Unca Dave is in town this week for cancer treatment, and Paul and I went to see him at the Lodge downtown. It’s a really nice place although he says the one in Kelowna is nicer.
What can be said? It’s all management; of energy, of medications, of treatments, of emotions. He is as cheerful and forthright as ever, and it was great to see the names of his other visitors in the guest sheet. We had a cup of coffee and visited for a couple of hours. Paul will be taking him back to the airport today.
After the visit, we poked our heads into MEC, where I got two of these in black. (Always ask if they have some in the back… I had checked inventory and there were lots of black ones, but not on display.) Paul had loaned me a carrier and I fell madly in love with them and got two of my own. They are only fifteen liters but I got four bags of groceries into one on Wednesday… I had to get some. Also I got a map, because I like maps. They don’t have topos of the city any more, pity. Paul got raingear for his trip with Tish and Terry. After that we went to Pho Hong and I had one of these. Then we went to Rona and recut the keys that didn’t work.
pOp got himself hauled off to the emerg in Victoria in a most discomfiting fashion recently. He’s back at home looking forward (not) to further tests to find out which end of the malingering/mad-with-worry pole he should be attached to. And of course there are two other members of my family experiencing health problems that we know of – I light virtual candles for all them not because it will do a bit of good, but so I can turn my attention elsewhere. Really, hard core atheists don’t know what they’re missing out on with church. It’s just so comforting.
Fed the cats the free food that you get as a sample from the pet store for breakfast this morning. Margot makes the most astonishing assortment of grunts and duck calls when she eats – she literally quacks when she’s excited or disturbed. I put her on the Star Trek pinball but it’s too noisy for her, even though she did chase the ball a couple of times.