Kevin's Watch

Guess nobody is feeling anything much.

--A

I'm feeling exhausted. I'd like to stop being an essential person for a week or so. My department is down to three people, including myself. My boss is physically incapable of doing my job. The other guy has limited availability because he has kids. I'm tired.

Haven't seen you around much Sorus, it's nice to 'see' you

I guess I'm feeling a bit upset, and a bit numb. A work colleague died suddenly and unexpectedly over the weekend at age 46, leaving behind 3 teenagers. Just in time for Christmas. She has a husband who is not well - how fucked up is that? Meanwhile, we're ploughing on, trying to get a whole bunch of stuff done when it's the last thing we feel like.

oh hugs to you StevieG that’s awful right before the holidays ... which will live on as a sad time in his loved ones lives

You should organise a big piss up wake for your colleague ... to ease their passage from your lives to Valhalla in hearty memory

I never fully appreciated the therapeutic value of the Irish wake till I lost my best friend to a hit and run ... a sudden and unexpected event. He was Irish and his family held his funeral at the local Irish church and a wake in their home. To my horror the guy who hit their son with his vehicle, then fled the scene was there - invited by the family. The ethos was truly quite amazing. I felt little but loathing for the person responsible (drunk) for depriving me of my best mate in all the world. But hearts were softened, lightened and heartily boosted by the sharing of memories, funny shit we all did together and it was truly healing.

The family embraced their sons killer - the most compassionate expression to me then imaginable. But he had a terrible burden to bear - that guilt imposes on a soul.

We laughed, danced and celebrated our lost friend, brother, son, nephew and grandson.

Sorry to hear Stevie.

Hard news for the family there StevieG. Always seems somehow worse when it happens at "memorable" times of year.

Skyweir wrote: I never fully appreciated the therapeutic value of the Irish wake...

Oh, it's about the only funeral tradition my family observes. We don't have funeral services or burials or any of that...just a party.

Well, hope everybody is as well as can be expected. Pretty much feels like just another day really though. At least it's not blazing hot.

--A

StevieG wrote:Haven't seen you around much Sorus, it's nice to 'see' you

I guess I'm feeling a bit upset, and a bit numb. A work colleague died suddenly and unexpectedly over the weekend at age 46, leaving behind 3 teenagers. Just in time for Christmas. She has a husband who is not well - how fucked up is that? Meanwhile, we're ploughing on, trying to get a whole bunch of stuff done when it's the last thing we feel like.

It is indeed nice to see Sorus posting once more!


I'm sorry for your loss, StevieG, especially considering it's a family already in trouble. Wishing peace, comfort, strength, and good fortune for them from here on out!

Feel fine today, a bit lazy. Did a massive shop yesterday, hopefully will hold us for a while. Lockdown restrictions tightened in response to our second wave of infections, right in the middle of the festive season too, people are going to be upset.

Ban on alcohol sales re-instated as part of that, (over New Years? People are going to be really upset), luckily I'm not a big drinker.

--A

Rabbit
Rabbit
Rabbit
Starting the year off right...

Happy New Year!

Happy 2021 to all!

Stag and I have had a couple of weeks off, and spent most of it realizing how completely exhausted we still are. I worked hard at my new hobby: napping. We both had colds, or maybe COVID-19 mildly, but getting a test here is such a fiasco it's not worth the effort. So we've self-isolated a lot and spent a lot of time talking about stuff. Which is always good for us.

There has been some interest from buyers for our house. It wasn't even on the market, but a lawyer friend knows some people with money who might like a really nice place in Jos. We hadn't expected things to happen so quickly, but at our age it seems like that's true for everything, so... we'll see where it leads. We had planned on staying here for a few more years, but the cost and time to maintain a large house, plus the fact it anchors us here and we aren't sure we will be able to stay more than a year or two (if the school where we teach doesn't up its enrollment) and selling it would free us.

The sad part would be that we would be living in campus housing, and would have to find homes for our 2 dogs, both of whom are lovely individuals, kind, fun, and silly. The cat and parrot could come, at least. But I'm trying not to think of that.

We're definitely not getting out enough, which is why I can rattle on endlessly like this.

School will reopen fully online in a few more days. Woohoo. I thought I had de-stressed my life enough to sustain, but it turns out that I'm really good at plugging away stubbornly and overworking myself. I'm the new principal, and my school was the only one to have both a Christmas fundraiser and a Christmas concert (virtual, which I wrote and produced). Ok, I've proven that I can kill this job, now I need to relax a bit and stop overachieving. I'll be 59 next month, for crying out loud!

5 months until school is out and we can travel and see Fawn of the Dawn, Buck of the Dawn, and his new wife Doe of the Dawn. If the Lord is willing, and the creeks don't rise.

Congratulations on all your achievements at the school and on getting better, deer of the dawn, and Happy New Year to you!

Avatar wrote:Feel fine today, a bit lazy. Did a massive shop yesterday, hopefully will hold us for a while. Lockdown restrictions tightened in response to our second wave of infections, right in the middle of the festive season too, people are going to be upset.

Ban on alcohol sales re-instated as part of that, (over New Years? People are going to be really upset), luckily I'm not a big drinker.

--A

Talk about bad timing!

Menolly wrote:Rabbit
Rabbit
Rabbit
Starting the year off right...

Happy New Year!

Hopefully, saying that third "Rabbit" doesn't reverse all the good luck!

Well, back at work next week. Meh.

--A

Well, back at work. Nobody felt anything for a week? Lazy buggers.

--A

Cord Hurn wrote:

Avatar wrote:Feel fine today, a bit lazy. Did a massive shop yesterday, hopefully will hold us for a while. Lockdown restrictions tightened in response to our second wave of infections, right in the middle of the festive season too, people are going to be upset.

Ban on alcohol sales re-instated as part of that, (over New Years? People are going to be really upset), luckily I'm not a big drinker.

--A

Talk about bad timing!

Maybe it was good timing, considering Avatar has reported hospital admissions were down for New Year's Eve.

Avatar wrote:Well, back at work. Nobody felt anything for a week? Lazy buggers.

--A

I feel restless, and ready to go out for a hike in the desert somewhere. Hope that counts for something.

It counts if you post about it.

And yeah, unprecedented drop in trauma cases on New Years thanks to curfew and alcohol ban.

I'm actually loving it.

--A

At surgery center. Julie has kidney stones.

If the kidney is infected, no surgery. Antibiotics. Surgery in a month or so.

Will update.

Hope it turns out well Sarge.

--A