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This is something you don't see anymore. Back when I was a kid, I saw this rectangular thing on Dad's table. It had a slideable strip in the middle and a transparent sliding window with a thin line down the middle. There were numbers all over it that, at first, made me think it was a fancy ruler but the number spacing was all wrong. It couldn't be a ruler so what was it?  Ever the curious kid with a fascination for technical stuff, I asked Dad what it was (after experimenting with it for awhile). He called it a slide rule . So, it's a ruler without the extra "r" , I thought. So, how does it measure things. He said, "You don't measure with it. It helps me calculate things, like with multiplication." I guess my eyes went wide. My first thought was, " This thing can help me with my math? " "How does it work?" I asked him. He asked me to give him two numbers to multiply. I decided on something simple.  I wanted a test that I knew

My latest book,  My Facebook Notes , is finally published and is available at Smashwords, Kobo, and Barnes & Noble. I expect it to appear soon in other online bookstores that Smashwords distributes to. So, what's it about? When I first joined Facebook back in 2009, I immediately noticed the Notes feature. My friends were using it to post inspirational articles but I wanted to be different. I decided to use it to write about my experiences about my travels. Those series of posts later became my first book, Funny Stories from My Travels (now retitled, Travel Mashups and Mishaps). Then, I began writing smaller stories, funny anecdotes, inspirational notes, and various other things. I had dozens of those notes and might have gone on and on if not for a change in Facebook. Around September 2020, Facebook announced that they were discontinuing the Notes feature. People could no longer make new notes but the old notes would still be available for viewing. I was saddened by the loss of