Wash ,'War Stories'
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It's never good when you get a phone that starts out with, "I just want you to know dad's okay." My father had surgery this afternoon. He's fine, but it turns out my cousin was admitted to the hospital with pneumonia, went into cardiac arrest last night, and is now brain dead. My aunt and uncle have to decide whether to take her off life support.
I may be more scarce than usual for the next while.
My dad had a heart attack today. He's in intensive care. I don't know anything else yet. Healthma please.
Eta: He's had a stent placed, though they don't think it's working. He's currently resting and his doctors will be re-evaluating tomorrow morning.
My cousin passed away this evening.
Shrift, I'm so sorry for your loss.
Dad's stent is working fine this morning. Sometime this afternoon they're going to move him to a regular room, and if all is well tomorrow, they're going to send him home in the morning.
Thank you all for the ~ma. I do believe it helped. I know it helped me.
I've accepted a new position. Thanks for the be-calm~ma as well as the anonymous job~ma Suela requested for me. May the ~ma do the next Buffista as much good as it did me.
I hope Betsy's wish comes true, because I just got laid off.
Yes, two weeks after I was all, "For the first time, I made it to a year in a job without wanting to quit."
The Gods have a sense of humor, and whatever jobma you can spare me should go D.C.-wards.
Thanks.
If any Buffistas who happen to be Java programmers are looking for a job in the San Francisco or Kansas City area, let me know (profile addy) and I can hook you up with an opening. Got one for a software QA person, but that's just KC.
I just accepted a position at a school in my neighborhood. I'll be their office assistant and help out with supervising the kids as needed. It's a residential school for high schoolers with behavior problems.
I am thrilled.
Selected random photos from my trip to meet Andi (Windsparrow) in Arizona almost one month ago.
Some high, some medium pics, some are Andi's, some are mine. I had to tweak them as both of us had camera problems.
More captions later.
I tried to reply to an E-mail about the jobs, but got blocked by an anti-spam thingy. So if someone was expecting a reply from me and didn't get one, that's the reason.