anacronyms

The whole family went back to the Vancouver area on Wednesday. Chris took the kids and headed out in the morning, while I hung around Penticton to start on estate stuff. My mother’s will has to go to probate, so I have to talk to a lawyer, and he couldn’t see me till today, so [...]

Joan M. Cochrane (Robinson)
June 21, 1931 – July 27, 2009

Amid all this talk of death, some radiant, luxuriant life.
NSFW.

The hospice doctor was in. She said she thought there is less than 24 hours to go.
Hell if I know… all I can do is wait. I got a call from the hospice after I’d returned last night telling me that they thought she had taken a turn for the worse (or better, if you’re [...]

My mother is in Moog and Friends Hospice, in Penticton, BC. She has, at this point, been there 8 days.
We didn’t expect her to last this long, but she rallied. However, the last 48 hours have seen a sharp slide in her condition, her conversation, when present, being more limited and shorter. She drifts off [...]

I’m sitting in a darkened motel room beside my beloved. She’s drifting in and out of sleep. Every so often I reach over and run my hand down her back: she loves this touch.
My mother lingers. She has moved from an acute care bed to a palliative care unit. She sometimes knows her grandchildren, more [...]

My mother has been ill for a long time. She has a little-known disease called Inclusion Body Myositis, a form of muscular dystrophy. It has progressed steadily over the last 15 years, and she is now nearly completely disabled.
She has been falling periodically for the last two years. She fell about a month ago, was [...]

People look at you with suspicion when you read at work. It’s like it’s recreation or something. Never mind that it’s a 5″ thick book with an ominous title (SQL Server 2008 Internals), somehow sitting and reading isn’t actually working.
I find this odd in my business, where our brains and our knowledge translate directly into [...]

You can get some deals if you shop around in the cheap DVD bins at places like Sprawlmart.
I remember the trailers for Gone in 60 Seconds. The original, not the remake. It looked like a cheaply made, badly acted film. When I spotted it in the $5 bin at Sprawlmart, I had to buy it.
Guess [...]

Some photos from my folks’ cabin*.
There has been an outbreak of hummingbirds – there are at least a dozen (the little suckers are hard to count, being somewhat averse to holding still) zooming about the cabin from sunrise to sunset.

And there were some small, apelike creatures, also averse to holding still:

And a goldfinch, who had [...]