Hah!

You know what? Parents and aunts and uncles getting older is hard. The uncle currently visiting me rode a motorcycle out from Colorado, but watching him move around my house and stairs, I am scrambling to move obstacles and lumpy surfaces out of the way. Seeing him get off the futon alarms me. I insisted on carrying his saddlepacks up the stairs, it was freaking me out too much to see him stepping gingerly. And yet this man, in his 70s, will clock around 4K miles on a motorcycle this summer. So maybe I should just chill. Or take his advice."Got an old man who lives a couple houses down. He's insulted whenever anyone offers help. That's silly. Me? That's someone else doing the work, I'll take it." ( do that in a Spock voice. Because he has the same Spockish diction. He's a nuclear scientist.)

How do I know when Hubby really feels like shit? He lets me help him. It's kind of a universal red alert to all our friends when he asks for/accepts help. Otherwise I have to look away from his struggling or even walk a few steps away just to keep myself from trying to interfere.

Pride has kept him alive this long, but damn it's hard being married to it.

Yeah, I'm glad Frank is clearly not insulted by me offering to haul his bags up the stairs. It just scares me he'd try given how unsteady he was at the time (in his defense- and a critique- he was dehydrated from the ride. He knew well enough to ask to come inside and sit and hydrate, but the water clearly hadn't hit well enough. But I carried the bags. And poured seltzer into him-his bev of choice.)

Nuclear scientists rock. One of my uncles is one. His twin and I have called him tipsy to explain astrophysics.

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It occurs to me that I should never have NDeGT's number.

However I am totally down with finding Dr. Brian Cox's because I think he'd be amused.

I am scrambling to move obstacles and lumpy surfaces out of the way.

I traveled three weeks with dad this Spring and some of it was so stressful because I was trying to figure out ahead what was going to trip him up. He's not Bella Swan clumsy but he's always ... let's just say I got my gracefulness from him and leave it at that. We both carry band-aids.

And yet, like your uncle can totally toodle across the country on a motorcycle, he gets around. I just was freaking out because ... because I worry.

because I worry.

Pretty much. eta: We must be SO ANNOYING.

Motoguzzi is an awesome bike and i will let the husband know! J is currently on day 5 of a 7-day solo motorcycle trip around Oregon. He is having a great time.

I had a thing for motorcycles in the 90s, when I was too far in debt to do anything about it. Moto Guzzis were my fantasy bikes.

It's probably a bad sign that I came into work today wanting to cry -- on SysAdmin Day.

Sorry, Tom.

I don't feel like working! Maybe I can do some in-box cleaning. That's boring.

I'm totally procrastinating this morning and I shouldn't. The news has me mired in useless jello.

Erika - I saw your email! I did just that, but before I found your message. Thanks.