Ouch!

I used to lock myself out more than I do now. I got really skilled at unscrewing a doorframe enough to open the door with a credit card. My current house does not have that type of door ( I think it is more common with inner apartment doors. Luckily my neighbor is always home, and I just don't lock my inner door.

Finally put my bike back up on the stand and did a tiny bit of maintenance. I do not have the chain lubricant I thought I did, so it'll probably stay up on the stand until I get some, but just sitting around not being touched for a long time appears not to have hurt it much. Yay.

So the funeral is tomorrow, which was sooner than I thought so I stayed in Clintonville after getting here Friday.

I'm one of the pall bearers. There's a 50% chance of thunderstorms during and after the funeral, but if it rains there'll be a canopy at the grave site. My dress shoes have almost no traction on smooth wet surfaces, but I don't think there'll be smooth surfaces after we leave the church so I should be ok.

I couldn't find my dress pants before I left so yesterday I drove to Green Bay to pick some up. My younger brother and I are not wearing jackets or ties but my dad hated ties so we're good.

I'm doing ok. I took a nap this afternoon and I might have slept too much.

Here's a Flickr album of dad pics I made--we're gonna have it as a slideshow in church before and after the service: [link]

Here's his obit: [link]

Sounds like things are well in hand, tommyrot. That's a great bunch of pictures.

That's a great bunch of pictures.

Thanks! Most of them I scanned from old family photographs.

I can be a perfectionist about some things, so when I see some of those photos I think how I could make them look better with Lightroom (Adobe's image processing software).

My nephew and I are the computer geniuses in the family. We were gonna set up a slideshow on one of our MacBook pros or his old Windows laptop, but Flickr had a slideshow functionality built in so we're gonna have the church computer do the Flickr slideshow and project them on the big display screens in the church.

I was a pallbearer for my grandfather, and it was really great. It felt like an important part of the ceremony and a last act of service to him.

Ohhhh -t, I'm sure there is stuff I'd want, but I'm still figuring out what I want in general - so no clue what names are.

I had great plans of popping a cake in the oven so I could mess with it tomorrow but my face hurts so much, I just don't have the concentration to think beyond my nose.

Poor face of Suzi. I hope the Lyrica works its magic sooner than you expect.

If you come up with a wishlist by December, we have another sale then. Just so you know.

I was gonna say that I haven't been to a funeral that had pallbearers, but that isn't true, my dad was a pallbearer for my uncle, along with his cousins. And that was nice, gave them all a purpose to accomplish together as part of the ceremony.

I am helpless when confronted with solar powered LED stake lights on clearance for a buck. I already had over a dozen, and just bought 4 more. AND I've realized this style would make awesome fake candles for my neighbor's candle thingy on the fence ( already gave her some for her plants.)So I'm going to get on that. Already have plans for these.