I expected her to go last night, but this morning she told him Good Morning. I still don't expect her to be around for more than a few days though. Except for some joint pain handled by medication, she's pretty peaceful. She sleeps quietly 95% of the time.

When this all started, Molly took it pretty hard but Sophi didn't seem to be affected at all. Molly has come to terms with it quite well, but last night for the first time Sophi realized Grandma's not coming back. Sophi was really looking forward to swinging with her again. So I held her for a while and told her it was ok to cry, and be happy about it at the same time.

When my wife's grandma died the girls went and stayed with my in-laws for a week, and took quite seriously the role of comforters. They did a wonderful job too, asking questions gently etc. Last night I told Sophi that my dad would need some comforting as well, and Molly said "That's RIGHT Sophi! The Little Girl Brigade to the rescue again!". They probably won't go stay with him, but there'll be some serious cuddling going on while we're there.

We're going to pay down our car loan, we're close enough to the end of it that it'll knock out a high percentage of the principle.

Leave a comment if you don't care about everyone knowing, even if you don't know yet what you'll do with it.

"Well, I think she's actually talking about real heartache, because no-one wants heartache ever. People with heartache are very glum."

Moving on, Sophi's been afraid of thunder and lightning in the night lately. Molly never was, and Sophi never was before a couple weeks ago, but we're dealing. She's been praying about it before bed, and the other night she prayed

"Dear God, please make it so that if I hear thunder it's actually someone's tummy rumbling, except really loud."

Charles Messier cataloged 110 things in the sky in the 18th century. A Messier Marathon involves trying to see all 110 of them in the sky in one night. That's pretty neato. I doubt I'll ever do it, but it sounds like an adventure.

And now you know what a Messier Marathon is.

Anyone badly dyslexic, or know anyone that way who can speak for this? It also occurred to me that it might make it EASIER for them, since the letters are usually twisted etc.

This is me in my Dad's judogi, c. 1974. I showed it to Sophi and she said "It's me!" Others have thought it was Molly.

My topics were Intro to HTML and Intro to PHP. Both had about 35 people, with a good mix ranging complete newbies to experienced people looking for a laugh.

Almost immediately after I got there, walking from the car to the grill, I saw a guy walking toward me and thought "That looks like Eric Raymond". I looked down at his name tag and it said "ESR". I never knew he had cerebral palsy. How interesting.

I had the brazilian beef for lunch. It wasn't from Brazil, it was grilling a style popular there. They throw the meat on the grill and surround it with giant chunks of rock salt. The salt melts and seals the juices inside the meat. It was amazing. We waited 25 minutes in line, and many people waited over an hour. They put a plate on a scale and put beef on it until it hit a pound. That as it. But as I mentioned, amazing.

Being a combo con, there was an interesting mix of people ranging from the completely normal to the completely freakish. I'll just let it go at that.

It was fun, and I hope to go back next year, and perhaps even stay the night, or even the whole weekend.

Oh, and I had a nice conversation with some guy who draws stick figures.

topher@boktor:~$ uname -a
Linux boktor 2.6.20-15-generic #2 SMP Sun Apr 15 07:36:31 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux
topher@boktor:~$ history | awk '{a[$2]++}END{for(i in a){print a[i] " " i}}' | sort -rn | head
92 cd
82 ls
60 vi
31 sudo
25 rm
13 grep
12 more
10 whois
10 scp
10 killall

Update:

Josiah's question about killall (no I don't really use it all that often) made me realize that I rarely do much in the shell on my local box. I almost always ssh someplace else and work there. So here's one from an account I work on often, using pcg's cooler version.

[wcsg@ireland ~]$history | awk '{print $2}' | sort | uniq -c | sort -nr | head
    327 vi
    322 cd
    190 ls
     60 cp
     29 grep
     15 rm
      8 ncftp
      8 mv
      8 mkdir
      5 pwd