Not bad enough that we had the Brown University shooting, the Bondi Beach thing, and the Reiners, on top of whatever other events of this sort that didn’t make the news that I saw, I discovered this week an old school friend and someone I used to know from the goth scene died recently, the former from complications after surgery and the latter “by choice”, which I presume is the latest euphemism… hadn’t spoken to either in years but that doesn’t make the news any less awful. Both of them were younger than me.
So it’s been a bummer of a few days. On the plus side, a friend who had a cancer scare a few months ago just celebrated his birthday yesterday, and though said scare is not quite over (he’s still waiting to find out if he needs radiotherapy) the signs have generally been good. More trivially, Joe finally got someone to mow the back and front yards and trim the bushes out front—nice to be able to walk down the driveway again without being assaulted by the hibiscus—and I got a new blu-ray drive for the laptop that can handle 4K discs and has succeeded in ripping a number of recalcitrant blu’s the previous drive didn’t feel like doing… Miniscule in the grand scheme of things, I know, but I suppose you have to make do with the miniscule things these days.
