Updates around the board:
Still coughing and whatnot, but it seems that the more unbroken sleep I get the better off I am - also did a little shopping and took care of some quick errands with my MIL driving me around on Saturday; first time I’d felt like I hadn’t been knocked around for a week or so. Enjoyed the nice weather (raining cats and dogs now) and soaked up a little sunshine; hadn’t been out of the house for a while except to go out to eat or to the doctors’ office for a while.
Susan and Meredith or on their way home from the meet at Donora; they had a good trip with good weather, should be getting back this evening. Mere was 4th or 10 in the freestyle singles, and 2d in the pairs, but most people thought the judging was whack on the pairs, I believe. It didn’t upset Mere…she’s now more gung-ho than ever to get out there and work her heart out, and she’s been offered some really good coaching help to improve. There’s a lion’s heart in the girl…
I’m taking a minute from working on finances and document organization and the taxes to come back to my main PC and check the news and the mail. I’m staying on top of the Libya stuff and Japan as best as I can; it sounds as if the immediate threat in Japan is dying down, but that the damage to the economy, to the nation and the probabilities of the radiation exposure are wreaking a lot of quiet havoc there. Supplies are getting short, power is low, lots of damage, huge numbers of people hurt, ruined (house or business or both gone) or dead. Auto parts in other countries shutting down because of a lack of certain Japanese parts. That sort of thing. It’s a spiderweb of interdependence…
Ask me again about Libya once we see how determined the ‘alliance’ is about tacking Ghadaffi on the ground via close air support, targeted bombing and the like. I am not a believer in the absoluteness of air power. And why anyone is paying any attention to the unhinged rants of Ghadaffi is just beyond me. It’s like trying to make sense of a conversation between Donald Duck, Dr. House and Herve Villechaise, all stuck in a locked room and tanked on LSD and crystal meth, with Charlie Sheen giving the play-by-play.