October 20

10C Sunny, was probably about 5C 2 hours ago.

Played cards at the club yesterday. That fills in an afternoon. Hot tub when we got home.
Wallaces arrive for an overnight today. And there is short matt bowling this afternoon.

Warm thoughts to Campbell River.

More of 1994

I believe it was in 1965 that man first walked on the moon, and we only managed to get into space a few years earlier. Watches and clocks were all non-digital and worked on springs and gears, no batteries and no solar power.  Calculators never came along until the 70's and even when my children were in school were forbidden as a tool in the classroom. Speaking of the classroom, when I went to school the strap was still allowed, I don't know when at was forbidden but it was several years after I left.  I wish it was still allowed, in spite of what do-gooders and psychologists tell us, it is healthy to have the ability to administer punishment with pain for wrong doing and for every time it was misused, there were five thousand times when it was justified.  Schools were a place where learning and respect were taught; we did not have gangs, destruction of property and fear.  Oh yes we had fights among the students, after all we were human, but our differences were settled with wrestling or fists, for which we were later punished by the school or our parents or both. I guess in all fairness we didn't have marijuana, LSD, crack, heroin and all the other types of brain and body killing drugs that are hustled through our streets and schools today.

In those days we had coke, orange crush, grape or lime soda (in bottles only) as soft drinks.  We often hear (are you guilty of this?) that kids have nothing to do, that they have no place to go --- ! Surprise, in those days the schools had single use schoolfields, hardly any equipment and no after school sports.  The communities supplied no kind of recreational facilities or grounds.  We had to find our own ways of entertaining ourselves, yet child and youth crime was almost non-existent, there was no TV and yet we thought we were having a good time, how can that be?  I remember during the war many food items were rationed.  Such things as sugar, meat, flour and others I don't recall.  This meant that such things, as candy bars were very hard to get.  The only one that was readily available was a bar called pep chew, it was a peppermint flavored bar, it cost 7 cents and wouldn’t you know it one of the kinds of candy I don't like is peppermint!

I don't know when VCR's came along I know we got our first one about 4 years ago.   Very few people had telephones and the ones we had from the time I was 15 to 18 were the old crank kind that were on party lines, you cranked a code of short and long rings so people would know which house you were calling, of course everyone listened in to each others conversations.  Later as modernization came along you would ring the operator and ask for a number and then eventually the dial phone came and now we have touch-tone.

I have run out of things off the top of my head, so will stop for a day or so and try and get this back on track.