Mom had her shoulder surgery this morning. The dr. couldn't do what she planned because, if I understand correctly (!) the socket part of the shoulder was too fractured to accept the prosthetic as intended. It's now in there, just not like it should be. The result will be less pain but also less than the range of motion she would otherwise have seen.
Like so many people in that age bracket mom's mind, sharp as ever, is outliving her body.
CNN headline for a column about the John Edwards trial: "Are Men Stupid?"
A headline clearly written by a man.
I don't remember where I read about "The Mark Inside" but it sounded like a good book - a mystery about murders in a small Michigan town. I ordered it for my Kindle before leaving for last week's conference. I didn't get it started until the flight home and I gave up on it this morning, about 60% in. It started out a good read but at about the 40% mark (a Kindle shows you that stat at the bottom of the screen) it got weird. It went from being a murder mystery to something more like sci-fi, a genre I don't enjoy. Return of the evil dead kind of stuff. The writing also disappointed me. Either something went seriously wrong in the transfer to a digital format or he needs to get better editors. I encountered a surprising number of incomplete sentences, homonyms, and misspellings.
Is there a way to remove a book from a Kindle?
My friend Sue and I had an email exchange about her blog. In it she requested that I post less about cars and more about "relationships - Pam, the kids, the congregation, the dog." In an effort to comply:
Pam loves her xB, which she has driven since we bought it new in 2005.
Oops.
Probably not what Sue had in mind.
OK, here's the deal. First, Sue is a girl. She's a very nice girl (albeit approaching middle age, with three growing kids) and I like her a lot. She was one of my very good students and we have fun going back and forth. But guys don't blog about relationships, and only a girl would expect them to. Guys write about cars, and sports, and news, and business, and the other things that spin their wheels - theology and world view stuff in my case. Plus whatever stupid ADD stuff flies through my brain during the day. That's what we do on Mars.
There's another reason I don't write much about those important people in my life. Because there's no on-deck circle between my brain and my mouth I've been known to say/write things that should have been sent back to the bench. It strikes me as unfair to write about those people in a format that lasts forever when they don't get editorial control. That wouldn't be a problem if I was wise and thoughtful (like Sue), but alas, I don't always get it right. Precisely because they're important to me I don't ever want to write anything that would mess them up. Sometimes there's no question it's OK, and I'll probably post about it when Pam gets promoted to CEO at the hospital. But in the meantime I'll err on the side of caution lest I step over that line, including with the very good people of Pathway Bible Church. I have and will talk about them in the aggregate, but not specific individuals.
That needs to be followed with this. Check out the pictures. And look at the current price!
How do I get the Wells Fargo mortgage center to return my calls? They left a voice mail while I was flying home saying it was urgent that I call them re. our refinance. OK, I've done that a half dozen times now AND THEY WON'T CALL BACK.
Jack has an internal clock and knows when it's 4:30, the approximate time I take him for his afternoon walk. About 4:15 his ears go into permanent alert status and if I move at all, even shift positions, he's up and ready, tail wagging.
This unseasonable hot weather means I shouldn't take him that early. The sidewalks are too hot. Normally I gradually push the time back so that by the triple digit weather of summer we're doing that walk closer to 7 p.m., but this hot spell hasn't allowed for that process.
He's driving me crazy.
There. Post comment about Jack. Is that relational?
2 comments:
Craig, you can archive a book on Kindle which will take it off the e-reader.
John
The cool thing about electronic publishing is that it's, well, electronic, and therefore infinitely editable. And it's ultimately personal; no editorial review board. Unbridled self-expression. May the stream-of-consciousness force be with you.
Post a Comment