Another year has gone by and it's time for the Xmas wrap up. Again I am e-mailing my Xmas letter to anyone I have an e-mail address for since I can get in more pix and they look better. I’m still sending cards and color letters to the pre-computer folks on my card list. I’m also posting my letter on my web site. The site has grown with more pix from 2019 activities. My site is:  http://jeffstalzer.com/ . 

Since it's almost winter I'll start with the first measurable snow on 24 Nov. It went away fast.

Nicholas, Uncle Jeff, Fletcher (not screaming), Olivia, Hunter, Amy (Peyton not there)

In August I traveled to NJ again for Fletcher's 2nd birthday All the siblings were there (but not at the same time). 

Birthday Boy (Who needs utensils?)

 In October the big trip was to my 50th High School Reunion on LI. My longest trip yet at 833 miles. I did not relish driving thru or near NYC. I went by way of NJ Stopping to visit Joyce and Stephen and Lou and Anita. Then up to LI across the Verrazzano bridge (still very scenic). The traffic was intense--how did I ever live there?

 I also had to go to visit the ocean. $8.00 to park off season!

The Home Room gang together again for the first time in 50 yrs.(R to L) Mike Schroder, Me, Gary Storm

 After the reunion I traveled home by way of Scranton PA visiting Steam-town. I was following my car GPS trying to avoid driving thru the Bronx. I was headed to the Throgs neck bridge, then up the east side of the Hudson, across at the Tapenzee Bridge, which was replaced by the Gov. Cuomo Bridge. In the “city” (Queens) the turns were close together and I took a wrong turn. The car did a re-route and I ended in places I have never been. Went past Yankee stadium and the old NYS pavilion from the worlds fair, on grand central pkwy, across the Robert Kennedy bridge, up Harlem river drive. Ended up on the G. Washington bridge and then Palisades pkwy (which was very nice scenery). Finally got to where I wanted to be near the Gov. Cuomo Bridge. Then I-87 and onto NY 17, a road I had traveled on several times between Rochester and LI as a student.

I stayed at the Radisson Lackawanna Station Hotel Scranton. A very nice re-use of a historic building and ADA accessible.

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Repair to the failed printed circuit board (red jumper wire) Boards are not supposed to have failures like this.

 Mystery connector (can you identify it?)

 I had an adventure with my chair topper this year. The chair topper carries my wheel chair on top of the car. I was at a deli for lunch, out of my car, closing the topper when it stopped (failed). The topper was half open, I could not open or close it. I could not drive the car that way. A friend helped me close the topper manually and put my chair in the car so I could drive home. This was my second topper and a redesign had been done poorly and was susceptible to failure when wet (who drives their car indoors?).

I went around and around with the manufacturer (Braun Ability) who knew of the problem but did not issue a recall. I could not get a clear answer if they had a redesigned repair part. So I redesigned the part myself. I learned how to use a free printed circuit board design tool. I had a printed circuit board manufactured. I could not get information about one of the connectors on the board from Braun so I ended up using the circuit board out of my old topper