My older brother like to give advice. He was often right.

When I was about 13 He told me that I should say NO if I wished, but had to be strong enough to know those would be the guys who were most likely to trash your reputation.

so (at the time) saying no on a first date was “normal” – his advice was never go on a second date unless you thought the guy was really worth my time and future effort.

Looking back, he was absolutely correct –

What is your favorite – “why didn’t I think of this sooner” for food preservation: Mine is something I started as an experiment in my 20’s for “lunch box food”

Everyone knows about freezing everything from herbs to eggs to bits of left over meats in an ice cube tray for later use. And most have likely heard about using muffin trays then transferring to a zipper bag or air tight container.

And that does work EXCEPT sometimes the cubes still stick together.

I find the inexpensive cupcake/muffin papers in both sizes – filled no more than 3/4 but mostly 2/3 – when the food is frozen, just fold over the edges before placing in the bag – no more chunks/cubes stuck together

Having a moment: according to Eric Trump

“No family in American history has taken ‘more arrows in the back’ than mine”

well at least his has the financial resources to fight back, some of us are not so lucky

The primary difference between this switchboard and the one in use in YPD in the mid-70’s is the absecnce of Rotary Dial on the operator’s right. The headsets were also different. Western Electric kept those 500 series switchboards working until well into the 1980’s. The only upgrade was usually the addition of a rotary dial and some time in the late 70’s the addition of tone-tone 12 digit “dials”
It was an adventure and a learning experience for all including the gentlemen from Bell Labs in Moorestown NJ – as a test site for the 557B that was in service for the Telephone Industry (slightly different model than that use in non=TAS offices)

This is a picture of the type of headsets used by both TAS & YPD at that time. Trust me when I say they were damned heavy

When I was in school so many decades ago, your reading comprehension score (the ability to accurately read, retain and yes repeat information in a document was something to be proud of.

Now it seems so many can’t even properly quote. Perhaps that is why so many are so easily mis-led. And, so often open themselves to being labeled as less than knowledgeable.