Friday of the Third Week of Lent: 8:02 AM

 

My son Tony woke me up, around 4:00 AM, complaining of a sore neck.  I gave him some advil.

I’ve talked to Anhui province.  Later, I’ll talk to Brazil and Chile.

I’ll take my Mom shopping this aft. Tony doesn’t have school today. Professional Development Day.

No meat for me.  It’s Friday.  

To go or not to go to Friday Mass.  That is the question.

About 1.5 km’s from here, a person or persons went on a tire-slashing spree.  At least 75 cars had their tires slashed.  Who did it?  A drug addict, a homeless malcontent, teenagers having shits & giggles, or a tire company wanting business? I hope they catch the perpetrator(s).  Thankfully, I have a garage in which to park.  

—El cristiano no tiene nada que perder en una

catástrofe.

—The Christian has nothing to lose in a catastrophe.

An NGD quote.  I came across it today.  If it was a cheese stick, it would have knocked me over.  As it was, the quote hit me with the force of an anvil.  I have nothing to fear.  (Have to present it to my RCIA group).

Thanks to reading the Alec Guinness book, I am reading this Anthony Trollope novel:  The Way We Live Now.  Guinness said it was a wonderful book, and so far, in my reading of it, I am agreeing with him.  There are already passages I am highlighting.

It isn’t all bad in the world of news.  Chile has a new President who is classified as an ultra conservative Catholic.  I will have to ask my Santiago student about him. 

Thursday of the Third Week of Lent: 12:30 PM

 My Guéranger says it is the middle of Lent: the 20th day.  But this would have been over a hundred or more years ago.  This year, by my count, it is the 22nd day. So, it is more or less right that we’re halfway through this thang.

Talked to Anhui province and Moldova.  Will talk to Maple Ridge, Istanbul, Fredericton and Toronto.

I came across and snatched up a copy of “A Positively Final Appearance” by Alec Guinness.  He is a very drool writer.  He hated the Star Wars movie and was sometimes irked by the celebrity of it.  When a young boy told him that he had watched the movie a hundred times, Guinness told the boy to stop watching it The boy cried.

Finished reading a book about Japanese tea rooms.  Interesting.  Their ideas of beauty will always be with me.

I prayed the Rosary between five and six AM.

One of my online students will be seeing AC-DC in Santiago.  

Another student who is coming to Canada for study asked me if the stories he heard about homeless people in Canada were true.

Snow still on the ground unlike where my online students are residing.

Wednesday of the Third Week of Lent: 2:47 PM

 Why so late with an entry today?  I don’t know.  I was just sort of busy.

Busy doing what? Planning and Reading.

Pray the Rosary? Yes. The glorious mysteries.

Teaching Today? China. Santiago. Fredericton. Toronto. Taiwan. (Turkey cancelled)

Are you with the Doomers or the Applauders of the Iran War?  The Doomers. They are talking facts. The proponents are liking Trump’s seeming decisiveness and saying anti-Semite.

Yesterday? I had a RCIA class. We covered the Nicene Creed.

Shopping? Yes. This morning, I had to return a stovetop element I bought yesterday.  They questioned me saying the element I retuned was old.  But it was the one I bought yesterday I told them.  I got my refund.  If there was some funny business going on, it wasn’t me.

Waiting

 It is a kind of Jiangsu snow that’s falling at the moment.

Who or what am I waiting for?

Arnis Kaulins

 Hope Dad doesn’t mind if I pay my respects from the car.  Probably not a good idea to trudge through the snow.

Dad. I hope you’re in a better place.

Tuesday of the Third Week of Lent: 6:03 AM

 For what it’s worth — and it ain’t worth much — I get up at 5:00 AM every day.

I took the above photo but didn’t publish it till now.  What was I thinking?

This morning, i extended the Duolingo streak. I then talked to China from 6:00 to 8:00.

I drove my ambitious son to work.

I planned today’s classes.

I prayed the sorrowful mysteries.

Later: Maple Ridge, Toronto, and RCIA.

Not much needed

 I saw this on X.  It was inspiring to behold.

Monday of the Third Week of Lent: 9:45 AM

 Busy morning so far.

China.

Torsby

Overnight snow to shovel, but thankfully not much.

Drive Tony to School.

Make a Bank Deposit.

Now. BSD Paperwork.

Later:

Maple Ridge.

Saudi Arabia (maybe)

Toronto and maybe China again.

Shilo

 Tony wanted to drive so we went to Shilo.

We took Victoria Avenue East,

The Artillery Museum was closed.

Shilo was bigger than I remembered it,

We drove through Chater.

Chater consisted of nothing but houses.  No landmarks to speak of.

We took the low road to and from Shilo,

Putting the Clock ahead an hour

 I wish they wouldn’t bother with this putting the clock back or ahead, as it were, during, the year. In China, they never did this, and I never was I homesick for it.

This morning, I forgot about the clock being put forward. My iPhone woke me up, I had an online class, and then I got ready to go to the 9:00 AM Mass.  I got into the car and saw that the car clock said it was 7:15 AM.  I had to think about this for a few seconds, and it dawned on me that clocks had been changed.  After still a few more seconds, I also realized that I wasn’t late for Mass because the clocks had been put ahead an hour.