Mid-afternoon. You had your appointment with
the hand surgeon Dr. Dan R. early this morning at Montgomery Road and Weller,
and you and Carol stopped for breakfast at First Watch on the way home. She had
lunch with a fellow group of retired Blue Ash teachers. Once home you ran
errands and are now picking up her new sunglasses from Kenwood. You do have the
Office Word statistics for these last three chapters with only three more
chapters to go. Drop them in. – Amorella
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Ch. 16 - Suggestion
Words. 3128 Words per Sentence 11.9
Sentences 259
Sentences/Paragraph 2.3
Passive Sentences 5 percent
Flesh Reading Ease 100
Flesh-Kincaid Grade Level 0.4
Ch. 17 - Luminosity
Words. 3212 Words per Sentence 11.3
Sentences 274
Sentences/Paragraph 2.1
Passive Sentences 1 percent
Flesh Reading Ease 100
Flesh-Kincaid Grade Level 0.4
Ch. 18 - Brevity
Words. 3192 Words per Sentence 12.9
Sentences 230
Sentences/Paragraph 2.2
Passive Sentences 1.1 percent
Flesh Reading Ease 100
Flesh-Kincaid Grade Level 1.1
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hours. I guess I never included the number of paragraphs because of the
excessive dialogue.
You are home. Carol is feeding the cats
after which she will return to reading the morning paper. The doctor said you
have severe carpel tunnel on the right hand and moderate on the left. He is
going to operate on both in a couple of weeks. Carol was surprised when he said
you had the hand squeeze strength of a forty-year old man. He was surprised
too. You had no idea so you were not surprised; you took it as a fact. -
Amorella
1709 hours. That’s true. I thought, ‘well, huh.’ That’s it. I have
to set up these last three chapters for reviewing then I’ll get started, that
is, unless we watch a couple of TV shows from Sunday or last night. What was
fun today was to discover that Dr. Dan Reilly and Dr. John Jameson were friends
in the University of Cincinnati Medical School. I miss John as our doctor; it
has been a decade at least since he left. Lois was his nurse. I had them both
in British Literature at the same time. I remember the first time I saw him. I
went in to see Dr. Thinnes (I had his daughters also) and I saw John instead. I
didn’t recognise him at first but he took one surprised look and said, “You told
me to go to Dennison [University],” which I had. I also had John’s brother and
his two sisters in class too at different times of course. I loved teaching. I
loved my students. John and his family moved to North Carolina to practice with
another former student who had married one of the Thinnes girls. I still see
Lois V. from time to time though she is retired now. I was a lucky man to be
able to teach such wonderful students over all those years. I hope they had fun
in my classes, most of the time I sure did, almost all the time it was a joy to
get up early, walk out and get the morning paper in the star or moonlight or
rising sunlight, read the paper, eat breakfast and be off to set up first bell
class in my head. I always had a plan or could makeshift one when need be. I
was in my element.
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