We had another wake to attend this evening, sadly, this time for the grandmother of one of my sister’s friends (one of her bridesmaids, in fact). We didn’t know her well, and I didn’t really at all, but we wanted to go to pay our respects, if only because my sister is in Maryland and couldn’t. My father and I caught a train to East Williston, where we met my mother for dinner, and then we drove over to the funeral home nearby.
And that was pretty much Tuesday. Our e-mail was down at the office almost all day, meaning there were several projects I couldn’t get to at all, and I got a little soaked by the sudden, bucketing rainfall at lunchtime, when I went out to get both lunch and a new umbrella. (There used to be a drug store right next door, where they sold umbrellas, so close you could slip in without getting wet. But a few weeks ago, they moved to the corner. It’s a better and bigger location, more umbrellas to choose from, but there were very few awnings between me and it, between me and the pouring rain.) And, of course, there were random and often unexplained tests of the building fire alarms, without which a day at my office really wouldn’t be complete.
Onward to Wednesday.