It is Monday night, and I am cold and sad. I talked to Barb, and she agrees with the obituary I wrote for Susie; Leta has read it, and I included her updates. It makes me cry to read it. It is 990 words and oversized, and when I looked at running in the local papers, they wanted more than $10,000 (!). I will try to make a compact one on Tuesday.
I also worked on getting the last life insurance paid out to Leta. I talked to the funeral home and the insurance company to make sense of everything. This took me back to some painful memories. I am now cold, tired, and ready to jump in, pull up the covers, and hide. Instead, I write the blog.
Before this, I watched the new NetFlix movie Rebel Moon enjoying it. It is not great and slow with monologuing characters, but it has significant special effects, a storyline that is easy to understand, and characters I have liked. Lightly recommended. I also made dinner while watching. I cooked two small potatoes in the microwave (removing them before they were dried out), split them open, and covered them in butter and sour cream with plenty of pepper and sea salt. I microwaved the BBQ chicken thighs I grilled yesterday, and that goes well with the potatoes. I added a few kosher pickles and some pickled beats. Excellent. I had a few cookies for dessert.
Preceding dinner, I returned to painting figures; I so missed it. I am back to my Egyptian undead painting the tiny lines for their headpieces. I managed to complete two and then stop. I am out of practice, and it is best to stop. My fingers ache a little. I need to build back into hours of painting.
I worked on paperwork, as I said above, and other sad things before this, having left the shoe company early. I find the Globe Life forms and other usual things. All this seems so final, and it is.
I am now the owner of Susie’s IRA under my name, and I adjust my holdings to show the year-end fees and reinvested earnings. This is invested in the old PAX fund (the symbol is PAXWX), the first socially responsible mutual fund once based in North Washington D.C.> It was created to allow Methodists to responsibly save for retirement. This was Susie’s money and retirement, and she loved to get her statement. She was proud to be in the PAX Fund.
Before Air Volvo returned me to the Volvo Cave, I was mailing some gaming wooden pieces to the Kramers at the post offices. I had bought a spare copy of one of my games, and now that they have a copy of the same game, they could use it.
Work was just a few meetings. We are still trying to find our way with the cancellation of our go-live in December. I was cold and tired, so I went to Happy Pandawarm tea, soup (Hot and Sour), and chicken with cashews. That helped.
Nike requests us all to take a Run-Hide-Fight training class. It is about thirty minutes and all online. I found an unused conference room and took it with the sound on. It was an excellent reminder of what to do in an active shooter event. I have taken many classes like this. This one is about surviving a shooter event. I still check for exits.
Moving back further, I started the morning at 6AM and then cooked the chocolate croissants I had put out to rise overnight. I had just one. I made coffee in my French press using NYC Zabar’s grind.
I had trouble sleeping, and it made the whole day drag. I can never sleep on Sunday nights.
Sorry it is short, but I am tired and cold.
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