I’ve been extremely occupied over the past few days, so I’ve not had much time to talk with anyone or write. Monday morning I wrote out nearly $1000 in cheques to keep the household running until the life insurance pays; getting the bills organized and trying to understand how everything works, what’s due and when, etc… unfortunately it turns out that nearly everything was due Monday or Tuesday, so it was good that we got that started Monday morning. This does put a bit of a dent in the plans for server upgrades, since I had to redirect the money for that.
I had phoned Davey again on Sunday and also sent him an email; he’s not called me back nor replied. It’s a bit unbelievable… that I’ve pretty much accepted that he’s completely heartless.
The memorial service is tonight at 7pm.
I went and bought a suit yesterday morning, dear god how I hate the mall; that place has gone downhill so quickly… it wasn’t even busy, but finding someone to assist was damn near impossible. It seems that because of my generally ‘punkish’ appearance I’m being descriminated against… one place I was planning on buying the suit really sort of infuriated me; there were two people re-organizing dress shirts, and completely ignored me as if I was invisible… I put the clothes down, said that this store didn’t deserve my money and walked out. Oh, it turns out that these suits run on the small side. I was a bit surprised at the size jacket I had to get…. didn’t think I was that big, lol… but I assumed that the pants would be standardized a bit more perhaps… so I didn’t bother trying them on. The size pants that normally require a belt else they’ll fall off when I put the weight of my wallet into them, well… I can’t even get them closed, so it’s off to exchange them this morning.
Something horrible was happening with the server lastnight/this morning, on top of that it took nearly an hour to get someone at the data centre to reboot it… then later on this morning it happened again! I’m still not 100% sure exactly what happened, but I’ve not really had the time to investigate the logs much either though.
DaVe is here, presently sleeping… I just got too anxious and had to get up, did some work and now I’m writing this. When I told him what happened, hmm, I guess it was Sunday night, he immediately made arrangements to come down from Ohio to spend some time here, he arrived around 11:30pm lastnight. I can’t really express how comforting it is that he’s come to spend some time here, I definitely appreciate it, beyond words really. It’s been almost two years since we’ve seen each other. It’s a striking contrast… the one I expected, or should say hoped, would show me the most compassion has shown none whatsoever, and while DaVe and I are very close, him driving the five+ hours to get here, getting off from work, etc… very unexpected.
Thank you to everyone that has wished my family and me well through email and comments. With everything that has been happening, that I’ve needed to do, it’s hard to sleep, and in reality I’ve not even begun to deal with this. There are still a few of my friends that rarely read this site… that I know I haven’t told, but I don’t really have the energy, and truly, apart from kind words, it wouldn’t make much of a difference anyway.
I’m now going back to my relatively warm bed, currently occupied by DaVe.