April 6,2010

50 killed in Iraq from terrorist bombings. May lead to sectarian violence. Hmmmm. Sounds so clean. 50 people pointed out and told to drop dead and they did. Lots of smoke, noise and did you notice that the windows were blown out and some buildings collapsed. When was the last time I collapsed a building???? It was that long ago....I think it was a Lincoln log building. During the Beirut bombing we tried to tear apart the reinforced concrete with our bare hands in our desperation to save lives. Not everyone was killed. Some just lost all their limbs or eyes or hearing or their minds - they didn't die. How many people are affected in our private social/blood families when someone dies or is physically harmed? What if it was those Democrats/Republicans/Independents/Liberals/Conservatives that did it? Iraq was created as a prize of war - it included 3 'tribes' of people - people that have hated each other over the centuries - what is going to cause them to reunite as a single country? They have to hate a common enemy and as much damage as we have inflected we are leaving. Listen and watch Afghanistan. We are leaving Iraq....slowly but surely. Then what they do is their RESPONSIBILITY....because they are a SOVEREIGN nation. What does that mean in a nutshell - the United States has no business occupying foreign lands. When we finally send the last trooper home - Iraq will revert back to a culture that works in that part of the world because jamming America down someones throat is still a violent sexual act. We dare to call them crooks and sneer at them and forget about our own government with our own sneering crooks.

Cho's blood counts were a bit lower than the week before but still not dangerously low. She got her shot and we left. So did some more people along the way. It is the American way, the evolution of opportunity in that we always seek a better job. Better pay, benefits, or just closer to home/hours. We love the people we come into contact with all that we can give them. We live our own lives and they theirs and when we part, hopefully we part friends. My problem is that I am so self-centered that I don't even care to learn their names. I do remember Loretta and Connie but I didn't know eithier of their names until this last year. That is not sad that is my sickness.

My car read 95 degrees today in April. I did not go outside today to garden and with all the other stuff going on it was ok. I watered the tomato plant and pinched off a couple of leaves so it could grow more. I went to the back yard and thinned out one plant and ate the leaves and it was of the radishes. It was raining a bit today so that was another excuse to not go outside besides I was hungover from the night before. Yesterday I recieved a package with my gardening tools I had ordered. Peter Cho told me I could have gotten these tools from the Korean store - now I can pass that on - but I don't go to his Korean store. LOL Tomorrow might be an excellant day to mow my grass. Tomorrow might also be an excellant day to get some more used tires to build more compost piles. How many? 12 disciples. That is sufficient. How to cover them? Probaly garbage bags maybe we can put them around the tires and maybe we have to tape them with duck tape eithier way will work.

Took Cho to her doctor's office and found out that she was on a 10-day cruise with her two daughters and husband. Of course in the back of our heads we say must be nice. I told two people that without them she would not have been able to go on that cruise because they were not there. Karen who is my nurse practioner and with the doctor said this was the first time she ever met my wife of 34 years. Her husband died of cancer about 10 years ago and I asked her why she never got married again - he was irreplaceable was her answer. We will treat Cho with Nexium starting tomorrow AM and if that works then her stomach pain is all about acid reflux. If not then we have change her diet to minimal fats and lactose. Karen needs an operation and she will get that in May and lay out for awhile. I pray to God now for her speedy recovery and her blessings that she spreads daily on this earth. Thank you God for Karen.

Finished Playing for Pizza by John Grisham...basically a story of a want to be NFL quarterback that grew up in his Italian football playing experience..it had a good ending and it was a nice story. I recommend it for its worth.