WHAT ELSE I'VE BEEN DOING

Yesterday as you know we made another trip to the Regency where Mom moved in on Friday. And in this blogger report we'll have at least eight or nine details not in the Word document summary of the event done this morning. We left here about five after three and took the customary rout to the freeway. Judy asked me how my Norton 360 was doing and I filled her in on details, but told her I haven't backed up any files in Achronis yet. Today's question for you Blogees is what did we stop at Cosco to pick up? When we got there I marveled again how high we were already up even though it didn't seem like that big of a hill. The contrast in weather conditions was apparent since it was so smoggy yesterday compared to the pristine clarity of July 4th. Of course we all noted how nicely the furniture she had picked out from the house fit into her new place just perfectly. Bringing that coffee table Mom called "a mistake of the movers" but actually this mistake proved providential because it fit in so well. I forgot to ask Mom whether she had gotten a ninety-nine cent card for me, or whether she just expected me to pick one up myself. Judy was remarking how low the computer chair Mom had was. I remarked that I thought she should have used the other desk and chair. Judy was downloading some sort of anti-virus. The Cox Cable software was still on Mom's computer even though she was using a different service was. There was continual debate whether we should leave to move furniture from the other place or not but we desided to defer that. As it was it was a good thing because you had to get there to get a good table, in this case, right next to the salad bar. Since it was a Hawaiian style luau there were lots of tropical fruits. I fished out extra chunks of pineapple to "enrich" my carrot salad, but I didn't have a whole slice. They had lots of crackers and various sliced cheeses. They were having a "happy hour" and at one point I said I'd like to get a pina collata without the alcohol, but I never followed through on that. [Pete Richards] was downright flirtatious with the females. He asked three young women dressed alike whether they were the dancers and they embarrassedly said "No, we're just dressed alike". They had the roast pig. In fact they brought in a whole new roast pig while we were there. So actually they had two different kinds of pork. If I had known how good those spiced up yams were I would have gotten more. I "only" had two deserts, but then they took my fork away. The coffee was OK but I wouldn't call it great. Me and [Pete] drove down to the old house. They had torn the place apart with remodeling already under way. The floor was all ripped up and the rugs removed and rolled up, and all the kitchen cabinets had been lit into. The new owner wants to replace everything. We moved all the furniture on to [Don Stanley's] blue truck. Of course he would go straight home to Woodridge and not follow me and [Pete] back to the Regency. They didn't have three componet outlets. [Pete] or someone said the place was built around 1964, "for his mother". It was now dark and we visited more with Mom. Then we went down stairs where the Hawaiian music had moved indoors. Judy was doing Hawaiian dancing, which is something I didn't know she was into, after knowing her so long. She says that only in Tahiti and other Islands do they do the violent movements. In Hawaiiai, the dances are gentle. It's a part of the culture she grew up in. When we were on our way home, it was me rather than Judy that brought up the notion of the health care bills. Some may have thought "You're changing your tune". I wasn't speaking with forked tongue, I really have thought about the health care mess, and have pretty much come to the conclusion that the best thing to do is skip the whole thing entirely. Like the song says, "You say tomato, I say tomoto, let's call the whole thing off". It's just going to cause too much unnecessary government intrusion into too many areas. Besides this it's going to raise the premiums of all those who DON"T have "pre existing conditions". Despite what Hartman says the whole thing is going to cost a whole lot of money. Nothing is free, and it's money that we don't have. We took the usual rout from the Freeway to my place. When I got home I smoked my first cigarette in about seven hours and to be honist my first thought was "Why did I light this thing up?"

"Meet the Press" pretty much bored me. I learned little from that hour. I still believe that the oppisition was orchestrated by far right wing groups, but it seems nobody else believes that. On the Chris Matthews show they were trashing the whole concept of a "Woodstock Generation" and one only wishes that Pat Buchannon's words were true that the Woodstock culture has taken over main stream society. There would be a whole lot more peace and love in the world if that were true. But my own generation is pulling this "I never knew you" shit, as though the people who attended the concert were space aliens or something. Frankly I never expected that when "my generation" came to power, we would still be embracing a lot of reactionary values like prejudice and racism. Now when you are hearing a crotchity member of "the older generation" speak, you have to think in the next breath, "that person is my age".

Here is today's Beatle trivia question. If there were only a live web camera in this room you people would be able to answer it. As you know two radio stations aired the same material about Brian Epstein about ten minutes apart. What somg did I listen to virtually in its entirety- - twice, because I wanted to hear it. It's a song the "fake" John Lennon may have written with Paul letting the audience know that one of the members was no longer who you think.

Judy asked me about that "mathematical theory" of mine. I finally remembered what she was referring to. I devised a program in Excel to add rational fraction numbers- - in this case Einstein's "addition of volicies" in the special theory of relativity. It is a bit of genious, isn't it?

In late news there are now three Hurricanes in the Atlantic after two months of absolutely nothing. It's the slowest season since 1992 but in that year we had hurricane Andrew.

There never have been the votes in the US Senate for the "public option" in health insurance. This is just another symptom that the entire bill is dying on the vine.