20 October 2013

Notes - glass house, no stones /


         After supper, the news and Home and Garden television you are at Kroger’s on Tylersville with Carol doing major shopping. Tomorrow morning you are heading to the Honey Baked Ham store for the main course. You both relaxed for an hour and you have Carol’s iPhone 4 up and running with Cincinnati Bell so her old phone goes in a drawer for emergency use if her newer phone ever needs work. You are becoming a bit more accustom to your iPhone and have downloaded the apps needed from your shared iCloud account. You mowed the lawn except for the southwest hill, which Carol mowed and you cleaned the bathroom floors while Carol spent time washing clothes. This is the way you live; mostly organized. You even made new house keys as you could only find one that worked – one for each car and another to the neighbor in case the garage door opener does not work.

         2008 hours. Paul sent me a text early today so I would have to respond. I did not realize that texting could be done with voice. It is not without fault but it is pretty impressive as far as I am concerned. My fingers/thumbs are too massive to work the small keys well and the software has autocorrect, another cool feature I knew nothing about. We need to keep up with the times perhaps better than we have. Tonight we talked to KP&boys on Facetime for the first time in quite a while. The boys enjoyed it as much as we did. I suppose we are a decade behind in this modern communication era. Carol had been using Kim’s old red Razor phone and the fellow at Cincinnati Bell got a kick out of seeing one; he said the Razor is a good phone but you could tell he thought he was dealing with an antique.

         You are home and took time to look up more about your once former sophomore student. You had heard she was a model but you did not realize she had modeled for Playboy and Penthouse; and that she once had a fan club. You also found she was a B movie actress and are not sure what that means. You have never seen her in any films that you can remember. Some say she committed suicide and that her brother committed suicide two days later. To you this has a ring of a Greek tragedy laced with the drug and drug rehabilitation trade. She did not live in a good environment and for this you feel sad and somewhat ‘misplaced’ in your thoughts. – Amorella

         2126 hours. There is such a juxtaposition of settings from when I knew her and her later life. I have nothing against Playboy or even Penthouse. In younger days I read both, even the articles. Shoot, in college I sold Playboy  (75 cents + 3 cents tax at the time) at Gifford’s Bookstore in Uptown Westerville. We had to keep the magazines behind the counter, that was the only restriction, plus you had to be 18. I will sleep better tonight realizing there were lots of personal relationship problems in her life at the time and that she hopefully she has been a peace since her death. What a world we live in. Domestic abuse has always been with us I assume. Many of us have been more fortunate. I pretty much live in a glass house. I would never throw stones.

         You have brought this unfortunate event to a close. Tomorrow Craig and Alta will be here. Life continues for the living. That’s one of the rules boy. Post. - Amorella

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