Message 802

Yesterday I had a quiet day at home. I finished reading The Economist and started Science. ast night Mimi and I went into the hot tub, and afterward watched a DVD of the Chinese movie Temptress Moon again.

Message 802

Yesterday I had a quiet day at home. I finished reading The Economist and started Science. ast night Mimi and I went into the hot tub, and afterward watched a DVD of the Chinese movie Temptress Moon again.

Message 801

Yesterday I took Annie and Beech to Nealon Park to help Vanessa while she had a couple of doctor's appointments. She dropped the kids off in my parking lot about 12:45 PM. She had fixed lunches, but the kids were not interested in eating them. Beech rode his scooter around and around the sidewalk surrounding the park and Annie played with her Polly Pocket stuff. When the ice cream truck came by, the kids went wild and insisted that they had to buy something. What a loathsome racket these ice cream trucks run. Anyway the things they bought mostly melted and made messes until I threw them away. I dropped the kids off at Maureen's, as Vanessa had arranged, and got back home in time to watch The News Hour at 3 PM.

In the evening Mimi and I watched a DVD of the movie Fur. I was an imagined biopic with Nicole Kidman as a photographer I had never heard of. It was strange, but I give it three stars.

Message 800

Yesterday I watched the first half of the pre-season game between to 49ers and the Colts. The 49ers were ahead at halftime, and I later saw on the news that they won the game easily. Of course, pre-season games have limited meaning, but maybe our local team are on their way back to respectability. Vanessa had a swollen face, so she had to go in for an unexpected IV antibiotic treatment so I took Annie to the Redwood City McDonalds with a playground. Julian had taken Beech to a birthday party, and when that was over he brought Beech to join Annie at McDonalds while he went to check on Vanessa. She was OK, so he met me back at my condo and took the kids home. Vanessa was later able to drive herself home. The football game was long since over, so I took a nap for an hour or so.

It was Mimi's birthday, so when she got back from San Jose I took her to Carpachio's for dinner (next door to where Sally used to work).

Message 799

I enjoyed having Annie over yesterday for about two and a half hours. She required my undivided attention for the whole time. She basically plays house. She divides my living room up into areas and designates one parts as her bedroom, where she spreads out her blanket. Every now and then she will go lie down on it and suck her thumb for a few seconds, but she does not want to nap. Another part she calls her dining room and she takes a couple of my placemats and places bowls on them. She clears all the bowls and the candle holder from a table by the window and arranges them on the placemats. She helped me finish off the purple grapes and then started in on the green grapes. She played with my Kindle for a while. She called it her computer. She pushed various buttons, and occasionally pointed out one for me to push. I eventually had to hide it when she was not looking . I was afraid she was going to scratch the screen. When Vanessa came in to pick her up, she thought the place was a disaster, but it was really quite organized. Vanessa insisted on tidying up some, but after they left I had everything back to its original condition.

Message 798

Mimi and I just got back from having coffee at Starbucks with Helen and Jim. Last night we watched a DVD of the movie LA Confidential. Russell Crowe looks so young, it is amazing that it came out only ten years ago. I give it four stars. Vanessa is bringing Annie by for me to watch in a few minutes. Maybe I will take her to the park.

Message 797

I just got back from having coffee at Starbucks with Vanessa and Beech. Vanessa had to take Beech for a speech evaluation at the hospital, so I walked back from Starbucks. Because it is downhill on the way back it is not so hard. I have now read about half of the book that Ethan gave me.