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February 15, 2005
Late check-in from Oklahoma City
That last post was my first ever on-the-road-while-driving post. Literal moblogging. Not a good idea safety-wise, although the traffic jam was so bad that I managed to do it about as safely as I could eat lunch. (The hardest part was getting the SIM card out of my cell phone and into the laptop.) Anyway, I am now in Oklahoma City, headed into what looks like bad weather. The goal is back to Philly again. I'm road-fatigued and don't have much to say, but I do have a few photos. On Sunday I drove south from Berkeley, and visited one of my father's best friends going all the way back to their undergraduate college days. Dick is 96 years old, and not only drives, but drove me to a restaurant and treated me to lunch! Lots of reminiscing; he told me I'm the last link to the college days portion of his life (my father died in 1990, and the rest of their contemporaries are long gone.) He went to a recent high school "reunion" and learned he's the only remaining member of his class, as well as the second-oldest graduate of his school. Anyway, here we are:
Any of us should be so lucky to live that long and be so sharp. Dick doesn't miss a note, and keeps his brain busy reading and doing brain exercises like the daily scrambled word game in the paper. And finally, for the last word on life extension, here's a picture of Puff, studiously ignoring the History Channel: He also ignores the Weather Channel, which is what I should be watching right now. UPDATE: Speaking of Puff, my blogfather Jeff has honored him with this post! Puff's days are numbered, but stuff like this keeps us both alive. (Obviously, blogging extends life!) posted by Eric on 02.15.05 at 11:13 PM
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The last remaining member of his high school class? Hmmm.... Keeps himself going, mind and body active, that's good. A good man. And, I'll say it again: what a man you are! Steven Malcolm Anderson (Cato theElder) the Lesbian-worshipping man's-man-admiring myth-based egoist · February 16, 2005 10:46 PM |
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Those pictures of Puff are excellent.