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FAMILY8 - Our Move to Independent Living

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My last blog article was posted on December 17, 2024.  That’s quite a down time for posting for me.  During that time, Pat and I moved from my home of almost 30 years to a senior independent living community - so we were just a little busier than usual.  This blog is the story of that move; a future blog will cover the story of selling the house we moved from.   This article will cover a short description of our large home, our motivation for moving,   a description of the senior independent living community we selected and our preferred bungalow accommodation, our extreme good luck in having a bungalow come available in a relatively short time, our considerable downsizing efforts, the move itself, and finally a description of our new bungalow home.   Home for 30 Years In 1994, I bought a view lot in what was to become the Canyon Ridge gated community in the Catalina Foothills, atop the steep hill on Snyder Road, leading west from Kolb Road. ...
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HISTORY110 - Writing Tools

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My hobby since my retirement as an aerospace engineer in 2000, has been “writing for fun.”  This includes history papers, newspaper columns, books, and in the last few years, a blog.  For all of these “products,” I used a computer with a word processor.  But computers and word processors are relatively recent tools for writing.  In a discussion about future blog topics the other day, Pat wondered what writers throughout history used as writing tools, and when those tools were first available.  Thus, the subject of this blog, the history of writing tools.     Introduction to Writing Tools First a definition:  Writing is the act of creating a persistent representation of human language made up of a conventional system of marks or signs. Writing is one of the things that makes our human civilization what it is.  Without it, great ideas would be forgotten, information would stay at the place where the ideas originated, and we would h...
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