After cutting the grass Sunday I kept going and cut the grass at the vacant house next door. It’s a smaller front yard. Thought my good deed would go undetected but the guy who walks the neighborhood at all hours of the day saw me.
Then I took Ceil’s car for gas. It was 7:30. Stopped by RaceTrac for a drink. Got mostly Vitamin Water with a little Mtn Dew mixed in. Big mistake. I drank the whole thing before bed, and then the caffeine kept me up most of the night. Finally got to sleep. I had 530 alarm earlier, then slept past 630.
Made it to work at 750 to meet Eric and Leo for our visit to Fanello in Lavonia and Champion in Anderson SC. I remembered there is a Fuddruckers in Anderson, so I made the executive decision that we would eat there. A good burger and head breaded onion rings that probably took a year off my life. Got back to the office at 4 pm. Went home and took a nap after being out in the sun and heat all day.
Tuesday: had to be at Northside Hospital at 7 am for my CT scan. My heart rate, blood pressure, and kidney function all looked good. Got the results back: no plaque buildup in my heart. Evidently I do have a mild case of bronchitis, which hasn’t seemed to affect me. I’ll have a follow-up visit with the cardiologist in a few weeks to discuss. Then I went out to the front desk and saw the amount I had to pay – that’s when I had my heart attack.
Stopped by for a quick visit at Anna’s work. Took Roswell Road up to Windsor Parkway all the way over to Ashford Dunwoody and Peachtree Road, then north to work. Since I hadn’t eaten and had taken medicine before the scan, they recommended I eat soon afterwards, so I stopped at Wendys for a biscuit.
After missing a day and a half from work, I returned to one hundred emails. Got it down to 46 emails before lunch. My old boss Rodney is retiring this week, so he gathered our team for one last lunch, at the Duluth Diner. I ordered my usual, the Chicken Philly sandwich.
C cooked more stir fry Tuesday night. I made it to the gym Wednesday morning.
Peachtree Road Race: I am in group P which won’t start until almost 8 am – unless I start early like I did last year, or swap numbers with Will. Might not know until Friday morning. Handing out watermelon is a terrible idea for several reasons. Runners will drop the leftovers, creating slippery roads. SPdL is on the left side of the street – where the faster runners are told to run. Slower runners are encouraged to run on the right side of the road. Few runners adhere to this guideline – which is why the road is clogged with slow runners. Handing out watermelon will just slow things down more. I hope at least the watermelon is icy cold!
TED WILLIAMS [SABR Bio] holds the career All-Star Game record for most walks and RBIs. In 19 ASGs, Williams scored 11 times and had 12 RBI. In 1946 he racked up a record 10 total bases with a record 4 hits (two were home runs). Williams’ military service caused him to miss 4 all star games.
Denison on the need for Christian involvement in politics: Dr. John Lennox at Oxford University is an internationally renowned speaker on the interface of science, philosophy, and religion. In a recent address he claimed that removing God from politics would create a moral vacuum that secularism cannot fill: (1) “Everyone brings their faith in something into the public square” (Islam is more of a system of government that a religion). “If people of faith are to be kept out of the public square, then it will be empty.” (2) “We need Christian faith in the public square. We believe in human equality, freedom, autonomy, and dignity. These values lead us to oppose slavery, racism, human trafficking, antisemitism, eugenics, infanticide, misogyny, and many other kinds of values. These values are not given to us by science.” ME: we certainly see plenty of Muslims interjecting their beliefs into American politics these days.
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