I was there about an hour, and he did most of the talking, so it went okay.
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My aunt is considering not coming to Christmas this year. It is a bi-annual event that my side of the family gets together, at my mother’s insistence and compromise (my siblings and their kids are all over the country) – “do whatever you want on the other years, but every even (now odd, post-COVID) year you-all come to my house.”
Well, Mom died a few years ago, and my aunt, Mom’s twin sister, appears still to be in mourning. We will still invite her, and if she doesn’t want to come, so be it. She will be 90 in January, was thinking about planning a birthday party, and I think she has backed off of that as well. “Wouldn’t be the same,” she says.
Anyway, yeah, I’m a bit sad about this.
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The very nice guy who owns the very good burrito restaurant has been going downhill for a couple years now. Today I walked in to pick up an order and he was drunk on a bar stool rambling mostly incoherently about his business and family. He’s sort of indicated that we’re his only friends, which is both hard to believe and quite depressing. I guess I should invite him to dinner or something, though I’m not great at that.
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Just read this sad article on Robert Munsch. Wish I had a loonie for every time I read one of his stories to my children and grandchildren over the past 45 years.
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I read a similiar article on him a while ago. That is sad, my kids read his books.
We have a local fellow that’s very similiar: http://www.ericktraplin.com . Our kids grew up with him, he’s a local staple at every festival there is. But man, he was old 25 years ago. It’s going to be a sad day when he stops performing as well.
A fellow.from back home just passed. While looking at the obits, i noticed another guy i went to hs witb passed away this year. And i know another buddy from hs passed away this year.
People my age are starting to die.
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Sorry, but welcome to the club.
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no word of a lie, I feel 40. I’m active, I work a lot of hours and enjoy itz I’ve got a lot going on, I’m keeping the brain pushed hard. I’m not ready to die and I dont even feel old. I really do feel forty, I’m decades away from letting off the gas.
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I am still very active at 75 and am grateful every day for the excellent health I enjoy. The hard part is seeing friends and/or family members who aren’t as lucky.
I was only able to buy a single ticket for the Jays-Yankees game last Saturday so had some time to reflect as well as to enjoy the game. My best Toronto buddy of the last 50 years died a couple of years ago and our annual outing was to find a couple of remote seats at the Jays stadium and enjoy an evening of baseball and reminisces. Couldn’t help missing him last Saturday and he is just one in a long list of septuagenarian friends that left us much too soon.
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The Mercer name will disappear next year and be replaced by Marsh. A sad day for many Mercer employees in Canada as the connection to our founder, Bill Mercer of Vancouver, was very strong.
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Tourette’s camp lost their location so there will be no camp next summer. Such a disappointment.
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Daniel (“Danya”) Naroditsky died a few days ago. Apparently there was some beef between him and Vladimir Kramnik going down in recent years.
Chess world mourns death of Daniel Naroditsky, rages against Russian rival who alleged cheating
I wish I had a brother
I hear you, brother. I had to wait 11 years for one.
I used to have three but one died when he was 38.
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Mixed blessings coming up.
Back in the 90’s I was an actuarial student at a life company. Since then, every year or so I get together for lunch with my former supervisor (an FSA), the chief actuary, and the head of marketing. Been doing it forever. Get caught up, reminisce about old times at a small mutual when it operated like a family.
The head of marketing now has I think Parkinsons and is in decline. We’re having lunch soon, but it’s at the now-retired chief actuary’s house. I think because the former head of marketing can’t make a restaurant. Bitter sweet, fun to get together, sad to think about his decline.
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