Five Dreads of the Apocalypse

I have thoughts on the dreads of an apocalypse.I list the five dreads as famine, plague, drought, anarchy, and war. Mankind has not been able to eliminate these. With climate warming, the presence of modern weapons, highly virile diseases and substances, the fragile fabric of society, the odds of something going wrong are large. More on this soon.

Atlanta

Last week I returned from a week's vacation in Atlanta. I visited my sister and brother. Charles had just had a minor stroke due to severe dehydration. Helen has trouble walking. I set up Helen's new computer, gave her a few lessons, encouraged her to use it often and join Facebook. I believe we have to be social focused and remain involved. I have asked her to walk often and do things to engage the mind.

Atlanta is a fine city, but it is not my style. I like the big, beautiful homes, which are cheap by Bay Area standards.

In order to keep the mind working,I am considering playing chess at this site in San Francisco near a BART station. I need to bone up, but it is convenient, plus BART is cheap. I might as well use it since we tax payers are subsidizing it. Also, the girl watching is good.

Home for Sale

We have listed our home for sale. We have lived here for 8 1/2 years. Eldoris thinks that it is too large and too much work to keep clean. You can see the listing at www.11455lochardstreet.com. We have put about $100,000 in improvements and upgrades since we have been here. There are just 48 homes on this private road. One end deadends at Knowland State Park and the other ends at the county park district's walking trails. It is pristine and like living in the country but 5 minutes to the major freeway in Oakland. From the decks, one can see downtown San Francisco.

A Story

A neighbor who is also retired comes by about once a week and we chat. Today he told me an interesting story I thought that I should share with others. He said when he was a child living in a small town in the south he would go to a small store owned by an old Chinese almost every day to purchase a soda, candy or something. He had had some learning problems at that age. One day the grocer told him that he would teach him to count. So one day when he came in the grocer gave him $40.00. The grocer told him that that was how much he had taken from him because he did not know how to count the change. He said that the pennies added up and he had lost a lot because he did not know how to count. My neighbor learned to count and has become rather successful.

How many instances of a lack of knowledge has cost us? That is why I always say that we should learn as much as we can about as much as we can because we never know when we will need it.

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