Another letter written on the ADAM computer and printed out. At some point, Grandma wrote \u201cFeb 5, \u201983\u201d at the top of this one.<\/p>\r\n
\u2026I\u2019m tickled by this letter because it sounds so much like me<\/em>. Not everything here is precisely how I would write it today, but most of it is pretty close. Apparently my letter-writing style was fairly firmly established by age almost-15.<\/p>\r\n Dear Grandma and Grandpa,<\/p>\r\n I apologize for taking so long to send this letter, but I\u2019ve had a lot on my mind recently, especially with finals all of last week. The Christmas doughnuts and lefse were DELICIOUS; thank you very much for making and sending them. They lasted us a week or two, not because we didn\u2019t enjoy them but because there was so much. I also tend to avoid writing letters, but after spending an afternoon working with Peter on this program it\u2019s nice to see it actually work. I have had a headache for the last several days, but it\u2019s mostly all gone now.<\/p>\r\n Happy birthday, Grandma (belatedly). How is everything up in Washington? I heard that you went to see the Kentuckians but not much about the trip or about them. I hope that your pneumonia is better now, or rather that you are feeling better after having had it. I haven\u2019t ever even seen two of my cousins, except in pictures, and it\u2019s been years since I saw Uncle Paul, Aunt Linda, or Jason. It would be nice if you could come down for Peter and Susan\u2019s wedding, as Peter suggested.<\/p>\r\n I managed to score fairly well on my semester \"final exams\". I also had mostly A\u2019s for second-quarter grades, but lower first-quarter grades dropped three of those to B+. Actually, I\u2019m not positive about a couple of the A\u2019s, since we haven\u2019t received official grades yet, but I\u2019m pretty sure. I can\u2019t be absolutely sure because my European history teacher dropped my first quarter grade to a C+ after telling me it was a B. Oh, well, the semester is over at last, and I can relax a little.<\/p>\r\n Speaking of school, I have access to several computers there, and have been doing quite a bit of programming. I met a senior in our school\u2019s computer lab who made over $16,000 writing game programs for a home computer, so it\u2019s certainly worth the effort to learn how. I have also been reading a lot, for English class and just for fun whenever I have free time. Well, I\u2019d better wrap up this letter, as it\u2019s getting late, so once again, thank you for the Christmas presents (I also got a ten-speed to replace my old broken bicycle) and with this program, I will probably write you again sometime soon.<\/p>\r\n Love,<\/p>\r\n Jed<\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n A thank-you and life-update note from Jed. \u201cThe Christmas doughnuts and lefse were DELICIOUS; thank you very much for making and sending them.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-from-jed","category-palo-alto"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/pmjj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/pmjj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/pmjj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/pmjj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/pmjj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2554"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/pmjj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2554\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2606,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/pmjj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2554\/revisions\/2606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/pmjj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/pmjj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/pmjj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\r\n
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