It's weird...those things outta nowhere...

[cgronlund]

Yesterday when I got home, there was a very nice note on my desk from my wife accompanying the way-cool green scarf she made for me that matches my autumn/winter coat perfectly (I say autumn/winter coat because, in this part of Texas, there's really not a winter...it's like a long, dead autumn

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[udmguitarist]

Obituaries rarely have the space to do the average person justice. The whole concept is strange -- trying to condense a life into a paragraph. Still, putting down just the name and dates is pretty grim 'n remote... so the attempt is made, but always falls short. Just one of the many reasons obituaries are a drag....

Grim words indeed...

[cgronlund]

That's why, when I'm super old and finally die, I want my obituary to read:

"Ha! You are all fortunate that Christopher Peter Gronlund (1969 - 2073) died before completing work on his death ray!

Christopher hated Shriners and clowns, and once drank Sea Monkeys or $15.

He's survived by a trained chimpanzee named Xerxes who's finishing work on the death ray as you read these very words..."

Chaos after the fact

[mfelps]

I think I wrote dad's obituary. It's hard to remember, because everything that happened for the next few days is an awful blur that I'm not that interested in thinking about. I remember starting to write it, but I can't remember if I ever got it finished. I was too busy gripping reality with my pinky toes and trying to hold on.

Re: Chaos after the fact

[woolgazer]

You did write it. You wrote it on my Handspring and until it blew up I still had it. The newspaper completely ignored the careful arrangement in the order of names that you included, instead deciding to do it the way they wanted. I don't think I could ever write one.

Re: Chaos after the fact

[cgronlund]

Yeah, everything was so crazy after my sister died. With my Dad, it wasn't easy, but for so many years, he was a voice on a phone if I called him, and the guy I'd spend time with each summer. I guess in wats that made it worse, but overall, there was that bit of separation over the years that made it easier to stomach.

I regret that he never knew Cynthia, and things like that, but I didn't live with him until early adulthood like you did with your dad.

Re: Chaos after the fact

[udmguitarist]

Yah, you wrote it, and I had totally forgotten that... as well as the fact that the paper fucked it up, although that part doesn't surprise me at all. Although now I don't remember actually reading it or what it said.... ;o