07:42 – Too much going on yesterday. Around 3:00 yesterday afternoon, we walked over to a neighbor’s 40th birthday party, and then headed over to pick up Mary and Paul and head for Costco and then dinner. When we arrived home at around 7:15, there was a message waiting on the answering machine to call her parents. As it turned out, Barbara’s dad had collapsed and they’d called 911. I stayed home to take care of Colin, and Barbara headed for the hospital.
As usual, nothing much happened for several hours, while Barbara and her family sat around waiting to find out if they’d treat and release her dad or admit him. Late in the evening, they finally told Barbara and her mom and sister that they were going to admit him, at least overnight. She finally got home just after midnight, and said her dad had pneumonia. At this point, Barbara doesn’t know if they’ll send her dad home today or keep him in another day. She also doesn’t know if they’ll be able to make the trip up to Pennsylvania later this week for the reunion.
Sorry to hear about the Father-in-law. Pneumonia is hard to shake at his age.
Yeah, every time something like this happens it’s very stressful for Barbara and her family. Someone who’s 90 just doesn’t have a lot of reserves to fight things off.
Have you ever considered just letting him die at a nice, ripe old age?
Since when do scientists believe in miracles?
Mars rover landing “miracle of engineering,” scientists say
http://in.reuters.com/article/2012/08/07/us-usa-mars-idINBRE8721A920120807
Methinks it was a lot of hard work; and many, many, many tax dollars.
I thinks this qualifies as “hurtful speech” toward scientists, engineers and the lot. Do they depend on supernatural intervention? No, of course not. To say otherwise is a slander to their professional capacity.
No miracle was involved, was it? It was just the little grey cells of Homo sapiens.
The Curiosity coverage was typically dreadful. Apparently even the live streams were polluted by commentators who kept interrupting with inane comments. I wound up just following progress by Twitter, where NASA posted periodic updates. The first time I have ever found Twitter to actually be useful…
Twitter collapsed under the load right around landing – it was pretty much inaccessible from 2-3 minutes before landing till around 5 minutes after. Too many people continually clicking the “refresh” button, I suppose…