Life After Windbird, Day 74: Taking Care of Business
Date: Tuesday, October 25, 2016
Weather: Partly Sunny, Cool and Windy; High 52, Low 35 degrees F
Location: At Home at the Studio, Falmouth, MA
I keep trying to take care of business, but somehow the ‘business’ keeps increasing. So I keep working harder. I’m sure I am making progress, but it just doesn’t seem that way in the moment. And the computer issues I’m having don’t help. I will spend tomorrow transferring all documents from the computer that cannot receive email to the computer that is working properly. Then I will get the computer shop to totally clean up the older computer, taking off everything, and rebuilding from scratch. I have no idea if that is the right thing to do, but it is all I know to do. If it still doesn’t work properly after that, I will send it to the land of dead computers, along with three other old computers that are still hanging around.
I started my day with a walk with a three mile walk with friend Olivia White. Olivia led the memorial service for Mark when we sent his ashes out to sea, and soon after, she left for Europe for a Viking River Cruise. It is great to have her back and we enjoyed the sunny but cool morning as we walked from her house down to the beach and back.
In the early afternoon, I had an appointment with my newly acquired lawyer to pick-up copies of a new will and all of the other legal documents that go along with a will. I then did some grocery shopping, headed home to do some cooking, and drove to Heather and Jed’s to pick up the non-working computer that I left with them last Saturday. This gave me an opportunity to see the boys briefly and talk with Heather and Jed. I then headed home to fix dinner. I was almost home when I got a call from Ed and Lynne Kirwin. I know you are not supposed to answer a cell phone while driving, but since I was almost in the drive-way, I answered. I had received about three text messages from them in the afternoon that were written in Chinese. They sent those same texts to other people who received them in English. All I can hope is that my phone is not going crazy like my computer. But the news I finally received in English was so fantastic. Ed got the results of his latest CT scan today and his cancer is totally stable—no new growth. I definitely did a happy dance after hearing that news. I am so happy for Ed and Lynne.
