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…With the sound of movers!
Okay, enough with the showtunes already.
I drove down to Richville this morning to meet the movers and pick up the clock. It’s now back in our house, safe and sound, though its chimes don’t seem to be chiming. It goes without saying that, after some initial surprise, Pixel loves […]

Since we took care of all the birthday festivities a week ago, today feels like only a barely merry unbirthday. I am tuckered out from getting in late last night. Tomorrow is going to be a hassle picking up Grandma’s clock (I have to be in Richfield at nine — ugh!). And […]

Spent the morning doing laundry, then ran out to do some errands with Liz. Bought a green shirt to participate in the “wear green and red to the funeral” plan. It’s not my favorite green, but it will do. Rushed back home, let Liz sleep for half an hour, then packed like […]

Well, it sucks being too sick to go to work again. Actually, it doesn’t suck quite as badly as yesterday, since my fever isn’t oscillating quite as extremely.
I spent most of the morning sleeping/vegetating in bed while the cat lay between my knees, pinning me in place. After I could no longer bear […]

It’s been awhile since I’ve posted; I think it’s out of a general, too-damn-cold, listless January malaise.
So, the quick update:
Sunday, the day after the Columbia disaster, my grandfather finally passed away. This came as more of a relief than a surprise, but given its timing — not thirty days after the death of his […]

We are back from Colorado, back from visiting family, back from saying goodbye to my grandmother, the dearest, sweetest, most magical ray of sunshine to have graced all of our lives. In spite of the sad circumstance under which we gathered, despite the sorrow of her departure from this life, the woe of separation, […]

It felt pretty damn weird to be at work this morning, for any number of reasons. Mostly it has to do with being off for three weeks, which is quite honestly just about as long as I can remember. But I’m sure that the fact that 9 AM still feels like 4 AM […]

It was just before sunrise when we docked in Honolulu. We had a nice breakfast with Anne and my parents, with plenty of hugs afterward, since it was the last time that all five of us would be in the same place for the foreseeable future.
We split up and headed back to our cabins […]

We arrived at the port of Nawiliwili, Kauai, at sunrise, and it was glorious. I am really going to miss the sunrises here when I get back to cold, nasty Ohio.
The Star was running about half an hour late, so we had to hurry off of the ship in order to get to our […]

Liz finally broke me today on our downhill bike tour.
Grandma would have wanted us to go out and face our respective days with vigor, so we went ahead with our tours.
The tour bus took us up to the summit of Haleakala, the 10,000 foot tall volcano that dominates Maui. I was squished into the […]