Chapter 35 - New Toy

Yesterday morning I had to return a second time to Woollies because they had difficulty finding the $299 DVD recorder they shipped in for me. Once connected into the rat's nest of cabling I discovered that our second working VCR was no longer so; had to borrow the one from the bedroom, and then we spent the afternoon, evening & early morning copying old tapes to DVD. Since this has to be done in real time, she has a chore in front of her and her enthusiasm will wane once she has her favourites, such as her Doris Day collection, copied. She knitted occasionally during the hours. She decided that we will have our main meal in the evenings rather than comply with the social mores of old fogies. I found the day's activities quite satisfying, even having bought the "Australian" as in days of old, to read on Saturdays. Strangely, I had difficulty concentrating on the newspaper articles; difficulty holding the pages, needed extra light to see the fine text. Do you think this is an age problem (no, we don't live in that state anymore) or that one becomes used to reading news on a screen these days? Anyway, $2.20 worth of scrap paper into the re-cycling box this morning. Anyway, she remained awake until about 4am, then had difficulty waking to the alarm for meds at 7am, asked several times later whether she had taken them, then woke me at 10:30am. Church missed today.