Detritus of Empire

Wandering unsupervised in various real and imaginary places. Detritus reflects my interests in robotics, travel, history and the odder aspects of the world around me.

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Friday, December 30, 2022

Time Capsule - W

Cold weather means doing a bit of cleaning and discarding. I was moving a file cabinet and found this bit of history behind it. I can date ...

Wednesday, December 28, 2022

Can Money Buy Happiness?

Christmas is over and we are in that odd in between week that divides Yule and New Years Eve. So....what did I get for presents? Nothing m...

Monday, December 26, 2022

Christmas goes to the dogs

Most of the time our house is a pretty quiet place. Not so at Christmas when kids, grandkids, friends of same....and dogs descend upon us. ...

Friday, December 23, 2022

Editing Yeats - Christmas 2022

I've always had mixed feelings about the Yeats poem " The Second Coming ". It is powerful stuff, but speaks to us from such a...

Wednesday, December 21, 2022

Herman Dettloff

Today we have a look at another early druggist of Chippewa Falls, and at his surviving building. Herman Dettloff was born in New York state ...

Monday, December 19, 2022

Variable Luck at the Good Luck Drug Store

L.W. Stapleton needed some good luck to compete in the drug store trade in Chippewa Falls. After all he was literally next door to one of h...

Friday, December 16, 2022

The Collette Pharmacy through the years.

Digging through the history of Pharmacies in Chippewa Falls prior to 1910 you have a lot of names to deal with. Something on the order of 2...

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Tacitus: Having over the many years of my medical career seen too many hard working folks post pone retirement and tip over shortly after their farewell party I have adopted a Carpe Diem policy. Retire at 60. And don't let 'em throw you a party. Its working so far.

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