So this is my first Christmas without Colleen. I've already gotten ( Read more... )

Today is Mother's Day, and it's the first without my usual call to Mom.
...and Colleen has been in hospitals (three so far) and rehab for the last forty days. I've had better Mother's Days.

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Rabbit, rabbit, rabbit. Hippo, Gnu, Deer. Or something like that. It's time for the last dregs eight days of 2017 to finally show up. And year we are.
The week opened with an actual white Christmas, which was kind of amazing. Colleen had never had one, though we've had snow close to ( Read more... )

I'm not sure how I managed it, but I seem to have coped with this week noticably better than the week before. Whatever it is, I'd like some more, please.
High point of the week was last night's concert, the release party for Betsy Tinney's Wyverns in the Winery. Cello awesomeness ( Read more... )

I'm taking a "vacation" -- actually a staycation with enough housework and ( Read more... )

Unless the sound of silent thoughts carries up the Rainbow Bridge, I won't be saying "Happy Fathers' Day" to my Dad. He died a little over 17 years ago. He got me interested in computers, over 50 years ago -- I miss him every time I think "I'd love to call Dad and tell him about..."

Science fiction, and folk music -- he would have ( Read more... )

It's been a pretty good week. Feels like a vacation, since it included a ( Read more... )

It's been a nice, relaxing week - I took Friday off as well as Thursday. Won't be able to do that again for a long while, sadly.

Glenn made roast beef and proper Yorkshire pudding for dinner on ( Read more... )

On the health front, I may finally be learning to relax the ( Read more... )

This was the sixteenth Father's Day without my Dad. I miss him a lot.

It was also the sixteenth Mother's Day without Colleen's mom, whose birthday was yesterday.

And our old house in San Jose is on the market.

On the whole it's been a good weekend for nostalgia, but I'm not in the ( Read more... )