Sat, 09 Oct 2004
Normal service resuming
If you've been following my blog for a while you might have wondered
why -- apart from my travel schedule -- posting has been so light this
autumn. You might even have wondered why I was spending so much time
visiting family members.
I try not to post about my relatives (if they want blog entries they
can start their own weblogs), but to cut a long story short two of my
close family have been very ill. In one case it was a matter solved by
routine surgery (to the extent that any surgery is routine, from the point
of view of the patient!), but the other was a three-ring circus -- seven
weeks in hospital, and the patient not expected to survive.
Well, the patient did survive, and
is now out of hospital and clearly recovering. But you might speculate
that weekly 500-mile round trips might have had something to do with
distracting me from updating this journal ... and you wouldn't be wrong.
It was, all in all, an extremely exhausting experience -- not just the travel,
but being supportive to other family members who were closer to the action and
under correspondingly more stress. Life-threatening exotic illnesses: just
say no if anyone offers to sell you one, okay?
Anyway, this is by way of saying that I'm cautiously optimistic that life
is getting back to normal. I'm left with a huge backlog of work
to get my teeth into, but that's okay. Deadlines, unlike dead
relatives, can be finessed.
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