We do not have TV access – it cost an arm and a leg to sign
up for it here in Maine. We did not
choose to bundle it either and we would have had to buy a TV anyway and then
not have time to watch anything for that matter – so the only news we get is on
the internet and who knows how doctored up the news is that is available on the
internet. However, recently it showed
that Sung Muyng Moon died. He was the
Korean preacher who said he was the reincarnated Christ and he was famous for
his multiple marriages of his followers.
Do not know how they chose who would marry whom, perhaps it was a
lottery, but I have wondered just how those multiples of couples that he
married in one hit, just by uttering the words, “ you are now married”, how
long the marriages lasted or if they did at all. When I was in Japan on my mission, the “moonies”
as they were called, were on the streets also proselyting to gain
converts. I do not know how successful
they were or if the Moon Empire has held together all these years and if it
will still hold together now that the reincarnated Christ has passed away. It begs the question “ Well, if you are
reincarnated then why would you do the mortal thing and die all over again?” It makes me wonder just how people adhered to
his teachings. There was always some
sort of info in the news about the practices of this group. Well, he has passed away and we will see just
how long his group hangs together and who will assume the messiah-ship of the
group.
At the Archives, when I was flattening out the 1806 papers,
Jeff handed me a sheaf of papers and said that this was one case. It was left on the table until I got to that
part of the York records, and today I managed to get to that grouping. I counted the papers and there were 80
depositions – some of them more than 3 pages in length. This sheaf of papers filled the manila folder.
It is a court case in which a lawyer was
running for a senate seat in York County, and another man published a libelous piece
in the newspaper and attacked the veracity of the candidate. The case went on for 18 ¼ pages in the book
and the end result was the defendant lost the case and was ordered to pay
damages to the plaintiff to the tune of $600 with an assessed tax for the court
of $299.92. At the end of the case,
which was a trial by jury, the defendant floated an appeal so I guess I will
find these two gentlemen battling it out in another court record….perhaps in
the next court session.
I finally figured out
why the records were not in numerical order – they are grouped according to the
type of case. I.E. all the bad debts are grouped together, the
illegal alcohol group is another group, Fraud group is all together etc. I guess that makes sense, but it makes more sense to have the records in
numerical sequence with the page number noted with that particular case. Another help would be to have them
alphabetized but I am not going to do that, it is hard enough doing what I am
doing.
At lunch time today, Anne told me that Anthony’s cancer has
returned and he has to go to the Cancer center in Boston at the end of the
month. We were all hoping that the
medication he has been taking would be the cure.
Over the weekend we had a phone call with David and he
informed us that Jim and Billie, his Section 8 housing placement, are taking a
trip to Hawaii for business – probably 7 to 10 days worth. These people work for Circle K and I wonder
what Circle K is doing in Hawaii for business that would last 7-10 days, Especially if Circle K is paying for the
trip/convention/business meeting, out there in the Pacific paradise. I did not think that Circle K was that well
heeled that it would pay for such an event.
In any case, the proposition was that David would come to stay with us
for the duration, while they are gone. What
are we, Interim Baby sitters for their charge?
We love David very much, but we are not stand in caretakers if the
section 8 family is unable to take care of him.
I wrote to Aleah, his DDD case manager, and woe is me – she has
been changed to another job and David has been handed back to the Gilbert office. She said that CPES is responsible for finding
another section 8 placement for David while he is in temp. care when Jim and
Billie are unable to care for him. I
guess David will not be too happy with that arrangement because he was all
hyped up about coming up home for a week or so and just chilling out. We said that he would be welcome to come for
one weekend but cannot stay the entire 7-10 days.
Jacob has returned from
the Mayo clinic experience – and an experience it was. He ended up in the ICU due to some reaction
that he had to treatment but is ok. They
have taken him off his immunosuppresents, and put him on another course of different
antibiotics. They enlarged the bile duct
to help it drain the bile more effectively in an attempt to stop the bile from
pooling in his liver and forming stones in it.
The most comforting news of all is that the tumors in his liver are not
cancerous. The doctors were worried for
some time that he had cancerous tumors.
I guess the MRI at Mayo confirmed that for sure. They also told him that they could see no
reason why he could not go to Germany for two years for his Post Doc. We have not talked to Jacob and Sara about
their plans for the future – they were waiting for the results from Mayo (some
still to come) before they made definite plans about their future.
Our membership at the YMCA has run out and so Bill paid for
a session to exercise. I was going to go
out and walk in the neighborhood, but it is raining – again!
No comments:
Post a Comment