26-31 OCTOBER 2000 OF
BIZARRE BAZAAR
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TUE, 31 OCT 2000, DAILY ENTRIES |
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This may be my last email until tomorrow evening in Florida. At this
time tomorrow I should be with my nephew Jim driving to Spokane to catch
a plane leaving at 6:50 am for Salt Lake City. I may be able to just
send an email from there, but only 42 minutes between planes. Then a
stop in New Orleans and arrive in Tampa at 5:54 pm. Should be home by
7:30 pm.
Then on Thursday I go to the Seminole Library at 10 am to see if the
new member shows up. She was very excited a month ago, but there have
been over 250 former members and currently we have 13 in the "Click and
Drag Club" which will be four years old on 15 Nov 00. The first year we
had nine members. A lot of the members are "Snow Birds" and go back
north for the Summer but still email all of us. We have three from
Canada and a permanent member who lives in Cleveland, Ohio.
[Info below was gathered on 26 Sep 00 so may not be current]
I just realized I have no time to plan since I am gone over three weeks
in October so Who wants to attend the play on Friday 3 Nov 00. We will
go someplace in Tampa for Dinner first...Matt
PACHOSA FAMILY
Attending.........Maybe..............Not Interested...REUNION
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Matt Pachosa............................................Yes
Una and Joe.............................................No.
Yvonne and Bob..........................................No.
..................Mike and Helen........................No.
.....................................Char and Bob.......No.
.....................................Dave and Suzi......No.
.....................................Terry..............No.
Saturday, there is the session again at Seminole Library and then on to
Tampa for the live satelite feed of Microsoft Extreme where they sent to
about 30 theatres in the country telling about the new deals. I have
been to three before and at least they give you a sweat shirt for being
there.
So this may be it until tomorrow night but who really knows?...Matt
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I'm leveling the ground in front of Brother Bob Home in order to
plant grass next May. So yesterday morning in the raked ground
we saw deer track from a visitor during the night.
5:36 AM 10/31/00
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MON, 30 OCT 2000, DAILY ENTRIES |
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[7:40 am] Surprisingly I am almost pack to leave on Wednesday.
Big problem is fog in the morning when we drive to Spokane to
leave by plane at 7:05 am.
Will finish up my outside work today, but it is 30 degrees right
now so will wait for it to warm up a bit...Matt
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If I had just a little further I would have found his magazine
ad too:
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You with a hotmail account can see the ad below:
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SUN, 29 OCT 2000, DAILY ENTRIES |
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Barbara, Nice to hear from you. Yes, I am on one of my
exciting trips. I spent three days at the Lone Pine Film Festival
in California from 6-8 Oct. I am now visiting my Brother in
Grand Coulee, Washington, and will be back in Florida on 1 Nov.
Bob and I took a seaplane ride from Seattle to Vancouver Island
the first of this week to see the 33wall murals in the city of
Chemainus. Right now I am doing the exciting thing of getting
Bop's front yard ready for planing grass next spring. He has
lived in this home he built in 1978...he wanted no grass, but
will put it in now since he has been running a bed and breakfast
for five years now.
I will find you a list of great search engines that you can look
thru. I think that http:///www.four11.com is one for finding
people. Good luck on your search.
http://www.geocities.com/mattbazaar
We are having the fourth birthday party for the "Click and Drag
Club" at CiCi pizza on East Bay at 1 o'clock on Wed, 15 Nov 2000.
I know you don't eat pizza, but stop by to say hello. Are past
parties have always been more successful because you took
pictures with your digital camera (bring it if you want to).
Right now I think only about five have said they will be there.
I don't understand that... they seem to think that it is a big
party and they can't attend...I just think it is going to
lunch...Matt
From: "barbara smith"
To: [email protected]
Subject: Finding somebody
Date: Sun, 29 Oct 2000 06:59:51 EST
Hi Matt,
Don't know if you are around at this time or on one of your many
trips to exciting places doing exciting things.
Do you know any of "people search" other than AOL White Pages
and Switchboard?
Barbara
See yesterday for 6 June 1920 caption
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SAT, 28 OCT 2000, DAILY ENTRIES |
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What are the dates of Mardi Gras in New Orleans?
I wanted to find the exact date for Mardi Gras 2001 and found
this list. There are a lot of other things to view here
too...Matt
http://www.nola.com/mardigras/parades/?mgcalendar.html
http://www.nola.com/mardigras/parades/?mgcalendar.html
Paczosa Wedding Picture taken 6
June 1920
More info to be added later...Matt [3:08 pm Sat 28 Oct
.............These two men are my grandfather Staney Paczosa's
.............brothers. It is Roman's second wedding after his
.............wife died leaving him with three daughters. Helen
............and Stella (Skippy) are in front of him and Genevieve
.............is far right in second row. Eddie's two kids are
.............Annette far left in second row and Harold by him.
.............I'm not sure, but lady at back row left could be the
.............wife, Mary Ann, of Eddie. The other three ladies in
.............the back row are unidentified as well as the brides
.............maid and the little girl...Matt[6:15 am,29Oct]
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FRI, 27 OCT 2000, DAILY ENTRIES |
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Jerry, Thanks for your memories. Since you mentioned them now
I remember the swing landing trainer and the wind machine. And
I remember that you were in Special Forces at Bragg.
I guess I still correspond with five of us that went to the same
ROTC Summer Camp at Ft Lewis in the Summer of 1958: You, Me,
Terry Inman, Bob Grassi, and Dave Culver (there may be another
one in there, but I may remember later.)
I'm here in Grand Coulee until 1 November and then back to
Florida to watch it snow on TV and I will be back here after the
snow melts...Matt
From: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Forty Years ago this month
Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2000 00:05:24 EDT
Hi Matt,
I too remember jump school. and the 34 ft tower was the scariest also. but
I got to go back and I got to do it again for foreign and domestic - and it
was 40 yrs ago that I got to Germany to be an walking infantry platoon leader
defending Western Civilization from the hordes of the USSR who wanted to
drive to the channel and make the world Marxist. And Kruschev was going to
bury us and he built the Berlin Wall that I thought would never come down in
my lifetime... I (with my Ranger buddy, Gary Bass from GU)) finished Ranger
School in early Sept 40 yrs ago. Unfortunately for him, he went to Ft Dix
for his 2 yr stint...
As the book title says, we were soldiers once and young.....
Congratulations for your memories... Jump school was good - you remembered
everything. My next jump after jump school was 7 years afterwards and I had
to go over from Infantry Hall to the Jump field for "refresher training
before going to SF school at Bragg (& the same Colonel was running the
Benning Jump School!!) and I got a perfect on my 34 ft tower and on my plfs
and my swing landing trainer and the wind machine. I didn't get to do the
250 ft tower though.... But I marveled at that time how every thing came
back as though it had been the day before... Amazing what "concentration"
and fear of pushups will do....
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THUR, 26 OCT 2000, DAILY ENTRIES |
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Subject: Seaplane from Victoria to Seattle
1. Bob and I took off from Victoria for the one hour flight to Seattle.
There also was a japanese couple with their three year old son and we had
a lady pilot.
2. We were flying at altitude 1,200 ft and for some reason that was very
familiar to me and I finally figured it out. Forty Years ago in Oct 1960
I attended Jump school with the Army for four weeks at Ft Benning, Georgia.
3. The first week was how to load an airplane (they later cancelled this
week, but we took it then). The second week was ground week. The third
week was tower week. And the fourth week was Jump week. One Jump Mon
afternoon. Two jumps on Tue. One on Wed, and the final jump on Thurs.
We then graduated and I drove across the states thru Glenn Burnie, MD;
Davis and Monongah, WV, Topeka, KS; Colorado Springs, CO; and home to
Vantage, WA; before going to an assignment in Korea for 16 Months.
4. The 1,200 feet was familiar because that was the height of the plane at
1,250 feet that we jumped from. I made my five jumps and was never assigned
to a jump unit so never jumped from a plane again.
5. It's funny what you remember after forty years and even funnier that
you can remember things that happened forty years ago. Wonder where it
is stored all that time?
6. I remember jumping from the 34 foot tower being the scariest since you
can see the ground three stories below. You are hooked up in a jump harness
but you can still see the ground. Jumping from the 250 foot tower and out
of the airplane is just something to do because you can't see the ground.
7. I could describe the training here, but probably nobody is interested
unless you went through it yourself. I do remember taking the parachute
ride at Coney Island, but that was all hooked up to wire to guide the chute
down to the ground...Matt [10:40 AM 10/26/00]