Wayne and Steve

The advice of their elders to young man is very apt to be as unread as a list of the hundred best books.

It is just as well that I have not passed on to much advice. It is no surprise that you’ll have all been doing so well without it.

Wayne and his friend Steve stopped in for a cup of coffee last evening. Neither had a limp or leg cast and report that they had a great time on their snow trip to Steamboat Springs, CO.

German Deli

Nothing to much report. Nick and I were at the Swiss Club in Whittier yesterday for lunch. Today, Jim, Nick and I will be at a German Deli some distance from here. I do not know the name of the area. Jim was born in Germany and Nick in Switzerland. They like to keep their they like to keep their connection with German food and so all traveling to find it. I’m I go along for the ride and something to do. It makes life interesting.

Breaking Waves

Tody just some breaking waves.

A Pleasant Dat

This morning I will be with Nick and Jim for breakfast at Rae’s diner. They like to arrived there at 9:30 to 10. That is late for breakfast and early for brunch. Rae’s serves a good breakfast. There is usually a crowd. In afternoon I will be at the Getty Center at the Harold Williams auditorium for a musical. I am not sure where I will be for dinner. It will be a pleasant day.

Favors

Anne’s mother and Anne’s sister Ruth is visiting next-door. Ruth is a few years younger than Anne, maybe in her early 30s. I do not know what her disease is but she is completely handicaped and can only be moved with someone’s help and in a wheelchair when not laying down. Anne invites me for dinner one day a week most weeks. Whenever her mother and her relatives are here for a visit they often invite me to be with them when they eat out. Today it was my turn to practically return favors and Anne’s mother, Ruth, Lazio and I made it to St. John’s Medical Center for dinner. It was mostly a clear day and I pushed the wheelchair to St. Johns for a good experience. Lazio, who is four, rode his a Razor scooter. We had a great time.

Address

Leslie has established a web site, www.shadowdancephotographicarts.com. It is very interesting very professional and you should take a look at it.
Wayne called on his way to the Los Angeles airport and then on to Steamboat Springs, Colorado for a few days of skiing. He is with his friend Steve. It is good that they can get away and enjoy the snow.
He was interested in Anjuli’s e-mail address, alias@accesspr.com. Benjamin’s e-mail is b_e_n_elias@hotmail.com.

Someting Different

Sometimes I do things different. Last evening I had an invitation to have dinner at Anne’s, with John and Lazio. I could have and usually do go to St. John’s Medical Center for dinner. I chose differently. It had been a long time since I had been at Forman’s deli. There I a ordered a bowl bean soup and a salami sandwich. The sandwich turned out to be bologna. It has have been long time since had my previous bologna sandwich. It turned out that I enjoyed it along with the Jewish pickles, the good bean soup and coffee.

Today

I wish that I could write some wisdom, wit or about something exciting about what may happen today. I cannot. It looks like one of those days that will turn out okay. At this time I have no sense of anything unusual.

Some rain.

The local weather people forecasted a 70% chance for rain. The amount that fell here was not enough to wet the area under the leafed-out trees. This area is short of rainfall for the season. There is still time for more. It is not important that we receive enough rain. We will do alright as laong as the watershed for this area does. Some of that area is a long way away.

Presidents Day

I thought that you might want to see these breaking waves.

Anjuli is still in the area and even thought it is to be showery day we will get together to do something. The area museums are closed on Monday’s and so that is a limiting factor.

Anjuli's visiting

Last evening Anjuli and I had a good dinner at The Gardens of Taxco in West Los Angles. Their they serve a 7 course Mexican Family style dinner. It can be described as if you were at a well-to-do family’s dinner table and being served excellent food by table waiters. Anjuli is enjoying her Los Angles area visiting. She sure looks good and is doing well with her life. She spent some time here at the cottage and it was such a pleasure to have her for a visit.

Anjuli'svisit

Interesting sand and beautiful waves.

Anjuli will be in the area today. We will do some visiting. We we are trying for a meet-up with Andrew for a dinner.

Edison

At times any of us can be wrong. I have been reading the long biography of Thomas Edison. The Edison pronounced the name as in the Dutch with the E pronounced as in be. Norma observed a few times that the Elias’ were suborn and I would respond with, “And the French are obstinate.” I may have been wrong as it is stated in the biography. ‘It was due to the obstinacy and pertinacity Edison had inherited from his forefathers.’ So therefore, Norma and I may have it backwards.

Volunteering

People need help after a medical proceeded that require complete sedation. I will be of help today as the medical facility will not release such a person except to another responsible person. Since fasting is required for many hours before the procedure some food will be welcome after the anesthesia recovery. A lunch will be appropriate. It is good that I am willing to volunteer.

Happy Valentine!

A thought to think:
No one is perfect until you fall in love with them.

HAPPY VALENTINES DAY!

Another good day

Yesterday the sun was out almost all the time, shower had been forecast. Paige called an wanted to come down from the hill of Brentwood and have coffee in Santa Monica. Kendal, Paige and Brent’s 13 month old daughter has developed well and walks all over. We had coffee at a close-by Starbucks. I got a cup of coffee and good sized bag of coffee grounds for the garden. Turned out to be a pleasant day.

Garden

Nothing is planned for the day. I think that I will do some spading in the small garden plot. The snow peas have done so well in the passed that I am anxious to get some planted. It is too early for the nurseries around to have any things to bring home and stick in the ground. They will be appearing soon. I go by what they have on hand to know that they are in season.

Carl and Amber

Carl and Amber arrived Saturday about 9 A. M. as scheduled. They rode the caracal and Ferris wheel while at the Santa Monica pier. The weather was sunny. I had been predicted to be showery. The bus riding and the companion tickets worked out well. We had dinner at Le Petit Café.

The only disappointment is that Amber developed a temperature during the night. The best solution was for them to fly home this morning. The stand-by reservation was made for 9:30 A. M. They left by taxi at 8 and I am sure they well be back in Napa without any problems. We part of a good day planned. As this shows, things are always subject to change.

We had good visiting and I am so pleased that they made the trip.

Visitors

Tom and Kathy Elias from Cannon Falls sent me an e-mail letting me know that they will be in Southern California about March 8. They will visit with as many of the family here as time will allow. I am not sure that they have been here before. It be quite a change for them weather wise. They have just been through a long cold snap. They will keep us posted on more details about the visiting.

Carl and Amber are due here tomorrow for a weekend visit. They will be using Companion Tickets. The flights are, as usual, are quite well booked. The one at about noontime seems to have enough seats for them. They will let me know when they arrive. I will meet them at the baggage claim area and we will us the Big Blue busses for our transportation.
We will have fun!

Frustration

Computers can sure be frustrating at times. Yesterday morning I was about to give up an call the Geek Squad. I called and had the patients with EarthLink and they got may computer to be able to connect to the internet. It took about all day before Google got the system to allow me to use the blog feature. I do not know how anyone who is not retired could spent the necessary time.

Yesterday

Yesterday I stayed busy at not doing much. Emptying the vacuum. It is a surprise to see how much dirt even a small place creates. Had a small rug that need laundering, took time to have coffee with a couple of friends at McDonalds. Had dinner with the Ambrusters, Carl and Dr. George, at Saint Johns Medical Center. Those things and other activities around the place filled the day until 11 P. M. , my regular bedtime.

Proofreading

I am still volunteering with Distributed Proofreads. I have completed a great number of pages and still enjoy contributing to this project that seems useful. One of the last was a 1915 compilation of Popular Mechanics magazine. Most of the articles was on building something. I was amazed that the number of things to build that appealed to me. Some I have even found interesting enough to try.

All is well

I thought that this beautiful Idaho landscape would be enough for today to let know that all is well.

Rumor Has It.

The movie Rumor Has It (three stars) was viewed on Friday evening and you can see may rating. My ratings may not be agree with everyone as I only watch a movies when I am in the mood to watch. I have it from Netfix and so no hurry to return it. I may run it a second time. It follows up on characters from The Graduate. Shirley Mac Laine plays, the now grandmother, Mrs. Robinson.

A good ideas

The above photo from Paul show a forest near Sonora, CA. In the past it was normal to burn the material left over from logging. Paul’s company furnish large machinery to make wood chips of the material, and are they are then put back into the soil some other place. The is a doubling of the good effect on the environment. It sure makes the standing forest look like we respect that natural resource. That is what we need to do along with controlling climate warming.

Gemones

DNA is nucleic acid that contains the genetic instruction for the development and function of living things. In biology the genome of an organism is its whole hereditary information and is encoded in the DNA.
Using the above information; I have this thinking , my thinking only, about human health and the future of humans. Thinking about that which we inherit. I am in the process of reading a biography of Charles Darwin and his research and thinking about changes in species. This triggered my ideas about the inherited health of mammals. This is thinking about how poor heath is dealt with through generations. This does not include person to person diseases that are transmitted between people, only the health or lack of health that is inherited.
If a person dies before puberty of an inherited bad genome that caused the death, those traits are not passed to future generations. Consequently, children have very few of these. The people that are left can have unwelcome genomes that show up in diseases later in life. The conditions that cause death in earlier adulthood, before the end of the child bearing years, are sometimes passed to future generations. Therefore, younger adults have more deaths from bad genomes than children.

It all adds up to the fact that older people get most all of the fatal diseases. Their isn’t any way to procreate them out system. Those that survive into the older generation still have those bad genomes. Also, those older individuals that do not have the defects cannot procreate their good genes to future generations. There is much hope that the recent research with genomes can do what natural selection can not do for the future generations. That is, identify those who have the defects and find ways to eliminate them from the person’s genes. That leaves us dying from old age and that is, I understand, the only disease we have conquered . Who is to say that life is not a complicated process?

Febuary 1

It seems impossible that 1/12th of this year has already slipped away. The dates advance much to fast. I am fortunate in that they good by pleasantly. No apparent problems--the same for all.