Here's to memories...

After arriving back today from the animal park, and putting the kids to bed, patgreene and I wound up doing our own unplanned commemoration, in a sense. N. and my brother used to be avid Parrotheads (Jimmy Buffett fans) and served as officers in the Atlanta Parrotheads club, years ago. So, we went to a bar near our hotel, and I had a margarita... and Pat wound up playing an online trivia game there (and winning all 3 games, of course, finishing #13 in the country in one). N. and C. used to play these a lot and would sometimes call us hurriedly with questions. So we remembered, a bit... :)

Watching the circle of life, or at least a lot of animals...

Apart from the family news... today patgreene and I took ourselves and the kids to the San Diego Wild Animal Park, near Escondido, CA.
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triage...

Viewing Sunday evening, funeral Monday in Atlanta. Flight Saturday from SFO. Pat has chest pains, going to ER now while leaving James in charge of his brothers, at the hotel. If released, will drive straight home today. If Pat is hospitalized, could be here for awhile...

And Fedex called me this morning because my work shipments are all stalled in Canadian customs. Sigh.

Heading home...

patgreene was released from Tri-Cities Medical Center, just a pulled pectoral muscle + asthma. Whew. It is 4pm and 10 hours' drive to go and we're headed for home.... tenacious_snail will pick me up at 8:30am tomorrow for my flight to Atlanta.