RADIO NEW AND OLD

Scattered rain showers developing around early afternoon. Mostly cloudy with temperatures steady near the mid 60s. Winds ESE at 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 40%.

When I was growing up I came in possession of a transistor radio. For those of you who might not know what a transistor is, it was as small as an i phone and transmitted, I think, only AM frequency on a small 9 volt battery. At the time it was so cool to have a radio that small and didn't need to be plugged in. I would take it to bed with me at night and put it under my pillow and fall asleep to the top 10 tunes for that week.

I always keep my i phone under my pillow. I have my alarm set, I can check the time in the middle of the night, sometimes I can use it as a night light if the cat is acting strange and I want to check on her without getting up and turning on the light. Never know when a mouse might be getting chased. I can check the weather in the middle of the night if there sounds like a storm is coming, I can play Bejeweled if I can't sleep and I can tun to XM radio or Pandora and listen to my favorite music to fall asleep too. Amazing how things change but stay the same.

I think my daughter has forgotten our home phone number, she always calls the i phone now and she has been known to text me in the middle of the night just so I can tell her that her symptoms of a cold or her sore leg does not mean she is dying.

So my daughter picked up her "new to her car" today. It is a 2006 Acura TL, black with grey interior. She wanted a car that had a little more substance than her old Honda Civic, but she knew she could not afford a brand new one so she opted for a certified used one. She check the car fax online for the car and it had one owner and no accidents. Bought an extended warranty, so I think she covered every precaution you can take when buying a used car.

My husband went with her to pick it up and they had a nice father/daughter lunch after and even went to the mall to pick up and adapter for her radio so she could play her music that is stored on her i phone. She almost didn't buy the car because she was very disappointed that it didn't have a AUX plug for the i phone. But what she got works fine.

I got home from work at three and she was there waiting for me. She wanted us to go for a ride, maybe to do a little shopping and take it to the car wash. It was very shiny and clean when she picked it up but it rained this afternoon. She we are on our way for a little fun and my brother called me to say that he was on his way to the ER. He had a regular schedule cardiology appointment this afternoon but the cardiologist didn't like they way he was having trouble breathing so he sent him right to the ER. They took about 10 vials of blood for testing and then admitted him to monitor his heart. He also has poor kidney function, which we believe now is the result of many years of ibuprofen use as an anti inflammatory for a bad back. The cardiologist will stop in and see him in the morning so I will stop at the hospital before I go to work. This is the view out of the window of my brother's hospital room. The smoke stack belongs to the hospital.