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Hi Ben,

RH> My dad got into doing computer services (payroll, bookkeeping, etc) for
RH> others (in a town of about 800) after he lost his newspaper (editor, small
RH> position. No pension out of it but between his business for 20 years, mom
RH> working as a librarian (school first,then town) and retirement from that,

 BC> Interesting, so both UDD and your Dad had experience publishing.

Dad had quite a bit of publishing work (work published) since he was a
stringer for high school sports while he was in high school, in the
ship's office (he was the captain's talker on one ship) during WWII,
then summer breaks in college working for newspapers. He also worked in
the office of the lumber yard where his dad worked; I remember him
telling us that his mom wanted him to quit school and work full time for
$.15/hour--this was around 1935. He went back to high school, first in
his family to graduate and go to college (on the GI Bill).

OTOH, Mom went to college right out of high school, then got married and
started raising the kids. When she took the school library position, she
was told by the state that she had to get certified and her Master's
degree within 5 years. State said "you can't do it; you're married with
children" but she proved then wrong and did it, earning all A's and B's.

 BC> Publishing, bookkeeping, and library work all strike me as social
 in BC> nature, though a lot of the actual work is "behind the scenes"
 so to BC> say. BC> It sounds like your Dad did bookkeeping on that
 Texas Instruments BC> computer? Did either of your parents ever "take
 you to work" with BC> them?  If so, what do you remember that being
 like?

I helped my mom some in the school library but by the time she retired
from that and took the town library job, I was married, had my own
family and lived too far away to help on a regular basis. Did go with
her to work a couple of times when visiting home (same with Dad when he
started his computer business) but was more of a chance to visit with
locals who came in while I was there.


RH> Sounds good to me. Steve found some goat meat in the freezer last night;
RH> I'm going to put it in a crock pot with some peppers, onions, and tomatoes
RH> for an easy sorta chili tomorrow.

 BC> Do i recall correctly that "sorta" cuisine means improvising with
 BC> what's on hand?

Basically, yes. I pulled out the baby crock pot, put the meat, a cut up
onion, a can of tomatoes, and a couple of small cans worth (subdivided
large can) of diced chili peppers in it, let it cook on low all day.
For supper, I cooked some spiral pasta and we served the "chili" over
that. Steve spiced him up a bit with chipotle powder but it was good as
is for a cold day.

We've had sleet, snow and freezing rain today, good day to stay inside.
I'm just going to heat a slice of ham, some blue Hubbard squash (found
in the freezer) and make Israeli couscous for supper.

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Catch you later,
Ruth
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