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This weekend was a pretty quiet ... HOT! weekend for us. Yesterday I helped my Dad install a attic door he made this past week. It should work wonderfully. It is like a thick industrial freezer door. The heat up there in the attic was unreal. It's a good thing it only took 15 minutes to install. When things cool off I'll finish up the sides of it with some insulation.

Later that day I got hair cut and a free ice cream cone at Friendly's. They gave me some good coupons too that hopefully my sister's family can use.



Because Henry was playing so well by himself during the day I read some 100 pages of my book, A Pirate of Exquisite Mind: The Life of William Dampier by Diana and Micheal Preston. I had started the book a few weeks ago. It's a bit tough finding time to read these days. I liked the book a lot. Dampier was an English privateer in the later 1600's. While going through all sorts of adventures, including sinkings, he kept a journal that documented all of the natural phenomenon he witnessed. Somehow he and the journal survived it all. When he returned to England he wrote one of the first travel books and was given command of a expedition to New Holland (Australia) which he also wrote about. Diana Preston has a great way of transforming journals and other historical documents into smooth, flowing chapters. I look forward to reading two other books she has written.

Today while running into the grocery store to get some sodas for a movie I found a good assortment of Coin Star rejects. In the mix was a silver dime (1952), a US penny, a Bahamas 10¢, a Mexican peso, a British pound (worth $1.97), and two Davis' Mega Maze tokens. I checked the Maze website and unfortunately the tokens aren't good for admission.





The movie I went to was Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. I took my father as part of his payback for all of his help with our attic. We both were disappointed. The other Indy films had the same campy, fun humor, but didn't try to have as much as this film. The effects and action sequences in the other films added to the story. In this film they were the story. Indy seemed so unstoppable that there wasn't much suspense at all and it was impossible to get into the film. What a shame.

Found: 10 pennies (7 at the car wash, 1 outside Newbury Comics, 1 at Stop & Shop, 1 at Price Chopper), 2 nickels (1 outside Supercuts, 1 at the car wash), 2 dimes (1 at Shaw's, 1 at Price Chopper), 1 quarter (at the car wash), 3 foreign coins (a Bermuda 10¢, a British pound, and a Mexican 1 peso, all at Price Chopper), 2 tokens (both for Davis' Mega Maze)