Scary, good, then really scary, now really good news on Cheryl, fuck our neighbors, and shit, oops
Wow feels like forever since I've had time, energy, inclination to post anything. Mostly time. Energy. Both.
Guess being up here in Minnesota has been good to make me take a breath in one sense.
Because work is kicking my ass.
Anyway, things are looking much better for Cheryl but I didn't think she was going to make it when Jon called Saturday and so we bought tickets - didn't want him to deal with it all alone.
Pam and Gloria are coming later today also. And it turns out Mari & Chris don't live too far away.
They do a "turn down" to test how she does off the heart/lung machine (ECMO) and yesterday was the first one I saw.. if that was a good one, I'm glad I missed any other. Her oxygen tanked into the 60s, her blood pressure tanked so that the bottom number was in the 40s, and her breathing, of course, went immediately to labored -- was so hard to see. Today's was much smoother.. the blood pressure did drop but not too far, same for the oxygen. They do have the ventilator turned up a little so they expect better numbers, but not so high that they are afraid to try this afternoon.
I was pretty sure on Saturday when everything was going the wrong direction she wasn't going to pull out. Not when she was worse after removing the clots than before.
Yesterday at lunch I got a call from animal control.... this time instead of sending a letter threatening a $500 fine, they are apparently investigating a filed complaint that ccame with an affidavit and at least 5 recordings of 5 minutes of unproved barking.
I said I bet it's going to be the barking hour when the dogs behind us get home and ours go out and bark back.. if we are home we bring them in, or if we know we are going to be gone we do also, but I can't say that happens every time. Anyway, if there are other dogs barking, that's not considered unprovoked (whew) -- she hadn't listened to the recordings yet, and when I tried to call today it went to voicemail, but I'm really eager to know if that's what it is. Anyway, she said the complaint mentioned that 5-6:00 hour - so that is definitely the neighbors on our mailbox side, because they are more pissy about the evening barking whereas our other neighbor gets upset if it's late at night, or when he worked nights, if it was before 10 AM in the morning.
We do try really hard, though, to not let them bark. I can say their names and they might go out and bark a minute or so and then come back in. Molly will lay with her head on the brick step to the petdoor and just look out the window a lot.
So, yeah, fuck our neighbors.
And as for the shit, oops... add an ugh.
On 9/23 I got a forwarded email from Bruce with a subject "Escrow fee for consulting on Longhorn" and it was send $150,000 to Wayne Burges with bank & info attached. His statement was "Send $150,000. We will figure out funding later." (Longhorn is the bolt company we are buying in San Antonio).
So last Thursday when I got another email for the same amount, same person, and it was definitely from Bruce (hovered over the "from" field to make sure it was his email and not a spoof).... sad thing is, I was slightly suspicious because why would there be a 2nd consulting escrow but it's possible and I was in a hurry.. then when I logged onto the bank to do the wire, I looked to see if I'd created a template the time before.... and I thought about trying to find the original wire and comparing bank info.. so I was suspicious, but not suspicious enough.
The email really did come from Bruce's account. The subject was identical, the first sentence was identical and then the part about figuring out funding later erased. The attachment was identical except for the bank information swapped out.
Wells Fargo happened to be watching that account as suspicious because of the activity coming and going, and contacted us to find out -- and sure enough, Bruce didn't send the email. But someone has to be in his email, my email, or our server.
And I fell for it. :(
Guess being up here in Minnesota has been good to make me take a breath in one sense.
Because work is kicking my ass.
Anyway, things are looking much better for Cheryl but I didn't think she was going to make it when Jon called Saturday and so we bought tickets - didn't want him to deal with it all alone.
Pam and Gloria are coming later today also. And it turns out Mari & Chris don't live too far away.
They do a "turn down" to test how she does off the heart/lung machine (ECMO) and yesterday was the first one I saw.. if that was a good one, I'm glad I missed any other. Her oxygen tanked into the 60s, her blood pressure tanked so that the bottom number was in the 40s, and her breathing, of course, went immediately to labored -- was so hard to see. Today's was much smoother.. the blood pressure did drop but not too far, same for the oxygen. They do have the ventilator turned up a little so they expect better numbers, but not so high that they are afraid to try this afternoon.
I was pretty sure on Saturday when everything was going the wrong direction she wasn't going to pull out. Not when she was worse after removing the clots than before.
Yesterday at lunch I got a call from animal control.... this time instead of sending a letter threatening a $500 fine, they are apparently investigating a filed complaint that ccame with an affidavit and at least 5 recordings of 5 minutes of unproved barking.
I said I bet it's going to be the barking hour when the dogs behind us get home and ours go out and bark back.. if we are home we bring them in, or if we know we are going to be gone we do also, but I can't say that happens every time. Anyway, if there are other dogs barking, that's not considered unprovoked (whew) -- she hadn't listened to the recordings yet, and when I tried to call today it went to voicemail, but I'm really eager to know if that's what it is. Anyway, she said the complaint mentioned that 5-6:00 hour - so that is definitely the neighbors on our mailbox side, because they are more pissy about the evening barking whereas our other neighbor gets upset if it's late at night, or when he worked nights, if it was before 10 AM in the morning.
We do try really hard, though, to not let them bark. I can say their names and they might go out and bark a minute or so and then come back in. Molly will lay with her head on the brick step to the petdoor and just look out the window a lot.
So, yeah, fuck our neighbors.
And as for the shit, oops... add an ugh.
On 9/23 I got a forwarded email from Bruce with a subject "Escrow fee for consulting on Longhorn" and it was send $150,000 to Wayne Burges with bank & info attached. His statement was "Send $150,000. We will figure out funding later." (Longhorn is the bolt company we are buying in San Antonio).
So last Thursday when I got another email for the same amount, same person, and it was definitely from Bruce (hovered over the "from" field to make sure it was his email and not a spoof).... sad thing is, I was slightly suspicious because why would there be a 2nd consulting escrow but it's possible and I was in a hurry.. then when I logged onto the bank to do the wire, I looked to see if I'd created a template the time before.... and I thought about trying to find the original wire and comparing bank info.. so I was suspicious, but not suspicious enough.
The email really did come from Bruce's account. The subject was identical, the first sentence was identical and then the part about figuring out funding later erased. The attachment was identical except for the bank information swapped out.
Wells Fargo happened to be watching that account as suspicious because of the activity coming and going, and contacted us to find out -- and sure enough, Bruce didn't send the email. But someone has to be in his email, my email, or our server.
And I fell for it. :(