Can it be I have been writing this blog since September 3, 2006? Doesn’t seem like it, but the evidence is there. I started not know where or when it would end and I still don’t. It would be hard to pull away from the wonderful, eclectic group of blogger buddies I’ve met through this post, Amuirin, Corina, Ben, Chris, Robin, Lea, Tabbie, Carson, and on an on. I hesitated to begin naming because I know I will delete some of my favorites, but you know who you are. If only my brain were as sharp as it had to be in the picture above from 1957 — not 2006. Don’t want anyone to think I descended the mountain in Shangri La sometime in the last three years. By the way, that’s a Burroughs bookkeeping machine. Thank God for tiny computers with electric keyboards.
What I am really trying to say (badly) is thank all of you who read, encourage and challenge me for sticking around. You make it all worthwhile.
A N H I N G A 
Happy Anniversary! Three years is a lot longer than some bloggers last!
I don’t remember when I started my first blog but I remember blogging on a blogspot blog back in 2002 so it has been at least that long, off and on.
It’s great to be one of your buddies! I enjoy reading your posts, even when I don’t agree with them. And I love having your insightful comments on my blog posts, too!
Thanks, Corina. I think we have a pretty special little, virtual community with only the most interesting people on the web. 🙂 That we have such divergent opinions makes it even better.
you go girl, keep those great blogs coming BUT– why are you not aging??? How many year since you made that pact with the devil?
You are so funny. 🙂 Thanks for putting up with my drivel both here and at writers’ group. Now WE go a long way back.
Beda,
I don’t have a blog but yours are always so interesting. Keepon bloggin’.
You look great in the picture. Oh, how young we were…..sigh
If only…………I remember when I never had to write anything down; it all stayed in my brain. Now my brain has turned into a sieve.
Oh my, I forgot all the people without blogs who honor me by reading my scattered thoughts day after day. What would I do without you? Might as well just make sticky notes to myself. Please know how grateful and am for you and all those who stop by regularly or even once in a while.
I suppose I looked pretty much like that picture when you and I met, Eebee. What I wouldn’t give to have those slim arms back. 🙂
*hug*
I’m so glad we met.
What a knock-out! You must have turned a lot of heads. And that machine is fabulous too, it almost seems surreal in this age of tinier and tinier technology.
Very cool machine, A. Can you tell us much more about it? where did you use it, and what did it do–combine the best or worst elements of a typewriter and an adding machine?
Given some of the headaches I have at work lately, I’m kind of wishing I could punch the clock there and start in.
Keep at it, Anhinga!
Whoa! It’s been a long time (over 50 years). Let’s see what I remember. The machine was always just called a Burroughs bookkeeping machine. The keys were manual, but it apparently had an electric calculator inside. It would be years before someone marketed an electric typewriter. We did all the books for a small city in Texas on it. I started as an intern and learned that and another ancient billing machine for water bills that printed out little postcards. We had only manual typewriters and phones with wires, switchboards, real ancient stuff. LOL The only thing we didn’t have in that office was a Morse code machine. But you know what? If it was mechanical I loved it. I am so glad to have lived into the computer age. The wait was worth it.
We didn’t have any bookkeeping machines around, but when I started working for the Air Force in 1962 we used Friden electric calculators that were about the size of a manual typewriter. It had multiple rows of numbers and when we punched in a number and hit the add key it would go ka-chunk, ka-chunk, … until it had the answer. There were wheels actually turning inside. About four years later we got our first electronic calculator. It was way bigger than the Fridens but worked faster.