Late
morning. You did your forty minutes of
exercises then went to the basement and brought up four large shopping bags of
books, somewhat reluctantly but without sentimentality because the words you
are sending to Half Price Books are online anytime you want to read them. Many
were used for lecture notes and were of personal interest. Now, the challenge
will be to clean up the area and resort what remain of your once rather large
library of books. Carol is having her hair done this afternoon from one to
three so you will have time to watch a couple of programs such as “Dig” and the
PBS production series on Cromwell and Henry. – Amorella
1147
hours. Reading has been purposefully (to learn and to share) all my life;
reading for pleasure is secondary.
This is accurate, orndorff. I will stop you
otherwise. – Amorella
1150
hours. As I am retired from teaching, such reading no longer has the importance
of purpose it once did.
1654
hours. Kim is coming down tomorrow to go to the doctor’s office with Carol late
tomorrow morning about her surgery date.
You
accepted $17.50 for your books. Those not wanted any longer you are throwing in
the recycler. – Amorella
1701
hours. I need to clean up my study section of the basement. The couch is even
cluttered with stuff that is overflowing from my two desks and table. I don’t
want to part with my original Atari and Nintendo 64 though. They would be worth
some money if I had the original set boxes and game boxes. I don’t care, one
day I’ll set them up and play some of those games again – just for the fun of
it. What a time to be alive and witness the beginnings of the personal computer
and gaming. It’s more fun to be in on the beginnings; but then, for the
youngsters there are always more beginnings for them to enjoy as they move
through life. A quick flashback to Grandma’s beginnings in the 1880’s and into
the 1980’s – what beginnings she and all those others witnessed (and the
endings of two great terrible world wars).
You had ham and cheese sandwiches for
supper, a few chips, and an ice cream. You also watched “Battle Creek” and
“Castle” then researched and you both read info on the chair lifts; The Bruno
Elite appears to be the best to ask about first. – Amorella
2154
hours. I was just thinking about what Gary said yesterday, that they are
getting new kitchen appliances and they may be the last ones they will ever
buy. You have been saying that about cars. Fritz says his dad used to say in
the 1970’s, “This will be the last T-Bird I will ever buy.” He bought several
more before he died in his late eighties. This is what happens – aging does not
bring wisdom; it brings home the reality that has been there since day one. I
cannot remember when I did not consciously realize and take into consideration
that any tomorrow could be my last day living. I don’t ever remember being
totally afraid of this reality. I never dwelled on it, but when it pops into
mind I mostly think, “could be” and let it go.
Your interests have long been focused on
matters of heart and soul and mind because you know that if one survives physical
death those are the ‘elements’ you would expect to take with you. – Amorella
2206
hours. But I enjoy the physical aspects of life we have to have at least some
of our five/six senses to take life in, to experience life at least to the
extent we can with our limited senses. Our reality is skewed by these elements
but we can better our senses through machinery such as telescopes and
microscopes and computers. I think that eventually, if our species survives
long enough, we will build machines that will run our machinery and politics
will fall by the wayside. Goods and services can be used to order supplies for
our health, welfare and to better our sense of humanity. Computers already help
assist our jury system on finding who is guilty of a crime and who is not.
Machinery can be built to help us survive as individuals in small and large
groups/cultures for our own good health and welfare. People are still fearful
of robotics but machinery doesn’t have to be that way. Besides, we are
biochemical machinery. What else would you call us? Living, existing, is still
in the form of being built for survival on this physical world. Safety
equipment makes our cars safer. All these engineering devices and safety
aspects can be put in form for our general living. Will criminals and
terrorists be thought of basically as cancer? To us this is abhorrent, but then
so are criminals and terrorists. In one of my books it is suggested that the
criminals and terrorists be allowed to survive elsewhere, on the Moon for
instance, or on Mars. Give them the ability to survive on those places and let
them be. Maybe that’s what some of our species did with us. Drop them on the
Earth and let them be. I can see the marsupial humanoids doing something of
this sort long ago. Banishment. But then, what goes around; comes around.
Humor. You just gotta love reality. (2228)
Time for bed, boy. Carol is already asleep,
and you have yet to give Jadah her playtime. Post. – Amorella
2229
hours. I’m just rambling to myself, Amorella.
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