Politicking

This week I have been concentrating on politics.
Our precinct is small so I have been calling for
Jared other precincts as well as ours. I guess
I have made something around 100 calls and most
people were supporting Jared and were planning
to go to the caucus. What a change this will be
if it really comes about. I haven't been to a
caucus since the 60s myself. I got so burned out
after we got Johnson elected and he escalated
the Viet Nam War. I was crushed. Since then
this is really the first time I have felt that
we might have a chance of getting a president with
whome the congress will work?!? Hence, by
dedication to Jared. He shares my views 100%
which is pretty uncommon and may well mean he
won't make it through the nomination process. His
opponent is backed by the oil and gas companies
in Colorado and that should make her un-electable,
but most people don't pay attention to reality only to
the TV ads.

Mark Udall is running unopposed for the nomination, and
I am still waiting for his packet to arrive.

Thursday, I went to town and spent the morning writing
postcards which said "why I am supporting Jared." I
wrote 30 of them in two hours and had to quit because my
wrist was killing me. I picked up some more phone lists and
then went to the Carnegie where I ate the lunch I had made
at home and then worked on moving the pictures Robert had
improved, using PhotoShop, to the virtual library on-line.
I managed to get them all moved. I had done about half last week.

We watched the debate between Clinton and Obama. It was the
best debate we've seen. It actually was a debate. They
each had time to answer the questions. Also, they were very
civil to each other. That was refreshing, too. I will vote
for the one who ends up getting the nomination, but I do
hope it'll be Obama.

Yesterday morning Robert and I bought a new TV, on-line. He
had been doing the research and knew what he wanted. We
found it on-sale at Sears in Thornton, Colorado (about 20
miles from here). We bought it on-line and said we'd pick
it up. Immediately, we received e-mail saying it was ready
for pick-up! We drove to Sears in Thornton and while there
looked for stands to set our new TV on. We didn't find
anything and that was just as well since there didn't seem
to be anyone to wait on us. Then we went out and drove the
truck to the back of the store, entered and found the kiosk
that had been described on-line. It scans the bar code that
had been printed on our receipt. Above us on a TV screen
our name appeared with the item we were to pick up and a
counter, counting the time we had to wait. They don't want
you to have to wait more than 5 minutes. Sure enough, in a
couple of minutes two young men appeared with our TV on a
truck to take to our truck. I again had to have the receipt
scanned, but the hand-held gizmo wasn't working. I finally
went back to the kiosk and scanned my receipt again and the
read-out disappeared. The young man was unhappy though
because I should have thought of that right away because now
it looked like it took more than 5 minutes for them to get
us our TV. I reassured him that now he knew how to out
smart the hand-held device so he shouldn't lose out again.
He was happy with that.

We brought it home and had lunch. After lunch Robert
man-handled it out of the truck and down our icy path.
He then got it off of the hand-truck and into the house where
I helped him get it out of the box and set up where the old
one had been. He was able to get it going shortly
thereafter. We now are waiting on me to deal with the
DishTV people to get a new box for our system. In the
meantime we can watch it as analog, but look forward to
being able to see how it looks with a digital signal.

Last night I checked the new phone books which had just
arrived looking for TV stands and/or furniture stores.
There are none in Boulder! I then went on-line looking and
of course found zillions; they are really expensive.
We ended up buying a coffee table instead. Coffee table,
for the same sort of structure cost half as much as TV
stands. Go figure.

I had a scare last weekend when I checked my blood
pressure for the first time in 6 months. I checked mine
because I wanted Robert to check his. Mine turned out
to be more than be 150/80 which was a shock. My last
readings were all close to 115/60! Robert checked his and
it was 127/80. For him that is fantastic. I have been
keeping our diet very low in sodium which obviously has
worked, for him. But, I also have a sea-salt grinder as a
salt shaker that I have been using. Robert seldom adds
salt to anything. I have been grinding salt onto
everything! Clearly, it puts out way more than I was
realizing. In any case, I have put it away; quit eating
cheese and walking every morning. Voila, today my bp was
115/74!! YEA! But, I shall keep up the walking and not
take the salt-grinder out again and be careful, in general
of how much sodium I am consuming.

I phone call just came in from Chris Wenrich. Her father, and
my friend, Jack Wenrich has just had a stroke and is in the
hospital. Apparently it was not real bad; he has some trouble
talking and his balance is off, but his brain is still working OK.
I shall call him as soon as I sign off from here.