Tie clip cam again

My crew is taking a smoke break while I'm doing returns and I decide to join Teddi and Francina and the men who's names I will never commit to memory. Oh and Becky, the new forklift driver! Becky Braendlingerer. I love that name. Becky, I mean. It' s a girl next door name, you know? (And to paraphrase the modern times bard, her lovliness wounds me. )

What the devil, look over there. Twenty men are gathered around a hole. They're all passive, with their hands in their pockets against the cold, and their heads bowed. Is it a ...funeral? Some of the ex-cons who have worked at the Herald, twenty years after parole, tend to be very sentimental about the place and get misty eyed when we have pep rallies.
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Francina, she's smart because she's 60 and has lived in foreign lands. They must be teaching a class, she says.

forehead smack. I am so slow sometimes, still. A year and a half without a drink, they keep telling me at AA to come back...

Teddi says go take a picture, John. There are so many of them, no one will object.
Interesting shot if this is found a million years from now by a race of humans who think they were created two thousand years ago. What I wanted was to get all the bill caps, because I remember seeing a photo from the 20's once with hundreds of men in a crowd all wearing identical straw hats. The bill-cap (Francina calls them "give-away caps") is today's straw hat, or field hat I guess. I think Stereolabrat meant these when she wrote her famous harrange against "trucker hats" appearing among the hip in New York City. That was in 2003 and by golly I think she put a stop to it. (oh, you must become familiar with Stereolabrat...She and Lileks are opposites and equally amazing and LOL funny. one, a foul mouthed korean girl in NYC, the other a stay at home, presbyrtarian dad in Minnesota).

thanks for the visit. just had these spare photos was all.