Wednesday

I have had a bad cough for some time, and couldn't stop coughing this morning so called Bill at the hospital, I didn't feel too bad but I couldn't go round the floor mixing with patients and coughing away.

Last night I was working on cross stitching the wording on the wedding card, but when  I woke this morning and looked at it in daylight I saw I had mistakenly used two different shades of green - when I was using them I couldn't tell the difference in artificial light.   I had the usual conversation with myself, that we do in these situations -

"perhaps no one will notice".

"yes of course they will, it is blatantly obvious in daylight".

"perhaps I can make it look like it is supposed to be like that"

"yeah, right".

So I started again.   Which is what I have been doing most of the day, apart from knocking up chocolate chip cookies for the Wednesday meal, and the Kiwanis' bulletin for tomorrow.

In the news..............

Oklahoma is a death penalty state and a guy who had been on death row for 10 years  was executed today.   I wondered why it was suddenly decided, after ten years, that today would be a good day for him to die.   Anyway, I digress.   The point of this story is that they are executed here with a lethal injection (whatever happened to the electric chair I wondered) but for some reason the injection was botched, I think the drug itself was experimental and they didn't get it right, and it took 43 minutes for him to die, he convulsed and was suffering.      And you would not believe the outrage that caused.   This guy was sentenced to death  because he kidnapped a young girl who had just graduated high school, a lovely girl apparently with her whole life in front of her, and her parents' only child.   He first of all repeatedly raped her, then he shot her, but didn't kill her.  He told his two accomplices to dig her grave and made her watch them.   Then they buried her alive.   Goodness only knows how much suffering she went through, and how many hours it took for her to die in her shallow grave, and all the bleeding heart liberals here are up in arms, protesting, because it took 43 minutes for HIM to die!!!!!!!!!

Another news item is that Britain used to be the leading economy in the world but the US overtook us in 1872, and since that time it has been Top Dog on the world stage.   But - and herein lies the chagrin - China is catching up and it is predicted that some time this year China will be the leading world economy.