Awake: 5:15am Temp 55 sleep 5+12 partly sunny overnight @ Nicktown.
K & I attend 8:00am Mass & then join the KK for (35) min. Kathy leaves @ 9:35am to do a little grocery shopping before visiting the Foote Castle to do some professional wallpaper removal & possible painting inside.
I call Cindy @ Newell & sign us up for the Branson, MO rally in November.
So here I am on the computer, minding my own business when suddenly, a fast moving car penetrates our circular drive & stops quickly @ our closed entry door. I look @ him, he studies me, & then with the door open I ask: “who are you?” “You don’t know me?” he replies. “Not yet” I tell him. With that clue, he removes his hat. What a surprise! It’s my ole colleague & buddy, ED, from Long Island, New York. We worked @ the same Atom Smasher during the 60’s; he in the main control room of the Alternating Gradient Synchrotron & I in the Linear Accelerator control room. We had such interesting jobs back then & enjoyed our work as well as our play. We gabbed for a good (1.5) hrs, then Ed had to leave to join his wife, Mary Ann, who is visiting her (96) yr old mother, living close to Patton, PA. Ed’s visit sure brightened up my day.
Next, I motor to the Nicktown Hill & have Cindy notarize our Suzuki renewal papers before mailing them to Alaska.
During the afternoon, I intermittently watch Scottrader Streaming Quotes on our computer as the stock market dropped 777 points this day, highest in the history of the market; also Nick& I text each other off & on throughout this scary afternoon.
I call John Clark @ the Newell Factory with a few questions about the upcoming rally.
Kathy returns @ 5:50 with a load of groceries & tired arms & legs, the result of her busy day’s activities; removing the wallpaper from the library walls & doing needed patching.
Dinner: leftover pizza from my 1st cousin Joan’s visit last Thursday + a fresh salad.
We watch the int’l news & Jeopardy while eating dinner; then during dishwashing time, the O’Reilly Factor & the Fox News covering the defeated bailout deal by the house.
. Lights out: 11:30pm
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