Month: November 2014

Thanksgiving 2014

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For Thanksgiving this years, my wife and I had planned to swing dance at the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C. Not only would it be fun, how may people could say they danced at the Kennedy Center?

Luckily for us, we were invited to a friend’s house for Thanksgiving supper. The company was as wonderful as the food. It was a Happy Thanksgiving, filled with good friends and good food. It was worth missing dancing at the Kennedy Center–we danced Friday night at the Dulles Hilton with the Jive Aces from London playing.

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1987/88 Pink Floyd Tour #TBT

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In an earlier post, I mentioned that I found my T-shirt from the tour but couldn’t find my ticket stub. I was bummed out that I’d lost the stub.

I collect the stubs of events I attend, including concerts and sporting events. It’s a reminder of a good time. For all of my other concerts, I put the ticket stubs in the CD the tour promoted. On the rare chance that I didn’t buy the CD but still went to the concert, I put it in the closest CD. An example of the latter case was the Boston concert earlier this year. I didn’t buy their latest CD (I didn’t know they had one out.), but I went to the concert–it was a bucket list concert.

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Change

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Back in the late ’90 Kel took the picture below of our dogs at the beach steps from the condo we rent on vacation. Patch, the white and black border collie, is lying in the puddle; and Data, the black and white border collie, is patiently waiting.

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