With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.
The good life, as I conceive it, is a happy life. I do not mean that if you are good you will be happy - I mean that if you are happy you will be good.
Too much sanity may be madness and the maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be.
I enjoy paying taxes. With them I buy civilization.
2002-01-16 - 12:16 a.m.
I didn't get enough sleep tonight and I have to get up early tonight. If I was smart I'd just skip updating tonight but I'm addicted.
The big news today is that my father finally came home. He's been in the hospital or rehab since November 28th. I drove down there with my mother this morning and worked out all the details of leaving. We had to get prescriptions and discuss homecare with the social worker. It doesn't look like he'll be able to get homecare but we don't think he'll need it. The one thing we were worried about was his bathing but he will be able to do that himself. We just need to get him a shower chair. So after spending about an hour and a half there today I carried his belonging to the car and drove up to the door to pick him up. He is so happy to be out of there. When we got him he was able to walk up the steps to the house by himself. It really tired him out though. He isn't as strong as he thought. He is just about where I thought he was though. He wanted to get out of there a month ago; I knew that wasn't a possibility though. To celebrate I barbequed steaks for dinner, the best meal he's had since October, he couldn't really eat much in November. It isn't the best thing for his gout but he needs to put on weight. That's all details though, what matters is that he is home!
Over the weekend my glasses broke. I just picked them up and they were in two pieces. I called my doctor today and got a referral to see the ophthalmologist. My insurance doesn't cover optometrist so I have to see the MD. It is probably a good idea anyway; my family has a history of cataracts and glaucoma. Both my parents have cataracts which is not that surprising as they are in their 80s. What gets me nervous is that my sister has them and so does my cousin who is a few years young than me. Like me my cousin has had a history of taking steroids, cataracts are a common side effect.
Tomorrow I'm driving down to see Leah and finally giving her, her Festivus presents. It's not really late though; Festivus ends on January 25th. I better remember to figure out my route before I sign off tonight. I'm leaving bright and early in the morning.
My neighbors came in when they saw my father to say hi. One of them commented that I was too thin. Here I am trying to lose weight and she's telling me to put some on. I am technically about 10-15 lbs overweight, I intend on losing that. I didn't have a good weight day today though, the scale said 174, which is more than when I started dieting. I don't believe it any more than when it said I was 169.5 the other day. I'm sure I just retained an unusual amount of water.
I have to go to sleep soon so I'll skip my usual philosophizing or commenting on the news. I'll get right down to the LOTR segment. I'm up to The Window of the West. I didn't get much reading done today with all the excitement. I think I may have given this quote before but it is one of my favorite sentences in literature. It illustrates how multileveled our emotions are. It is Sam's reaction to seeing an oliphaunt
To his astonishment and terror, and lasting delight, Sam saw a vast shape crash out of the trees and come careering down the slope.
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Inside the Madison Square Studio - October 05, 2008
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Islands in the Stream of Consciousness - October 02, 2008
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