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I know I know, long time no post. Where to begin? In April my Dad’s sister and her family came up to visit. It was a good visit, they had a lot of fun. I babysat their kids one night while they caught a dinner show downtown. The visit culminated at an excursion to the San Juan islands. It was a kinda fun little excursion, but also frustrating. My Mom gets me to come to these family events by saying she’ll cook for me and we’ll do things together etc etc. But what ends up happening is I’m bored out of my mind while all she can think/do/talk about is picture taking. This wouldn’t be so bad if not, like all of Mom’s things she’s into, she’s either 10% gaga over it, or no interest at all. Then if you call her on it she’ll either A) Ignore you completely and cram more pictures down your throat or B) Declare she’ll never take pictures again and what was she thinking that she could be passionate about something. It’s obviously OK t be passionate about your interests, you just don’t need to breathe eat and sleep them.

In other news I had a small variety of computer issues that kept me from writing here. First Comcast, my ISP, decided to update their DNS servers and that screwed up our internet connection. I finally fixed it by doing a hard reset on our router. Next I got a new keyboard and mouse. The batteries in my old mouse weren’t lasting a whole day so I got a new one. My keyboard gets really dirty cause my hands sometimes leak from their bandages. I got a new roll up rubber keyboard which, as you can see by the amount of typos on this post, takes a lot of getting use to. You can wipe it clean with a damp cloth and it’s spill proof though, big pluses.

My Parents got back from their vacation a few days ago. I’m really glad they could go off for two weeks and not fret to much about me. They really had fun so I’m glad everything went as well as it could for them. Coincidentally enough, things went as well as they could for me too. Usually my parents are very involved in the major dressing changes This entails replacing all bandages on my body; a time consuming and relatively painful event. Since they were gone this left just Steve and myself to do it all. You know what? We did it! Even the nastiest spot on my body. Yes it was time consuming and painful, that can’t really be avoided; but we got it done. Just like everything I have to face, dreading it is usually worse than the actual event. Hopefully when this happens in the future, in the heat of the moment I can remember this…. hopefully.