sunday evening

whew. dad isn’t in the hospital anymore, which is good, because he HATE HATE HATED it there.  he only stayed two nights, but on the day they told him he could leave he was SO READY TO GET THE HELL OUT that if he’d had the strength, he’d have just...

to the hospital on tuesday

dad was admitted to the hospital yesterday; severe breathing problems.  most of my day was spent there, in that chilly, frenetic place. as time went on, the pace slowed down.  by the time we left last night at 10, it was pretty quiet.  still chilly, though, except in...

scotland

yesterday somebody posted a comment on one of my scotland videos.  it was video #4, biking from Callander to Killin.  these are both very small scottish towns, and it rained the first part of the day, but the sun came out in time for the steep climbs up the glen near...

SPLASH!

last night erica, mollie and i went for a boat ride.  we set out about, i don’t know, maybe 8:00, and it was very lovely out there on the water and we all enjoyed ourselves thoroughly.  well, mollie of course would have been happier if we’d brought some...

everything falls apart…

right now i’ve had a little bit of free time to sit in the air-c0nditioning and look at my computer, and i was dismayed to see that my site continues to fall apart.  i haven’t had an RSS feed forever, and now it doesn’t seem that my videos are here,...