Hello again

Hi:

The picture here is an older car from Jordan Dinner Car Show.

This time I will use just one picture. I was able to fix the prior two posts but not the one earlier today. We shall see how this one operates when I post it.

I do wonder some times how I get books from the library. I picked up two today and one last week where I do not remember where I got the book recommendation to reserve such a book.

Now I have 34 pages on my Kindle. Each page holds 12 items, so I have much to read on it. Now I have seven books from the library here too. What to read next is the big problem for me.

I ride my bike to the library and to Safeway here. I cannot buy much when I am on my bike as I can carry only about four bags of groceries when biking to the store.

Spaghetti tonight for dinner.

I do hope your day went well.

Steven

Hi

Hello:

I have been editing this site, to try to change the way it looks when I post it. I think I change it correctly but we shall see once I post this one.

The pictures here are from the Jordan dinner.

The top picture shows the combined cake and pie table on the stage in the gym where the dinner took place.

The bottom picture is the Country Store in a booth outside. The dinner had many booths outside as well as an old car show.

It is raining hard here this morning when I awoke at 5:00 am.

The library does not open until noon today, so I will make my trip there after lunch today.

I record the Jay Leno show every night. The next morning I watch it but only the opening segment and some games he plays. I rarely watch the interviews, but earlier this week I watch Hugh Laurie interviewed by Jay. If you have not seen Hugh Laurie interviewed then you will not see he has a very strong English accent. You do not detect it when you see him as the star of House.

Stay dry today.

Steven

That did not work...

Now I will try it without a picture. It was worse than ever during my last post. I used one picture but now it shows I did not create any paragraphs.

I am confused about this website. There are many ways I can change on my blog but not how to post it with proper punctuation.

Now I have six books awaiting for me at the library. I will make a trip there to pick up those books tomorrow.

A story about my stay in China. Upon arriving there, I had to go the police station to tell them where I was living, showing them the property papers of ownership of the house I was in. When I moved to Xi'an (SHE-an) I had to visit the police station there to register there again. I moved back to Shanghai for some time when I left Xi'an, I had to visit the police station yet another time, this time to tell them where I was living in Shanghai.

I am listening to a story on Talk of the Nation about the killing of a census worker in Kentucky. I rather doubt many of you would agree to visit the police station every time you move.

OK, I have some paragraphs here so I will end this now.

Steven

Raining here hard today

Hi again:

I am going to try something different today. Just one picture, this one from the Jordan Dinner. The old cars all showed up again here. These cars came from the 19-teens.

We shall see if we get a proper separation between paragraphs.

I had a strange dream last night. I was entering my senior year in college and had to make my schedule of classes. I had four classes set up but then I found out I needed just 3 more hours to graduate, so I needed to take only one course. But I wanted to take all four classes. Who knows how and why we dream these fractured fairy tales.

Some of my friends tell me dreams mean something in your life. Not me, dreams are just, as I as I said, "fractured fairy tales."

I have been summoned to jury duty in Marion County on Oct 13. I got called to jury duty just before leaving for China two years ago. Seems like I am getting it too often here. They take your name from the driver license records.

On my prior jury service, I did get called for an interview by the attorneys, but both knew me as well as the judge knew me, so I was excused.

I plan on taking my Kindle with me when I go the courthouse for my jury service.

Have a good week.

Steven

Cooling down, rain expected rest of week...

Monday here:

Fall is in the air today. No rain today, but rain every day for the rest of this week. No more hanging clothes outside for the foreseeable future.

The pictures here are from the Jordan Dinner. The top picture shows what it looked like about half an hour after the five us got there. Upon first arriving to eat there only about 1 table was full. I went on stage to take this picture and the picture below the first one.

The second picture is the cake table. All cakes are home-made and all were excellent even though I had room only for one piece of German Chocolate cake. First German Chocolate I ate for more than 15 years. So very good.

I downloaded an audio book to my Kindle today. It took almost 2 hours to get it done. I then deleted it as I did not want that book on my Kindle. I will find some other audio book from Library2go, which our library supports and shows up on the new webpage of the library, revealed to us today.

I finished Vanished last night. A page-turner near the end, but with stock characters such as a Blackwater-like organization that runs the wars and near wars of the U.S.

My next book is Real Enemies: Conspiracy Theories and American Democracy, World War I to 9/11. I want to read about the great conspiracies that permeate this world for the past 90 years. I will give you updates on this book during the next few days.

Just past 6:00 pm here now. Cloudy all day with rain expected tonight.

I cooked some hamburger tonight, put cooked it too long. I had some tomatoes from our garden to with the over-cooked hamburgers.

I have a few brownies left today. I will eat the last one later tonight.

Have a good week.

Steven

P.S. Again, I double-spaced between paragraphs again, so I do wonder how it will show up once I post it. (I edited the post once I published it, to triple space between paragraphs so see how this works.)