Hermes 3000

Here she is the store had it marked at $8.98, but Saturdays are half off days. Scratch this one off the wish list. Now if I can just find a Royal Quiet Deluxe... (Photo by my multi-talented wife)

Just a little note to let everyone out there know that I did not fall off the face of the earth. Our desktop has been on the screwy end of the spectrum for a while now, burning through power supplies like a cheap pack of cigarettes. I can't find the power cord to the scanner. I finally acquired a Hermes 3000. Five bucks at Angel View Thrift Store, here in Hemet. Sometimes I feel so spoiled having so many good thrift stores around. I'm sure the fact that this is a retirement community adds to the surplus of typewriters around.

Funny Thoughts

This is a quote from a story on the Fox News website: "An SM-3 fired from the USS Paul Hamilton directly hit the first target missile." The first thought in my narrow mind was, "How could a typewriter stop a missile?" Ah, the mind of a typewriter collector! NaNoWriMo update:3980 and nowhere near what I had planned. Love this one: " A recent survey of the top 1,000 living English-language authors finds that more than 80 percent own manual typewriters averaging 43 years in age and three broken functions, with a per-unit resale value of $4.75 and slipping. Yet in a questionnaire about their response if brigands should invade their homes and demand either their beat-up old manual typewriters or their spouses on pain of death, a whopping 96 percent wrote 'Spouse.'"