Long, Tough Week
A couple months ago, I wrote that my brother-in-law was in the hospital with cancer. One of my long training rides for the Leadville 100 was to Denver to see him in the hospital. Unfortunately he never came home from the hospital. He passed away a little over a week ago.
This past week we had relatives staying with us. Not only was it tough with the funeral but other things kept going wrong. First the basement sink clogged. Next as we were leaving for the viewing, the panic alarm on the van went off and wouldn't stop until I disconnected the battery.
Then we started having the sewer backing up. We were ready to leave for the grave side service when my 5 year old said it was backing up again. I ran down and started vacuuming it up with the shop vac. I took out 16 gallons of water and it was still coming. It turned out one of the toilets had stuck on.
Hopefully the coming week will be a little calmer. I will be adjusting to working from home full-time. The company I work for laid off some in our local office a few weeks ago. There are now only 6 of us left here and we will be telecommuting full time. There are certainly some positives to that but also some downsides.
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4 Comments:
Wow, man - that does sound like one tough week. I hope things turn around for you soon.
Sorry to hear about your brother-in-law.
Rob, sorry to hear about your family's loss. Last week definitely sounds like it was more challenging than you needed right now. Hang in there.
Sorry to hear about your loss.
Sorry to hear about your brother-in-law.
As for working from home, I found that there are more distractions at the hacienda than at the water cooler.
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