A couple weeks turned into a month, but at least I had a more stable connection than usual. All in all, everything went fairly well, but of course the moment I left, everything at home went to shit. While visiting my maternal grandmother in the illustrious commonwealth of Kentucky, my paternal grandmother, who had apparently been lying to her entire family about the severity of her condition, passed away in the hospital, relatively peacefully. So now we, as a family, are dealing with the aftermath, most of which consists of sorting through a billion pictures of people many of us have never seen. But it's not like this was unexpected. He had lung cancer and COPD. Her kidneys were failing. And I'd gotten to visit her in the hospital the weekend after I left. And I'm much happier knowing that she's no longer suffering while wasting away in some bed. I'm not as distraught as some members of my family certainly are.

But enough of that business! I missed Shark Week! However, I did write the piece for it, so it will probably be going up this weekend. Apart from that, hopefully everything will be back to business of usual. I trust everyone fared well in my absence? Nothing exploded? No cities destroyed? Let me know how you're doing.