I've found a bunch of old friends I've had fun reconnecting recently. I acquired a device to transfer cassette tapes and LP albums to the computer. The old friends are the old tapes and records I've not heard for YEARS. How fun to hear the jokes, the tunes , the talks again. Even on the cassette tapes with the warped tape from overplay years ago, it's been reminisce. Ahh bring back nostalgia, but maybe not all of it, at least not all at once.

Thursday morning musing. Some hand soaps have moisturizers in them. But then, after you use the soap aren't you to dry your hands? If you dry you hands, is the moisturizer gone, and if so why did you use it in the first place. If it's not gone, why do we need to dry the hands?

Details on Nuts, Squirrels and Knotholes in the family tree."

A second order of my book has arrived, and is now available for sale.

Remember, You took can own a copy of my book "Nuts, Squirrels, and Knotholes in the Family Tree." It has humorous stories of the Steinbeck an related families and their lives in the respective communities in Illinois and Missouri.

The book is $19.99 for a paperback and $29.99 for a hardcover. Please add $4 (and your address) if you want me to mail it to you.

There have been nice stories in the Press-News Journal in Canton, Mo; Democrat Message in Mt. Sterling, Ill., Hannibal Courier Post, and Quincy Herald Whig. Hope you saw them.

When one receives a new t-shirt (don't think t-shirts), it is often 10 minutes or so before one can wear it, making sure all the straight pins are out. Yes the shirts look good, but what service do the pins do, other that to poke the wearer who missed that one pin? I figure it must be job security for someone. Eliminate them and there goes several jobs of the person putting the pins in and several jobs of those manufacturing the pins.
    Along similar lines, I do like the tape size markings on men's clothes, except sometimes (sweaters for example) it leaves a mark on removal of the tape. But I don't understand the multiple paper/carboard patches, which all have to be cut off from pockets, etc. Again it's probably someone's job security.