Stitching away

Close enough, but trust me - TI & HP both came out in '73, though I don't know how widely available - the companies sent travelling show to campus and people could order them, some were buyable at the time. The first TI was much less powerful than the HP. But, I have a clear memory of using Sharon S.'s TI in my Chem lab quiz....

Ellice

I'll hold you to that! (The visit, not the weeding.)

Sue

Trish Brown wrote: and I love him too, but Percy was my

And a girl always remembers her first, right?

R,D, & H

Sue

Yes, and me, too! I still often have to pause and think before entering data into the calculator. (Which I don't have to do often, hence the pause.)

Unfortunately DH no longer plays guitar. Wish he'd pick it up again. On vacation, DFSIL and I were home alone just when everyone else left for the beach, me stitching and him playing guitar. After a few minutes, he put down the guitar to go fishing, and I said, "Please keep playing. There's no better situation than sitting and stitching with live music playing." So he did keep playing awhile, and I could hum/sing and stitch along. Heaven!

sue

By mid-fall, life should be calmer

Let him know we'll help them settle in if he's nearby...

Lucky you! Unfortunately, music is one thing DH and I don't share. He's a heavy metallist and I'm a classical/folk/ballady sort of person. Mind you, as we're getting older, we're cross-pollinating a lot more. I can actually enjoy bits of AC/DC and positively love Rammstein. He's developed a taste for certain classical pieces, especially Wagnerian opera (go figger!). BUT, he doesn't enjoy my folksy style of guitar playing and singing so DS and I get together and have a Big Sing whenever he and DD are away at Scout camps.

DS is getting better and better on his harp, so I have the enjoyment of listening to him practice. I gotta tell you: the harp is *much* nicer to listen to than the vile-lyn when the exponent is just a beginner!

We share most of it - indeed, it's our livelihood, listening to music - except DH isn't particularly appreciative of the voice as an instrument. Necessary to put lyrics across, of course, but not so much as an instrument itself, as in opera and art music. DD trained classically, and now I've started singing lessons. (Now that she's older and we're no longer paying for her lessons, I've claimed them for myself!)

We got a new car this week (thanks to the U.S. "cash for clunkers" program) and it has Sirius satellite radio for six months. I immediately found the Metropolitan Opera station. I'm not a huge opera aficionado, but I enjoy it in bits here and there. To me, it's like dark chocolate - a little bit each day is salubrious and satisfying.

sue

One of my fondest memories is sitting at the kitchen table on Saturday afternoon, listening to the radio (before TV) playing opera broadcasted direct from the old Metropolitan Opera House in New York. My mother would be doing the laundry, or the ironing or some kind of cleaning and I would be either reading or doing homework, but whatever it was it was in the kitchen.

Lucille

If it is that TI-83 or some version of it then we know. We had the same here, I ended up loaning mine to my niece a few years ago since she needed it. What was bad was that the teacher demanded that she had one in a period of 1 to 2 weeks. At the time, it was still over $175 for each unit. It even easy for families with a good earnings, yet the majority here are not having a lot of extra monies like that. If they did have extra it was more on the lines of gas money ranges of $20 to $60.

With all the other "fees" and costs for the various classes and no pre-lists available at that time, my sister didn't have the calculator figured into the supply budget at the start of school that year for her daughter. Funny thing was that the nephew didn't require it the previous year for the same class.

Like what do they think, having one child going to school is not bad but when a family has up to 5 kids going out of one home. We were not bad, only 2 kids for both younger sisters yet there are some around here that do have the "older" size families with some getting up to 8 kids and most are not cause of multiple births. With them wanting each child to have their own machine, even with just 2 kids how are most to come up with that kind of money in the short time. While the best part, was that here we were having them shipped in by rush delivery at the stores cause even they were not given notice that a larger supply was required. Ended up that cause it was province wide, no one even in larger cities were coming up short so the "required" time frame was dropped after an out-cry from parents/etc.

The school system here found out that they do have to let people know and not figure they are some form of god-like thing. Not only the parents went after them, but the retail stores were against them. Cause for "smart people" they forgot the one rule, things do not appear with magic, and it takes time for things to be made and shipped into the local area.