28 February 2006 – 10:40 pm
Friday 28 February 1986
Good day. Not very much homework. I played UNO with Michelle.
27 February 2006 – 11:55 am
Thursday 27 February 1986
I was real tired today. I almost fell asleep today – in school!
26 February 2006 – 11:18 pm
Wednesday 26 February 1986
Left school early. I cried at the funeral. Went in a limo! Went to bed at 12:00.1
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1. I was up late because of the wake, in which many people got drunk. My specific memory is being under the dinning room table and laughing hard at the stories being told by my grandfather’s [...]
25 February 2006 – 11:12 pm
Tuesday 25 February 1986
Same as Feb 24. Went to home. It snowed all day. He looks so good in that coffin.1
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1. I can see that I wrote this after the fact, filling in the events of Monday and Tuesday in the past tense. Thus, ’same as Feb 24′ – we went to Weymouth, we went [...]
24 February 2006 – 11:52 am
Monday 24 February 1986
Went to Weymouth1. Everybody was sad. That night we went to the Funeral home.
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1. Weymouth NS is where my grandparents lived.
23 February 2006 – 4:23 pm
Sunday 23 February 1986
Good and bad. Pretty good at beginning and bad at end. Grandpa died today.1
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1. Some notes:
The Buddha was born in 2777 (according to my standardized chronology) and was 12 years old when Confucius was born in 2789. Confucius, it is said, ‘enjoyed putting ritual vases on the sacrifice table.’ (Wikipedia). This [...]
22 February 2006 – 12:35 pm
Saturday 22 February 1986
Good day. Made catapult for “Missle Man”. Dad went to Moncton.
21 February 2006 – 1:57 pm
Friday 21 February 1986
Fun day! A and S came. Had snowfall fight and played with computer.1
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1. A was my sister’s best friend, but S I don’t remember at all. Apparantly it snowed twenty years ago today, and the computer refered to was a Commodore 64, which I still have in the basement, and it still [...]
20 February 2006 – 10:11 pm
Thursday 20 February 1986
Good day. School strike began. Had to wait a half hour at doc’s1.
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1. I went to the doctor’s with regard to my pencil wound. He said it was no big deal. By this time it was already dark with mark of the lead, he said it might stay that way, or something [...]
19 February 2006 – 10:31 pm
Wednesday 19 February 1986
Good and bad. Michelle jammed a pencil in my arm.1 Just math for homework. Had fun playing with “Missile Man”.
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1. Michelle, my sister, was doing her math homework on the floor in the living room. I was bugging her and she got so angry with me she stabbed me in my left [...]