Still sitting here. in A small but passable life.

It’s been two months since I’ve updated here. Just not much more than the usual nothing going on around here.

I’ve finished reading “The Curator” by Owen King and “Quicksilver” and “The Big Dark Sky” by Dean Koontz and a re-read of “Billions & Billions” by Carl Sagan. The first three were library check-outs and the last I found in the used book sale at the library.

Why or how I ended up, once again, on findagrave.com I don’t remember. Of course I regretted it. I found more people I’ve known that are now deceased. Basically my whole friend group from my early twenties including my first live-in girlfriend and my second wife and her daughter, my stepdaughter.

Vince and Michelle died in the nineties while in their thirties. Michelle in a car crash and Vince of AIDS. (They weren’t in this search, just listed here for reference.)

Wallace in 2009 at age 48 and his ex-wife in 2013 at age 49. They’ve left 7 kids and 14 grandkids! Kid #5 is my Godson, Sean Dale.

Sharon died in 2011 at age 49.

And Brenda in 2018 at age 57. And her daughter died this year at age 43.

There was a real nice obituary for my ex-step-daughter. It said she died at home with hospice care. She was married and they have one daughter.

Yeah, it’s been a rough week.

What was the saying back then, we jokingly repeated? Was it “Live hard, die young?”

Anyway, time to move on.

The Grandson is now a year old! When did that happen? Time is flying by too quick!

We’ve already had 30 days over 100 degrees so far this year. And we haven’t had any measurable rain in 3 1/2 months. (Currently at 5:03 pm it’s 108 with 9% humidity and we’re under an excessive heat warning and air quality alert.)

I just ordered four more books from thriftbooks.com. They finally had a copy of “The World According to Garp” by John Irving. Of course I had to buy three others to get the “over $20 total for free shipping”. I found three more I’d like to re-read some day.

Well, that’s all I’ve a mind to scribble about this time. Maybe I’ll return before another two months disappear into the ether? Who knows?