Sent the "Legacies" piece on Pat to a lot of relatives and friends, both electronically and via hard copies. Spent a lot of the day on that, plus every-day domestic chores. Sent the little girls in Singapore Halloween gifts: a foam "haunted graveyard" scene for Vivian and orange and white pajamas for Violet with "So Cute It's Scary" on the front.
Had a nice dinner at A.'s. Joely was there, as well as Lindsay and Lucas. Other than that, was mostly involved with phone calls and e-mails.
Wider: Do you ever wonder what all the verbiage in Washington concerning healthcare is about? Here's Chris Floyd, in his "Empire Burlesque" blog, to tell you:
"One side is lying; the other side is not telling the truth. Or to put it another way: One side is pretending that a wildly reactionary plan to further enrich rapacious corporations is really hardcore, gutbucket socialism from the Bolshevik trenches, while the other side is pretending that its "reform" is not really a wildly reactionary plan to further enrich rapacious corporations but something that will somehow, in some way, be good for some people at some point way down the line."
Rings true, doesn't it? Now you know.