My condolences, flea.

My mother is upset, of course, but she's also relieved that he's not going to "spoil your brother's wedding."

Ah, family. I'm sorry for your loss regardless.

Condolences for your family, flea. The not so nice relatives we lose are still losses.

The same purple dress she wore to my wedding

This pleases me.

Condolences, flea.

Altitude most definitely does affect the egg boiling question because water boils at a significantly lower temperature based on elevation. That said, the method should be fine, it may just be a matter of adjusting the cooking time. It's a much bigger issue with baking and with things like canning where water temperature becomes a food safety issue.

Did I post about when I went to see him in July? He barely ate (and didn't drink, very unlike him) but remained exactly himself - we worked hard to get Netflix streaming set up on the TV (he knew exactly what to do but was in a wheelchair so I had to do all the fumbling around behind the TV and button-pushing) so he could watch Breaking Bad, which *thrilled* him.

He's also the grandfather who used to have a Porsche with the license plate HUBRIS.

At his second wife's funeral in 1994 I met this man who had kind of a stoner vibe and I said afterwards to my mother, "Who the heck was that?" and she was like, "Oh, he was their drug dealer. They used to keep the cocaine in tinfoil packets in the freezer to preserve quality."

(He was also a naval academy graduate, nuclear engineer, retired Rear Admiral, and worked for the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, lest you think he was all fast cars and intoxicants. And VERY handsome when young. And an early adopter of all kinds of technology - he built a TV in the early 1950s and had the first Atari I ever saw.)

He sounds kind of fantastic.

Per the Food Lab hardboiled eggs recipe: "If you live at a high altitude, a thermometer is essential" with no further high altitude instruction but I am guessing the idea is to maintain the 190 degree simmer. For soft-boiled eggs he recommends maintaining the boil for a few minutes rather than immediately removing the pot from heat when you add the eggs, so maybe do that for hard-boiled as well and just leave in the hot water for longer.

Fascinating, flea! Does not sound easy to be related to.

He could be [fantastic]. He was a crap father, however, and had a mean streak.

I believe that! Definitely better from afar.