Thrift... Score?

Reagan found this at Goodwill. It cost us 25 cents.

It has basic things like "time" and "alarm", but also has buttons for divide, multiply, plus, and minus, leading me to believe it's a large precursor to the digital watch. It also has stopwatch buttons.

There are probably many clever things to say about this, but I'm distracted by listening to Randy Pausch's Last Lecture again. Every time I find the link to send to someone, I end up watching it again.

This time the someone is Gannon Beck*! Reagan's known him online for a while, and I've followed his blog. He was in the area to see some people at Quantico today, so we met him at a local Vietnamese restaurant. I think we all showed up a little after two... and didn't leave for more than four hours. It was a great, engaging afternoon of talking about art, writing, philosophy, history, storytelling, and politics.


Behind the Casio gadget in the above photo is something that was not thrifted (came from an antique store for not-chump-change), but is definitely a score: a soft vintage rug of kangaroo fur. It's rectangular, not animal-shaped, and will be our new snuggling spot in front of the fire... as soon as we get the wood to build one.


Nice day. Yeah. Hot buttered rum for sipping, and doodles galore. :)


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*Note to Gannon: Blogs are better to link to than profiles on Facebook!