Back in Clemson just in time to leave. My last grandfather died around 9:15 yesterday evening while I was driving back to school. I leave for PA in the morning for the viewing and funeral.

Ronnie's father died the morning of the 20th. I just got back from the viewing.

I have a huge scar on my back that was news to me.

Going to the movies with my brother and Karen this evening.

Looks like Steve Irwin got Sting-Rayed in the chest. Now he's dead.

He had it coming...

Got up early for the mass and funeral. Drove out to St. Michael's (the church I went to when I went to church - the saint I was named for) and parked in the funeral precession line a few cars from the front. Mandy and her Sean (Shaun?) were there and so was Josh Martin. I hadn't seen him in awhile and it was really sweet of him to come out for this ( Read more... )

I didn't go into work today. I instead spent the majority of the day at Pop-Pop's viewing at the funeral home. I talked to family and friends and everyone who came to pay their respects and shared stories. It was nice to see just how many people cared about my grandfather. Grandma was really upset because she felt that they did a poor job... ( Read more... )

I left work after two hours there. My boss gave me a few days off to go be with my family. I went to my dad's and then to my grandmother's. It felt a lot more real actually being there and everyone was pretty upset, but were taking it about as well as could be expected. There were enough people there that everyone could kind of take turns being ( Read more... )

My Grandpa O'Neill died at 4:00 AM.