Sunday, August 27, 2023
In bed around 9:30, up from the brr at 8:02 after a hellish night with GERD, one of the worst episode. 64°, high of 70°, partly cloudy day but sunny afternoon & evening. AQI=24😊, wind E at 8 mph, 2-14/20, DPs 52-59. The sun rose at 6:10, sets at 7:35, 13+25.
GERD from Hell. Burning throat, coughing, gasping, going through countless Kleenex's. I spent most of the night on the recliner. Cause unknown: Mediterranean chicken for dinner, one glass of chablis with dinner at about 6:30, one glass of zinfandel around 8:30, no snacks after dinner. A wiped-out day ahead.
Life in Dystopia. Saturday evening news: (1) Mass shooting at a Dollar General store in Florida with 3 Black fatalities plus the White neo-Nazi shooter in his early 20s who shot himself; (2) Terror at a high school football game in Oklahoma, 3 people shot, 16-year-old boy dead; (3) Inside Comisky Park, 2 women shot during a baseball game.
I Am Become Death. I watched this one hour documentary on OVID this afternoon, about Robert Oppenheimer and the development and employment of the atom bomb against Hiroshima and Nagasaki. It reawakened my fears of these weapons, many times more powerful than the bombs dropped on Japan, being available to so many countries, so many human beings, including the like of Vladimir Putin. And I recall that there were many calls to use the American nuclear arsenal against North Vietnam as we were fighting, and eventually losing, a futile war against them.
Geri and Sue will be doing their geneological work tody and tomorrow in Arlington Heights.
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