28 thoughts on “Our Daily Thread 9-24-15”

  4. About 2:15 this morning, I was sound asleep.
    Elvera woke me. “Do you hear that beeping?”
    It sounded almost like the beep of a smoke alarm battery going weak. Except it was a four beep sequence where smoke alarm is a single beep and all the batteries had been changed last time change.
    The beep occurred about once a minute. Definitely the sound of a weak battery. It took me about 15 minutes to locate it.
    Something in the security system was beeping. I tried to discover what it was but couldn’t.
    So. I turned the alarm off.
    The beeping stopped. I don’t know why.
    I went back to bed. I was all worked up and couldn’t go back to sleep.
    About four, I got back up and decided to figure what was happening. So I turned the system on again.
    Nothing happened.
    I eventually went back to sleep.
    I awoke at 6:45, still sleepy, but I needed to take trash out and other morning things, so I got up.
    I still don’t know what the problem was.
    I wouldn’t have a security system. Nothing here anyone wants and the location of this house is not good for intrusion. And I haven’t heard of any mischief in this community in the 14 years I’ve been here.

    But Elvera really wants one.

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  5. Under the Heading It’s Never Too Late
    My first job out of college was working for a bank. As I went to work there and age discrimination suit was happening. Miss Daphne was a banking institution in and of herself. It seemed like everyone in town brought their checkbook and statement to her each month to balance their accounts. The bank was trying to force her to retire. Their other complaint was that she ran every morning and didn’t shower, so she smelled.
    Eventually another bank made her an offer and she went there. Many bank customers followed her because the whole town thought she had been unfairly treated by the first bank. Several years ago that bank was bought by a major bank.
    Miss Daphne still walks to work every day. She is celebrated by the town and many people go in to see her. On Monday when we went to the Single Tax Colony some documents needed to be notarized so they sent us across the street to see Miss Daphne. I, of course, started talking to her. A few years back was “Daphne Day” at the bank. The corporate plane flew down to pick her up and take her to Winston Salem to have lunch with the higher ups where she was celebrated, then flew her home.
    I asked her how old she was when she started running. She was 60! She told me how many marathons, half marathons, and 5K’s she has participated in. It was a high number. More than 30. She told me she started working in banking in 1942 after she graduated from high school.
    Today she is 92. Still working as the official ambassador of the bank. Still walking to work. Still going. Remember she was 60 when she started running—I’ve still got a few years to get it together. 😉
    There are more interesting details to her life. Her husband was related to a famous composer, sharing the same last name, and was quite the musician himself.

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  6. Thank you, Kim, for sharing that story of encouragement for us sixty year old folks!

    We are getting ready for our daily doc visit. At least there are interesting characters in the medical field, and some are on the conservative side.

    As husband was in recovery yesterday, the nurse brought in the tv remote and said everyone is watching the Pope so she turned tv on. It is a Catholic hospital, so of course everyone is watching the Pope. But who was making a speech at that moment? B.O., so husband quickly muted it. Good thing, or B. O. would have been Barf Out.

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  7. Eeee, those cows aren’t wandering anywhere soon. Poor babies are hot and just trying to stay cool.

    Off to work early today to listen in on an LA Metro meeting downtown (you can call in and listen that way, avoiding the trip on the crowded freeway and paying a gajillion dollars for parking. Only problem (especially when it’s a body you don’t cover regularly like this will be for me today) is trying to figure out who exactly is speaking at any given time.

    Hope things go well at the doctor’s today, Janice. (And yes, many docs are conservative.)

    I remember covering part of an earlier pope’s visit to LA — I did just the motorcade in downtown (other reporters from a sister paper did other aspects). I rode into downtown with a bus full of Catholics from one of our local churches.

    As a true and committed Daughter of the Reformation, I admittedly didn’t fully “get it” and was amazed by how carried away everyone was to catch a mere glimpse of him whizzing by in the (rather fast moving) Popemobile. Fifteen seconds and their spiritual experience was over.

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  9. A friend asked me yesterday what was the Christian equivalent of the Pope.
    My analytical self said the Protestant equivalent would be the Archbishop of Canterbury.
    No, that wasn’t what she meant. “Do you suppose it could have been Billy Graham?”
    I guessed that today’s equivalent would be that televangelist with the “jackass” smile…what’s his name? She said Joel Osteen? Yes! That’s the one!

    No, really I can’t think of anyone we Protestants revere the way Catholics do the Pope, but if it makes them happy….At least he isn’t a WWF Championship racist, nor an NFL player who beats women, nor some self important actor.

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  10. Me, too, Donna. It does remind us about putting ANY people up on pedestals. I believe Paul was not too happy with those who did that. It is one thing to admire and respect someone, but we are ALL humans and fallible. Even Jesus said, “Only God is good,” in response to someone calling him good. Of course, he IS God, but no other human being is.

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  12. Kim, and there’s a reason for that (based on not believing in such an office to begin with). 😉

    And when I see the reaction of the masses (Catholic & non-Catholic alike) to the pope on these visits, it’s clear why even setting up a “papacy” was (and still is) a very, very bad idea.

    Sola Scriptura and all of that.

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  16. Janice, could your husband be a candidate for catheter ablation? Depending on the cause of the AFib, it can sometimes eliminate it. I had a recurring AFlutter (a little different from AFib), which an ablation last fall seems to have eliminated. It took just an hour or two for the procedure and a few hours of recovery at the hospital before going home. A friend of mine with AFib also had a successful ablation some months back.

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  17. Tales from my day. I had to go to Mobile to meet the Mobile Area Water and Sewer Service guys at a building we have so they could determine which building had water, do a dye test, and determine that THEY had the wrong address in their billing system and the building we have for sale has the water meter.
    I forgot I was so close to the Brookley Complex where the United States Coast Guard has a base. I got to watch their jets doing tricks. It was strange to hear the engines. I am more used to being at the beach and hearing the Blue Angels. At first I wasn’t sure what was going on.
    THEN as I came back across to my side of the Bay I was in four lanes of traffic. I was headed south but a funeral procession was headed north. My two lanes of traffic stopped as the funeral went by on the other side. That made me smile that people still do that.

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  18. Well, we don’t stop in LA unless we have to — only if the procession is coming into our lane (or needs to turn in front of us and officers are escorting it & stopping all other traffic by force).

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  19. Around here one doesn’t stop for a funeral procession in the other direction if one is on a divided highway. When i went to my Grandmother’s funeral in New York City, no one stopped for the procession and the hearse was going 60 in a 45 mph zone. I had a hard time keeping up! There were only three cars in the procession, and I was the only one who didn’t know where we were going. A sharp-eyed daughter helped.

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  20. They didn’t stop in the DC area either. If the four lanes was a divided highway, I don’t think they’re supposed to stop.
    I don’t know, but I suspect they stop in Hendersonville.

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  22. Kevin, that is the plan at this point, but we have not got an appt. with the doc who does that. I think husband has to see the urologist before he does something else, but I don’t know about that for sure. That urology appt is Oct. 6. These Atlanta docs stay very busy. The blood in the urine and 8nfection could be caused by a tumor which needs to be ruled out.

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  26. Peter, an awful lot of people are going to change their eschatology really fast one of these days. Somehow I doubt we’ll be having these pre-trib, post-mill discussions in eternity (nor the “you were wrong and I was right, ha ha ha” ones either).

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  27. I took a very long and needed nap. Now, will I be able to sleep tonight? We have an early doc appt. Deja vu, Ground Hog Day movie, and Been There, Done That rolled into one.

    Husband is watching football and Bosley is playing with her paper balls, maybe call it pawball instead of football?

    Rain is pouring down. Art is taking turns watching the game on tv and Bosley’s game. Bosley makes him laugh. Television game makes him make other sounds.

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