I slept pretty soundly since it was real late for me. I’m in Florida. Still no room available so still in ER. High season here so lots of overcrowding everywhere including hospitals. The straight back wooden chair sucks but better than a kidney stone. Morphine has her pretty out of it at least.

Feel so bad since her grandson and great granddaughter arrive tomorrow. At least maybe he’ll get a clue that she can’t travel and he should more often.

Bengals!! I was having my annual SB party, but I just told Judi we were watching the game even if on hospital. She doesn’t do football. All the nurses have their favorite team t-shirts on. Our nurses are Green Bay and Oakland.

Very excited for you, Zmayhems!!!

Hope your sister's surgery happens soon, Laura. She's lucky to have you there with her.

This radical change in temperature and, I think, affects of sitting by a firepit all evening are making my face hurt. I need a warm compress.

My uncle D passed away from Covid today. He leaves a wife of, 3 daughters, and 3 grandkids. He was a stern man when I was younger, and I was always really intimidated by him, but in his later years he really got into gourmet cooking and I was able to have conversations with him about that and about books.

I’m so very sorry for your loss, sj.

I'm sorry for your and your family's loss, sj.

My condolences, sj.

Fingers crossed all goes smoothly at the hospital, Laura.

Like a crazy person I went to Kroger this morning to pick up a few groceries. If I hadn't been at the end of my soda supply I'd have waited until tomorrow, but at least now I have drinks, chips, avocados, and cat food. It was as one would expect, including traffic snarls, people racing in the exit doors against the flow of outgoing shoppers, and witnessing a near fight in the parking lot over someone abandoning a cart at the edge of the pedestrian crosswalk.

I'm sorry for your loss, sj.

I am out of eggs, but I can get them at the tiny Vietnamese grocery around the corner, which will not be mobbed on this or any other day.

I got a last-minute invite from some old work friends to go to lunch in Healdsburg yesterday, so I went. My back didn't love over three hours in the car, but it was great to catch up with some people I haven't seen in a long time, and then I got to see my old boss's house, which is ... just too much.

For those who know the Bay, it's on top of a hill above Dry Creek Valley outside of Healdsburg, and it started small but then they doubled the size: it's all red tiled floors and hammered copper sinks and imported antique lighting fixtures, barrel vaulted hallways, Persian rugs and leather couches. It's completely over the top but they're so happy with it. And they invited me to stay sometime, but they're also completely committed to parenting their cats so that's a non-starter for me.

Still it was lovely to see them and learn that there is no way I'm ever living there: next week they're having a prescribed burn on the property, and the 2020 fires came 1500 feet away from the house. Not to mention the 20 minute drive to get milk or eggs...

Timelies all!

I'm sorry for your loss, sj.

I'm so sorry for you loss sj.