09:49 – Spring seems finally to have arrived in Winston-Salem. All the plants are in bloom or in bud, and everything is covered with pollen. Highs for the next week are in the mid-60’s to low 70’s (19 to 21 C), with lows in the 40’s and 50’s (7 to 12 C). No rain in the forecast.
I’m still working on taxes. It’s not that they take so long to finish. I could probably complete them in one long day working straight through. But I can deal with this crap for only a couple hours at a time.
Barbara’s mom is not doing at all well, either physically or mentally. She and Frances have decided to keep Sankie in her apartment at the independent-living facility as long as the facility is willing to allow her to stay there. They’re paying for a caregiver to be with Sankie 24X7. That costs more than moving her to an assisted-living/nursing facility, but Barbara and Frances believe that Sankie can’t survive on her own in a room. Her dementia is getting worse, and she’s terrified at night. Physically, she’s in very bad shape and getting worse. She needs someone with her at all times.
I’m still working on taxes. It’s not that they take so long to finish. I could probably complete them in one long day working straight through. But I can deal with this crap for only a couple hours at a time.
My problem exactly. I am auditing my spreadsheet for rental property income and expenses as I have found a couple of mistakes in it (that I made last year).
She needs someone with her at all times.
This is the same problem that my wife and her sister are having with their father except my father-in-law is having physical problems. His brain is just fine for an 81 year old guy. He needs extreme help to get in / out of bed to get to the restroom or to get into a wheelchair. They moved him to a rehab facility when he left the hospital a week ago after curing his pneumonia and removing his gall bladder. The rehab facility apparently is also a nursing home which I suspect that he will end up staying there.
Hey OFD, maybe some day you will get natural gas there in the outskirts of the world. Or not. “Flaring squanders badlands gas as North Dakota lacks pipelines”
http://www.gasprocessingnews.com/news/flaring-squanders-badlands-gas-as-north-dakota-lacks-pipelines.aspx
“As a polar vortex weather pattern caused a nationwide propane shortage this winter, energy companies in the Bakken flared gas rich in propane. More gas was flared in the state than in any other domestic oil field and at a level equal to Russia and twice that in Nigeria.”
The USA is now the number one gas flarer in the world. Very dubious title that I want to own. Putting in all the infrastructure in the USA will be EXPENSIVE. Compressors, pipelines, treating plants, dehydration plants, more compressors, etc, etc, etc. Way cheaper to just burn it unfortunately.
After taking a really long lunch, I finally have official copies of my mother’s death certificate. So now I can meet with the attorney Friday and go to court and find out how complicated it’s going to be to pay off her very small bills and go through whatever legal mumbo jumbo is required so the executor can pay off the bills and distribute whatever remains to the heir. Where executor and heir are big fancy words legal words to describe my mother’s only child.
Hoo, yah. The red curtain of blood drops very quickly whenever I have to deal with any government BS. I just pay someone to deal with the taxes; it’s cheaper than replacing the blood-stained clothes I was wearing when the RCOB forced me to the nearest government office to bite out throats.