Long Overdue Update
It's been busy this past week. One of those sequence of days when you're under the gun to respond to a customer and high-level people are involved and so you lock yourself up in a room for hours on end, discussing options, asking questions, documenting what you do and don't know, figuring out positions, figuring out messaging, strategizing next steps and somewhere along the line, taking care of eating, sleeing and other mundane things.
I contracted bronchial crud after Easter. It's ok during the day but a number of nights have been tragic. Trying to breathe, coughing unproductively, swilling guaifensin. I should get to a doctor but *when*. I almost went to the A&E the other night because around 03.30 I'd just about had it and wanted to break down and cry in desperation and tiredness.
My Aunt Hattie passed away early this week. I'm flying to Tulsa tomorrow to meeting up with my ex, D and her husband and drive up to Iowa with them. It was a $600+ plane ticket to Kansas City and much less to go to Tulsa so that seemed to be the best compromise. My Aunt Hattie was a sunny fixture in my childhood -- she encouraged my mom to get me back from foster care and raise me after I'd been born (my mom was an unwed mother -- a big deal in 1955). So I owe Aunt Hattie. My favorite picture of her is during an Easter family gathering. She's laughing, holding a drink and wearing inflatable bunny ears. That's quintessential Aunt Hattie. To this day, when we play 31 (a card game we learned at Aunt Hattie and Uncle Paul's), we have to have a ring-ey ding-ey bowl for the money. When somebody would get low-score on a hand, Aunt Hattie would wave the bowl in their face, proclaiming: "Ring-ey, Ding-ey!" I'm smiling at the many good memories with her. So I want to be there and honor her memory and express my condolences in person to her four sons.
I'm moving into the development role I talked about. I'm going to start by using Microsft's Reporting Services. Don't know what it entails but I'll find out soon.
We had dinner last Friday night with a couple of straight, couple friends of ours who also happen to live in the neighborhood. They didn't know each other before (we were the common element) but did afterwards. We met at Candelari's and shared a couple of bottles of Chardonnay while getting to know each other and talking about a range of things. It was a lovely evening and they all hit it off well. So that's good. Looking forward to more of those kinds of evenings together.
edensong and Mike came over for dinner Sunday night. A made a stuffed pork loin that was verrrrry good and twice-baked potatoes and an apple/pear pastry thing for desert. Afterwards we had a rousing game of Quirkle. It was fun!
I contracted bronchial crud after Easter. It's ok during the day but a number of nights have been tragic. Trying to breathe, coughing unproductively, swilling guaifensin. I should get to a doctor but *when*. I almost went to the A&E the other night because around 03.30 I'd just about had it and wanted to break down and cry in desperation and tiredness.
My Aunt Hattie passed away early this week. I'm flying to Tulsa tomorrow to meeting up with my ex, D and her husband and drive up to Iowa with them. It was a $600+ plane ticket to Kansas City and much less to go to Tulsa so that seemed to be the best compromise. My Aunt Hattie was a sunny fixture in my childhood -- she encouraged my mom to get me back from foster care and raise me after I'd been born (my mom was an unwed mother -- a big deal in 1955). So I owe Aunt Hattie. My favorite picture of her is during an Easter family gathering. She's laughing, holding a drink and wearing inflatable bunny ears. That's quintessential Aunt Hattie. To this day, when we play 31 (a card game we learned at Aunt Hattie and Uncle Paul's), we have to have a ring-ey ding-ey bowl for the money. When somebody would get low-score on a hand, Aunt Hattie would wave the bowl in their face, proclaiming: "Ring-ey, Ding-ey!" I'm smiling at the many good memories with her. So I want to be there and honor her memory and express my condolences in person to her four sons.
I'm moving into the development role I talked about. I'm going to start by using Microsft's Reporting Services. Don't know what it entails but I'll find out soon.
We had dinner last Friday night with a couple of straight, couple friends of ours who also happen to live in the neighborhood. They didn't know each other before (we were the common element) but did afterwards. We met at Candelari's and shared a couple of bottles of Chardonnay while getting to know each other and talking about a range of things. It was a lovely evening and they all hit it off well. So that's good. Looking forward to more of those kinds of evenings together.
edensong and Mike came over for dinner Sunday night. A made a stuffed pork loin that was verrrrry good and twice-baked potatoes and an apple/pear pastry thing for desert. Afterwards we had a rousing game of Quirkle. It was fun!