I am getting a head start on my 20 years of journals to make sure it will work. I hope I can get some people to read daily my exploits for the past 20 years. I'd like some help remembering that my life has been pretty exciting.
David
2009 London, UK   1993 Chicago O'Hare, IL I continue to wait for my red-eye flight, reading "Jeeves in the Morning", now taking a breather with eyedrops blocking view and hopefully saving vision for tomorrow. I have been here since 18:45...it is now 22:45. I caught an early flight from MPLS after taking off work early. Had dinner in Calhoun Square at a Thai restaurant and took a walk on the frozen Lake Harriet. Again, I packed more than perhaps I should've. It's heavier than I enjoy carrying, but at least I won't run out. Boarding time. I arrived at Kate's flat at 2pm and after hanging up my clothes and sorting through recipes for stuffed mushrooms we went to Sainsbury's, picked out £64 worth of food and got back to teh flat to cook. I took a shower to refresh and get ready for the party while Kate started cooking. Then we got to work wholeheartedly on our dishes. Unfortunately for me, we also started drinking vodka martinis wholeheartedly, and my lasting power was greatly diminished after the many hours on a plane with no sleep whatsoever crossing the Atlantic. Paola arrived at 19:00 and cut carrots. She is working as a pr person for something to do with the film industry. Caroline came with her fiance, and I was able to give the 3 women their presents, Quality Chick t-shirts from the Decorah Hatchery in bright colors. I showed off all my stuffed mushrooms and other savoury dishes, and had a brilliant time. We also moved to a party upstairs in Kate's flat, and Malcolm showed up. I started to fade quickly, and ended up in bed with all the guests' jackets and my video camera. While I slept, Caroline and Paola came and videotaped me sleeping and talking in my sleep to them. I can not find this tape, and think I probably taped over it accidently. I slept until the afternoon of the next day, and regret I did not sleep on the plane.
2003 Bacelona, Spain
2006 Spring Grove, MN We're holding a New Year's Eve Party at my house in Spring Grove this year. The Christmas tree is still up from our family's christmas parties. We have invited most of our local friends, and most are coming to ring in the new year. Rachel and I have spent the day "cleaning", though I have been watching "Amadeus" while setting up my stereo speakers and dilly dallying. So, she got us ready for the party. I did clean up for last weeks Chrstmas party at our house for both of our families, so maybe we are even now. She made all the food, except I made enough dough for 6 thin crust pizzas, letting them rise until the usual suspects showed up. We had 19 people here, and it was a wonderful way to ring in the new year. Some of us playing Modern Warfare 2, some played Euchre, and others played a game called Party Playoff that Jill gave us for Christmas last year. Elyse was the star of the party, and facilitated all of our games and prizes that Rachel had printed out to give to the winners of each event. I wore Rachel's new sock monkey onesie and was ridiculed by everyone at the party until they just got used to it. I also used my new Swedish glass drinking horn, held inplace with the lanyard from our Belizean coconut monkey purse. I looked great, and felt so wonderful being the only one in pajamas at a new years party.
2009 The diaries I will be using are from:
COMPLETED 1983. January 1 to January 8,1983 and January 1 to January 8, 1984 (1 year diary I used for two consecutive years, 8 days each)[green] COMPLETED 1993a. January 1993: Israel (notebook of my experiences written for Prof Simon-Hanson)11993x. Sept 6 to Dec 31, 1993 Travel diary for Nottingham and year in England (Blue) 1993z. November 13, 1993 to May 24, 1994: England Emails to Luther (printed at Cripps center in Nottingham)1-5,11-12 **
COMPLETED: 1994. January-September 1994:England, Iowa (purchased in the Penzance WHSmith) [Winnie the Pooh DIARY 1994 Day Planner]1-9 ** COMPLETED: 1995a. August 13 to September 1995 (hand made and given to me by SB) [hand made green and purple cover]8-9 COMPLETED: 1995b. August to September 1995: New England trip (book given by SB) [colorful binding with MY TRAVEL BOOK: A Record Book for Children]8-9 1995z. September 24, 1995 to March 1999: Midwest, New England (book given by Sharon Storlie) [black with gold scroll]1-3,9-12 ** 1996. April, 1996 to Dec 1998, with a last page of Aug 25 2007 ( from Amanda inscribed "May your pen flow freely by the poetry of your thoughts")1-12 ** COMPLETED: 1997a. May to June, 1997: Ireland, a rewrite of the handwritten diary, 26 pages. [white paper]5-6 1997b. April 1997 to August, 1997: Ireland, England, California [native american design cloth cover]4-8 COMPLETED: 1998a. February 28 to March 3, 1998: Wales Journal typed from my memoirs(Google Docs)2-3 ** 1998z. April 1998: Ireland, England [green with Romanian Pinot Gris wine label from Acton Town]4 COMPLETED: 2002a. March 2002: England [world globe TRAVEL JOURNAL]3 COMPLETED: 2002b. November 11 to December 12, 2002: England, New York (book purchased at Iowa City Art Fair) [blue with deco]11-12 2002z. December 2, 2002 to May 13, 2003: New York and Arizona (purchased in MOMA in New York) [yellow carpet]1-5,12 ** COMPLETED 2003. December 31, 2003 to January 5th, 2004: New Years trip to London (book given by Sharon for my travels)[red with gold scroll]1
2004. August 13 to August 30, 2004: England, Norway, Germany (book given by Kay Capps Cross) [blue and gold]8 2006. December 4, 2006 to March 2009: Belize trip in 2009 (the leather binding says "Carpe Diem")1-3,12 ** MONTHS
JAN(83-84,93a,93z,94,95z,96,2003) FEB(93z,94,95z,96,98a,2002z) MAR(93z,94,95z,96,98a,2002a,2002z,2006) APR(93z,94,95z,96,97b,98z,2002z) MAY(93z,94,95z,96,97a,97b,2002z) JUN(94,95z,96,97a,97b) JUL(94,95z,96,97b) AUG(94,95a,95b,95z,96,97b,2004) SEP(93x,94,95a,95b,95z,96) OCT(93x,95z,96) NOV(93x,93z,95z,96,2002b) DEC(93x,93z,95z,96,2002b) Where was I living, what was I doing? {WHERE DID I VACATION}
'90 to '74 Spring Grove, MN (Spring Grove School)
'91 Spring Grove, MN (High School)/Decorah, IA (Luther College)
'92 Decorah, IA (Luther College) {CANADA to NYC}
'93 Tiberias, Israel/Decorah, IA (Luther College)/University of Nottingham {ISRAEL, UK}
'94 University of Nottingham/Decorah, IA/Luther College {UK, EUROPE}
'95 Luther College/Minneapolis, MN {COLORADO, NEW ENGLAND}
'96 Minneapolis, MN (MS Society)/ Grand Ave. St. Paul, MN/ (Minnesota Shakespeare Company)/ (CLIMB Theatre) {MIDWEST}
'97 St. Paul, MN (CLIMB Theatre)/St. Louis Park, MN {IRELAND,ENGLAND, WALES, CALIFORNIA}
'98 (St. Louis Park JH Schools) (Best Buy Home Delivery)/(CLIMB Theatre Pheoniz, AZ) {NEW ORLEANS}
'99 Lanesboro, MN/Spring Grove, MN/Iowa City, IA
'00 Iowa City, IA/Madison, WI
'01 Madison, WI {GERMANY, POLAND, HUNGARY, CZECH, SLOVAKIA, DENMARK, NORWAY}
'02 Spring Grove, MN {ENGLAND}
'03 Decorah, IA {ENGLAND}
'04 Spring Grove, MN {ENGLAND, NORWAY, GERMANY}
'05 Spring Grove, MN {ENGLAND, BWCA}
'06 Spring Grove, MN {FRANCE, SPAIN}
'07 Spring Grove, MN {FRANCE, NORWAY, GERMANY, AUSTRIA, SWITZERLAND, ITALY, ENGLAND}
'08 Spring Grove, MN {SOUTHWEST}
'09 Spring Grove, MN {BELIZE, CALIFORNIA}
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