Sunday, January 28, 2018

28-29 January 18

The last Monday in January is always Bubble Wrap Appreciation Day. Tomorrow (Monday) I'm wearing a tie for Faith Lang's birthday, so I'm using my bubble wrap tie on Sunday to alert my friends about the joys of bubble wrap. I'm handing out samples of bubble wrap today at church and then at work tomorrow! You can also enjoy popping virtual bubble wrap.

On a completely different topic, I must mention the birthday today of William Seward Burroughs in 1855, who went on to invent the adding machine (in 1885). I happen to have the adding machine from the late 1940s that my father Arthur Kleppinger owned, and which he used for recording church offerings for over thirty years until he got an electronic calculator. The name Barrett on my father's adding machine refers to Glenn J. Barrett, who designed machines for the Burroughs company in the early 20th century before setting up his own business in 1914.


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