Irregular blogging

Well, I haven’t updated this in far too long. What’s new?

I made that trip to Memphis that I talked about in my previous post. My uncle looked like he had aged 15 years. Quite frankly, I don’t expect him to last through the summer. Sigh. I think this is the first family death I’ll experience that isn’t due to old age. This is a man in his fifties, a retired firefighter with two grown sons and several infant grandchildren he adores. He would make a shirt just so he could give you the shirt off his back. Life isn’t fair, and death doesn’t look much better. :-/

Work is overwhelming at the moment. This project I’ve been working on still isn’t done, so I’m entering the second month of working too many hours, working weekends, and generally being exhausted. It’s going to end soon, at which point I hope to collapse.

I’m going to take additional sailing classes this summer, continuing the same program I started last summer. It all starts on 7/22, not a moment too soon. I’m repeating the “Intermediate Sailing” class, which is still in the 14-foot dinghies with a mainsail and a foresail. After that there’s two weeks of “Beginning Keelboats”, which moves up to the 34-foot sailboats. Should be fun. The only downer is the timing. My project at work should be wrapping up just as the class begins. So, just when I’d like to leave town (and work) on vacation, I need to hang around for a month of classes. Still, I don’t suppose one can complain about having to hang around for sailing.