Hello There

Hello there! My name is J. Cooper Thurlow, and this is what the kids and news technology reporters today call a “Blog.” To anyone reading this, I'm a 73 year old retiree and a veteran of the U.S. Marines. I proudly served in Korea, and would have served in Vietnam if I didn't have shrapnel in my left leg from proudly serving in Korea. I should tell you that I'm not actually making this internet site so to speak. Instead, I'm writing up these little conversations, and my grandson Christopher types them up and puts them in the internet. You know, I hear on the news all the time about how the internet is a good way to meet people who share your interests, as long as you're not a minor and they're not a pervert, so I thought I'd give it the old college try. After all, it is 2008 already!

Anyway, the reason I wanted to make this page is that, well, I have things I want to say and I think there will be other people interested in them. Some years back, some buddies of mine and I used to meet at the Roy Rogers over on Norwell, you know, over near the old paint store. We would get together, have some coffee, read the paper, and discuss whatever was on our minds. Someone should have filmed that and put it on television instead of these news shows you see nowadays. Anyway, that Roy Rogers isn't there anymore, it's a different paint store now, and I live here in the Pine Oaks Retirement Facility. I guess the Roy Rogers is still there, physically anyway, but it's all boarded up now and I think middle school kids use it to huff paint. I don't know if they get the paint from the new store, or if it's left over from the old store, though. It's probably the new store, because I can't imagine Roger, the old manager, ever letting something like that happen. Then again the old paint store closed when Roger got arrested for tax fraud, so who knows.

I've gotten off track a little bit here. I wanted to write all of my thoughts down now not because I think they're important for posterity, though some of them might be. I'll let the historians decide that. No, I wanted to make this “blog page” because like I said, I had some folks I used to talk to who I don't talk to anymore. I also used to talk more to my daughter Sal (she was named after her grandfather), calling her every day and such, but then she suggested this blog site and said Christopher would be available to help. I went along with it because as Linda, the woman who lives across the hall from me says, “you're only as young as you act.” She also has a bumper sticker on her wall that says “Senior and Sassy” that I don't quite agree with, because when I was growing up children were taught never to sass back, and I've carried that lesson with me though life. I just wish my grandson Christopher followed that. Christopher, if you're reading this, I appreciate you typing this up for me but I think you should be nicer to your mother. I guess that's my “thought of the day.”

That's all for now,

J. Cooper Thurlow