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I've been pretty quiet. This year has been, challenging.
The good news, I'm retiring at the end of this month. So my time has been spent wrapping up my work, dealing with the corporate HR department, Social Security, Medicare and myriads of others. If I knew retiring would be so much work I'd put it off a while longer. (Fuck no.)
The bad news, my younger sister recently died of complications due to cancer. Both she and I worked in cancer research fields, and no, the irony is not lost
She was a very private person who kept her affairs to herself. She had no other family, just me and my younger brother but many friends and co-conspiritors. She never made a will and left behind a tangled financial mess as well as a handful of racing horses and brood mares. So, we've trying to keep the horses fed and housed while taking care of the rest of her estate.
We've had one memorial service here in her home town and are planning two others. One for her interment in our family plot (yeah, my family has had its own cemetery plot since 1850's or so, it's almost full at this point.) A third memorial will be held at the training track at Belmont for all her co-workers and friends in New York. (In the future someone remind me to tell her story of The Bushman of Belmont.)
Needless to say, I've been busy and not feeling too sociable. Once my sisters estate has been settled and the animals properly housed in good situations I hope to settle into a quiet retirement. I have no idea what comes next but I hope it's not exciting.
The good news, I'm retiring at the end of this month. So my time has been spent wrapping up my work, dealing with the corporate HR department, Social Security, Medicare and myriads of others. If I knew retiring would be so much work I'd put it off a while longer. (Fuck no.)
The bad news, my younger sister recently died of complications due to cancer. Both she and I worked in cancer research fields, and no, the irony is not lost
She was a very private person who kept her affairs to herself. She had no other family, just me and my younger brother but many friends and co-conspiritors. She never made a will and left behind a tangled financial mess as well as a handful of racing horses and brood mares. So, we've trying to keep the horses fed and housed while taking care of the rest of her estate.
We've had one memorial service here in her home town and are planning two others. One for her interment in our family plot (yeah, my family has had its own cemetery plot since 1850's or so, it's almost full at this point.) A third memorial will be held at the training track at Belmont for all her co-workers and friends in New York. (In the future someone remind me to tell her story of The Bushman of Belmont.)
Needless to say, I've been busy and not feeling too sociable. Once my sisters estate has been settled and the animals properly housed in good situations I hope to settle into a quiet retirement. I have no idea what comes next but I hope it's not exciting.
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