Sunday was not only Mother's Day, it also was the second anniversary of Gerald Robinson's murder conviction.
Jurors found the Toledo Catholic priest guilty on May 11, 2006, of murdering Sister Margaret Ann Pahl in 1980.
The priest, who turned 70 years old on April 14, is still being held at Hocking Correctional Facility in southern Ohio. His next parole board hearing is scheduled for March 2021.
A decision on his appeal is expected fairly soon from the Ohio Sixth District Court of Appeals. Of course I am extremely interested in this decision, whichever way the court decides. My only personal preference is that the appeals court, which normally issues its decisions on Fridays, does not release its decision on May 23 because I will be on vacation, out of town and out of state that day.
I haven't taken a vacation day yet this year but I have several coming up in the near future, so judges, if you don't mind, it would work out best for me if you release the Robinson decision on May 16 or 30, or June 6 or 20.
Thank you for your cooperation ;-)
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Watched the finale of Survivor last night -- the one that aired Sunday. Fortunately I didn't hear ahead of time who won -- something that would have been impossible when Survivor was the hottest show on earth.
I really didn't care very much for this group, but didn't mind seeing Parvati take home the million dollars. For a former boxer, she seems like an OK person -- albeit a bit vain, conceited, selfish and shallow (well, at least that's how she looked on TV). The only one I was rooting for was James, the honest gravedigger and massive physical specimen. He was much more shrewd than he appeared at first and seems like a genuinely nice person.
I am still stunned that Ozzy, Jason and "Erik the ice cream scooper" were so easily duped into thinking they were safe, and then got stabbed in the back. You'd think after the first blindside the rest of the competitors would have learned. But nooooooooooo. It's always the other guy who's the fool. Until it's time for your own naivity to go on display.
Survivor is a tough reality show and you really need a thick skin to handle all the lies and backstabbing and trickery.
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Regarding another popular reality show, American Idol, I heard on K-Love yesterday that Jason Castro -- the dreadlocked folkie -- used to read his Bible backstage all the time and is being courted by Christian record labels. I had no idea he was a person of faith, but then again there was nothing that would have indicated he was or wasn't a Christian.
I wonder about David Archuletta -- he seemed to pick songs that mentioned God quite a bit and when he sang "Imagine," he skipped the verse that says, "Imagine there's no heaven..." When asked by Randy why he didn't sing that verse, the golly-gee-aw-shucks teenager said he just liked the other verses better.
It's hard to say.
Also, little David is from Utah so statistically speaking it makes you wonder if perhaps he's a Mormon. Maybe the gossip sites and mags have already reported that, but I don't follow them.

Toledo, Ohio
May 13, 2008