At the beginning of 2025, I set out to resume blogging, to go side-by-side with a Happy Jar. The Jar would have a note, with a few words to jog my memory, each note would be explained in more details on this blog. Like many New Year Resolutions, it worked well for a few months, then the blog stopped getting updates. No new notes in the Happy Jar either. Still, as the year winds down, I see that at least I had 40 posts made in 2025. That's a big jump from the previous years, whose number of posts were in the single digit. A new year, a new hope, I will try again in 2026. There are 52 weeks in a year, hitting 40 isn't such a bad thing.
In other news, I really love LibraryThing.com and expanded its use to my yearbooks collection for my high school, Newtown High School in Elmhurst, Queens NY. The collection aims to catalog all the publications that my school produced over its 125+ existence. Most of the entries are yearbooks, but I have a handful of literary magazines and other club magazines, too. Take a gander at, change the catalog to that of Newtown Publications. I love seeing all the covers and many have links in the Comment field to see the inside of the yearbook.
Qaptain Qwerty books on LibraryThing
One thing LibraryThing tells me is that over the years, I already spent over $1,000 on buying yearbooks. Most are from eBay and Newtown itself, but AbeBooks and Amazon provided some. A bunch were donations by generous alumni or teachers, thank you so much. Still, I would like to get some financial support to keep the project going. I turned to GoFundMe to make it easy for Newtown alumni to contribute to the project. I already got $225.00 collected out of the initial $800, hope you can help me reach me goal!
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