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I was reading randomly

 It was an article about resumes.  You don’t put your age in a resume, but the teller of this tale pointed out that when writing, you can date yourself with how you type; how spacings appear in what you wrote.  People that grew up with typewriters put two spaces after a period.  They end a sentence with a period, type two spaces, then start the next sentence. People that grew up with computers never had to learn to type two spaces.  You just type a space after the period and the word processor takes care of the spacing for you. I never would have even thought of that, and there may be youngsters that never considered that you would need to do anything special at the end of a sentence besides put in a space. So I decided to test the theory.  I typed identical (nonsense) sentences in Microsoft Word using first one then two spaces after each period: This is a test to see if we. Need to type two spaces. At the end of each sentence. This is a test to see if we.  Need to type two spaces.  At the end of each sentence. They display differently.  They print almost the same but I can still see the difference.  I like two spaces better. I’m left to wonder if there is any truth to what the article writer claimed.  I know all the older people out there put two spaces after the end of a sentence, but are there any youngsters who only use one?  
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And a very Merry Skype Christmas to all

  Christmas 2014. Christmas 1969, Judy and I were sitting next to our tree with newly discovered candle holders. Yes, we put live fire on our Christmas Tree that year (and lived to tell about it).  We had friends newly to the U.S. from Czechoslovakia.  We had them over and they were wowed by our electric lights.  We went to their house and were wowed by their old world candleholders.  We did our tree up old school, went back to their house and found their tree decorated with electric lights.  J