Today 8June2023

I am tired tonight, and the hours over the last few days are running me down. This will be a short blog, sorry.

I just finished Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann, and this is a disturbing part of the 1920s US history and, while well written, does not have a happy ending. I am so glad I read it and recommend it.

Moving to essential events, I reached Susie’s place in the morning today. Susie resides at the hummingbird house in Portland (Tigard) at Allegiance Senior Care LLC, 9925 SW 82nd. Ave. Portland (Tigard), OR 97223; phone (503) 246-4116. I left work at about 11 and arrived as Susie finished her breakfast. Susie was doing better today and not leaning to the right (the stroke-damaged side) and could feed herself. Once Susie was done, we headed out to Metzger Park next door. I pushed Susie’s wheelchair towards a bench in the sun, sat, and called Leta, Susie’s mother, who was happy to get an earlier call today (I have missed calling Leta the previous few days) and enjoyed talking to Susie on FaceTime using my iPhone. We are happy to see each other on the phone. It was cool, 64F (17.7C), and we stayed out briefly. I returned to work, getting a kiss goodbye, after stopping by Jimmy John’s and having a sub with a Diet Coke and a small bag of chips.

I started the morning at 6AM and rushed, getting only a breakfast of a banana and liberal coffee. My first meeting was at 7AM on yesterday’s computer issues. Our developers worked all night fixing the problems and running the slow-running existing code over little bits of data. Our team members had to run it over 1,000 times to complete the data conversion (which was completed at 4:30PM). The fixes would wait for the next run as it was too risky to change the code in mid-conversion.

English daisies and butter cups in Metzger Park.

The rest of the day was full of status meetings after seeing Susie. I was getting tired, so I headed home early and rested briefly (getting up for more meetings). Once the last meeting was done after 5PM, I made dinner. I fried and baked a porkchop. I made corn niblets (frozen) by heating the microwaved corn in butter in the pan where I fried the porkchop. I made couscous with butter-fried hazelnuts and raisins with spices like cardamon, cinnamon, and cloves.

I am running out of steam.

Heavenly Scent Rose from Dondrea and Z for my birthday is now blooming. It is a bit stressed by the heat and lack of rain but looks great.

I forgot to put in that today was Theology Pub via Zoom. About six of us discussed the law of unintentional consequences. We agreed that fast or aggressive actions from an organization can create this. The possible banning of the Bible for violence is the latest example.

Thanks for reading!