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A few words on my brother's life, death, and why you should have at least one friend or relation

My brother died, and a week later someone noticed. It’s left to my sister and I to go through his [...]

“Terrible news”

Peeves, one of our young cats, died unexpectedly. We’re all shocked and deeply saddened by this, especially my oldest son who was quite close to Peeves. Because I’m still deployed Louise had to deal with it on her own…feeling helpless [...]

Sick day

Not my sick day…my son, Jack’s.  He’s come down with what appears to be the flu…high fever, vomiting, diarrhea.  He didn’t seem so bad this morning but has got progressively worse through the morning.  Louise works on Mondays so we left Jack home alone, which is not as bad as it seems because I work [...]

Patriot Day?

Logging on at work this morning I was greeted with e-mail from my company – a Patriot Day message.  “That’s odd”, I thought, “why am I getting e-mail about a Massachusetts state holiday?”  A quick scan of the e-mail…oh yeah, today’s 9/11.  Well hell, when did this get approved?  And just when is that Massachusetts [...]