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Happy New Year!
Speak about starting a year off right. I am still being sloppy with my typecasts.I noticed typos after posting again. I need to add typing proficiency to my goals; 100% accuracy. The Tippa was also my...
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Fourteen Years and 364 Days
This is really a two day typecast. Mrs. and I spent yesterday together for one of our special days together. I started it last night. Got tired and quit. Finished it today.We are parked beside the...
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Birds and Books
This tall stool is just right for typing on the SignetP.S.An afterthought from yesterday as we were driving back to town for our lunch is that I should have at least taken some photos of the Preserve....
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Kalamazoo Type-In
Our TypistsAndy and AndreaAndy, Dorothy, Bill MAndrea, Mrs. M (Debbie), DorothyAndrea and Andy discussing her RemetteAndrea giving her Remette a test runAndy & Debbie discussing one of many...
View ArticleAn Official Sabbatical -- From Blogging
We are finally able to leave the heat and humidity and unbearable weather of Florida and move to a more temperate place -- Michigan. No more always going out to a wet heavy dew covered car. No more...
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Typospherically speaking...I'm Back
PSMy plan was to pick up from where I left off after leaving Kalamazoo earlier this year, but with the hectic pace of everything I have not had time to get the images ready or even type the typecasts....
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Tablesaw Typing
This machine has a Pica Cubic typeface. One of my favorites. Everything needs cleaned and then I'll add to one of my stereo systems. The NAD stays in the garage with the rest of the NAD gear. NAD...
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A Bit of History
These are some of the many wind turbines we saw driving through Ohio.These are so interesting and peaceful as they perform their rotary ballet with a slight swish... ... swish ... ... as long as the...
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A Visit to Mayberry, U.S.A.
In reference to photos, no, what follow are digital images. I did not take a camera on this trip. All images courtesy of my now defunct Lumix LF-1.Perhaps the most famous filling station in the...
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Hell-O-Ween
Remember the Clint Eastwood movie High Plains Drifter where he renames a town Hell? That was a movie town, this one is in MI. Although the town is unincorporated, and it does not have a Post Office,...
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Olivetti Typewriters for the Type-In, Red Lettera 22 and others
The first Lettera 22 I received. It is the red Italian one. Outwardly it looks the same before and after cleaning.One cannot (well, yes I could, but I need to plug one of Ted Munk's excellent...
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Digital Imaging & California Typewriter
The Kodak 1A Stylus gave me my start in collecting old Kodak cameras. The 3A is similar, but larger. Back about 1990 or so my Grandma was clearing out what remained of my Grandfather's belongings. One...
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Typewriter Insurgency Strikes Michigan
I thought this letterhead appropriate since I'll be taking my Olivetti typewriters.The Olivetti family all packed and ready to go.I was hoping to acquire a Lettera 32 by now, but the typewriter gods...
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Report of the Michigan Typewriter Insurgency Part 1
Sorry for the double space beginning of paragraph one .I think it is Agent Tim (sorry if I got your name wrong) and Agent AndreaOrganizer Andy, Agent Elise, and Agent MattAgent Dorothy and Agent...
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Continuing the Report of the Michigan Typewriter Insurgency (Part 2)
A modified ManifestoWonder why Agent Elise is so happyAgents Elise, Andrea, and Debbie. Agent Dorothy was missing in action.Agent Bob enjoying Tony Casillo's Typewriters book.Not only were there...
View ArticleTom Hanks Christmas Present
For those who may not have seen this: http://www.cnn.com/2017/12/19/entertainment/tom-hanks-gives-typewriter-to-massachusetts-family/index.htmlI seldom do only a link, but I'm presently quite busy.
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The Year is 2018 Already!
On the way to the hardware store last SaturdayThe neighbor's trees yesterday.Originally I was going to us my Hammond with some of the Hammond letterhead I have, but Mrs. M was still asleep when I did...
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