Took Mom on a ride up to then through the UCONN campus. We had a ball. It's been 50 years since she's been there and she marveled at how much it had grown. She was particularly stunned by the commercial development across the street from the main campus. It's like a city abutting the university. So many buildings being worked on and/or being built. I was delighted to see how many things along the trip from her home to the campus that she remembered.

We visited my brother for his birthday and to see how he was doing following a back operation. Today was not being pleasant. Then lunch at the pizza house. It was nice to spend time with mom. She's 92 and I'm 70 so how much time can be left?

Read some stuff on the Web that makes me look at Buddy in a new light. (I am fascinated to see how changing one's view of something affects the very nature of what you look at. ) The rubbing stuff, the purring, his outlook about the universe verses mine. It's a little disjointing to realize there are two only tangentially touching different universes under the roof at this GPS location on earth. I've seen another of his skills: he can teleport. One moment he's reclining somewhere, the next he's vanished with nary a sound nor ripple in the air. Some time later, he will reappear, again silently, in the very spot from which he vanished. Will be studying this phenomenon in the future.