slipped away for a few days there but now i'm back...
So my son and his family were in town for a few days, here to attend his mother's memorial service, and they have now returned home to where they live in northwestern Minnesota. They are a very popular family and were in high demand for visitations with the dozens of people they know that reside here in the Bay Area... so as it turns out, I did not get to spend a whole lot of time with them. Which is probably a rather good thing because my grandson is a living dynamo, a perpetual motion machine if you will... and he contains a magneto that draws my full attention to try to keep up with him... this means that I run, a LOT to keep up with him. I've never seen a living thing that has all the energy and determination to NOT REST like he exhibits. Two afternoons of playing with him WORE ME OUT, and I needed a day of rest to recover from him each time. The day they left I had terribly painful physical symptoms. I woke up with an unworldly amount of pain in my stomach. I cannot remem...