Silver Lake, Rehoboth Beach, DE

Butterfly

Max

The Canteen

Eisenhower in the White House
Black & White TV
Coke in 7-oz, Emerald-green Bottles

Back in the fifties, the Canteen, sponsored by the YWCA and managed by a sweet lady named Sadie, became our after school hang-out. During our days in Junior High, September 1954 through May 1957, we heard the first chords of rock & roll. The music was a unique blend of old and new era music: The Four Lads’ No Not Much and Elvis’ Don’t Be Cruel played back-to-back on the Canteen jukebox.

And there we were – girls in ponytails, guys in DA’s – young, innocent, and ready to rock and roll!

The Playlist:

Shake Rattle and Roll
Mr. Sandman
Hearts of Stone
Maybellene
Sincerely
Dance With me Henry
Ain’t That a Shame
It’s a Sin to Tell a Lie
Rock Around the Clock
Seventeen
See You Later, Alligator
The Great Pretender
Heartbreak Hotel
No Not Much
Don’t Be Cruel
Blue Suede Shoes
Singin’ the Blues
I Want You I Need You I Love You
Love Me
Blueberry Hill
Young Love
Round and Round

Oh, really!

"Cut out all these exclamation points. An exclamation point is like laughing at your own joke."

~ F, Scott Fitzgerald

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OG

Too Many Bohs to Count....

Can't You Just Hold It Like Everyone Else...

"I think I may need a bathroom break. Is this possible?"

~ President Bush, in a note while at the United Nations

This Old House

Lanterns

Sudoku

Sudoku means "single number in an alloted place" in Japanese and doesn’t require general knowledge, linguistic ability or even mathematical skill. It's fun and mildly addicting.

The aim of the puzzle is to fill in the blank spaces in the grid so that every column , every row and every 3x3 box contains the numbers 1 through 9, without repeating any.

History:
In 1783, Leonhard Euler, a Swiss mathematician, devised 'Latin Squares', which he described as 'a new kind of magic squares'. Euler had come up with a grid in which every number or symbol appears once in each row or column. More than two centuries later, the difference for Sudoku players is that the grid is subdivided into blocks of nine.

A man from Matamata, New Zealand, was to become responsible for a global outbreak. Wayne Gould, a judge who had moved to Hong Kong, was shopping in Tokyo in March 1997. While he waited for one shop to open, he browsed in a bookstore. 'As soon as I saw the grid with the empty squares, I felt very tempted to fill them in. Over the next six years I developed a computer program that makes up Sudoku puzzles on the spot.'

For a daily Sudoku:
http://www.su-doku.net/daily_sudoku_printable.php

On TV, Sunday at Eight...1955

The Awakening

Hains Point

Washington, D.C.

Along the C&O Canal, Lock #6

The canal company provided a small, four-room house for the tender of the lock. Along with the house came a one-acre garden plot and a salary of $75 a month. This particular house is one of the few still occupied.

Glen Echo Amusement Park

Anguish in the Supermarket Line...

Just standing in the supermarket line is torture enough for me. If I weren’t able to read the tabloid headlines I’d probably snap. But certain types of people conspire to make the experience even worse.

Today two people are ahead of me in line, and a peppy old guy is behind me. The old guy is pressing all of his items smack up against mine and then pressing himself within a centimeter of me. This guy’s hope is that his constant pressing will make the line go faster. Back off, Pep Boy!

At the head of the line is the gabby soccer mom with 45 items. Soccer mom explains nonstop everything that’s happening to her and her family to the cashier. As the 45th item is rung up, soccer mom decides she’s paying by check and THEN begins looking for her checkbook. Of course, she could have had the check completed except for the amount, but no, that would have been too considerate of the other customers.

Finally, in between the soccer mom and me is a teenaged girl (a streak of pink in her hair) and our hope for the future. Ms. Pink has a pint of chocolate milk and a medium sized bag of Doritos, and she’s drinking the milk and eating the Doritos. By the time she gets to the cashier she’s devoured both. She pays for the empty carton and bag. The multi-tasking generation – eat as you purchase. Sooo annoying!

JEN WARNS ANGELINA ABOUT BRAD’S TOILET HABITS

BRITNEY THE SIZE OF A CIRCUS TENT

PARIS MARRIES TINKERBELL

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