05/22/2024 9:18:27 PM PDT
· 45 of 64 mairdie
to napscoordinator
There aren’t a lot of numbers or passwords I remember, but I DO remember my mouseketeer number, 242001. Those were the days. You could date someone by whether or not they remembered Captain Video’s secret decoder ring.
I can actually remember reading the Chicago phone book enthusiastically as a child. I was fascinated by so many names and the way they changed in one or two letters, then in bigger ways. Also by the way some names went on for pages and others were just a few lines.
Wonderful way to stay out of trouble.
I can’t remember my phone number today without looking at my cellphone, but I’ll always remember the phone number of my youth.
Don’t see x post. Just the heading. But for those who care, even the headline is an excellent reminder. And we have minimal JavaScript enabled as husband is a master computer researcher and totally paranoid.
My only trip to upper Maine was for my very first camping trip, and my mother’s. I was in my 30’s then. There was a sign immediately seen about bears. I’m TERRIFIED of bears. Suggested we go elsewhere but it was too late. We all got into sleeping bags and mother went off to sleep instantly. Mother! My supposed protector! I stayed awake the ENTIRE night. Come morning I was able to convince our party to leave. I tried one more time to camp out by putting up a tent next to the house. Managed about 3 hours before I came running in.
When I was searching genealogy, I was shocked to discover my grandfather was an outdoorsman and gold miner, and to find his newspaper stories of his life alone in the desert with his mule pack. Clearly those genes did not descend to me.
05/21/2024 6:39:02 PM PDT
· 8 of 10 mairdie
to CheshireTheCat
A coat of arms described in a NY genealogy book attributed him as the grandfather of James Graham (1656-1700), the Attorney-General of the Province of New York and my eighth great grandfather. His daughter Isabella married NJ Governor Lewis Morris, my 7th. Morris also co-wrote the first play in the colonies.
On a genealogical trip, I happened across his papers at Rutgers and the librarian pointed at the xerox machine and handed me ALL of the Lewis Morris handwritten papers. I whispered to husband that our travel plans had just changed. Spent 3 days copying EVERYTHING.