It's a cool morning, heading into a most welcome cool day--high in the 70s--and rain! Still in drought, and it's my day off too, so all the better, I don't have to go out in it either.
I'm back to working 24 hours/week, at least for a little while, the idea being I'll catch up on backlogged donations––unusual or vintage stuff that I set aside "to look up later", which is a lot of fun but takes time.
Later is now.
Three summers ago we got a box of leftover sale items from an ancestor of the future Captain Jean-Luc Picard of Star Trek: The Next Generation, the real life Don Piccard, of the Twin City of St Paul––a box of materials such as certificates, vintage photos, bumper stickers for rallies, and other ephemera, all related to Don's famous hot-air balloonist & scientist family, including his parents Jean and Jeannette Piccard.
Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry named Capt. P after Jean.*
I sold a batch of ballooning magazines on the store's eBay to someone in New Mexico, a hot bed of hot air balloonists, but never got around to posting the other stuff.
Finally hauled out the box and posted it on the store's social media---someone's coming to look at it today.
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* From Wikipedia:
"Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry named Picard for one or both of the twin brothers Auguste Piccard and Jean Piccard, 20th-century Swiss scientists.[2][3]"
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