things have been wacka wacka at work. not even time to post this from the previous weekend. nor to write anything new. starting to breathe now, but 3 weekends of travel approach. so here's what i wrote on the 26th of april.
another weekend in santa monica.
things are slowing down. there is a lot of sleeping going on. but we did do two walks today. yesterday was really incredibly windy and when we returned from the farmers market (yum yum) we just stayed in. actually watched some basketball and a fabulous baseball game between the Red Sox and Yankees. 16-12 was, i believe, the final score, in favor of the Sox, which was good cuz they were at home. home runs, going through the full line-up between the 7th and 8th innings. more than 4 hours of baseball, and by the looks of the stands, very few people left.
tonight i had my first mongolian taxi driver. perhaps the first mongolian i had ever met. his first name Dash (well there is another syllable) is actually tibetan, he said, because his family and many mongolians became buddhists and incorporated a lot of tibetan words and names. he has two cousins here, but his mother and brothers are still in mongolia. he would like to be able to return home. we talked a bit about the change in political/economic situations after the fall of communism. problem was, there was no infrastructure. he was a mining engineer i think. that is one of the few areas where things could develop. we talked about the difference in weather. he compared mongolia to the colorado rockies, for a more familiar reference. i think i'd like to go to mongolia one day. on the list of places left to visit.
the shampoo i used today is 9 years old. i know the hotel where we got it. outside the cleveland airport, i think, on one of my 6 trips to ohio during 1999-2000. one of the earlier ones. i think when we stayed in Cleveland for a night too. maybe to see the bob fosse play in a fabulous old theatre. not sure of the specifics. i suppose i could look it up somehow. but it is not important. but i know where the shampoo came from. origins are somehow important.
more beach rocks, this time separated out in a small plastic bag outside any backpack, still caught the eye of the screener, who called his superior, who came over and held up the bag of rocks. and pronounced them to be okay. better than last time when they were inside the suitcase, causing them to take them out and re-screen everything, making me incredibly late for the plane. so this is better, except that the plane is delayed at least an hour tonight. the guy at the podium announced that the plane had not actually left san jose to come here. so it's a good thing i'm not picking daniel up. thank you jeremy.
tim is doing much much better as his nose and throat are healing and general strength is improving. moved friday to a rehab facility (actually the 7th floor of the Duke Univ Hospital) where he should be for the next 2-3 weeks, doing 6 hrs of OT/PT daily. that's a pretty brutal schedule but it will be worth it.
{update from North Carolina: jeremy is there now, making a move to a larger 1st floor apartment. tim is doing very well in rehab, working hard. should be back to the new apartment end of the week.}
more later.
