To Pat White

SAVE2853, originally uploaded by bucklesw1. This is the first picture I sent out over the Internet in 2003, my first year of retirement. It shows "Tena", "Anna May" and "Barbara" in 1950. It all began innocently enough, I was at my typewriter one day when Shannon came in carrying this machine saying that his mother had bought a new computer and was told to set this one up in my room. I forgot all about it until a month or so later when I noticed grandson Pat playing a game on the thing and I asked, "How do you do that?" so he showed me how to set up Solitare and stuff like that and then later how to communicate via eMail. Eventually Shannon explained that with all the pictures, programs and route books I had laying around, why not send a few things out to friends. He showed me the scanner, what it did and even sent out the first few items for me and before long I began receiving eMail address from people I didn't even know. By 1994 I had a list of around 200 people but I had to click each one individually just to send one picture, three pictures was a workout. My wife said I was like a little boy showing off his toys. Finally one day AOL shut me down with no explanation. Shannon thought it was because the volume was growing so fast they probably thought it was some sort of commercial operation. So by 2005 he created this Blog which now, is indeed a commercial operation, the more the accompanying ads are clicked on, the larger the stipend. Currently I receive about $15 a week but no cook house. And when I say $15, I don't mean $14.95 and I don't mean $15.05. I mean $15.