19 October 2013: Saturday as Bach Double is playing downstairs with Dad listening to Oistrakh record, salad/carrot to Mom for bfast joke ...

Today is Chris Senge's 39th birthday,

 
in reality, according to the Bible of Facebook.

Jackie Calmes, NY Times White House reporter and fox.

Made a FB post of the words below and a link to Washington Week in Review. 

Jackie Calmes, liberal-leaning NY Times' journalist who appeared on Washington Week in Review with Gwen Ifill last night as I watched the program with Dancer in the middle and mom on the right, goes back to Tom Foley days in 1994, when the then Speaker of the House, for 5 years and a 30-year veteran of the House from Washington, was unceremoniously voted out of office. Amazing facilitator who had regular meetings with the minority leader and they even exchanged offices during the week. Talk about bipartisanship. We may never see that again. The people are the lesser.

Dad is sleeping and snoring, blissfully and thankfully, as I maraud over FB sending off friend requests to people associated with UUSMC and listen to the audio classical cable channel and the English Concert Orchestra conducted by the longtime collaborator and husband of Joan Sutherland, Richard Bonynge. 

LEWISBURG, Pa. — World renowned chamber orchestra The English Concert will perform on Friday, Feb. 22, at 8 p.m. at the Weis Center for the Performing Arts at Bucknell University. There will be a pre-performance talk with artistic director Harry Bicket at 7:20 p.m. in the Weis Center Lobby.

Australian conductor and pianist, Richard Bonynge, with Dame Joan Sutherland, his wife.

He continues to sleep, oh what a gift, as the music plays and I have researched, through the Kelly Blue Book web site, a price for my Dodge Neon. It looks promising but I won't print while dad sleeps that would be mean. Did have a meaningful exchange on FB with Frank McPherson, the brilliant digital entrepreneur who has been hired by Apple and will move, unfortunately, his beautiful family of wife and three children, all stalwarts in the UUAC religious education wing, and head West. He wrote: 

Rudy,

I appreciate your invitation to your going away dinner yesterday. I apologize I was unable to attend as I was on the way back from a job interview in Cupertino. Best of luck in Delaware, Frank.

Thank you Frank for your kind wish and hope the interview went well. I've heard of Cupertino.

about an hour ago

I don't like this "driving out west" talk Frank. It means, unfortunately, that you are taking your incredible family, I presume, with you. Augusta UU Church is going to miss you terribly. In safe and wonderful journeying,

rudy

9:02am

Thank you, Rudy! We are sad to be leaving Augusta, but excited about the journey and the opportunities waiting for us. Cheers,

Frank

You are so welcome Frank ... happy travels and wherever you wind up, that place and those people will be greatly rewarded by your presence. Be safe and be loved, rudy

Chat Conversation End

Seen 9:04am

Won the bet, sort of, with dad. (It was for $5 and I didn't collect but he did come out

and view the results, dispassionately, nice to see him outside, he was frail and walk

carefully). He was doubtful that the Toro leaf mulcher would work on the entire

yard. Well, I didn't do the whole yard but I did finish the gutters and deposited some

nice mulch, about 8 bagfuls around the yard. It's quite a machine once I got

Home Depot to help me to separate a part and get the thing working. The manager,

with gorilla arms, took it apart for me. 

Guess I got the red version. 

The dinner at the Cronin's house on Charleston Drive went splendidly. The cheese dip, courtesy of Norma Clara Nyhoff, was a big success and the 9 of us had a wonderful dinner (Judy and Dick Cronin, Frank MacArtor, Jeanne and Brian Hanson, Judy and Tom - ? - Pappenhagen, and Anne - ??). Just a lovely evening of spirited and engaging conversation.