I'm my own grandpa....

[drscott]

I never met either grandfather, but here's a bit on one, with me holding a family heirloom.

http://www.smxwl.com/grandadcoleman.htm

Comments

[excessor.livejournal.com]

That's a great photo of you holding the gun. You look like you're protecting your homestead. A modern homstead with glass doors, but a homestead nonetheless. From this photo and the link in an earlier post to photos from your trip, it's clear that you're one of those people who can wear a hat well. There aren't too many of you, and I'm jealous.

The offer letter is illuminating. When was the last time you saw an offer letter like this one? I can't quite make out the salary, but it doesn't sound like much and the job sounds difficult. There's a world of difference between then and now.

[dr-scott.livejournal.com]

Looks like a dork with a gun to me. :-)

Watch yourself, if you keep sucking up to me in comments people will think you're compromised. Not that I mind.

As for the offer, it's quaintly polite. $60 a month was a lot then, in today's dollars about $15K a year. The area was roughly at the stage of development India is at now.

[excessor.livejournal.com]

Hey, that's no gun.

Oh, am I sucking up? I thought I was trying help sustain a conversation. In an effort to ensure that others don't feel I'm sucking up, allow me to revise the comment:

Who's the dork acting out a probably subconscious Freudian concern? And someone should tell him to quit wearing hats because unless you're Carol Channing, Omar Sharif in Dr. Zhivago, or a cast member of Beach Blanket Babylon, hats are passé.

How's that? :-) I would spit, too, but there appears to be no commonly accepted typographic convention for that.

Back to you, Arlene.

[dr-scott.livejournal.com]

Oh, that's the evil queen side of you you keep saying you have but that I haven't seen! Heh. I think you've done your bit to relieve readers of the impression you like me for something other than my mind.

As you may have gathered, I don't take compliments gracefully. Just a part of my general humility and modesty. Really too perfect for this world.... :-)

[excessor.livejournal.com]

No, that's the benevolent queen side of me. You have yet to experience the evil queen side of me. I'm trying to suppress that side. Just don't piss me off. [lol]

I do like you for something other than your mind—you're a kind man with a good sense of humor and a capacity for empathy that goes deeper than many people know. I'm quite happy to count you among my friends.

Yes, I know about the compliment problem. I share it, which is why you get a lot of slack about it.

As for your general humility and modesty, yes, you're exactly right: too perfect for this world. [rolls eyes] By any chance have you been drinking? Come sit by me tonight at ECR.