Notes - such is the day / ending with questions no less

         Mid-morning. After breakfast you had a piece of chocolate thinking it might coax you into a nap but so far to no avail. You had trouble going to sleep because you spent an hour or so on Ancestry (.com) running through standing hints, which sometimes produce more hints. You did find more material about your and Carol’s ancestors and some photographs people had put on the site. – Amorella

         0931 hours. We are all related to lots of people and I’m sure I have hundreds if not thousands of direct ancestors, we all do, but right now we work with what we can find evidence for. One day our DNA will comb through us with a fine tooth. Carol was asking family questions on the English and Scottish (Hammond’s and Emmerson’s). I synced online genealogy with my Family Tree so everything is now up to date.

         You finished your forty minutes of exercises. Carol was supposed to give blood this morning but she forgot and you did not think of it until an hour later. You puttered around with Ancestry and found a photo that includes Great Aunt Floy when she was about five. The photo is of the fiftieth wedding anniversary of Robert Francis Orndorff (1832-1922) and Selina Philena Hubbell (1839-1913). Great Aunt Floy Orndorff Gray is sitting in the front row, second child in from the left. - Amorella

This photo is not nearly so clear as it is in Ancestry. Sorry.

        

         Since Carol gave blood you decided to go to Longhorn for lunch – this time she had salmon and you had grilled chicken and macaroni in a four-cheese sauce. You both enjoyed the change in menu. Tomorrow Kim is coming down and you hope to go to the Chinese restaurant.

         1448 hours. Carol is picking up a card for her sister at Hallmark. It is really growing colder as the day wears on, and the northwest wind is quite biting, I should have worn a jacket.

         Evening. Carol is fixing supper. Kim called and is bringing the boys with her – she is staying through Sunday, and if you have a snowstorm at that time she will stay until Monday. Paul has night hours next week when he will be working in the OR at Grant Hospital downtown Columbus and he needs to adjust this weekend. So, you swept downstairs and have dusting to do and sweeping upstairs also. There is plenty of time because she will be working in the morning, pick up the boys after their lunch and arrive mid-afternoon. Next Wednesday she begins her second part time job, filling in at career services at Kenyon College Career Development Office two days a week from ten to four for the rest of second semester. - Amorella

         You watched a new episode of “Suits” (lots of drama) and NBC News tonight while eating leftover peppers and rice for supper.

         2212 hours. I re-worked half of Grandma 8 today.

         Orndorff, do you believe it is possible to consciously be in two separate states of mind at the same time? – Amorella

         2217 hours. This is out of the blue. I would like to think so but that is imagination – no, it is not possible to consciously be in two separate states of mind at the same time. The personal evidence of this can be seen in these blog posting. Human beings focus on one thing at a time. Consciousness takes focus. Accidents happen because people are not paying attention.

         Do you consider the human species an accident? – Amorella

         2223 hours. It may be. That is the existential element. Once here though we make what we can of our situation from birth to death, and not all we make of ourselves (our persona) is consciously created, but it can be consciously changed or re-discovered along our way. Critical thinking demands we give ourselves limitations. We are not free without our own limitations. No one is free because no one completely knows her or his limitations. Without limiting ourselves we cannot better know who we are.

         What use then is an Angel to a human being? – Amorella

         2231 hours. I have no idea other than to provide an added perspective to both reason and imagination.

         Do you feel an Angel can be self-imposed on a human being? – Amorella

         2234 hours. What questions. No. That would be arrogant and dishonest. Such an Angel would have to be fully defined before it could be self-imposed.

         Am I fully defined to you? – Amorella

         2238 hours. No. I neither, am fully defined by me. I think I am just making this up as I go along. These are not questions you would ask.

         Why? – Amorella

         2242 hours. This is silliness -- unfocused playtime. I am going to bed.

         Post. – Amorella

         2243 hours. This just shows I am tired and don’t really want to do anything about it but to go to bed.