Medicine

"The art of medicine consists of keeping the patient amused while nature heals the disease."
Voltaire

 

And that is really the truth, for the most part.   With a lot of illness or aches and pains,  if you wait two weeks it will go away.

 

 

OOPS

OOPS, he did it again.   A while back I had written about how Chuck asked me why I would buy cat food that needed a can opener.    I worked 16 hours yesterday and when I can home the cats were all hanging about, looking quite smug I might add.    My daughter said "Dad fed them the people salmon!!!!!"   He tried that once before.  The discussion on this is in one of the older journal entries.

   "He had the can opener out and everything.   They LOVED it and they ate it all up."   I bet they did.  I think they wanted more of it.  Sorry cats, I gave them a cup of the dry food.

They all just gobbled the salmon up and not a morsel was left.   What a serendipitous occurrence for them.   And the can was left on the sink, rinsed out neatly, I might add.   It was hard to top that with a bowl of dry kibble.

I was going to take it to work to add to a salad,  guess it was best that he did that, because I would not have had a can opener at work   And I would have been quite irked at myself.

Chuck, you are  the cats BFF.   (He won't know what that means.)

 

 

Mutters Tag

This is the wedding picture of Chucks mom and dad.  They were also married in the 1940's.    His dad worked in an ammunition factory and was not in the war.   I wonder if he felt bad that he didn't see action in the war.   Making ammunition was an important things.  

They met in September and married on December 31 of the same year.  That was a long time before people cohabitated before marriage.   I am surprised that they got a formal wedding done in a short period of time.  They both died in 1996,  He, a few months after her.

We went out to dinner.  We tried Outback Steakhouse and it was up to a 50 minute wait.  Max and Ermas was SRO.  So we went to the newly opened Osawa Steak House and there was not a wait at all.   It is a Japanese Steak House.  The food was good and we had no wait at all.

Back to work tomorrow.   I have a student again.  Guess I should teach her all I know since I might need her some day after I have retired.  LOL

 

 

 

 

Mothers Day

Here is the wedding picture of my Mom and Dad.   They are both gone now.   My mother died in 1995 and dad in 2004.   I miss my mother so much and would love to talk to her again.  

I think, for both of them, they raises a good bunch of kids, who are all employed,  never in jail, and paying taxes.    We really all speak to each and disagreements are to a minimum.   I guess if one is acting stupid they other will tell them they are being disagreeable.  But that never really happens.   We even go on vacation together. 

I wish I had asked my parents about their ancestors.  There is so much they knew and I was not interested in writing down the ancestor information.     I remember my dad mentioning that his grandmother Bridget Naughton had a twin sister, he said he couldn't tell them apart.  I have been searching for that documentation but have not been able to find it.    He also talked about his Aunt Mayme,   I discovered that it was his Aunt Mary, on his fathers side.  

Someone asked what I am going to do with my research information.   I have decided to submit it to the LDS, who keeps that information.  So in 100 years some descendant of mine will find it and be so happy that Claudia had already did some of it.

HAPPY MOTHERS DAY TO MOM AND ALL THE OTHER MOTHERS OUT THERE.

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Geneaology

Went to the LDS Church today and looked for Irish Marriages and Baptisms in Mayo County; that was a waste of my time.    The records were all on a dark background and the writing was white.   I realize that these were from over a hundred years ago.    I could not read them, I needed a brighter light and be able to control the magnification.    I did not  find what I was looking for.  

 I have serious doubts that I will be able to find much further back than my great grandparents, or possibly selective tidbits of one generation before them.    Another thing I found annoying was the news that the Pope declared that the LDS Church would no longer be allowed to copy the records of the Catholic Churches.   It seems that there is opposition of the LDS Churches practice of Baptism of Dead ancestors.   They do this because it is their belief that the family's will be untied and it would good to have them united in heaven all baptized.   As a Catholic I now feel that the Church is composed of Old Men who have control issues.    They should be worried about priest pedophiles and less about Mormon Baptisms.

My friend, who was there too, was researching the German records.   In a typical German fashion, they had their records indexed and indicated with the page number.   That is so German,   I guess I got those genes, or the whole German race is OCD.  

 

 

Random thoughts of the Day

"Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be."
Thomas Kempis

"The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one."
Elbert Hubbard

 

"Scoundrels are always sociable."
Arthur Schopenhauer

 

Tuesday

Off today and got a lot done.    Emily and I went to CCAC.  The problem with them is most of the things they offer you are required to take an "INTRO" course.    She had taken AP Calc in high school and when she needed a college math  she decided to take it during the summer at home.   Would Community College of Allegheny County let her take College Alegbra, no she had to take the Intro Course.   Would they let her take an English Course, no you had to take an Intro. Today we went to sign up for Nutrition  and guess what there was an Intro.

The Vogons  (HITCHHIKERS GUIDE TO THE UNIVERSE) are employed by that Community College.   They drive me crazy.....Guess she will take it at Penn State, if she had to take the intro the cost would be what Penn State would charge.