(02-04-2020, 01:33 AM)jj82284 Wrote:

(02-03-2020, 11:21 PM)mikesez Wrote: Every time I visited my grandfather, we had to listen to all three hours of Rush.  He enjoyed it, still does.  Even when Rush would get worked up, my grandfather would just be taking it in, calmly.  But my grandmother would get worked up right along with Rush.  I'd ask my grandfather afterwards if he agreed with everything, and he would say most of it, that he had sort of tuned out the parts he found himself not agreeing with, but still enjoyed the show.  I'd ask my grandmother the same question.  She wouldn't answer, but she would usually say something about how the evil Democrats were going to ruin everything, that they were so deluded, so brainless, etc.  I don't think my grandmother enjoyed any of this.  Twenty years ago she would go on trips, garden, clean, and read lots of books. Ten years ago, her health was fading, and the only habit she was keeping up from her healthier years was Rush, and it still got her so worked up. She passed five years ago. She never complained to me or my mom, but we both feel like my grandfather could have found some way to subtract the Rush and add back in happier things.  But we don't think she ever complained to grandpa either.  For all any of us know she liked getting worked up like that.

Jeff...  is that you?