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Aug. 28th, 2004 12:55 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kirkcudbright1) Rode the motorcycle up to UNH to retrieve one of our systems from their test lab. Then down to Nashua, later home. 150 miles on the motorpickle, and I can say I much prefer the 2-lane country highways to the 8-lane freeways. For one thing, it's just not comfortable above 60mph - I feel like I'm getting blown all over the place.
That bit of I-95 through NH is also a toll road, which means I had to get my glove off (ultimately with my teeth) while inching forward in line, to get my $2 out. Going to Nashua, I took US3 through towns and villages, rather than take the Everett Turnpike and having to repeat the ordeal for the 75¢ toll.
b) Spent most of the afternoon cleaning my office. Threw out a metric buttload of crap, mostly paper. I finally ventured into one of the boxes I brought from FTP, seven years ago. There was stuff there from FTP, but also from MIT (16-14 years ago), UMass (22-16 years ago), and even high school (22 years ago)! I found a 7-page hand-written fragment of a French paper on the history of Nova Scotia and the Acadians. I couldn't write such a thing today, but I didn't have much trouble reading it.
I also found the 1993 FTP staff photo. (I know it's 1993, because I also found the newsletter in which it was reprinted. Headline article was on the appointment of Dave Zirkle as president/CEO.) Several are dead, a couple are independently wealthy, at least one has run for elected office, and most are still plugging away, dealing with advancing bellies and receding hairlines.
That bit of I-95 through NH is also a toll road, which means I had to get my glove off (ultimately with my teeth) while inching forward in line, to get my $2 out. Going to Nashua, I took US3 through towns and villages, rather than take the Everett Turnpike and having to repeat the ordeal for the 75¢ toll.
b) Spent most of the afternoon cleaning my office. Threw out a metric buttload of crap, mostly paper. I finally ventured into one of the boxes I brought from FTP, seven years ago. There was stuff there from FTP, but also from MIT (16-14 years ago), UMass (22-16 years ago), and even high school (22 years ago)! I found a 7-page hand-written fragment of a French paper on the history of Nova Scotia and the Acadians. I couldn't write such a thing today, but I didn't have much trouble reading it.
I also found the 1993 FTP staff photo. (I know it's 1993, because I also found the newsletter in which it was reprinted. Headline article was on the appointment of Dave Zirkle as president/CEO.) Several are dead, a couple are independently wealthy, at least one has run for elected office, and most are still plugging away, dealing with advancing bellies and receding hairlines.
