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Tuesday, March 03, 2009

I haven't had Swedish Butter Cookies in about 20 years, so I think I may make some soon.

Sometimes I try to determine dates of things by determining their relationship to other things or events. Having no written record of a lot of this, that's the best I can do. For example, I haven't had these cookies in about twenty years, because my grandparents on my Dad's side made them, and they died off the 1980s.

Man, I've been editing this entry like crazy in order to determine a timeline of events. Let's see if I can put this in some sort of order:

In 8th grade I went to H. C. Crittenden Middle School in Armonk, NY (1982 - 1983). I was definitely living in Hawthorne then, because I rode the bus with Mike B____. I had gotten a new ten-speed bike from the bike shop in Elmsford, and gone on a trip to Croton Reservoir with him since he lived on the border of Hawthorne and Thornwood. Grandfather on my father's side died in May 1983. He was living in Beacon, NY. (My grandparents were living on Central Avenue in Hartsdale when I was really little, and sold the house which got torn down and replaced with a Kentucky Fried Chicken.)

In 9th grade I was at Rye High School in Rye, NY (1983 - 1984). I met Bill E____ there, and we rode the bus together, which means we lived near each other (he lived in Hastings-on-Hudson, the next town over). Definitely had my ten-speed then, because I was riding it everywhere I went. 1984 was also the year Van Halen's album of the same title came out, so I'm thinking by 1984 I was definitely living in Dobbs Ferry (I moved back to Hawthorne sometime around 1990---there's probably more info about this in my paper journal).

Around 1985 I bought my C-64 computer from Crazy Eddie's in Hartsdale and started running a BBS on it. Bill E____ got me interested in The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy.

I'm glad I'm documenting this somewhere, even if nobody else is interested in it.

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I remember Crazy Eddie's. Boy, there prices were INSANE! Mostly, they were in Jersey, so didn't get that way much. Think I bought a receiver in Yonkers. Let's see if I can play this game too:

1972 or so there was a huge blizzard in Vermont-- like really huge. I was a little kid. the following spring, there were earthworms all over the place in town-- kinda weird. And for the next 10 years, there was quite an overpopulation of gypsy moths and tent caterpillars. Lots of nest on the Taconic.

1980 was when my stepdad adopted us. I remember that was the same time as "the diet doctor trial." One of my mom's friends know the defendant-- Jean Harris. Somehow, she knew the lady had purchased a silencer for her pistol, and my mom's friend was all freaked-out about going to court.

1985 graduated HS in Pville 1995 graduated from tech school in Phoenix. Those are easy to remember as they both end in "5".

Speaking of the Taconic-- I don't live that way anymore, but there was a horrible intersection near Thornwood, where the SMR, 9A, Merrit, Sprain, Rt100, and the train track all met at the same place. It took them years to fix that mess. Maybe 1987ish?

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