Today, I thought that I would do something different. As an interesting (I think) gift to my children, I want to list a month's worth of events in the life of the Vaughan Family at 3411 Farmstead Drive. So, if you are not a close relative of mine, you might want to skip today's blog entry. However, if you are interested in what an average family did in the 1980's, take a look.
The Year: 1982.. The Month: May
5/01 Marie Lister began working in the office of Westminster Motors. She lied about her age, because they did not want to hire someone who was eligible for Social Security benefits.
5/02 I spent some time fixing a busted out porch screen.
I also glued and painted the front doors with epoxy.
5/03 Millie E. (SSA) says my reconsidered back pay claim has left her office approved.
5/04 Elaine and I had an anniversary dinner (25 years) at the Westview Lounge. Unfortunately, the food was over priced and overcooked.
Elaine ordered a new bedroom set. (By 6/01, it had not showed up.. so what else is new?)
5/05 Henry Drumheller. and I submitted a checkpoint/restart microplan to our boss, Ralph DeAngelus.
5/06 We had a small celebration for Freud's birthday at SSA.
5/07 This was Brahms and Tchaikovsky's birthdays.. but we didn't have a celebration for them.
We had a presentation for Marty Holtz and presented him with a Bert Mellinger bow tie and movie portfolio and a Porky's poster... and... a check for $2,942.
Marty was speechless for the first time in his life. Lots of people showed up in the Multipurpose room. We had lots of cookies and salad and Elaine's famous peanut butter frosting cake.
Prime movers in the Marty fundraising effort were Esther Mandel, Doris Broderick and the Foster Parents group at SSA. Also Norm Youskauskas and the SSA Theatre group.
Marty looked fit and tanned up and plans to return to work in a few weeks.
5/09 Mothers' Day.. Elaine got clothes, a plant, a blue vase and something else, I can't remember.
The mower deck brace broke.
I finished the porch screening job and painted the porch.
5/10 The Falkland Island fighting continues.
Ron S's pain returned after months of relief.
5/11 Ron H's father, who had emphesema, contracted the flu and then pneumonia and passed at age 62. He had worked in Systems before I got there and retired shortly after I began there in the 1960's.
5/11 Our kids treated us to a wonderful anniversary dinner at Hausners.
5/12 I put the Citation into Larry's for an $89 rip-off tune-up. It runs worse after the so-called tune-up.
5/13 I put the mower deck into Western Auto for a new brace and two new blades.
5/14 Diane has a new boy friend... John Cole... a friend of Bob Clark.
5/15 -5/16 My cousin Charlie Kraihanzel and Pauline visited.
5/15 We took Pauline and Charlie to Hausners for their wedding anniversary.
5/16 I tilled the garden again.
5/16 We bought a used dining room set at a yard sale for $500.
5/18 One of my employees, Rose F. got a High Quality Increase award.
5/19 Diane got an "A" on her Fortran final exam.
5/19 Got a flat tire on the Citation. Probably from climbing the curb a week earlier. Can't be fixed.
5/20 I bought 2 new tires at Ezrine.. $144.
5/20-5/21 Elaine attended a class at a Towson Motel: ADP for Secretaries and Clericals (yes, she aced it)
5/22 I picked up the fixed mower deck... $33.
5/22 Chris helped out at the regional gymnastic meet.
5/22 Elaine's "non-boil" began again.
5/23 My long lost Brother Joe's son Brad graduated from High School.
5/23 We let Chris go to see the "Conan" movie even though it's an "R".. because Big Arnie is in it.
5/23 We got our first small red strawberries.
5/24 Elaine's proofreading class began and will last until 6/04.
5/24 Chris began a new weightlifting program.. also diet.. more protein.
5/25 We all helped the Cindy Lane guy deliver our new (but used) dining room set.
5/26 I put a $40 deposit on a Beta VCR.
5/27 Diane got an overall "B" in Fortran.
5/27 Lou Peters and his enamorata and Bernie Kurta and his wife visited New York to see Warren
Witmer who is very ill with cancer. (3 packs a day smoker)
5/27 The son of Joan K delivered the VCR we bought for $400. He sold it because he needs $200 immediately or he will lose his car. He's been laid off for a while.
5/28 Tevis came and fixed an oil smell and cleaned the oil burner.
5/28 Two young guys fixed our roof for $80.
5/28 We changed health plans from Blue Cross to NAGE. Hope we made the right move. We'll have to join that union.
5/29 Today would have been JFK's 65th birthday.
5/29 We drove 237 miles to Fairmont, West Virginia, to visit with Brother Joe and his wife Linda. As I expected, they are very nice people! This was half way between our house and their Ohio home. We took the Plymouth because the Citation runs so lousy.
5/29 Joe and Linda gave us a nice whale book and some butterflies.
5/29 We ate at Muriale's Station Restaurant.. and Brother Joe got mad when they automatically gave him a senior discount. Hey, they do it to me all the time.
5/29 Linda told me more about my "supposed" father, Joe Balestracci. She had been talking to my mother and she said that my mother insisted that Joe was my father.
5/30 We drove back to Maryland, stopping at a yard sale along the way... of course.
5/30 As we left West Virginia, we noticed that the 17 year locust were out in force.. all over the sidewalks... and noisy as hell.
(By the way, for some reason, Elaine's allergy didn't appear in May, but waited until June 19th, when it started quite mildly and didn't get too bad as long as she kept medicated.)
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