Thursday 11th June

Weather is still hot.   97 in Tulsa.  They don't often name a place in Oklahoma. 

I just went out at lunchtime.  Fr Bill has discontinued Thursday Communions for the summer, but he still has a class and I joined them for lunch at a sandwich bar downtown.   Although it is just a sandwich bar the food there is extremely good.   I afterwards scurried home to the air conditioning, watched television and crocheted.

In the news the two dangerous, escaped prisoners are still on the run. Every house in the vicinity of the prison has been searched, and a car hasn't been stolen, so it is believed they are hiding in a heavily wooded area, and there are hundreds and hundreds of police and dogs out looking.  It is being said that the police are closing in.  If that is so, it shouldn't be long now before they are picked up.

The news story here isn't that the woman was murdered, but that she was waiting so long for her gun permit in NJ - which takes several weeks - she was unable to defend herself.

I see stories like that and wonder if I should get a gun and take myself to a range for practice, perhaps I am being naïve in expecting law enforcement to keep me safe.   It was pointed out that the victim here was murdered outside, and even if she'd had the gun NJ's gun laws don't allow it to be loaded outside the house, whereas here in Oklahoma I can stroll around with it, or keep it in the car, fully loaded.   I think it has to be concealed though.  My next door neighbour, when delivering pizzas, kept hers tucked down her jeans.

 

I have been looking at the statistics of my blog since May 2010.

United Kingdom	4247
United States	3513
Malaysia	971
Romania	369
Russia	312
Canada	230
Germany	142
France	116
Jordan	48
Ireland	36

 There are several figures here which hit me as startling.   I know of course that anybody, anywhere, can access the internet, not just friends and loved ones to whom I have given the link,  but it surprises me that there are nearly as many (the difference is 734) people in the US who have looked at it, as in the UK.   And I don't know a SINGLE person in Malaysia, but nearly a thousand people there have read it.  Romania and Canada I understand, I have a friend in each of those countries to whom I gave the link, but all the rest mystify me.

I don't mind, you understand, I am just intrigued.   And I do get it that I am just writing about me and my cat, and it is all pretty mundane and routine so I don't have much expectation of interest.  The main point of it is that my loved ones can look at it and satisfy themselves that I am still functioning here, and they are not wondering what I'm doing.