Post # 500

Whew!

Too many years ago I started out by writing a weekly e-mail to Marcia’s dad. He’d become more and more home bound and so Paul bought him a computer. He never learned to do much with it, and with a little Parkinson’s disease to boot jumping around the WWW was almost impossible. But he did learn to open e-mail.

I was traveling a fair bit those days and thought a bit of mail would keep us connected a little more and open up the windows to grandpa’s small Ann St. cottage just a wee bit wider.

Those mails contained a lot of the mundane, sometimes a view of an exotic place, something touching, and something funny—and so it went.

One day Paul stopped by grandpa’s to ‘unlock’ his computer for the umpteenth time (it was a very early version of Windows, wait, that hasn’t changed has it?) and came across one of my mails. At his suggestion family members became names on the CC line.

About a year later son in law Vince excitedly told me about a brand new, free service – Blogger. One’s own web page. The free sold me and I was aboard. So this family and friends weekly ‘update’ become a fixture – at least for a small handful of folk. Blogger was dumped a few years back, but my weekly Ramblings have continued. Whew, now it’s number five hundred.

Enjoy.

Make it a great week.

Dirk

PS. I unlocked the “comments” section should anyone care to comment on # 500 (what else huh?)