0849 hours. The last couple of days I
have made sloppy mistakes in the postings. I hope this is not the beginning of
downhill mentality. I usually catch most errors but Norrises rather than
Norris’ is a bad one. Then on an earlier post I didn’t check the spelling on Schwinn
and Jaguar – just plain sloppy. My feeling is that if my grammar is that bad
then the thinking/reasoning-in-content is not that good either. Orwell has a
quote relating to this and right now I’m not remembering it either. Here is one
that is pertinent:
“If people cannot write well, they
cannot think well, and if they cannot think well, others will do their thinking
for them.”
And
I found another that is still pertinent online:
“The great enemy of clear language is
insincerity. When there is a gap between one’s real and one’s declared aims,
one turns, as it were, instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a
cuttlefish squirting out ink.” – George Orwell
Evening. Before leaving you had an Egg
McMuffin lunch at McD’s near King’s Island. You arrived mid-afternoon. Paul was
putting up the outdoor Christmas lights and Kim was working in the kitchen.
Carol helped. You had one more trip to Kroger’s, this one nearby on Rt. 23
(Columbus Road). Sandwiches for supper. Kim and Paul went to a party after
bathing the boys. Carol, you and the boys watched part of “Up” before Carol
read them a story before bed. Carol is reading and you are thinking about going
to bed. – Amorella
2137 hours. Tomorrow will be a good busy with family and
food. Friday morning we invited Kim, Paul and the boys to a 49th
Anniversary Breakfast. Kim said she would have a 50th Anniversary Party
next year but I think we talked her out of it. We never had a party as such for
any of them. Traditionally we exchange cards and have a good dinner out with
close family or a greater symbolic dinner that includes birthdays and/or
anniversaries sometime in the next two, three or six month period – never were
big on social parties. – I’m glad we’re here. It’s good to see everyone. We have
a good time.
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