The Last Days of October

[fossilfreak]

Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, vol 1 p. 560

178.6 miles

cool and cloudy

 

370 recordings of 28 types, 9 old SVU and 12 old Chicago PD (I need to see how the series started). 22% clear.

 

Harry Lewis: An excellent question. Kelly's point is analogizing the Civil War to the current situation in the country. If we can't find a basis for compromise, we will end up in another civil war. Obama drove us toward civil war, because he deliberately "federalized" many controversial leftist policies, leaving many religious and other communities with no civic space in which to survive.

 

This just in: Mueller has determined that Carter Page returned a tape to Blockbuster without rewinding it in 2001. And it was 'Gorky Park'! This definitively connects Trump to Russia. ~ @NotElizabethNJ

 

 

Sunday I scheduled a Mass for Rich. Ellen was the lector so pronounced his name correctly. I heard more about Jeannie (who died Tuesday.) I really didn't feel like going to the nursing home to give out Communion... this is really a hard time of year.

 

I finally finished volume 10 of the Shelf of Harvard Classics. This was American short stories and I kept getting sidetracked by other things. Like playing Fishdom. I finished in 2nd place in the silver guild.

 

Monday I made a Commissary trip, and that was it.

 

Tuesday after the WPAC breakfast (the restaurant is getting more and more lame. There's always someone sitting in "our place" and they don't manage separate checks or even separate orders very efficiently) I went to buy gas while I can still afford it.

 

Besides the restaurant, I have another grumble with the Knights of Columbus. I've signed up for their Widow's Mass and Luncheon, but OMG the coordinator is a pain. He'd never heard of Rich. He needed everything at least twice and I had to call him back to repeat when Rich had died. Today I got the letter explaining what the Mass was, and halfway through he called me "Barbara." ARGH!!!

 

I dug up weeds and raked oak leaves over one garden bed (the one I'd had corn, beans, and squash in). There were squirrels in the shed, driving Pharaoh nuts, and I put some tools back in and scared two squirrels out.

 

I only had 17 kids trick-or-treating. I really wonder if I should continue to try. (But the ones who came were really cute.)

 

 

Vince found this about the Franklin.

Now reading: Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire; Pepys' Diary; Embarrassments by PJ Nel; Shattered, Jonathan Allen & Amie Parnes; The Little World of Don Camillo, Giovanni Guareschi; and Not Quite Dead Enough by Rex Stout.