Necessary follow up:
John tells me that my note had a fatalist tone to it. None was intended at all -- there
is nothing absolutely wrong with me at all. I'm in perfect health (even including my
liver, which is so much sturdier than Jack Daniels could ever be). I AM approaching a
birthday (which will have me rounding up to 50 afterward), so I was only musing on age and
the slippered pantaloon I'll be shifting into soon.
Probably, (Mike Godwin can tell me), it was bad etiquette to blast everyone about this
awesome little road trip John Stokes and I will taking this month. But it was a faux-pas
born from a burst of enthusiasm. So I'm sorry (if necessary) to clog everyone's
email with my joy. And with the PS. And with this follow up.
Once again, yours, David
From: dzieglersf(a)hotmail.com
To: polybear(a)sdc.org
CC: winedale-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org
Subject: RE: Look how much fun we're going to have ... WAS: Haunted Air: Halloween
Photos 1875-1955 - Boing Boing
Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2011 22:16:25 -0700
P.S. Shawn Sides arrives tomorrow for a week. ARE WE HAVING FUN YET!!!
In California, but not forgotten,
Zig
From: dzieglersf(a)hotmail.com
To: polybear(a)sdc.org
CC: winedale-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org
Subject: RE: Look how much fun we're going to have ... WAS: Haunted Air: Halloween
Photos 1875-1955 - Boing Boing
Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2011 21:48:30 -0700
Clayton: Awesome pictures. In late November, John Stokes or I will probably come to
resemble some of them. (See hi-jacked thread below.) -----------
Johnnio: The one-way ticket is bought. I arrive in Albuquerque on Tuesday, November 22,
at 6:17 on United 6416. We'll then spend the next couple of days together in Socorro
near the VERY Large Array -- and make ourselves available to all the (YOW-WOW!)
Astro-Physics babes (at least, those whom Matthew McConaughey hasn't managed to ruin
already). Then we'll indulge in Thanksgiving dinner (it IS time for the Stokes-family
recipe of egg-nog by then, ain't it?), tumble our tryptophan-besotted selves into the
Challenger (Reincarnation Number 4, by now, I expect), and stagger ourselves to San
Francisco (at a reasonably leisurely pace). By "stagger," I mean: help me plan
out the perfect route. I'm thinking Death Valley, Sequoia National Forest, Kings
Canyon, some airplane boneyard (like the Mojave Air and Space Port), Joshua Tree, whatever
Arizona and New Mexico have to offer -- it's a damn fine Euler's Shortest Route
problem, ain't it. Pick two or three or so. At the least it will keep us on the the
US Highways and off those eff-ing interstates (damn you, Dwight D. Eisenhower!). We have
a few days to spare. I await your suggestions. Let's make this trip count. Love you!
Zig
----------- Whoops, I accidentally CC-ed the whole Winedale list -- ON PURPOSE! Can you
imagine how much fun we will have -- trolling (trawling?) across the whole Southwest and
California together -- with Die Miestersinger blaring (occasional Steve Reich interludes)
on John's tape deck? (please Please PLEASE, John, upgrade it to a CD-player or even
iPod enabled [?!?!] before I get there). I speak for myself: I ain't got many more
road-trips in me -- none, if the 1% have their way and deprive me of Social Security and
Medicare in my waning days -- and this is one I NEED to have before the gout sets in and I
can't sit up for long. John is having is own medical problems, but he assures me that
driving long distances isn't one of them. By popular acclaim we'll try to take
pictures and broadcast them for as long as ATT and the iPhone allow. Love and miss you all
(even the ones I don't know), and you're welcome be very jealous of the fun
we'll be having! Yours, David ZieglerFrom: cstromberger(a)mail.utexas.edu
Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2011 23:00:55 -0500
To: weeklong-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org
Subject: [Weeklong-l] Haunted Air: Halloween Photos 1875-1955 - Boing Boing
Thought you all might enjoy this. Hope everyone had a happy and spooky Halloween.
best,
c
http://boingboing.net/2011/10/24/haunted-air-halloween-photos-1875-1955.html
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