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Today: 1979 January 29 - February 4

Writer's picture: Shawn InlowShawn Inlow

This is the fifth of a 52 week installment of a diary my father kept in 1979.  It will appear every Wednesday throughout 2025.
This is the fifth of a 52 week installment of a diary my father kept in 1979. It will appear every Wednesday throughout 2025.

Monday 1.29.79


Daily Lottery: 661 Went to work today

And did not feel to bad. Not much work to do So just talked and put in time. Ate a hole can of soup for lunch And got away with it. We were paid today So I drove to P-Burg To deposit my check. Built fire in wood burner Then wrote out check

For some bills coming due. Jaw hurting this evening. Mary done some of the kids

Income tax returns

And then done some form

For possible grants

For Shawn's college.



Thomas Paine, American pamphleteer, born 1737;

William McKinley,

25th President, born 1843




Tuesday 1.30.79


Daily Lottery: 978


Not much work to do this morning

But Stu & Chris brought brick

In from Brown's. So I had plenty to do in afternoon. Paul told me that the co.

Will not put me on slary this year. Paul and I agree That I am getting screwed. I think I will leave this summer

As its getting to the point That the job isn't worth it. I may just report them

For discrimination though. Chuck is doing his income tax. Cookie and Mat just came in. Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 32nd President, born 1882;

Adolf Hitler named

chancellor of Germany, 1933



Wednesday 1.31.79


Daily Lottery: 668 This was a better than average

Work day. But still not too much to do today. Watched T.V. in evening

And went to bed.


Franz Schubert,

Austrian composer, born 1797;

First American earth

satellite launched, 1958



Thursday 2.1.79


Daily Lottery: 329



Paul and I had another discussion

On why I am being treated The way I have been for 13 years.

He says it Bill T

But I don't exactly think so. Day was so-so as far as work. Mary's new washer came today. I shoveled path

From back door to cellar door So washer man Could get dryer out of basement. He left his tools So I put hole through outside wall

For vent. Watched T.V. Went to bed.



Supreme Court of the United States met for the first time, 1790





Friday 2.2.79


Daily Lottery: 898



This had to be

A complete nothing day.


Did nothing on the job

As their was nothing to do.


P. P washed his car

In the afternoon

On company time.


Took Renaud's tools back in A.M.

And got some flex for dryer. Got some quarter round

At Delaneys after work

And Mary and I & Mildred Went to market. Called Darb to see if he Would make me a 24" T

For dryer exhaust. Ground Hog Day. By the Treatey of Guadalupe Hidalgo, Mexico gave New Mexico and California to the United States, 1848




Saturday 2.3.79


Daily Lottery: 885 Did some work on dryer

And cut wood in back yard

In afternoon. Punk & Morg & kids

Came down in afternoon. Kids stayed here and Punk & Morg went up To lab to wash & wax car. I guess Rick was washing His at office And Stu was stripping

A chair at lab. Sure a good way to use

An employer.


Punk & Family stayed for supper. So did Cookie.

Darb & Shirley were over in evening

To get quarter round

And stayed and played T.V. game. I think they had a good time. Chuck was layed off for a few week

At A&P.



Sidney Lanier, American Poet, born 1842




Sunday 2.4.79


After breakfast

I built a fire in wood burner.

We got ready and started

Up to Morgans

To help cut wood. Got as far as Nichols Street

And car stopped.


Daryl pulled me home

And pushed me in driveway. Bendix is shot again

And I must need a coil.


We took Chucks car And went to Morgans.

We cut up 4 trees. I brought home a trunk full.

Started another fire

In the wood burner.


Darb brought over the T

He made for me

But the shutoff dont work too good.

Will have to improve on them. Must take shower

And go to bed. All in all a pretty nice day.



Amendment 24 to the U.S.

Constitution, banning the poll tax,

proclaimed, 1964

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