Fires

Usually things at my job are pretty static and low key.  I have things generally engineered to be that way thanks to beefy, reliable hardware with redundancy.  Well yesterday I had two major headaches pop up at the same time.  I was working on them for most of the day yesterday and it looks like today they will be again front and center. Unfortunately I also have a pretty large race to time tomorrow morning which has it’s own set of challenges to deal with.

In addition to timing the race, this weekend is going to be absolutely jammed with work.  We need to do prep for the trip, pressure wash the pool area, the sheds and more, do maintenance on the Prius along with the regular cast of to do’s. It’s nice that with Cindy’s new job she no longer works nearly every Saturday, leaving her available to help me plow through stuff in her eager, happy way.

Ever since I returned to work I have been carrying a zip up document folder with me.  It is something my mom always gave me her tax paperwork in.  I have been keeping pretty much anything I could possibly need paperwork-wise for dealing with my mom’s estate.  I have utility bills, her car title, account statements, leases, insurance paperwork and more jammed in there.  In my determination to get her estate settlement settled as quickly as possible I want to have everything with me at all times so I can respond to requests for information/paperwork as soon as possible.  Currently the petition for my mom’s estate is in the process of being filed.

This evening my brother and sister are doing a second memorial for mom up in the Reading area.  I suspect there are going to be a lot more people at this one since a lot of mom’s friends and ex-coworkers are still up there and my brother has a very large circle of friends that may stop in as well.  I hope it goes as well as things did for us down here.