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JimK 
1:29pm Thursday
Monday, June 29, 2009 – 10:30 A.M.
I managed to stick to my plan yesterday. Resting came easily, and I even got to do some much-wanted reading.
During the afternoon, my brother called. That gave me a real shock. He said he was concerned and worried about all the problems I'm having, and wanted to know what he could do to help me. He did not accept my standard "nothing" reply, and the longer we talked, the more I began to believe that he really did want to help me in some way.
He insisted that he was going to come see me this week, so I said that Thursday would be okay. I told him about the problems I'm having in getting my cell phone to work, and he said that he would go with me to the Cricket store, which is about six blocks from where I live. I questioned whether he could walk that far and back, but he assured me he walked farther than that in walking his daughter's dogs each day.
After we get the cell phone taken care of, he is going to come back to my apartment and we are going to have lunch together. I have a secret plan whereby he is going to buy my lunch at a Subway store on the way home. Sometimes I can be trickier than he can. 
I'm going to spend the remainder of today trying to finish the book that I started several weeks ago, but never really got into until yesterday. The only reason I stopped reading it was because it was time to go to bed last night.
Comments
What are you reading?
Samadian
Have you ever heard that joke about the Southern woman Mrs. B, whose husband sent her to charm school?
She was at a women's luncheon, and the other wives were passive aggressively bragging about the extravagant things their husbands did or got for them, and each time Mrs B. would just gush "how nice!" and totally charmed them all. New car? "How nice!" New diamond? " How nice!" New house in the Hamptons? "How nice!"
When it came time for Mrs. B to tell what her husband did recently, she said, "Well my husband was unhappy with all the cussing I was doing, so he sent me to the most elite charm school.
So now, instead of saying EFF YOU, I learned to say 'how nice!'."
: P
Put on your journalist hat to protect you from your brother when needed and say 'how nice', if you have to.......
He's a science project. He's got problems himself. If any topics come up, make sure you stick to them one at a time.
Glad you got to do some reading. I hope the radio on TV thing is working out for you too.
Hugs and Mojo
Weebs
KweebsLS
Hey I hope the book is awesome! SUBWAY! yumm. that is great that he is going to go with you to Cricket to help in getting your cellphone issues settled.
Wish me luck today, I am going to need it. I have one cranky family and another complaining family and have to solve 5 families problems today in 5 hours or so.
insomniatonite
That was a great story about the charm school. I'll have to remember that.
I'm sure my brother will bring up some topics that I won't want to talk about. If he does, I'm going to ask how he's doing with the AA Meetings. That might stop him for a while.
JimK
" How nice "....gotta love that Weebs.
I think your brother cares as much as ....well, gosh...I think I had best just say,
" How nice " of him to come to visit and help fix your phone.
You always do a good job of handling him.
Yes, he does require handling.
Subway sounds good.
I hope you both have a very nice visit and a lovely day.
GoodGod