Exercising those nurturing instincts

[jay]

Seems to be a recurring pattern lately -- I go away on a business trip, and things scrapeth when I return. This time, it's illness... I'm the only healthy adult in a household of five. patgreene, David, and Kevin are all feverish and queasy. James is non-contagious and mostly recovered from last week, but still has a nasty cough and lacks energy. David and James had positive strep tests... I'm assuming that Kevin and Pat have the same thing.

Yesterday, I got out of the house for a few hours in order to help move the House Dreamland folks, moving sinboy and hopeforyou's stuff up to the new place in southern San Francisco. Today I escaped for two hours for a Costco/Safeway run for groceries (we were out of toilet paper, among other things...). When I returned, Kevin had 104.1 and was vomiting... sigh. Lots of cleanup, disinfecting and laundry this weekend. Wiping fevered brows with cool damp cloths. Cuddling whimpering small children. Fatherly stuff.

At least my sweetie Nancy apparently had a fun time with her hubby Dave up in Nova Scotia... (grin). I wonder if they could find Atlantic salmon there that wasn't the icky farm-raised-and-colored-with-orange dye stuff ... it's enough to keep me from eating salmon nowadays unless it's from the Pacific.

I had hoped to work on the house itself this weekend, and take the family to see "Finding Nemo", but that will all have to wait. I'm afraid to ask anyone out to lunch next week, for fear that I'll come down with the bug myself and have to cancel. Otherwise... my social calendar for June is empty, other than the PPP, the Dreamland housewarming and a promised lunch sometime soon with runeshower.

Back offline to check on the kids... I'll do the interview meme sometime in the next couple of days, sorry.

Comments

[serenejournal.livejournal.com]

If you're available for lunch on Saturday in San Leandro, I hope I'll see you. I'll post the details again, here and on alt.poly/sfbay-poly some time today.

[brian1789.livejournal.com]

Thanks -- I went back over the past couple of weeks in your journal, but didn't see a visit mentioned (I was wondering if I'd just missed it). Lunch would be fun, depending on timing... my kids have their Little League closing ceremonies at 10am Saturday.

[serenejournal.livejournal.com]

I posted it to alt.poly and sfbay-poly and, I think, here, but anyway, it's going to be at 2pm at the Englander in San Leandro:

Englander Sports Pub & Restaurant
101 Parrott Street, San Leandro, CA 94577
(510) 357-3571