Condolences to Liese and lisah.

And sending vibes to Pix, hope it's easily dealt with, whatever it is. Hate bugs.

As for dealing with death, I had a student last year who was a novitiate in a Zen monastery and from what she says, the Zen Buddhists seem to have a good bead on death as simply a part of life and not to be mourned. She spoke of one monk laughing through his final breaths. I've watched a lot of loved ones go, and that seems like a pretty magical way to die.

Oh, my, god.

Why can't people answer the question I asked. "Do we need to X?" "We can X..." Dude, no. Do we need to? Does it solve any problems? Are we at a standstill without it?

"Do we have a subject matter expert in Y? Can you tell me who it is?" "I don't think we need one for what I'm working on." Great, that's really exciting, but it has nothing to do with my actual question, though.

Hah. Only java and P-C will likely get this, but I am being driven crazy by German data managers who FAIL COMPLETELY to get the concept of "resolved with sequelae". They were like "Well, but it resolved! If there's some other issue, you should make a new adverse event! And by the way you can't have a stop date. Or say that one of the criteria is that there's a permanent disability or incapacity". And I"m like "Then what the hell is the POINT of having resolve with sequelae as an option? Do you people need a dictionary?!"

I think it's more like "Your lips are so cold," but my German isn't very good, Amy.

Deine Lippen so kalt

"Your Lips so Cold." Kind of a nice title, really.

Oh shit. I forgot I have to stay with my dad tomorrow night. Not sure I can textually express how much I would have wanted a few more nights in my own bed.

That's funny. Is there no German word for kiss?

There is; it's "kuss." Not sure why they didn't just go with "Kalt Kuss," maybe it sound bad to someone with better German than mine.

Yikes, Pix! I hope it's not bedbugs.

lisah, that's awful.

Liese, so sorry.

I am so sorry ,Liese and lisah and Scrappy