Fragments of Memories

Sleeping in the car, somewhere near the Normandy coast, on our way to England and Wales.

Swimming in the Channel waters, as the tide went and came back.

Building an RC boat, and checking its hull for water tightness in the bathtub.

Taking out the Märklin trains, and laying down track and model houses in the kitchen.

Watching Asterix and Cleopatra together (and boy, has that movie not aged well at all, but the cake song is still funny).

The boat trip through the Netherlands, and eating the biggest pizzas we’ve ever seen (and the Thai glass noodles and shrimp) in Amsterdam.

Seeing Manneken Piss in Belgium, and visiting the former world fair site, and going all the way to the top of the Atomium.

Taking the old Merc for a drive as a family when you first bought it.

Tinkering and DIYing lots of things (I still remember building the makeshift tablesaw).

Working in England together, and how you changed your mind, that I wasn’t a lazy layabout, but do enjoy doing things.

Looking at the old logarithmic tables and slide rule you used during college.

Going to Cologne and buying a C=64, because you knew how important personal computers were going to be, and wanted all of us to be literate in them.

Building my first PC, after you showed me how to do it, and chuckling together when I put the 486 CPU in the wrong way the first time, because that always used to happen.

Trying my first beer in an English pub, and really not liking it.

Walking the garden of Versailles, and the gardens of English manors.

You going to the picket line to show solidarity with the machinists asking for a pay raise, and once more when Steinmüller was about to be sold to Babcock.

Talking about how Babcock was using Steinmüller to delay its insolvency.