Notes - upcoming and Prii / free / final in Page format only

         Almost noon. It has been about ten weeks since you had your hair/beard trimmed and this morning you decided to have it done; however, Mary Ann isn’t there today so it will be postponed. You have lunch with Patti Pringle and a Class of 1960 gathering for supper at Jimmy V’s next Thursday in Westerville and the Sunday after is the birthday party for Owen (who will be four); this time at a nearby Kid’s Gym. You will stay over Sunday night and you have lunch with Fritz on that upcoming Monday before heading home. – Amorella

         1156 hours. You make it sound like a busy week or so, Amorella, with two trips to Westerville. We will be and have been putting the miles on the Toyota. Last night I spent an hour or so researching the lasting power of the Toyota hybrid batteries. (I never realized the plural of Prius is Prii.) I feel less apprehensive after the articles found. Most expect the motor to last as long as the car – 180,000 miles. Some Prius taxis have 250,000 miles with no problems. I also found that the Avalon hybrid pack is tweaked, as is the Lexus 300h; so it is not exactly the same as what is in the Camry. It was interesting reading, plus I have the “how to” for taking the battery out and thus replacing it. For the time being though we’ll just add the miles as we do. For the last couple days though we have been driving the Accord around town. We still like it because it is a six and is pretty zippy. Everything still works too, including the seat warmers. I am assuming we are going out for lunch, but only Carol knows for sure.

         Time to set up work for the next three in the series, Chapters Ten, Eleven and Twelve. Later, Dude. Post. - Amorella

         You had a light lunch at Penn Station, ran some errands, drove into Kenwood to return the Airport Express to Apple as it wouldn’t work with the TW modems you have. The employee scanned the box without opening and without asking for your name, address, etc, he reached under the table pulled one hundred and five dollars and sixty-eight cents out of the box and politely sent you on your way. You loved it and can easily remember in the late 1980’s buying your Apple products at MicroCenter in Sharonville. – Amorella

         1629 hours. I don’t remember where we bought them before MicroCenter, but I’m sure we did. The Apple Stores in Kenwood; Easton and Polaris in Columbus; and one off Cedar Road (Legacy Village) in Cleveland and the one near the airport in Tampa (International Plaza) are always busy. Over the years I have bought at least one iPod, iPad or Apple laptop as well as assorted software in the stores mentioned. Now, when I need new software I go to Apple online and download it. How the computer times have changed since the mid 1980’s – what a time to be alive and to be interested in cool new ‘stuff’.

         You are still quite interested in living and using your mind, boy.  – Amorella

         That, I am. No one knows what comes after. It might be an endless sleep. I enjoy life my own way, like everyone else does. Today has been crisp and cold with still white snow (we had five inches) on the ground, but the sun shines bright and the sky is a Midwest winter blue. No complaints from me. No regrets that I can think of. I’m about as ‘free’ as I am ever going to be.

         You have your next three-chapter document ready. We can work until supper – Carol is going to heat up the left over pork, sauerkraut, another ‘nuked’ potato and perhaps a salad. You had dessert at Graeter’s already. – Post. - Amorella

         You watched ABC and NBC News tonight then last night’s new “Elementary”. Carol is currently watching one of her programs. You have skimmed the chapters and the words coming to mind for the chapter’s theme are Spare Parts. – Amorella

         2115 hours. I think one word is better for closer consistency though one is a French phrase. Looking over the thesaurus under ‘parts’ I find two that might work, ‘proportion’ or ‘function’.

         ‘Purpose’ will fit better, boy. Give it a try for now. Later, if you want to change it you are welcome to do so. – Amorella

         Purpose, it is for now. I don’t see it but perhaps I will by the time I complete the (final) editing of these chapters. I need to make some corrections on the chapter introduction page. I forgot to italicize “The” before Supervisor.

         From now on make all such similar ‘final’ corrections only on the Page format to save complications later. All for tonight. Post. - Amorella

         2149 hours. I will need to read through this work one more time searching for more uncaught grammatical and construction errors.

         Save that until later. We will run off one draft copy for this purpose when the work is completed. Who better for the final hard copy edit but yourself? – Amorella

         Shall I read it backwards as I did my Master’s Thesis searching for the inevitable?

         Drop it, boy. – Amorella

         2157 hours. This is fun, Amorella, but this work is also very challenging for me.

         You wouldn’t have it any other way, my friend. Post. - Amorella