the good, the very bad, and the merely frustrating
1. I ordered the Kairos. I'm also going to buy the Danskos this afternoon. Now I really can't buy two pair of Danskos, is what. Fortunately, if I'm not mistaken my credit card statement closes today, so poss. both purchases will show up next month. Wouldn't that be exciting! If they do show up this month, though, I can still take it. Yes.
2. The father of a childhood friend of mine (D) died yesterday. I heard this first from C, who's still in closer touch with D than I am (also, C and D share a very close mutual friend from college, which is where C herself got the news), and who said the father had been unwell recently (which I hadn't known), but this was completely unexpected. I passed the news on to a few other people from high school, one of whom (J) subsequently heard from his own father -- the two sets of parents being still very good friends -- that D's father had been opening his swimming pool; apparently slipped or fell or passed out or something as a result of low blood pressure from his medication?; and drowned. Which is, like, not at all what a person expects when the news is that someone hasn't been well and has then died suddenly. He was sixty years old.
3. Polygraph v2.0 in three weeks. Go me. Witness my enthusiasm. [and there was much rejoicing]
2. The father of a childhood friend of mine (D) died yesterday. I heard this first from C, who's still in closer touch with D than I am (also, C and D share a very close mutual friend from college, which is where C herself got the news), and who said the father had been unwell recently (which I hadn't known), but this was completely unexpected. I passed the news on to a few other people from high school, one of whom (J) subsequently heard from his own father -- the two sets of parents being still very good friends -- that D's father had been opening his swimming pool; apparently slipped or fell or passed out or something as a result of low blood pressure from his medication?; and drowned. Which is, like, not at all what a person expects when the news is that someone hasn't been well and has then died suddenly. He was sixty years old.
3. Polygraph v2.0 in three weeks. Go me. Witness my enthusiasm. [and there was much rejoicing]