Notes - dealing with it /

         Mid-afternoon. You did your forty minutes of exercises this morning but limited some usual lateral leg movements. You and Carol have been cleaning up for tomorrow and in the processes you have been running several errands, like to Sears for example – eventually you had a late lunch at Smashburgers and Carol is in Kroger’s on Tylersville. You bought a new landline phone system at Best Buy and are setting up the directory when you return home. Yesterday, you were excited to use Apple Pay for the first time (Best Buy) and feel younger for it. – Amorella

         1501 hours. It does make me feel good that I can keep up with some of the technology. I had a great aunt who was a computer geek into her mid nineties. You have to move with the times psychologically or it is downhill faster – that’s a generalization, but there is some truth to it. Let’s say, you have to find a way to stay interested in the world at large. Otherwise you have nothing much to talk to people about, and if you don’t have conversations people are not much interesting, mostly, I find (except on the blog of course) that I am better off listening; my interests are mostly limit but I have no trouble accepting this. When we had lunch with Dave and Marsha at Der Dutchman at Exit 165 off I-71 on Thursday Marsha, Carol and myself did some talking but Dave listens. I feel bad that he is not so well presently. Parkinson’s takes a toll. Slow and relentless. I hope this is temporary but somehow I don’t think so. It is too bad. Maybe he’ll bounce back. He was very tired and not much of that old sparkle in his eyes that let me know he was still in there. Nothing can done, and it’s inevitable for all of us eventually.

         You found a way to express this yourself. There is really nothing else to say – words become inadequate in many human situations. You and Carol are excited to see Craig and Alta tomorrow afternoon and into Wednesday. You two are more deeply comfortable with Craig and Alta than you are with some members of your family. – Amorella

         1524 hours. At times and in circumstances the human family can be of greater importance.

         You were home then back to Sears because the filter was the wrong size and back to Kroger’s because Carol decided she needed more things. She is going to make one of Craig’s favorite desserts – it has probably been a decade or so – chocolate fudge brownies with caramel slithered throughout. – Amorella

         1631 hours. It is one of my favorites too. I ask for it every time they come but this time I didn’t mention it and she’s going to bake them anyway. Good for Carol, and good for the rest of us.

         Today southwest Ohio broke a weather record, seventy-two degrees, according to your Siri. – Amorella

         1636 hours. I love Siri. I can ask her almost anything and she responds quickly and appropriately. Who would have thought when we were growing up in the fifties that there would be such personal computer advances. It has been exciting though living through the times of their first modern advances. Atari was one of the high points, then the IBM PC – Craig bought one of the first ones, then the Apple II/III, which we borrowed from school during the summers and used at school and Apple products ever since though Kim had a Compaq for Miami in 1997as a freshman because the business department did not use Apples. She used it all four years. – This is useless information – just me rattling on from inside. One memory triggers another and on and on. (1651)

         You are home. Post. - Amorella