From: noahidebooksforever@gmail.com   
      
   Chapter Eighty-Nine   
      
   Written Wednesday 4th of July 6181 SC / 4th of July 2018 CE.  Here we go.  A   
   few months have passed, and time for an update.  I visited Mt Stromlo near   
   Weston Creek with Mum and Brigid a while back.  We had a meal at the café   
   there, and I enjoyed the    
   scenery.  It overlooks the vast western area of Canberra, and the views are   
   truly magnificent.  I recall thinking ideas like I did not really need to   
   travel to too many places in the world, because the local area already   
   sufficed for that with enough    
   going on.  I love being up at Mt Stromlo and Telstra Tower and the Arboretum   
   in Canberra – the spiritual animistic feel of the places is wonderful to   
   me.  Adrian Chan retired from his work in Mental Health.  I might see him this   
   Christmas possibly, as    
   he has hinted I might get a visit from a Chinese Santa.  Ian Pennel is his   
   replacement, who is a  little younger than me.  He’s a kiwi, but a really   
   nice guy, and does his job professionally.  I haven’t been going to the drop   
   in centre as much though    
   now since Adrian left, as the Internet is back on at home now, as we got a   
   good deal with mum’s Telstra service – in fact, probably paying now less   
   with the new deal – so I am not going to group as much anymore.  Mostly   
   content with home life in    
   reality.  Rob Preston and Chris White dropped around the other night, on   
   Saturday the 30th of June, and Greg, Christie and James had arrived for a   
   holiday that afternoon.  Greg and James will be staying about 2 weeks, but   
   Christie only about a week.  We    
   had a ‘Catan’ night were we played Catan.  Chris ended up winning, and it   
   was a great fellowship evening. We all got along pretty well.  I gave Greg the   
   two Spellsinger books, books 7 and 8 in the saga, which he had never read, the   
   other day, from    
   him to take back to Perth with him.  He has already started reading one of   
   them.  Greg, Mum, Christie and James went down to Jacinta’s in Cooma the   
   other day, and earlier this evening Greg and James went to the movies.  I   
   think they saw a Jurassic    
   World movie, or that was the plan.  They asked me if I wanted to come along,   
   but I don’t like going out that much anymore.  I’m 45 now, quite settled,   
   and the body is past its prime, and I don’t like to push it as much as I did   
   in former years.     
   Mostly just like relaxing at home, doing my thing with the Internet and music   
   and TV, and not worrying about too much else anymore.  I think I mostly   
   operate in retirement mode these days, and am not looking for too many more   
   social encounters and trips.    
    An occasional thing, but I feel it in my bones these days, and don’t’   
   really want to get out and about like I used to.  Just a rare trip.  Still   
   single, no love life, and that doesn’t appear to be changing.  Met a girl   
   online, who is from Cebu in    
   the Philippines, and we had a chat about religion.  She was interesting.    
   I’m still talking with Emma Michel from Perth on Pinterest.  At this stage I   
   no longer really plan on going back to Perth anymore, as I hate flying in   
   planes, but if and when mum    
   finally passes the possibility of moving in with Greg in Forrestfield in Perth   
   would be considered, but I would only get there by train taking my belongings   
   with me that way.  I just can’t handle the turbulence in plains – like   
   Logan Wolverine in the    
   second Wolverine movie, I grab the sides of the seat when in planes and am   
   very nervous.  Not sure if human beings are really designed to fly –   
   something tells me I just shouldn’t be up there.  My niece Georgia is   
   expecting soon.  We still don’t    
   know if it’s a boy or a girl, and they aren’t saying anything official as   
   of yet.  My collection of things continues to grow – the current collection   
   is starting to get quite big again.  I have a large supply of Marvel and DC   
   movies, and there are    
   heaps of magazines to look at also at the moment.  I’m 45 years old, mostly   
   settled in life, and not much is changing anymore.  It will one day down the   
   road, but I’ll cross that bridge when I come to it. For now more of the same   
   seems to be on my    
   plate.  Justin Angold visited again for a a few times, but has stopped   
   visiting again.  I would imagine, though, that somewhere down the track he   
   will possibly start visiting again, maybe for a period.  That might be how it   
   works with Justin – don’t    
   really know.  My niece Madalene Bridges dropped around to visit mum the other   
   day.  She looked well.  She lives with her mother Brigid but is at her cousins   
   a lot apparently. Greg, Christie and James are in good health and spirits.    
   Nothing seems to have    
   changed terribly much in their lives.  Mum is as well as normal.  Haven’t   
   seen Jacinta in a bit, but there is no news contrary to her faring as well as   
   usual.  In the world today things are going pretty much according to regular   
   ways.  Donald Trump is    
   still President, and Malcolm Turnbull is still Prime Minister of Australia.   
   England defeated Australia 5 nil in the recent one day series in England at   
   Cricket, so times are good for my team.  The bulldogs finally won a game on   
   the weekend, so I can have    
   a minor celebration.  There odds of making the finals these years are   
   extremely slim – they would need to win practically every remaining game.    
   Maybe next year.  We’ll see how it goes.  Mostly life as usual, and nothing   
   major planned.  Steady work    
   on an occasional video for my Noahide Videos Bible, and maybe some writing   
   again soon enough.  Did a lot of work for the first 5 months of the year, so   
   mostly resting for the remainder of it.  Anyway, life is good.  Cheers.   
      
   Daniel Thomas Andrew Daly   
      
   Canberra, Australia   
      
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