On Thu, 5 Feb 2009 18:53:30 -0500, you wrote: >the cat sent a drafgt and her comments are evidenced by the A's and Z's... >Rosalie.. all cities change.. >especially in 20 yrs... >Baltimore is the first city I Have ever lived in that I don't have a lot of >positive to say about.. first.. > I was born in Baltimore, and lived there until I went to college. After Bob retired and we both got jobs in Baltimore - him at the Department of the Environment over on Broening Highway and me at the Department of Licensing and Regulation on St. Paul Place, we lived in Baltimore (actually in Brooklyn/Curtis Bay) until I retired in 2000. My job require that I work all over the state and that included in Baltimore, and when I wasn't in the field, I was in the office. My mom lived in Towson until she died in 2006, and I stayed with her sometimes, and after she died, it took us over a year to clean out her house and I drove up to the city twice every week. I go to Baltimore to the dentist as there is no periodonist down here.
>The American Flag museum is nice..but the flag itself is located at the >American History Museum for the Smithsonian. > Actually the flag is being repaired and reconditioned - they are undoing all the repair work that was done prior to current practice. >Annapolis is central to the area and has mooring balls. Rent a car and >visit Baltimore if you must.. just do NOT leave anything in the car in >sight.. same with DC... DC has cleaned itself up a lot in the past 10 yrs.. >it is #21 on the most dangerous cities list.. Baltmore is #12 in that same >list... we still are, however #3 on murders.. > I sincerely doubt that DC is that much better regardless of what the statistics say. If you are the victim, the statistics have no meaning. If you are not, ditto. I went to DC with a co-worker to a conference and asked him if we should take his car or mine (since the person whose car was driving would get mileage). He said we should go in mine, as he didn't want his car trashed. I have a policy of never leaving anything in the car in sight when I park anywhere. I do not drive a station wagon or pickup truck with a cap for that reason. This is true in Baltimore, Washington, Annapolis, city or county, or suburb. Incidentally, my clueless co-worker Mike was held up as he was walking home. Someone came up with a gun and said "give me your wallet". Mike grabbed the gun from the guy and decked him. The guy then got up, grabbed the gun back and ran back across the street and shot Mike. (He survived - he just has a bullet near his spine too close to operate). But really - crime is everywhere. There was a young man found murdered in the woods behind our house here - no one ever has been charged for the murder. One of my former students got a gun and killed an assistant bank manager in the course of a robbery. If you want mooring balls, you could anchor, but then you wouldn't have electricity for heat. >I guess we shall have to agree to disagree with regards to Baltimore... I >will say this however, if you don't live here right now.. and haven't in >awhile..then its a whole new world here.. it has changed in the past four >yrs that i have been here..and not for the better.. We sold my mom's house July 2007. I haven't been back much since because there's no reason for me to go now. But that isn't that long ago. In any case, in the tourist areas like around the Inner Harbor it's nice in the summer. _______________________________________________ Liveaboard mailing list [email protected] To adjust your membership settings over the web http://www.liveaboardnow.org/mailman/listinfo/liveaboard To subscribe send an email to [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] The archives are at http://www.liveaboardnow.org/pipermail/liveaboard/ To search the archives http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] The Mailman Users Guide can be found here http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/mailman-member/index.html
