs. That was when he commented about the minimalist job description. But he's a nice sociable guy and is picking things up really quickly. (I wonder if he knows that he also orders supplies, etc.)
'Nuff blithering--time to watch TV.
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