If this is Tuesday.......

Well to put it bluntly I've been moving across the eastern U.S. in rapid fashion.
Lots of events and the world was coming at me fast & furiously.

On Wednesday morning, April 13th, My father fell again this time he was in trouble. Blood pressure low and pulse erratic along with some mental confusion. Not good signs for a older person weakend by cancer, poor dietary habits and related problems. He was admitted for observation and by Friday, April 15th, he was admitted into Hospice. One of the more difficult decisions any family would ever make. I still harbor some guilt about it.

Regardless, after his last fall he wouldn't/couldn't even walk with the aid of a walker and it was an effort on his part to move about 12 to 15 feet with the aid of 2 physical therapists. Putting any weight on his right leg would cause him enough pain not to want to bear weight on it and move the left leg forward.

So between mental confusion and the fact he was going to need more in te way of care givers it was time to make that difficult choice. Mom is 2 years older than Dad and in reasonably good health. But she wouldn't be able to care for him in the proper fashion alone and home health aids would get expensive very quickly.

As for my self, I'm back in the NY, CT and PA region for a few weeks as I've got Dental and Medical appointments to make. That and I was summond for Jury Duty from which I was dismissed. Any ideas on the odds of having a passing aquaintence with the defendant and having been in high school with his sister 36 years previously?

Came back to NY following the last string of storms that rocked the central regon and carolinas. There was a great deal of evidence of its severity as I drove up I-95.

Not that I was there to partake in disaster tourism. Then once up by Washington DC it was detour time again as traffic became bumper to bumper and stop & crawl. A pit stop at Quantico VA and then around to Manassas VA to avoid much of the I-95 stupidity. Where years earlier I might of made it as far as Fort Belvoir and detoured around to Fairfax instead. Oh well its going to just get worse there and maybe this new Fuel Crisis will start forcing the changes we as a society are unwilling to make.

So that covers much of my experinces and tomorrow its drilling, filling and new crowns for the teeth....Oh boy oh boy oh boy. followed by a run up to Pennsylvania.

Hmmmm, Hey Benny up for brats & beer friday night?

Ahhhh No Social Media!!!! and its April too.

OK today I jumped into facebook; Social Media is a different direction but as the web has connections to connections to connections, Well it might of been just a matter of time. Still exposing myself in public like this is less damaging and more legal than walking about in a rain coat with pants legs tied around at the knees.

I'm still in the third world coastal region of the lower 48 and will be on the road back to the damnable socialist soviet style republic of NY on the 16th day of this 4th month

Well anyway things with family have been like a roller coaster ride what with My Aunt passing away this past Tuesday; Dad dealing with cancer; Youngest brother making a fast trip down the week & 1/2 earlier so our Mother could be given the opprotunity to visit with her sister before the final event and what not.

Well as I'm sort of preoccupied with several issues, I'm not going to be training for or participating in a marathon this year. Let along getting out and performing with the Stepehn P. Driscoll Memorial Pipes & Drums Fraternal Order of Police Lodge 704, Putnam County, NY.

But till I depart MS next week I'll be busy.

Well just this short blurb and I'm of I've been on the computer for way too long already today.

Ein prosit Alles!