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My cousin Emma on the beach in Longboat Key, FL.

From the Providence Journal

Monday, November 22, 2004

P. SUSAN SHINDLER, 96, of 198 Waterman Ave., the owner of the former Abbey Telephone and Secretarial Service, died yesterday at Eastgate Nursing Home.

Born in Providence, a daughter of the late Chaim and Zlotta (Goldstein) Shindler, she had lived in Cranston for several years before moving to Providence in 1951, and to East Providence in 2004.

Ms. Shindler was a life member of the Rhode Island Jewish Historical Association, Miriam Hospital Women's Association, and the National Council of Jewish Women. She was a member of the Rhode Island Jewish Federation, B'nai B'rith, Temple Emanu-El Leisure Club and the Rhode Island Holocaust Memorial Museum.

She leaves four nieces, Charlotte Penn and Florence Nachbar, both of Providence, and Carolyn Gold and Susan Tejada, both of Washington, D.C.; and 11 grandnieces and grandnephews, and 7 great-grandnieces and great-grandnephews. She was the sister of the late Sara, Murray, Samuel, Chandelle and Ethel Shindler, Gertrude Mondshein and Dora Finkler.

The funeral service will be held tomorrow at 2 p.m. in Sugarman-Sinai Memorial Chapel, 458 Hope St., Providence. Burial will be in Lincoln Park Cemetery, Warwick.

Happy Birthday to me!

This dandy little piece of metal is called a connecting rod cap. It connects the connecting rod to the crankshaft. The connecting rod then ~connects~ to the piston which moves back and forth very quickly. The connecting rod transfers the piston's energy to the crankshaft.

The con rod cap is supposed to be INSIDE the engine, not on my desk. This one decided to make a hole in the side of one of my engines in order to escape.