TheBanyanTree: TheBanyanTree Digest, Vol 88, Issue 1

Sat Jan 1 18:10:54 PST 2011

I have both.  That is, I have both a Blackberry and a Week-At-A-Glance
calendar, spiral- bound.  I like hand writing my To Do lists, and
crossing the items off. Deleting an accomplished chore doesn't give
the same warm whirr of satisfaction in my chest.

I wish a happy new year for all.  As for myself, I am just damm happy
to see the end of 2010 come around.  :->

xoxoSidda

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>    1. Wolf Moon 2010 - Something has been lost... (Dale M. Parish)
>    2. Re: Wolf Moon 2010 - Something has been lost... (Kitty)
>    3. Re: Wolf Moon 2010 - Something has been lost... (Dale M. Parish)
>    4. Re: Wolf Moon 2010 - Something has been lost... (Dale M. Parish)
>    5. Re: Wolf Moon 2010 - Something has been lost...
>       (A. Christopher Hammon)
>
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Message: 1
> Date: Sat, 1 Jan 2011 00:07:08 -0600
> From: "Dale M. Parish" <parishdm at att.net>
> To: Tree Banyan <thebanyantree at remsset.com>
> Subject: TheBanyanTree: Wolf Moon 2010 - Something has been lost...
> Message-ID: <18FA0FE5-57E0-46D2-BB2E-A9CBD9EEFE44 at att.net>
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>
> Something has been lost, I've noticed, in the period between Christmas and
> New Years.  For years, I've received a copy of the Farmer's Almanac in my
> stocking.  For over twenty years, I carried in my breast pocket my bound
> At-A-Glance pocket calendar book.  It became an annual tradition to set
> aside one night between Christmas and New Year's to take my new calendar
> book and methodically go through each section and transfer the phone
> numbers, addresses, birthdays, anniversaries, contacts, cost codes, account
> numbers, encrypted combinations and passwords, and every thing that the
> little address book carried for me that I might need to remember from a
> written copy.
>
> In addition, I treated my little pocket calendars as a history, and each
> year, after retirement, I filed away last year's book with all its
> predecessors, leaving a history of where I'd been, with whom I'd met, and
> who was important to me that year.
>
> During the act of transferring contacts, I would leave out those people whom
> I felt I'd not be doing business with in the new year, and any phone numbers
> or names I couldn't remember who they were would be left out, thinking that
> if I remembered someone later that I needed, I could always go back and get
> the number out of the old book.  I seldom did.
>
> After copying all the contact information, I'd page through the calendar,
> day by day, and migrate any anniversaries that I wanted to carry forward--
> birthdays I'd picked up on through the year, expiration dates of
> subscriptions, renewal dates of leases, anything that would reoccur in the
> new year.  Then I'd break out the Farmer's Almanac.
>
> I used the traditional symbology in my weekly calendar to mark the first,
> full, last, and new moon in ink.  That was the only thing that got marked in
> ink.  Everything else got penciled in.  I think the movement of the spheres
> isn't likely to change in my lifetime, so could be marked permanantly.
> After the moon phases were completed for the year, then I'd go back through
> the calendar and mark sunrise and set for each Sunday from the Farmer's
> Almanac.  Following that, I'd look up all the meteor showers, lunar and
> solar eclipses expected to be visible from Texas and mark them.
>
> But about eleven years ago, my boss gave me a "PDA" for Christmas-- a Palm
> Pilot.  After my initial scoff, I started looking at the calendar features--
> an event could be repeated annually or almost any other frequency or
> combination.  Not to mention that there was available for it a program that
> would give sun rise and set, moon rise and set, eclipses, day length, sun
> azimuth, etc. for any place on the planet.  Additionally, the contacts list
> let one categorize individuals, attach notes such as account numbers,
> combinations, and the like.  Plus, birthdays and anniversaries of
> individuals showed up in the calendar automagically.  This was a big
> improvement on the calendar book.  I was hooked.
>
> But, as I've upgraded the original Palm Pilot to newer models with more
> memory, higher resolution, and now to "smart phone" features, when each old
> model is retired, the data contents is copied into the new version and there
> is no physical history to show for it.  I know I could archive a copy of the
> data to some fixed media, but like my old 5.25" floppies, eventually, there
> will be nothing with which to read them outside of a museum somewhere.
> While I keep backups, there's nothing readable without the current hardware
> and software. So what good is it for historical purposes?
>
> Printing it out would be, I think, a waste.  A waste of paper, in that the
> compactness of the pocket sized calendar book reduced a year's worth of
> history into less than 50 cubic centimeters.  The formats readily available
> for printing PDA calendars and memos isn't conducive to compactness.  So my
> last eleven years worth of history are intangible now.  Something has been
> lost.
>
> Dale
> --
> Dale M. Parish
> 628 Parish RD
> Orange TX 77632
>
>
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 2
> Date: Sat, 1 Jan 2011 08:27:41 -0500
> From: "Kitty" <mzzkitty at sssnet.com>
> To: "A comfortable place to meet other people and exchange your
> 	own*original*	writings. " <thebanyantree at lists.remsset.com>
> Subject: Re: TheBanyanTree: Wolf Moon 2010 - Something has been
> 	lost...
> Message-ID: <9AD6FD9222DA4C4D89B07AE1DF4ADD0D at laptop>
> Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1";
> 	reply-type=original
>
> Ah, a brother of the mind.
>
> I, too, carry a pocket calendar in my purse on which appointments are noted
> when I'm away from my bound At-a-Glance larger calendar.  It lays on the
> table beside my armchair where most of a day's business is conducted.
>
> I used to keep the pocket calendars, but there's more information on my
> A-a-G, so each year, like you, I transfer permanent (altho not as extensive
> as your) information from the waning to the waxing year's.  And every year,
> the former year's joins the past years' in the file cabinet.
>
> I love the look and feel of the bright, untouched pages that await the
> addition of data.  The most modern technology hasn't overtaken me ... yet.
>
> Kitty
> mzzkitty at sssnet.com
> kcp-parkplace.blogspot.com
> parkplaceohio.com
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Dale M. Parish" <parishdm at att.net>
> To: "Tree Banyan" <thebanyantree at remsset.com>
> Sent: Saturday, January 01, 2011 1:07 AM
> Subject: TheBanyanTree: Wolf Moon 2010 - Something has been lost...
>
>
> Something has been lost, I've noticed, in the period between Christmas and
> New Years.  For years, I've received a copy of the Farmer's Almanac in my
> stocking.  For over twenty years, I carried in my breast pocket my bound
> At-A-Glance pocket calendar book.  It became an annual tradition to set
> aside one night between Christmas and New Year's to take my new calendar
> book and methodically go through each section and transfer the phone
> numbers, addresses, birthdays, anniversaries, contacts, cost codes, account
> numbers, encrypted combinations and passwords, and every thing that the
> little address book carried for me that I might need to remember from a
> written copy.
>
> In addition, I treated my little pocket calendars as a history, and each
> year, after retirement, I filed away last year's book with all its
> predecessors, leaving a history of where I'd been, with whom I'd met, and
> who was important to me that year.
>
> During the act of transferring contacts, I would leave out those people whom
> I felt I'd not be doing business with in the new year, and any phone numbers
> or names I couldn't remember who they were would be left out, thinking that
> if I remembered someone later that I needed, I could always go back and get
> the number out of the old book.  I seldom did.
>
> After copying all the contact information, I'd page through the calendar,
> day by day, and migrate any anniversaries that I wanted to carry forward--
> birthdays I'd picked up on through the year, expiration dates of
> subscriptions, renewal dates of leases, anything that would reoccur in the
> new year.  Then I'd break out the Farmer's Almanac.
>
> I used the traditional symbology in my weekly calendar to mark the first,
> full, last, and new moon in ink.  That was the only thing that got marked in
> ink.  Everything else got penciled in.  I think the movement of the spheres
> isn't likely to change in my lifetime, so could be marked permanantly.
> After the moon phases were completed for the year, then I'd go back through
> the calendar and mark sunrise and set for each Sunday from the Farmer's
> Almanac.  Following that, I'd look up all the meteor showers, lunar and
> solar eclipses expected to be visible from Texas and mark them.
>
> But about eleven years ago, my boss gave me a "PDA" for Christmas-- a Palm
> Pilot.  After my initial scoff, I started looking at the calendar features--
>
> an event could be repeated annually or almost any other frequency or
> combination.  Not to mention that there was available for it a program that
> would give sun rise and set, moon rise and set, eclipses, day length, sun
> azimuth, etc. for any place on the planet.  Additionally, the contacts list
> let one categorize individuals, attach notes such as account numbers,
> combinations, and the like.  Plus, birthdays and anniversaries of
> individuals showed up in the calendar automagically.  This was a big
> improvement on the calendar book.  I was hooked.
>
> But, as I've upgraded the original Palm Pilot to newer models with more
> memory, higher resolution, and now to "smart phone" features, when each old
> model is retired, the data contents is copied into the new version and there
> is no physical history to show for it.  I know I could archive a copy of the
> data to some fixed media, but like my old 5.25" floppies, eventually, there
> will be nothing with which to read them outside of a museum somewhere.
> While I keep backups, there's nothing readable without the current hardware
> and software. So what good is it for historical purposes?
>
> Printing it out would be, I think, a waste.  A waste of paper, in that the
> compactness of the pocket sized calendar book reduced a year's worth of
> history into less than 50 cubic centimeters.  The formats readily available
> for printing PDA calendars and memos isn't conducive to compactness.  So my
> last eleven years worth of history are intangible now.  Something has been
> lost.
>
> Dale
> --
> Dale M. Parish
> 628 Parish RD
> Orange TX 77632
>
>
>
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 3
> Date: Sat, 1 Jan 2011 07:48:13 -0600
> From: "Dale M. Parish" <parishdm at att.net>
> To: "A comfortable place to meet other people and exchange your own
> 	*original*	writings. " <thebanyantree at lists.remsset.com>
> Subject: Re: TheBanyanTree: Wolf Moon 2010 - Something has been
> 	lost...
> Message-ID: <B7CEB50E-8664-4C56-A82C-914189364586 at att.net>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
>
>
> On Jan 1, 2011, at 7:27 AM, Kitty wrote:
>
> Ah, a brother of the mind.
>
> Good to know we're not both crazy.  Just advanced.  ;-)
>
> Hugs, and happy new year.
> Dale
> --
> Dale M. Parish
> 628 Parish RD
> Orange TX 77632
>
>
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 4
> Date: Sat, 1 Jan 2011 07:48:31 -0600
> From: "Dale M. Parish" <parishdm at att.net>
> To: "A comfortable place to meet other people and exchange your own
> 	*original*	writings. " <thebanyantree at lists.remsset.com>
> Subject: Re: TheBanyanTree: Wolf Moon 2010 - Something has been
> 	lost...
> Message-ID: <FD9A68AA-59DC-4DF2-82B6-F0EC31F00AE2 at att.net>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
>
>
> On Jan 1, 2011, at 7:27 AM, Kitty wrote:
>
> Ah, a brother of the mind.
>
> --
> Dale M. Parish
> 628 Parish RD
> Orange TX 77632
>
>
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 5
> Date: Sat, 01 Jan 2011 11:04:38 -0500
> From: "A. Christopher Hammon" <chris at oates.org>
> To: thebanyantree at lists.remsset.com
> Subject: Re: TheBanyanTree: Wolf Moon 2010 - Something has been
> 	lost...
> Message-ID: <4D1F5096.2020608 at oates.org>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
>
> Hmmmm .... I have had a similar ritual in that since the mid-1980s I
> have ritually done a file back up of my various computers, which then
> allows me to free up some space on the working drives. My calendar and
> contacts are all kept on my iPhone and synchronized with the office; and
> the calendar is synchronized through Google calendar so that everyone
> else in the office has access to everyone's schedule (we are a small,
> highly collaborative staff). But then as I am sitting here this morning
> reviewing drafts of student papers and making numerous corrections and
> comments on things to adjust or clarify, it occurs to me that I can't
> remember the last time I actually reviewed a student's writing that was
> actually on pieces of paper. It is all electronic.
>
> I do, however, still keep my journal on paper in bound journals
> typically using one of my fountain pens, and I often enjoy the ritual of
> starting a new journal around the ending and beginning of years. So I
> have just started a new journal with a new fountain pen.
>
> Cheers to the New Year,
> Chris
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
>
>
>
>
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