The last post I made was February 14, 2022 in the afternoon. Later that evening my sister called to update me on my dad. She called back in what seemed like just minutes later to let me know we had lost him.

I didn’t cancel my Ortho appointment for the next day since all the planning and arrangements were still being figured out. I love my Ortho, he cares about the whole person. He knows the Quantico National Cemetery very well and understood what I would be going through. We agreed to immobilize my shoulder to protect it, gave me something to help me sleep and told me just to call the back office when I was ready to schedule the surgery.

Circumstances were such that my daughter who lives in the area made the trip with me. I’m still surprised at how much I like the long drives. Even with the bum shoulder I did all the driving. It was a trip that I wish I had had more time for, that we didn’t have to turn around and head back almost right away.

In the midst of it all, I was asked to give the eulogy for my dad. Why? I never asked. The service was nice. Quantico is beautiful.

When I got back, I had the rotator cuff repaired. It was a longer recovery than I wanted but I’m just now finally pain free.

For the first time since 2004, I didn’t go to San Diego for the conference. The funding wasn’t there for the hotel and I couldn’t cover that cost. I supposedly have a airline credit for the COVID related cancellation. I don’t know, I didn’t check. It all seemed like a thinning of the herd.

Que sera, sera.

Life has been turned on it’s ear since October of 2021. Part of me wants to share the events but part of me feels like “is anybody listening?” The other part is starting to dislike the direction the internet has taken.

I get to go see my favorite orthopedic surgeon. Hopefully we can figure out when to get the tears in my rotator cuff repaired with all the upcoming twists and turns I need to hang on for.

I’m still here…

Just stopped by to run the much overdue updates on my sadly neglected blog. The world is still somewhat sideways for me but I will survive.

Update to the last post, after a software update to my car I now have Apple CarPlay. I’ve been using Siri to read and send text messages. I need to work on my enunciation of words but all in all it does work.

Thanks for stopping by…

I kid that my superpower is the ability to clean up toilets that haven’t been flushed in months but were continually used or scraping off layers of rat droppings, maggots, mold, and who knows what else might be embedded in layers of grease.  I really don’t know where I developed the stomach to clean up this “stuff” but I can.

In reality, my superpower is patience, with the ability to have to repeat what I had already explained three times before; to place myself in the middle of a situation that no one else has the temperament or knowledge to handle with the willingness to spend hours researching a particular situation and trying to find a suitable resolution. I kid that this is how I’m earning time off from the Purgatory bench.   

On a side note, I need to get Siri directly hooked up to my car so I can dictate notes during these long six-hour drives. I can only listen to The Beatles channel for so long and headline news can be downright depressing. It may be a little while before I have to worry about it though as we are heading into another limbo period.