So, this is the bad part - the thing that I was very worried about actually happened. My dad got injured while we were traveling. So we'd decided on a dinner restaurant, but I really wanted to walk by the (close by) laundry place to see if we drop off laundry there and get it …
Continue reading West Coast Road Trip, Day 4, pt. 2: Crunch!
We were now getting into our start-of-day routine. Coffee and cleanup in the room. Then breakfast at the self-serve hotel buffet, $30 a pop! But pretty good. Headed out to Paramount Studios for the tour, which was great. Parked in the visitor's lot (another parking charge), then across the street to a check-in and waiting …
Another morning waking at 315, drowsing until 6. Got up, showered, packed. Dad didn’t want breakfast yet, but we did finally get his laptop up and running. [rant omitted about how he uses too many passwords and forgets them]. He putzed around online while I finished up. Rolled our luggage down the endless carpeted hallway, …
Continue reading West Coast Road Trip, Day 3: Vegas/Los Angeles
Still on EST, we both woke up at 300, but fell back asleep. By the time it was 600, I’d figured out what to do. Went down to the Starbucks in the casino to fetch coffee. By the time I'd gotten back, Dad was dressed and raring to go with the day. I was like, …
After a nice week celebrating both Dad's and Sam's birthdays, and doing some last-minute planning, Monday morning, Dad and I got up, got cleaned up and ready, and Sam drove us to the airport. Hugs and goodbyes, and Dad forgot his cane in Sam's car. (Dad doesn't need a cane, precisely, but he finds it …
Currently at my dad's place down in Durham NC to celebrate both his birthday (90!) and my brother's. Sam's is a week after Dad's, but we'll miss the actual date because Dad and I will have flown off to Vegas by then. So we're taking him out this weekend before we leave. I'd kinda hoped …
Quite a week last week, I must say. Short week because of Thanksgiving. I was only working Monday and Tuesday, although there was a meeting important enough on Wednesday that I attended it (remotely, as we all did). Monday I worked from home, but Tuesday I went to the office for a variety of reasons. …
A weekend after my niece came down to visit, I got a call from Andrea, Charles's uncle's wife (I don't think C ever thought of her as his 'aunt'). Charles's cousin Tony had passed away. A little background on the players here. Charles's mother Anna was the second of two sisters (Grace being the older) …
The mashup you didn't know you needed. No, I saw two community theater productions, one last weekend, one this weekend. Last Sunday, I saw Blue Hill Troupe's fall show, Rodgers+Hammerstein's Cinderella, which, as my buddy Natan wrote in his excellent program essay, is different from the version that's called Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella. What a …
Every time I visit my nieces or spend time with Patti and Peter upstate, or have dinner with Tessa, I'm reminded of how many quality people, who I love dearly, are in my life because of Charles. By the time I'd met Charles, he was an IT office drone just like me, but he'd spent …
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