The Last Day of ITAM

Sent from my stubborn Hammond Multiplex.  Not bad for nearly 100 years old.

I spent most of my day working on my taxes and thinking of how can I do something for the last day of ITAM.  For some silly reason I thought of an old simple-silly song from way back in my radio days, The Second Week of Deer Camp by Da Yoopers.  Somehow I could not think of how to make and ITAM verse rhyme the way it should even though the metre could make it fit.

I also thought I'd get to my parts machines.  I do have some parts promised, but I wanted to post them here.  Keep watching.  One day soon I will post them.

For now...it's back to making the IRS happy.



P.S. Please visit Claudia's blog.

Claudia Has A New Blog -- Claudia's Tappy Typewriters

Just thought I'd share this for those readers not in the Yahoo! group.

Claudia Tan is a typewriter collector and typist in Singapore.

Claudia's Tappy Typewriters

I'm sure you will enjoy it.

Appreciating Typewriters at Work

The reactions of fellow employees to their engineering manager using a typewriter is worth the effort of using a typewriter at an electronics company.  I think I'm expected to do everything with a computer.....

Celebrate ITAM with a Typewriter Keyboard Rug

Found this typewriter keyboard rug while looking for something else this morning.

I hope they do not mind I used thier photo.

I.T.A.M. 2015

Photo from ad.  Is this thing damaged or will it be fine?  Turns out it was and is fine.

Hermes 3000.8

I hope to post more on my adventures with the Oliver typewriters as well as some of our week end getaways.  Plenty of photos and enough to type for a few posts if I take the time to do them.

We've been back out to the local parks and wildlife preserves enjoing summer weather while most of the rest of North America is burried in snow or shivering from sub-zero temperatures.  Know what?  I miss both (except on the firegound or responding to emergencies on ice-covered roads).

Summer here is worse than the times where the tempereature was below zero F for a month or more and we got dumping after dumping after dumping of snow in accumulations of 12 or more inches at a time.  I'd take off with my backpack, tent, and snow shoes and go camping.  More work than in the summer, but no bugs.

Really, I do like the spring-time weather the best.  Shirt and shorts weather, no bugs, and Mrs. M can go along.  If we were still in the North she'd be pretty much stuck indoors.  I guess there are advantages and disadvantages to almost any locality.