2323 Days since retiring July 1, 2005!

"If you comprehend
The Art of Peace,
This difficult path,
Just as it is,
Envelops the circle of heaven."
from Art of Peace

Read on and fall sound asleep

I need layman’s advice about the pill I am taking. They are: Allerclear 10 mg 1 per day,
Levothyroxine 25 mcg 1 per day,
Metoprolol succinate 50 mg 2 per day,
Ranexa 500 mg 2 per day,
Omega 300 mg 3 fish oil 3 per day,
Furosemide 40 mg 2 per day,
Preservision with 5 mg Lutein 2 per day,
Iron 65 mg 1 per day
Livalo 4 mg 1 per day.

I have been excessively sleepy since starting the Preservision. Today I woke at 9:30 am, fed the cats and fish, read Bible passages, took my medicine, checked Grannies and then sat down to set my recorder for the days TV viewing. The next thing I know it is 6 pm and drool is crusted in my beard and the remote control is missing. I have got to get active. I think I am going to add Ibuprofen to my list. Two relieve the back and hip pain for several hours.

Reading List
Titus Andronicus--Shakespeare
The Wealth of Nations--Adam Smith
The Guide for the Perplexed---Moses Maimonides
Miracles--C.S. Lewis
Bible--GOD & various scribes
Two are the fault of a TV being broken for over a week.

I have received comments via email that I too often use $9 words when dime words would be clearer and just as precise. My prompt reply is that I am a victim of a large vocabulary and an inordinate love of the English language. But then while reading “Wealth of Nations” by Adam Smith I encounter many sentences such as: “I am always willing to run some hazard of being tedious, in order to be sure I am perspicuous; and, after taking the utmost pains that I can to be perspicuous, some obscurity may still appear upon a subject, in its own nature extremely abstracted.” Then I learn I am instead a puffed up toady flaunting impenetrable verbiage in an attempt to impress.

So far (Act 3 scene 2) in Titus the score on bloodletting is Act 1- horrific human sacrifice, son stabbed to death.
Act 2- Adultery, 1 murder, 1 rape with both hands cut off
Act 3- 2 wrongful beheadings, 1 hand cut off.

I now know where Sam Peckinpah got his inspiration for the blood baths in his spaghetti westerns.

From several friends I today learned a new word.
Ineptocracy (in-ep-toc’-ra-cy) - a system of government where the least capable to lead are elected by the least capable of producing, and where the members of society least likely to sustain themselves or succeed, are rewarded with goods and services paid for by the confiscated wealth of a diminishing number of producers.
They were applying the word to the President Obama administration. While I agree that he seems to show a high level, at least in his appointments, I feel that the entire US Federal government has been operating as an ineptocracy since at least the Lyndon Johnson Presidency. He was the first, that I remember, that knowingly allowed himself to be “deceived” to achieve a foreign policy goal. He knew or should have know the attacks on our Navy in the Gulf of Tonkin were really an attack of jitters by an ill prepared Navy. What I hope to see before my number is called is a Congress full of people who read, understand, and support the Constitution. And an Executive branch that only executes.

11/08: : Sovereign God, help us to invest ourselves in what is true, and keep us always following your son. We ask this in Jesus' name. Amen. 11/09: Dear God and Creator, thank you that in the vastness of the universe you care for each of us. Amen. 11/10: Lord God, help each of us to find our way of serving you so we can make music that delights you. In Jesus' name we pray. Amen. The prayers are from the Upper Room. For your own free E-Mail Devotional visit : http://upperroom.org/devotional/email/ and click on the link “Other Ways to Receive the Daily Devotional”

Slow Cooker Enchiladas

1 lb. Ground Beef
1 cup Chopped Onion
1/2 cup chopped Green Pepper
16 oz. can Kidney Beans, rinsed and drained
15 oz can Black Beans, rinsed and drained
10 oz can diced Tomatoes & Green Chilies, undrained (Rotel)
1/3 cup Water
1 teaspoon Chili Powder
1/2 teaspoon ground Cumin, optional
1/2 teaspoon Salt
1/4 teaspoon Pepper
1 1/2 cup shredded Sharp Cheddar Cheese
1 1/2 cup shredded Montery Jack Cheese
6 (6 or 7 inch) Tortillas

In a skillet, cook beef, onion and green pepper until beef is brown and vegetables are tender, drain. Add the next 8 ingredients, bring to a boil. Reduce heat cover and simmer for 10 minutes. In a bowl combine two cheeses. In a 5 qt slow cooker, layer 3/4 cup of the beef, one tortilla and about 1/3 cup cheese. Repeat layers. Cover and cook on low for 5 to 7 hours or until heated through.

Yields: 4 to 6 servings.

”When red-haired people are above a certain social grade their hair is auburn.”
Mark Twain

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