I'm not very good with cameras and photo files and misplaced the original. So I took another tonight. The scales were a graduation gift from a very old friend who found them at an estate sale. They move based on the weight of objects placed on either side, but don't come to balance when empty. There is a way to adjust them, but I've never taken the time to play with it. They sit in my office on top of a set of seven foot tall oak book cases. I often wonder who owned them before me, but my friend saw a sign for the sale while driving around, stopped on a whim and was consequently unable to provide any providence.
I found the books in a secret room in the older home I now live in. The top two are the journals of the home's builder's father. He was an Army E-9 in the late 1800s. The bottom two were texts the builder, who was a teacher, used in classes. Yes, those are peacock feathers. I picked them up on a trip to India a few years back.
Skeptic Turtle, FYI - Navy Lieutenants abbreviate their rank with LT, no periods required.
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Thanks for the tip LT. There is so much I don't know about Navy life.
LT may be MIA from his own avatar because he senses that if he appeared in the photo, blindfolded and wearing a dress, someone might convene a firing squad.
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Good to see you putting up a photo for the collage, Lou.
Justice is a funny thing. Most days I don't expect to find it which sounds cynical, but I've seen innocents get jailed and guilty walk free. Some of the early cases were very hard. One in particular set me on a much different path than I had ever expected. I will admit that when I was younger and more idealistic and freshly scrubbed from law school, I got a tattoo of justice.
Skeptic Turtle, most Navy people don't get the abbreviations correct. There are just too damn many to track. Having to proof correspondence for signature, I was forced to learn them all. It is nothing I would expect a life long civilian to know.