October 19

5C and clear.
Got the letters of complaint written yesterday re the poor treatment of M's mom. Should take about 2 weeks for the excuses to start. One to the Minister of Health cc to Interior Health and one to the Lodge.
Men's darts last night. We walked up town yesterday, nice day for a walk. I did some prepacking for our trip to Arizona (next week).
Here is some more of that thing I did in 1994.

Now I would like to go into the other subject I talked about, what changes I have seen in the world.   Perhaps this may stimulate your imagination, one person can make a difference, do you dare to be someone who will make change in our world? We cannot all be movers and shakers that command the attention of history but each and every one of us has the chance to contribute and even if you are the only one who knows of your contribution, you have the opportunity to influence your life, someone else’s life, a community, a nation or the world!

I was born in 1934 at the tail end of the great depression. This was when jobs were very scarce, money to have the barest of essentials was hard to come by for most people, men of all ages and backgrounds rode "the rails" looking, looking for work for money for a chance.  In Germany, Hitler was arming and preparing his country for war, his objective was world domination by the Arayan race.

In those days the first jet aircraft had not yet been invented, as a matter of fact airplanes were just beyond their infancy.  Cars and trucks were made from steel, I doubt if plastic had been invented yet.  Vitamins basically consisted of cod liver oil and Scotts emulsion, both tasted absolutely awful!  Boys did not wear blue jeans and girls wore only dresses or skirts.  T.V. wasn't invented yet and it would be many years before it would be on the market let alone into every home.  In one of my first papers I described the radios we had and how they were battery operated, many people still used the old cylinder records to listen to recorded music. Although by this time the old phonograph that you wound by hand and played single 33 1/3 rpm records on was used by those people who could afford luxuries.  The electric record player and long play records were not around until the 1940's.  CD's did not appear until around 1990.  Very few people owned cars in those days; they were considered a luxury even though a brand new one cost less than a thousand dollars.  Two car families started happening in the 1950's. For the record my parents never owned a car until I was 20 years old and had been gone from home for two years.  I don't know when computers were invented, there were probably prototypes in the thirties but It was not until the late 1950's that they started to be fairly common amongst wealthy companies the computer boom and every day household use did not start until the early 1980's.  The provincial government first started using them in the mid 70's.  In the early days a computer that thought slower than a turtle and could only store a few thousand bytes would occupy a whole room!