It is Thursday already and I have not written a thing. Obviously, as you will see, it has been a pretty mundane week, including a Monday morning morning legion coffee and a Tuesday doctors appointment, this time with the car doctor. I bought the new Santa Fe in October. It had been a dealer demo so it had a few miles on it. While we spent the winter in Florida it spent the winter in the driveway. It has been driven since we arrived home on May1 so it was time for my first oil change and an inspection. Since it was almost new the inspection turned up nothing and resulted in my leaving with a bill of less than $100, as a matter of fact less than $50. in years. Wednesday I caught up on my web site work. I finally tracked down the pictures. They had been forwarded in a separate email which I finally got a copy of Wednesday morning. I sized and placed them, converted the bulletin to pdf and uploaded to the site. Wednesday is the day I usually get the bulletin from St Terrence Parish in Alsip. I supply the site and maintain it as a stewardship gift to the parish. In addition to the bulletin I also received some information from the coordinator of the Men's Club Golf League. We include the Golf League info on the web site which saves the Men's Club some money. I did that work and uploaded the material to the site. Then I went back to the dealer. On Tuesday I had mentioned that I had a scratch that needed some touch up. I was told (without them looking at the car) that the paint guy was in on Wednesday. Actually, it was so simple that they took care of it with a touch up pen which they gave me to take along. This time NO CHARGE! Wednesday concluded with me falling off to sleep while listening to web site Wednesday, a computer segment on Steve and Johnnies over night show on WGN radio. Thursdays big events were a daily trip to the Sportsplex and a meeting of the Orland Park Veteran's Commission on which I soon enter the 4th year of my one year appointment.
Do not commit the error, common among the young, of assuming that if you cannot save the whole of mankind you have failed.
~ Jan de HartogOne last doctors appointment this week on Friday. This time it wasan annual visit o the eye doctor. Vision much the same but cataracts have increased slightly. Recommendation is that he won't do anything until vision has been impacted. I am to return next year for the annual follow-up.
It has been an odd week. We pray for those of our neighbors impacted by the storms that have raked nearby areas as well as areas in Iowa, Kansas, Indiana and Wisconsin where massive flooding has taken place. It must be horrible to stand and watch your home and yes your life wash into the river, break apart and disappear downstream, Needless to say, I was irate when my wife told me about the WLS afternoon drive host using those items to joke about. We pray for the families of the young scouts killed by Tornado debris on an innocent camping trip. Having lost a son ourselves we have some sense of what they must be goin through. In closing we also offer a prayer of Thanksgiving that those of us in our immediate area have been spared although more storms are forecasted .
The Cubs have been almost as crazy as the weather. Tying games with homers in the ninth and winning in eleven. Yesterday they actually won that game when Reed Johnson pinch hitting for Jim Edmonds (who hit the game tying home run in the ninth) was hit by the first pitch he saw in the bottom of the eleventh. Unfortunately for the Braves, the bases were loaded at the time and the game was of course over. It was a throwback day with each team wearing their 1948 uniforms (no names) and the first two innings in black and white without the constant repetitions of replays .They finished the week with a 3-2 loss tonight in Toronto. The last time their record was this good was 1908 when they won it all.
