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| 1959 | I pruned dead branches from apple trees. I went to the bank and withdrew my $1.85 which I gave to Lyle for the bat that I had cracked, but he gave me a dollar back. Kincy, Bill, Angi and I put on the "Invasion" movie and we made 16¢. Little League (Phelps). We lost to VFW 8 - 1. Lyle pitched and I was on 1st and went 1 for 3. | ||
| 1960 | Played tic-tac-toe and beat Kincy 4 games to 1. Then I beat him at horseshoes 21-14. Washed clothes and finished typing the newspaper and mowed the back lawn. We put the tents up and made the campfires. When everyone got here we had the horseshoe tournament. I beat Kincy, Bill beat Steve, Angie beat Lyn and Chris beat Lori. Kincy and I got everyone into their tents but Chris and Lori moved to our tent. When they fell asleep we moved into their tent, but they came back anyhow, so I left them with Kincy and I slept in their tent. |  | |
| 1961 | High = 76°F. Pulled dandelions. Played catch with Bill. Over to play 500 rummy with Kincy. Babe Ruth - We beat McClay 19-4 in what could be my best game ever and what a coincidence that Signe and Terri were watching. I struck out 14 of the 21 outs. One inning I struck out the side on 9 pitches. Pitched a 2-hitter. And to cap it off I hit my only Grand Slam scoring Petersen, Olstad and Gunther. After game more Rummy with Kincy. Listened to the Twins 5 - Tigers 2. |  | |
| 1962 | Sa - High = 73°F. Babe Ruth (Teamsters) - we beat McClay 2 - 0. I played short, went 0 for 1 with two walks and 3 stolen bases. Lyle pitched a 2 hitter, striking out 9. Carlson was the losing pitcher and he only gave up 3 hits. Listened to the Twins 3 - Senators 4. Watched Miss Argentina win the Miss Universe contest. |  | |
| 1963 | Didn't get to bed until 5AM because Blanche was over. Went to 11AM Mass. Worked the Twins double header and made $14.85!!! They won both over Cleveland - Killer got his 20th. Frank came over to pay off his debt and I showed him all my baseball records. | ||
| 1964 | Tips = $5.20 | ||
| 1965 | Tips = $6 | ||
| 1966 | Got to Kincy's at 3PM, we went to Holiday to get supplies, then left my car at Spring Lake where we picked up sleeping bags. He drove us to the farm in his car. Got there at 8PM and guess what - no animals. We set up camp and ate supper in the dark. Drove to North Redwood to call his parents - used the old "collect call to Mrs. Marshall" scam. | ||
| 1967 | My Honeywell check of $141.17 is ten times that of my Holiday Inn. | ||
| 1970 | In science we crushed a tin using air pressure. Joanne and Christine did some odd jobs today. Letter from Steve in Spain. | ||
| 1971 | Back at school but probably should have stayed home. I put most of 3B in detention and then let 5B get away with too much. Letter from Gail who will be in an apartment above a bakery in St Peter. | ||
| 1972 | We walked over to Deve's for supplies. Letter from Mom, a card from Chris, a note from Angi and a card and letter from Opal. 5000 stamps [ed. - must have bought them to trade with boys] arrived and I sorted them all over the livingroom floor. |  | |
| 1974 | Letter to Atmore. Letter to Susi. Down to Y for Papakura Boys Rep game. Paul Tauro (our star) couldn't make it and we only had 4 boys, so I called Wayne and he ended up being high scorer with 12 points. We won 37 - 36 with 5 seconds to spare when Nels stole the ball and flung it to Nigel under the basket. Went to see Gail in the evening and found her feeling low. | ||
| 1975 | Out to Klyberg's rental house and spent two hours scraping it. Home for lunch and wrote a letter to Hoffsis. Then two more hours scraping on a stepladder. Got more fence sections from Don to make an enlarged play pen for David. Went to softball practice. Don had to leave to sell sell a car. Shelby and her mother took off leaving us with Brad Wilson and 3 girls. I ripped a thigh muscle early on and spent an hour limping about. | ||
| 1976 | John Holgate and Brian O'Toole (morning DJs at Hauraki) gave a talk to 5th form classes. Arrived with 2 minutes to go for first session. They gave me the latest American Top 40 album set and a copy of Shoestring Pirates. Lloyd took my 3L class so I could stay for both sessions. The DJs stayed for lunch (turned down a cup of tea in favor of a beer at nearest pub) with me and I had a great time. Took 4I for Paul Castle after lunch and gave them a pep talk on Mathex. Floated around art class for a period and then statistics with 5ths. David Smithers stopped at the school and I showed him around. He brought me home and stopped in for a brief visit with Gail. Cost of living pay rise of $14 or $6.88 after taxes. Letter from Heasley. Letter (pg 1 pg 2) from Wilkins. Jack Gillan brought over the transformer he made but the points weren't "American". Dicksons over with Womble gifts (toothpaste) for David. Down to Y only to have the Eagles default the game. We had a game anyway - I was only in for the 2nd half and I played defense against the seagull. | 
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| 1977 | Dave Hawkins took the junior boys to Howick and they won 42 - 12. Had a good run through with seniors after school until 6PM. Ne likes to blow at the mobiles. Te says "miss" for "kiss". |  | |
| 1978 | F - Robyn B had a chat with me at lunch about my health, saying I was the last teacher she would have thought would be depressed. David Roberts (3R - 1973) visited me, even though I never taught him. |  Dave | |
| 1979 | Sa - Brought kids and Timmy to dairy to buy stuff with their money. They had no idea what a dollar is worth. So let them buy 10 pieces each and told them they still had money left, so they bought bags of Twisties and still have money for another trip. Letter from mom (in a bad car crash) so I got a reply (pg 1 pg 2) off. | ||
| 1980 | M - Mom went with her Welcome Wagon group to be on "Twin Cities Today" show. We watched, taped and got a photo of her. Note from Bette saying come early in August. Went to Target's Dollar Days sale. Big crowds and people going out with cartons of toilet paper. We got 16 rolls and a lot of household items. Tom Kelley called and said that StPaul Cos had contacted him. We talked for an hour. A lady ran out of gas right in front of the house, so I helped her. At 9PM a call from StPCos came and they offered me a job. Stayed up until to 2AM to see The Gong Show for the first time. | 
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| 1981 | T - Three jars of NZ honey (one leaking) from John Murphy - out of nowhere, and a letter. Connie brought me and kids to look at houses in Cottage Grove. Nice one on Greenway that I liked very much, 3 others and then one on Iden that was THE ONE. | ||
| 1982 | W - Got a lot done with no Lesser to talk to at work. Got my free ice cream cone thanks to Paul and Curt. Went to East Cottage Grove for David's game. They lost 34 - 21. David played 3rd last inning. Other team supplied the umpire and after the third bad call our coach, Bob, blew up and then the other coach got mad. | ||
| 1983 | Th - High = 95°F. Made good progress on Muccode and Compcodes. Home and went to bed until supper. Over to Hearthside for championship game for David's team. He struck out a couple times and got hit in the back. They won 11 - 1 and he got a trophy. We were watching "Good Life" and just as Margo said something about power cuts, ours went out (10:10PM and back on at 1:30AM), so we scurried around looking for candles. | 
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| 1984 | Lucky scratched at the door, so Gail let him into bed, so I moved to the couch where I didn't sleep. Letter from Simon who now has a trimaran. I put Weed 'n Feed on the lawn and waxed the car. Layed in bed and listened to the Twins lose to Tigers 6 - 5 in 12 innings when an ump made a rotten call on a play at home in front of a crowd of 50,000. | ||
| 1985 | Letter to Hargrove. Trish and James stopped in with Dot and Russell and Sanders also came by with gifts for David - mouse treadmill and water feeder. | ||
| 1986 | Letters from Elbers and Inez with birthday greetings to David. | ||
| 1987 | Graeme out with an AT for Rolling Mills. He won an award for "Salesman of the Year" at Powercorp - and it was me who did all the selling. Derek Harries all in a huff about a computer for his typist. Interviewed Chris Watson for IC job, but unfortunately he is no good. Couple hours of training for Margaret Shattock. Got home at 8:15PM. Letter to Eliason. Shipshape and Bristol Fashion by Hello Sailor ($10.49) album came today. |  | |
| 1988 | OZ trip: Dubbo to Moree. Go to Trip Report |  | |
| 1989 | Installed and tested Fastwire (transfer files between computers). Trained Robyn Clemons in DW4. Stayed until 7:30PM organizing training diskettes and the safe. Seven religion books that we ordered through school came today. Couple of good dictionaries and catechisms. |  | |
| 1990 | Sa - Letter to Bette and Frank for their 55th anniversary. Really fuzzed out so didn't do much. Scraped a section of livingroom ceiling. Open the Goldwater Rosé to celebrate our NOT winning Lotto again. | ||
| 1992 | Nailed the hole in David's ceiling (I made it when I was putting insulfluff in). Brought Ne to see Doug. Picked up car reg renewal ($206) at PO where I ran into Kathy back from a week in Perth. Met Ne at library where she was hiding in the stacks from Rosehill boys. Called Susi to organize for her birthday. I drew up a card for her. |  | |
| 1993 | Ran into Varney at 3 Guys. He is working on a plan to save $140 million/yr at Taharoa. We went to an empty Sizzlers. | ||
| 1994 | Up until 4:20 with migraine. Doug over for Scattergories. All worked up about selling a 486 to Jeff Bickerton and he can't get the CD headphones to work. | ||
| 1995 | Card and note from mom for David. Ne went to Whites. TP at our place. | ||
| 1997 | M - Day 7 of our 3 month journey around the world. See 1997 Trip Photo Journal. | ||
| 1998 | T - Don Rolle called to say he was washing his hands of all IT as Bali has returned and wants me to drop everything and do the library. Washed ceilings and walls. Letter to Fab. Installed Print Shop Magic Deluxe on our computer. | ||
| 2000 | F - email to Schwitters. Called mom - Angi fired and has moved in with Johnny. Trish visited. We walked down through Spring Valley development. Many calls from Doug who is trying to get ZFREE on David's computer. TP at Irene's. Went early so I could fix and association problem on her computer. | ||
| 2001 | Rotten all day and spent most of it in bed. Listen to the Twins lose to Brewers. Whites stop in at 3PM to pick up Fijian stuff for Knight's shop to use. They put an offer on Valley Rd and it was countered. Cribbage. Card and letter to Ubukata's. Slept after supper until 10:30PM, then I was wide awake until 3AM. Read Ogden Nash's "The Three D's". | ||
| 2002 | Up at 11:30AM and Joyce wanted out so we went to Denny's for the breakfast "Slugger" special. Staples to make copies of her will, Walgreens and Alberstons. Mini-golf (by airport) photo from David. Listened to the Twins beat the phenom Mariners 8 - 4 on Torii Hunter's grand slam and Eric Milton's complete game. email to Wrights. Touched up Bill's ceiling. |  | |
| 2003 | Up at 6AM!!!! Gail into Auckland Surgical Centre where Dr. Tristain de Chalain removed a 400g lump from her upper left arm in 62 minutes for a theatre charge of $1621. Meanwhile, I slept for 3 hours in the waiting room. Easy peasy, just like that we were home at 11AM. emails from Harlan and Audrey (who is now in Ottowa and having a great time). I sent one off to Colleen. Gib-stopped loft room. And then slept for a few hours. Listened to the Twins 6 - Chicago 8 in 12 innings. Created a card for James. | 
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| 2004 | Up before 9AM because of my cold. Began work on a Malley-Gram. Washed clothes. Listened to the Twins 2 - (41 yr-old Randy Johnson) 6. We got Steph's car stowed away on drive. Had a sleep and won cribbage when I got up. Listened to the Twins Radke shutout KC 9 -0. | ||
| 2005 | Slept until 11:30AM. email to Rosalie. Removed leaves from pool, lost the cribbage game and went to bed for four hours. Gail went out with Kathy, who now has 2 hearing aids. | ||
| 2006 | Washed clothes but not in the new washer that was delivered today. Card and letter to Noriyo. Lost cribbage game when Gail got home from shopping with Elaine. Listened to the Twins 4 - Indians 6. | ||
| 2007 | Up at 11AM. email to Monique. Listened to the Twins 3 - White Sox 6. Flu/head/ear aches sent me to bed for 4 hours. Won cribbage game when I got up. Did the Skin 4 Life newsletter. Wacthed All Blacks beat South Africa 33 - 6. | ||
| 2008 | Up at 8AM to await the tilers who laid as many whole tiles as they could, so we need to skirt around the edges to get from A to B. Card and letter to Hartmanns. Listened to the Twins 7 - Tigers 6. I had a five minute visit with an orthopeadic surgeon who says that my shoulders are not worth an operation. Its just old age, but in my case 10 years before normal. I just have to take it easy and not make things worse. Picked up Gail's meds and then hit the bank. I was being served by Ngwhai and when Val showed up she said: "Hi John". Ngwhai was surprized and asked why she called me that. Val told her we were friends. I told them they could call me Jone, and then later that my real name is Joannes. Ngwhai asked what was the most common way I was addressed. I said: "Sir". Then Ne's bank, fill up her car and get some gorceries at Super Valu, because New World is closed today. We cleared the prunings from the verge and I began rehanging the fallen fence sections. Lost cribbage game. email from Steve N. Watched Women's Murder Club. | ||
| 2009 | T - Slept until 11:20AM. email from Meli U and I sent ones to Steve N and Elaine (she replied). Listened to the Twins 7 - Chicago 8. Bitterly cold and rain, so I slept the afternoon away. Up to lose the cribbage game. | ||
| 2010 | W - email to Ted. Listened to the Twins 6 - Tigers 3. Ne left around Noon. Mowed lawns and blasted a driveway section. Skunked Gail when she got home from ordering new eye glasses. Emails from Hatchman and Chapman. Letter from Bob Hayson. email from Fiona - Helen has breast cancer. Gail and I played some pool - I kept hitting the 8 ball in. While working on Gail's trip photos I discovered that Chris had uploaded 83 photos from Joyce's funeral and my workload just expanded again. |  | |
| 2011 | Th - Letter and card to Russel. Cleaned kitchen. Removed leaves from pool. Changed oil on car (after emptying the transmission fluid). Talked to Russell: ceilings painted. Cleaned kitchen. Emptied wooden drawers in my room, so now everything is on shelves only. | ||
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