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Becky says goodbye to Hugh Manatee at Los Angeles’s Union Station, a few minutes before Hugh and I left for our cross-country train trip from L.A. to Connecticut.
Becky with our new friend Cousteau, an S.P.C.A. cat who, at 23 pounds, gives a whole new meaning to the phrase “fat cat.”
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Categories: Pets, Animals & Stuffies
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Okay, time for a random update on events in my life: I’m in Buffalo (well, Amherst, really) visiting Becky at the moment, and thanks to a kind suggestion from Becky’s mom that I stay a bit longer than originally planned, I’m going to be here through the 4th of July. Then it’s back east, to New York City for a Great Big Sea concert on the 5th, and then back to Connecticut.
I’m having a great time here, chilling with Becky, her parents, her friends, and her cute kitten, Toby. Here are a couple of images from the last few days. More coming soon!
Becky and I take a break from mini golf to pose for a photo.
Becky, me and Kristy, again at the mini-golf course.
Shannon working at the beef jerky free-samples table at Sam’s Club. (Love that jerky!)
Awwww… Toby is so cute!!! (Check out the Toby page!)
In a truly remarkable accomplishment, I have managed to reduce virtually my entire stockpile of saved newspapers from the 1990s and the year 2000 (not including the 2000 election) to just three boxes, as seen below.
The cell phone and stuffed manatee are shown for size comparison. I was going to include just the manatee (whose name is Hugh Manatee), but then I realized y’all wouldn’t know how big he is, either, so I threw in the cell phone for good measure.
Anyway, the bottom box contains only sports stories, the middle one deals exclusively with the Clinton-Lewinsky scandal and resulting impeachment, and the top box contains papers sorted into a variety of categories:
This compression of 11 years of news into just three boxes of newspapers is noteworthy because of my outright obsession with saving any and all old papers that detail some significant or quasi-significant event in world news, national news, local news, or even sports. But, recognizing the need to clear up space in my increasingly crowded bedroom, over the last few days I substantially culled the monstrous pile of papers that I have been accumulating since my childhood. Obviously, this has created a new monstrous pile of papers, this one downstairs by the front door, waiting to be taken out to the trash:
I also have two other boxes, not shown in the top photo, of newspapers from the 2000 presidential election and court battle, which I sorted last year. And my collection of newspapers from 2001 and 2002 is still quite large, thanks mainly to the Sept. 11 calamity and the many huge news stories that have stemmed from it. I still need to sort through papers like the ones below. (Note the headline about newly-elected Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon promising a “reconciliation” — which would be sort of funny, if the Middle East situation wasn’t so dreadfully sad.)
Moreover, I think some old papers may still be hiding somewhere in the house. I haven’t seen anything related to the Gulf War or the Oklahoma City bombing yet, and I’m sure I must have some of those somewhere. Still, at least I’m making progress.
Oh yeah… and I also packed up a bunch of old clothes and donated them to charity today:
(Photos by Jen Persaud.)
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Categories: Hugh Manatee, My Life
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