Dear friend Sprinkleeninow, know that you are and will be in the prayers and thoughts

of the many you have consoled and reached out to on DU.

I also know that you are part of a strong faith community who will wrap their arms around you and bring you the strength you will need at this time and into the future.

We at DU will miss you and your wisdom, but we can go to the many offerings you have posted in the classical music group and choose to listen to what ever suits us at the moment.

Take very good care of yourself during this difficult time, and feel the love of so many.

Surname at birth is Kelly, second most numerous name in Ireland.

My Kellys came to Philadelphia in 1820, but later marriages included some famine-era Irish - Savage, Fallon. Even my German ancestors changed their name from Kuhn (with umlaut) to Keene.

Maternal is French-Canadian & German.

I used to love the Sears catalogue. Items were available there that could not be found elsewhere.

In particular, I recall ordering the bottom half - pants- of children's sleepers.
The bottom half always wore out sooner than the tops, due to children learning to crawl while wearing their sleepers.
So I had many tops by bottoms with holes in them.
Sears came through with bottoms from their catalogues.

The good old days......

Congratulations! I always take my shoes off before weighing and would take off my watch

and rings if I thought that would help.
Seriously, wear light-weight clothing for medical weigh purposes.
Why use a belt when each once makes a difference.
Also, empty your bladder and try to not have a full bowel.
Good luck on your travels and cruises - now that is difficult.

Are 90% over 50? Do 30's and 40's think bikes are cool?

Do 30's and 40's have the cash and time for bikes?

I qualify for one of those categories....

Except for losing the one hour of sleep, I welcome DST, for longer, later daylight....

But then, I'm a night-owl, who never sees dawn no matter how the clocks are set.

The prices dropped fairly quickly, within a few years, as they quickly became mass produced.

IIRC, they were very basic, and not very small either.

Remember, I was more of an on-looker.
Calculators were not my thing.
We still have hubby's slide rule, though, which I also know nothing about how it works, or how one uses it.

I'm old enough to remember when the hand-held calculator was new and expensive.

I don't remember the dates - likely sometime in the seventies- when the hand-held calculator's cost was several $100s and was considered state-of-the-art technology.

I'm liberal arts type, but my spouse was an engineer and involved at the beginning of this technology, so I recall his friends proudly displaying their latest work-piece.

It's really something to comprehend how far technology has come in such a relatively short time period.