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DAY XLIII

At some point today I seem to have lost or misplaced my wristwatch. Just now, 9:45 pm, I went to check the time and my watch was not on my wrist. I checked the floor of this room, I went outside and walked up and down the driveway (with a flashlight, as it’s night-time), and walked around the yard, but did not find it. The last time I distinctly remember checking the time was around 6:00 a.m. I don’t know how I could have dropped my watch and not noticed it. Perhaps my senses are dulled (more than usual) as a result of feeling under the weather.

DAY XXXVI

I sat outside on the steps this morning at 7:50 a.m. and thought about the attack on Pearl Harbor. A few minutes before 8:00 a 1930s Stearman biplane flew overhead. The rattling, rumbling, roar of the big rotary motor is exactly the kind of sound that reverberated across Oahu 73 years ago… multiplied a hundred-fold!

DAY XXXV

While sorting through storage containers today I ran across the assortment of fountain pens I had purchased at Office Depot a couple of years ago and subsequently misplaced… and more or less forgotten about. In the bottom of the plastic bag was the original sale receipt. “A couple of years ago” was… apparently… 2008!