What the day held

promise of a new day! It kept dreaming of waking, doing something, realizing it was 10 minutes early then resting again. I was never right on the time. My teaching went fairly well and there were no real problems.

A growing concern I have is for the random "unavailable number" calls I'm getting. As I put my cell phone number on the no-call list, I should think that I would not get pestered. I didn't donate to anyone last year -- no money to do so, so I hope to get fewer calls this year.

A charity, Paralyzed Hoosier Veterans Association is a nice cause, but they are misinforming those whom they solicit, in that their chapter hasn't donated to Spinal Cord Research for 20 some years -- their claim to fame. I got some interesting runaround from the man who called me this year. He called me days after the local paper reported their misinforming.

"We don't control everything that every chapter says."

Really? Don't they read a prompt? I hardly believe that they have all the figures, dates, times in their heads -- highly unlikely. I also thought that they ought to at least make a sound retraction about how much and when they donated to the spinal cord research center. This center tried an experimental procedure for connecting nerve tissue, and pocesses for neural growth. Christopher Reeve was the first volunteer. The surgery showed some success. It's original idea was for use within 24 hours of injury. To this date, I don't know of any other successful attempts.

That being said, there is a local group -- not a charity, that does work for the community -- Citizens' Action Coalition. They spend much of their money under-paying people to gather money for the cause. Some -- doubtful much, gets to lawyers to lobby for improvements and protections for citizens from energy industries and the like from unreasonable price hikes and gouging.

Too bad we don't have a federal one to punish the gas companies -- not just oil, but natural gas. If they keep it up, I think the way to go would be Nuclear Power Plants and electric heat. I think Hammond and Gary, IN could be flattened and the Power Plants go there. If you've seen --hopefully at a distance, either city. I think you'll agree.