I've been kept away by  poweroutages and lost keys and various other snafus.   Tomorrow I am going back home to check on oldest child who is under the weather.  I really would like to live closer to them, but that is apparently not to be for a while. 

I  am enough  out of my recent black depression to be able to listen to music,talk to phone menu people, and admit that there are some days I absolutely must give in and say that i feel good. So i said it. Met the lovely girls next door--now I feel like I have  neighbors. Saw my  friend's farm up in the hills. It is beautiful up there.

I left Franciscan  not because it was a bad school, but because I am just not suited to it--whether by my sjc education, my age, the stilted way in which I called professors "Dr.">  Gad,  it still sticks in my throat. I learned about SJC a lot.  And how much we should fall down on our knees and kiss  the ground when approaching campus. Alma Mater