My grandson Robert visited me for two hours yesterday. I was under the weather. He leaves to return to Florida State today. I will not see him again till Christmas.
We are close.
Robert has had an interesting life. Worrisome and sad initially. Now normal. Perhaps better than normal.
He was born with cancer of the liver. Spent the first 8 days of his life at Miami Children’s Hospital where he had two major surgeries. Followed for years thereafter by Miami Children’s. No more fortunately.
A good kid. No other way to describe him. A top tennis player. Becoming a top notch golfer.
Graduated #39 in his class from Key West High School. Now entering his senior year at Florida State where he has distinguished himself. His cumulative average is 3.5. Mostly A’s, a few B’s and 3 C’s. This will be his last year at Florida State. Next year at this time he will hopefully have obtained a good job and earning a living. He will.
Robert will end up a writer or announcer. Most likely in the sports field. He has excelled the past 3 years while at college performing in those areas for pay and non pay.
I love him! He is the best!
I am still not in the best of health. You would suspect I would not be so after 58 consecutive days in four different hospitals. I have been out for about one month now. Still generally feel crappy. Tired. Using a walker. Lacking in endurance. Rarely going out. I did make 90 years old, however. There was a time when I thought I would not.
Trump is flooding Washington, D.C. with National Guard. Eight hundred at the moment. He is using them to federalize the Metropolitan Police Department.
Washington Mayor Muriel Browser called the National Guard move “unsettled and unprecedented.”
Is such conduct necessary? I doubt it. Nothing more than Trump “out of the ordinary” activity. He has his nose in everything. Being President alone not enough for him.
A bottom line concern is the U.S. military still not supposed to be used against American citizens.
Trump continues “tariff game playing” with China. He signed an Executive Order extending his tariff truce with China for another 90 days. The “truce” allows Trump to hold back on 145 percent in tariffs on Chinese goods.
In 2010, the initiation fee to join Mar-a-Lago was $100,000. As of last fall it was reported to have gone up to $1 million.
Trump is upset Zelensky resisting a “land swap” with Russia. Putin wants some Ukraine lands for a peace deal.
The Summit Conference is a joke. Trump pursuing in hopes to get the deal he wants and a Nobel Peace Prize as a result.
Two whorish pursuits. Neither feasible.
D.C. is not what Trump thinks it is. Not the dirty filthy place. Does he ever walk the streets to actually see Washington’s beauty. I have. Trump is missing the boat. He sees what he wants to see.
The U.S. News and World Report recently completed a list of the 25 cities with the worst statistics for crimes and murder, using FBI crime reports. D.C. did not even make the list.
Trump constantly embarrasses the U.S. in every possible respect. Not the function of a President.
FEMA has joined other federal agencies in canceling union contracts.
Tonight hopefully The Grand for me. My palate desires crispy duck.
Enjoy your day!