Yesterday I mentioned that back in 1987 I began keeping a list of books I read. The list lives in the back pages of a notebook. Each page has a date range at the top (the first page says Nov 87 - Nov 89) and then the list of books in the order that I completed them.
So, the last book I read in 1999 was a great scholarly tome titled Exploring Space: 1999
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Anyway, I always wanted one of those jackets. I would obsessively draw the arrow emblem depicted on the breast of the jacket. I figured I'd wear it everywhere. You can see some examples of the jacket here. The most distinctive feature was the white band around the left forearm. It's only on the left sleeve, not the right.
Flash forward a few decades. The arrow patches went on sale. I managed to acquire one. Now I needed a jacket. So I got a fleece jacket and decided to make a sort of "updated" "modern" version of the original.
Now, I finally have a jacket. And, well, I wanted to have that band on the left sleeve, so I got one put on. Sadly, though, instead of actually incorporating that section into the fabric of the sleeve, the band was sewed on top of the sleeve, making it, well, a bit bulky looking. Oh well. I still love it.
But I don't really ever wear it out of the house.
Oh, and, by the way, the first book I read in the year 2000 was a book I'd been toting around for years but hadn't gotten around to reading, a science fiction anthology from 1972, edited by Harry Harrison, titled The Year 2000
2 comments:
I was so amused that you would make your own shirt. I never watched that show, though I loved anything having to do with space. My family must have watched something else that was on at the same time. To read my "E" blog post please go to the top blog at http://myheartblogstoyou.blogspot.com/
I was never a sci fi kind of person until Star Wars sucked me in. Perhaps because I was just the right age to crush on Luke. The novel I'm working on right now has some sci fi to it, though, so I guess something stuck with me!
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