My sister ‘Jeanie Beanie’s’ daughter, 13, has just been diagnosed with a fairly serious medical problem. It’s an acute condition, and she’ll be fine after surgery, but for now everybody is very worried. Fortunately, our oldest sister is a surgeon in the right specialty.
Category: Life with Pratts
Another one after 9/09
On my birthday I posted the audio to a Captain Zoom record D.F. Rogers, aka Denro, gave me as a joke thirty years ago, when we were already a college grade-you-ates. Then my buddy Bismo, who remembers hearing the record when I got it, pointed out that Captain Zoom birthday records still exist, and he sent the current version of my name. Thanks, Bismo!
[audio:http://www.dograt.com/Audio/2008/SEP/Sept10.mp3]Definitely not the same recording, but with some of the original effects, along with an impression of Caroll Spinney as Big Bird. It’s no surprise that those who were very young in the 70’s wax nostalgic about Captain Zoom.
One After 9/09
Happy birthday to me!
Cartoon by Charles M. Schulz, 1957
It is, of course, also my twin sister Jean’s birthday. No, we’re not identical. 😉
Blog Stats
It was two years ago today that I started blogging. DogRat presently has 1234 posts and averages over 100,000 hits/month from over 5,000 different addresses. In the past year I have realized a 100% increase in blogging years. Next year at this time there will have been only a 50% increase compared to now. So it goes.
Virtual India ink
This is my big sister Leslie, the doctor, who just got back from a trip to India with her daughter.
Meet Joe Motocross
Monte Schulz pointed out here on DogRat last year, that his brother Craig — and only Craig — was a dirt bike rider. Once again I refer you to the Coffee Lane portion of the documentary “Good Ol’ Charles Schulz,” where you can see both Craig and Monte.
Craig has an article in the October ’08 Racer X Illustrated, and he tells about riding dirt bikes.
The sound would travel for miles, and like a mating call, it would summon my buddies to head on over to my place to practice. My parents must have received plenty of phone calls, but I never heard of any complaints.
I’m struck by the fact there is something of a similarity in the contrast between Monte and his brother Craig, and me with my brother Jeff, who also rode dirt bikes. This picture of Craig could almost be one of my brother from that same period of time. Maybe I can get him to send one so you can see what I mean.
