Sunday morning, 12 October 2025: rose at two o'clock then immediately back to bed hoping to go back to sleep, but lay there pleasantly for just over an hour before rising for a mug of hot & black, and to stay up this Time. Work? Nothing productive, read online that my principal raging issue, not paying active duty military during the Government Shutdown, has been addressed and they will be paid. Many junior level military, both enlisted and officers, including service members who are deployed and their families home alone, live paycheck to paycheck; leaving military folks to agonize about how their families back home can possibly get by is unconscionable. It's being addressed.  Red and Blue, both sides blaming the other is how things are done these years. Do we need a different kind of government? IDK, there was a Time when I thought we should have a parliamentary system so the bums could be tossed out on the spur of the moment, but look at France &al. What we need is ...

All manner of things going on here in 7H this cool autumn Saturday morning. For one and mainly, prepping for tomorrow morning's adult Sunday school class session about the evangelist "Mark" and the gospel he wrote. Initially I thought to take four sessions, tomorrow will be five and will need one more session next week, for a six-session presentation. I hope folks enjoy it as I am, Mark is certainly worth several hours of the study and discussion Time of any Christian!   Below (scroll down) is our handout for tomorrow morning. Other goings on, this week we stopped at Grocery Outlet (which we call "Bill's"), Sam's Club, Publix, and Aldi. Linda bought other things, at Bill's I bought an enormous baking potato, at Aldi I bought the German beer that I like, and at Sam's I bought a package of pork hot dogs.  Linda had said she was tired of the all-beef hot dogs, so I bought these, pork with cheese. I can't taste the cheese, but the hot dog with bu...