Events that crossed my radar and memories, these many years later. This effort is aided and abetted by reviewing Wikipedia’s listings of each year’s events, in this case, 1977 and 1978. 1977 By January of 1977 I had survived the first semester of my freshman year at Georgetown, dealing with the questionable decision to study Chinese, …
Bourbon (Bourbie) was Louise and Fred’s dog, a very cute Shelty mixed with Golden Retriever that they got shortly after arriving back in Virginia in 1976. Louise doted on Bourbie, putting weights on her ears as a puppy so they would bend just so, and squirting her with perfume most days. Bourbie was a great …
In a surprise move, my sophomore year (1978) roomate, Vas, decided that he also wanted a cat, so he acquired a very small kitten that Barb and I named L.C., short for Little Cat. Zig and L.C. were buddies for the rest of that semester until I moved to a new place in August. We’re …
In February of 1978, we decided to take another shot with a cat, after the sad and premature demise of Ralph. Ziggy was an orange tabby with a very patient disposition who put up with my long learning curve. He was already four months old when we got him (from where, I’m not sure) so …
Photos from several untitled albums, the next in the series. Bill did one that covered 1978-1983; Barb did two over the same period. In February of 1978, we decided to take another shot with a cat. Ziggy was an orange tabby with a very patient disposition who put up with my long learning curve. He …
Once I got to college, summers opened up and there was the prospect of internships. Pretty much the whole time I was in college I viewed it as a sort of minimum security prison sentence — a period you had to get through in order to actually start working and making money. I was always …