Just spent most of last night and this morning in the hospital. Not for me, but my 97-year-old mom. She had a case of aphasia, and while she showed no other symptoms of a stroke, it is sometimes an indicator. So, EMT, hospital, battery of tests (including CT and MRI), and now she is home with no signs of it ever happening. Turns out, hypoglycemia is sometimes a cause, and she hadn't eaten all day. Thanks for scaring us, mom.

 

We had to have a live-in caretaker for my mom when she was 95, to make sure she ate and otherwise was taken care of. It was crazy expensive - hope you don’t have to go that way.

 

My mom would never stand for it. She's as stubborn as she is tough.

 

Roger,

I'm glad she's ok. The pain of older parents is real. I love you, brother. Hang in.






I love your inkpen.

 

Mom passed on last night. She had not left our house for about 2 years. Was fairly strong, and good sense of humor (despite little short term memory) until the last 5 weeks. Then downward quickly.

 

My condolences.

 

Sorry to hear. I hope she went easy.

 

I'm sorry for your loss, brother.

 

Sorry to hear about that. Hopefully she was able to go peacefully.

Let me know if you need anything. I am just down the road a bit.

 

Those two look like teenage girls posing for a "Duck Lips" selfie!

Magnificent photo.

 

Thanks, Lars. All her children were here. That was nice.

Feeling a bit melancholy last couple of days. My sister is here helping go through an enormous amount of memorabilia and pictures.

I think I have the support I need. But, of course, it can be hard to tell.

DNM

 

My sympathies to you, it is a hard row to hoe, and all the preceding rationalisations and preparing for the inevitable mean **** when it happens (did for me anyway). Give yourself time and space to grieve your way. Some like to get busy, others take time - losing a parent is a big deal no matter the circs or history. When her mother died, my daughter just couldn't part with the house, so her two brothers waited a couple of years until she was ready (the mother and I were long divorced).

 

In 1908, New York City's 120,000 horses produced 60,000 gallons of urine and 2.5 million pounds of manure every day. *

*Mike Wallace, Greater Gotham: A History of New York City from 1898 to 1919 (Oxford University Press, 2017), p. 245

 

well. That's the town where I grew up. Evacuated and most likely never lived in again.

 

God damn... That is insane.

 

yep. I moved away a few years ago. But both Dóri (my buddy that came with me to meet Sixshooter and Miatat2fast in Florida) and I lived in the first few houses closest to the lava flow. Dóri still lived there and had to leave his home behind. Still kinda surreal.

 

Sorry about your hometown. That's terrible.

 

I grew up in western Florida, USA, in the 1970s / 80s. Port Charlotte and Punta Gorda were the two cities, specifically. Which means that every school I attended, and every house I lived in as a child, have all been destroyed by the hurricanes which took place in the early 2000s.


So I sort of have a feeling of solidarity in this situation, with you specifically.


And that is why I say this: God damn, dude. This is brutal.



They were all rebuilt afterwards,

It was never the same. All modern, no respect for the tradition of the past.

 

Thanks man, housing situation was already kinda nuts. now ~3400 persons need homes and some people simply see desperate people and see easy money.

Yeah. We always see the storms in the US and wonder why people rebuild in the same location where storms are known to roll through. Let's just say that I get it now.


See the building to the left of the lava flow? like RIGHT next to it? I'm going there to 3d scan the factory next week.

 

in more uplifting news. I'M A DAD!