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.