the good, the bad, and the humid
First the bad. I just spent the last five days on a surprise visit to Michigan. The occasion was the death of my Grandma in Norway, MI. The circumstances surrounding her death are also marked by good points and bad points. The bad points being first and foremost that it is very hard to loose a grandmother/mother/wife of 60 years/resident of a small UP town for 77 years, so there was much grieving. It is especially hard when the family has to decide to pull the plug. It is even harder when the husband of the departed has spent the last 14 years dedicated to nothing but the care of the departed and now finds himself alone in a house that he has always shared, with the things that he used to do for himself a distant memory. Good luck grandpa. The better points being that 14 years ago my grandma had a aneurysm of the heart that required the temporary removal of several vital organs and the infusion of blood that was the wrong type just so she could live long enough so that her loved ones could say goodbye. Well, we got 14 extra years that despite obvious health complications left my grandma with a clear and happy mind until just a few weeks ago. Also, within the last few years relations between my dad and his brothers had been deteriorating to the point that they were not on speaking terms. The death of my grandmother has, at least temporarily, restored there relationship to the one i remember on happier trips to the UP of yore.
The good news being that Eva got a job in the marketing/readership department of Tucson Newspapers who publish the Arizona Daily Star and the Tucson Citizen. The job is salaried with full benefits and will solve a lot of monetary dilemmas that could have escalated to mammoth proportions very quickly. One part of her job is to do things like write radio spots for Tucson Classifieds, and we had fun coming up with the mock adds she had to submit as part of the interview. So come to Tucson, dinner is on Eva, who now wears the pants in the house.
3 more busy weeks in the bay area then back to Michigan on teh 13th for a bit of Ledge climbing and relaxing.
The good news being that Eva got a job in the marketing/readership department of Tucson Newspapers who publish the Arizona Daily Star and the Tucson Citizen. The job is salaried with full benefits and will solve a lot of monetary dilemmas that could have escalated to mammoth proportions very quickly. One part of her job is to do things like write radio spots for Tucson Classifieds, and we had fun coming up with the mock adds she had to submit as part of the interview. So come to Tucson, dinner is on Eva, who now wears the pants in the house.
3 more busy weeks in the bay area then back to Michigan on teh 13th for a bit of Ledge climbing and relaxing.