Happy New Year--one day late. I spent yesterday cooking. We had the better part of a turkey breast from Christmas so I fixed two quarts of turkey soup base and a turkey/noodle casserole which are all in the freezer. When I wasn't tending what was on the stove I worked on my new doily. I didn't look at any of my e-mail or articles yesterday so I have a bit to catch up on.
There isn't much to distinguish this new year from the old one--just a change of one digit. The news yesterday (and so far today) has been dominated by the attack on Bourbon Street in New Orleans that has (so far) killed 15 and injured 30+. The new year was only about three and a half hours old and we had our first mass murder attack. I told Mom yesterday that we have moved from being shocked and surprised by such events to simply being shocked. That these things happen isn't a surprise any more.
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We finally got some snow and may get a bit more. It wasn't much and most of the main streets are clear. Mom had a couple of prescriptions which I went out to pick up. Other than that short errand we aren't doing anything until Monday when we have a couple of appointments. The TV content is getting more and more boring and irritating. Mom keeps asking me if there isn't ANYTHING else on there. I finally got tired of it and read her the line up from the on-line guide. Eventually we left the picture on but the volume muted while I let Pandora play on my MacBook.
Stray thought: we seem to have become a very judgmental people. The first laudatory obituaries for President Carter have elicited a number of not so kind posts picking apart his legacy. Often the writers take one action Carter took, or didn't take, they don't agree with. On the whole I think Carter is one of the more exemplary Presidents in our history and especially when compared with the once and future President Trump. I think Trump is a horrible human being. However, in future days, which given my age I probably won't see, historians might find that some of Trump's policies and actions were praiseworthy. Maybe, as a society, we should be kinder and more balanced in our appraisal of our leaders.
Stray thought #2: Evidently the Surgeon General wants the Federal government to put a cancer warning on alcoholic beverages. I think we have enough warnings, on labels or otherwise, and I think most of them are simply background noise. I don't pay much attention to them now. I don't smoke but I remember when the labels were first put on cigarettes. They didn't really have much impact. What really curtailed smoking were the fast rising cost because of the increased taxes on tobacco products and the restrictions on where a smoker could light up. While smokers had the right to light up others who shared the public spaces also had the right not to inhale their exhalations. Do we really need the Federal Nanny disapproving of another habit?
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