Mid-morning. Things are more settled today.
Up, breakfast and the paper as usual, Dan's upstairs working, Jadah and Spooky
have been up and about with a surprise seen close by, a neighbor's tiger cat
coming up to be window seen. Heads perked, leaning forward on the back haunches
and front paws stretched up the window Jadah and Spooky were a sight, and they
were seen by Mr. Tiger. - Amorella
0854 hours. It was fun to
see all three cats in action of reintroduction. Mr. Tiger is out and about but
rarely. By now though our cats are curled in light naps or deep sleep and Mr.
Tiger moved on in his great counterclockwise circle around our nearly private
and quiet cul-de-sac.
You had a nap while Carol was working on
reading her email, much of it articles on politics and economics, one of her
fun long time interests. - Amorella
1114 hours. I'm thinking
it's time to get to work on chapter five once again. I need to get the reading
ease score up.
Check the meaning of those scores once again
first. - Amorella
1117 hours. What I'm
thinking is that if Moby Dick was in the seventies, the fifties must be really
complicated, but I'll check.
** **
Flesch reading ease
70-60 8th/9th
grade Plain English
60-50 10th/12th grade Fairly difficult to read
50-30 College Difficult to read
30-0 College
Graduate Very difficult to
read
Selected and edited from Wikipedia -Flesch-Kincaid tests
** **
1128 hours. The number is
not as bad as I thought. It's still in the high school reading range to my
surprise.
Take another reading. I'll read along with
you. Let's see where you see the problems are. - Amorella
1131 hours. I'm ready.
1149 hours.
This is coming along surprising well. I stopped with uncanny-like for a break. --
Plus, Carol decided to clean the outside downstairs windows and I helped. We
may go to lunch then to the cemetery or park to read with the windows down no
less.
Post. - Amorella
1337 hours. I stopped again, this time at 'still-state'.
I don't know when I started.
You are not on an hourly wage, boy. - Amorella
1339 hours. I know. It's
wonderful to do this for nothing. I wasn't consciously thinking of an hourly
wage -- just a curiosity, of all the lifetime spent in a semi-focused thought.
Strangely, it seems like no time at all.
That's the beauty of it, young man. Beauty,
poetry and irony all wrapped up in one. - Amorella
1343 hours. It is, Amorella.
It really is. Amazing, how this is.
Post. - Amorella
Nighttime. Carol made you half a hot ham and
cheese for supper about an hour ago. Dan completed the painting and left about
two then you and Carol had lunch at Penn Station. - Amorella
2128 hours. We love the
newly painted ceiling and walls. The paint is light, not quite neutral, a warm
soft yellow that appears almost beige if light is not shining directly on it.
Dan is an excellent painter, an old styled craftsman painter.
Craftsman means Dan first treats the walls
and ceiling with respect. - Amorella
2134 hours. Excellent word
choice, Amorella. That is indeed what it means when I use the word. No more
need be said.
We can work on chapter five tomorrow and
have it published. You have plans to go shopping for a second smaller bookcase
and a tall light for your chair. No more will you be surrounded by a black
plastic set of shelves on each side of your chair full of papers, books,
computer equipment and other assorted goods. Carol wants the area freshened up.
You have had this southeast corner of the room this way since the early to
mid-nineties. Most of your electronic stuff is obsolete, pre-web. Carol is in
bed ready to read one of the books Kim bought her for Christmas. You are
feeling a quiet, 'retirement life is good' moment. Enjoy the moments, my young
man. - Amorella
2154 hours. I think that this
'being in the moment' is as time is not existing, odd as that may seem.
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