h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

I stopped by the store where my deceased husband worked. Went less well than I hoped. One of my husbands co-workers from a previous job has hired on at his last store--she says it's as good as he'd told her it would be, and she should have made the move years ago. I'm glad too, she certainly deserved a better place to work.

I've decided I'm far more angry at my former in-laws than I thought. By not continuing to communicate with them there is no chance to reconcile or even tell them why I'm upset with them; but I chose to loose touch with them because I understood that reconcilliation on my terms is out of the question and to remain in touch with them would just be more painful for me. So, maybe a solution would be to write them a letter (even if I never send it). That's kind of what I've done with my h2g2 journal... I've also had the urge to write to Jon's original physician and let him know that Jon died of exactly what I'd asked him to help with. I don't want to sue the guy, just urge him to help his other patients who may have the same problem.

I grabbed two huge pumpkins to carve for Halloween, and this will be the first time I've done anything to commemorate a holiday since Jon died.

I miss my kitties profoundly. But at least I have greyhounds to snuggle with, and I know they would purr if they could. The whole experience of preparing my house to sell, selling it, and moving really took a lot out of me. It was both exhausting and shocking to my system. But, it has reduced my stress to a more managable level.

I watched "Lonely Are The Brave" a couple of nights ago. There was an interesting point in there, that having attachments to other people can limit the committment you can make to what you believe, and tempers your values to some extent. And that not participating in a culture tends to make that culture suspicious of you. And that the difference between picking a fight and manipulating the other party into starting the same fight can make you appear blameless. And that knowledge of a thing makes you a party to it to some extent--to admit knowledge and claim total innocence is often a fallacy. So, now I'm in the mood to see "The Magnificant Seven" again.

I can also recommend "The Power of Nightmares." You'll never think about voting the same way after seeing even one part of the three-part documentary.