Today is mia_mcdavid‘s and my 30th wedding anniversary. 30 years, and now better than ever!
Thirty Years!
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Off to Convergence
…. the biggest local science-fiction convention. mia_mcdavid and our son J are already there. It is the tenth anniversary for this con, so they are extending it for an extra day. Hence we will be returning home on Sunday. The holiday helps.
Played Hooky….
I skipped Irish class last night to stay home with mia_mcdavid. We had a good evening together.
A good birthday
Yesterday, May 14, was my birthday, when I turned 30 (if you count in base 19). It was a good time–one of my best birthdays. I am very gratified by the good wishes I got from all of my family and friends.
Last Man Standing
As mia_mcdavid wrote last night, she is home sick today. I got up this morning to find a note from our son J in the kitchen table. He is also unwell, and is staying home today. People I know from work, church, and colgaffneyis are also under the weather.
However, I am feeling OK, if a bit tired (perhaps more on that later), and am on my way to the office.
Dialects
My weekend here
mia_mcdavid is in Michigan for the weekend and the first couple days of next week. Her aunt died after a long struggle with Alzheimer’s. She has posted about it, most recently here.
I cleaned off my workbench this morning, and am trying to make some progress on at least some of my unfinished projects. Quite a list
Updates on Tom
From mia_mcdavid:
- Today (Feb. 15)
- The thing about beating your head against the wall… (Feb. 16)
Preoccupied
Thomas, our younger son, has been hospitalized. Mia has been writing about this:
- Worried about Tom (Feb. 11).
- Tom update (Feb. 13).
- Today with Tom (Feb. 13).
Also, my mother is in the hospital. Her hip popped out on Sunday. That was quickly fixed, but she was kept in the hospital because of congestive heart failure. It sounded like another episode of the trouble that caused me to make an emergency trip to see her back in September. I called her at the hospital. The reality is not quite so alarming: The congestive heart failure is the same issue as last year. At age 82 it doesn’t really go away. She was actually in good spirits, in a hospital room with a great view of the Rockies.
On a totally different front, I have to work on Sunday, thereby missing the second day of colgaffneyis at the St. Paul Scottish Ramble. I have two big system implementation projects to complete. These are the sort of thing that can only be done outside of business hours, and require extensive coordination with my co-workers. So scheduling is always hard, and compromises have to be made.
From Hilbert Space to Dilbert Space, and beyond 