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Sunny day reality check
Apr. 11th, 2008 08:19 amIt's a beautiful sunny day in Seattle, with more -- and even warmer -- forecast for tomorrow. Maybe I'll do the first lawn-mowing of the year.
Denys has had three good days in a row. He's taking it easy and staying away from the computer. I got a DECT 6.0 cordless phone with three handsets yesterday, so the phone situation is almost improved. (The handsets are currently charging.) The traumas of Monday are beginning to recede in memory.
Getting semi-slammed at work, with a flood of departments wanting addresses for their graduating seniors so they can send out invitations for commencement celebrations. Another sign of spring.
Word from Mom is that they're both doing well down in Sky Valley. Dad's Uncle Walt died a couple days ago at age 93 -- the last of the Wideman aunts and uncles. He was a perhaps excessively religious man. When Dad was having heart troubles last winter, Walt called Mom to get an update. After she'd described what was going on, he thanked her, because now he could pray more accurately. Meanwhile, Dad's horseshoe partners in Sky Valley have headed elsewhere, so he's considering getting back to golf again. It's been a while since he's felt up to that, so it's another good sign.
Finally, Australia's Labor PM Kevin Rudd recently made a pretty extraordinary speech in Beijing. In Mandarin. Here's arch-conservative commentator Greg Sheridan's glowing review of the speech in The Australian.
Such is life. The great wheel turns ...
Denys has had three good days in a row. He's taking it easy and staying away from the computer. I got a DECT 6.0 cordless phone with three handsets yesterday, so the phone situation is almost improved. (The handsets are currently charging.) The traumas of Monday are beginning to recede in memory.
Getting semi-slammed at work, with a flood of departments wanting addresses for their graduating seniors so they can send out invitations for commencement celebrations. Another sign of spring.
Word from Mom is that they're both doing well down in Sky Valley. Dad's Uncle Walt died a couple days ago at age 93 -- the last of the Wideman aunts and uncles. He was a perhaps excessively religious man. When Dad was having heart troubles last winter, Walt called Mom to get an update. After she'd described what was going on, he thanked her, because now he could pray more accurately. Meanwhile, Dad's horseshoe partners in Sky Valley have headed elsewhere, so he's considering getting back to golf again. It's been a while since he's felt up to that, so it's another good sign.
Finally, Australia's Labor PM Kevin Rudd recently made a pretty extraordinary speech in Beijing. In Mandarin. Here's arch-conservative commentator Greg Sheridan's glowing review of the speech in The Australian.
Such is life. The great wheel turns ...
