This is the portion of the program where I post pictures of our cats

And it's time for more cat pictures....

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ABOVE: l to r: Blanche, Hank, and Norma

BELOW: LEFT: Blanche  RIGHT: Blanche and Hank

ABOVE: Hank and Blanche

BELOW: 2 shots of Hank and Norma

 A shot of all 4 cats together - l to r: Hank, Charlie Hodges, Norma, and Blanche

Ticket Stub Nostalgia: My life in concerts

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Records records records!

Took a few closeup pictures of the record collection for a web banner I was making. As the CD and MP3 collections grow larger the vinyl collection gets smaller, but I can't imagine ever not having at least a few hundred albums around.

Some walls in Oaxaca Mexico (1998)

While in Oaxaca in 1998 for the Dia de los Muertos (Day of the Dead) festival I became obsessed with the beauty of the walls there. I wish we had a digital camera back then - I would have taken hundreds of photos. The camera I brought was new and I didn't even know there was a date stamp setting, so I never turned it off (or even set the date to the correct date!), which bums me out seeing it on all of the photos. 

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some index card doodles

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Dia de los Muertos (Day of the Dead) Oaxaca Mexico (1998)

Pictures from the Dia de los Muertos (Day of the Dead) festival in Oaxaca Mexico (1998) 

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 ABOVE: Various calaveras at a stand outside one of the large cemeteries. 

LEFT: Artist recreating Posada's "La Calavera de la Catrina" outside cemetery at Dia de los Muertos

RIGHT: Calaveras (skeleton puppets and figures) hanging in a Oaxaca market for Day of the Dead.

ABOVE: girls decorating graves for Dia de los Muertos

 ABOVE and BELOW: graves decorated for Dia de los Muertos (that's me standing next on in the bottom right picture)

Photos Around Chicago in the Summer

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