And another $415 later
Dec. 15th, 2025 13:10![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bill_schubertToby is still sick and apparently developed some pneumonia on one side. I do think he'd not feeling well so it makes sense. But, of course they had to take an x-ray so $200 there, plus meds plus doc time. He's now been sick for almost three months.
Beaux is NOT sick but has an occasional cough and sneeze. Texas has year around allergies so I think it is a permanent thing. But he's fine and perky and just as happy about walking and anything else going on as he can be.
Today was pickleball day and it was right around freezing. I'm now an indoor PB player for good, I think. This time last year I'd have been putting on my cycling gear and heavy coat and gloves and playing. That was OK but I was sure happy to be NOT doing all that today. It will be the same in the summer when it it hot at 9AM and we're playing in the AC.
Meanwhile I signed up for a mixed doubles series of matches with the wife of the couple we had dinner with. She'd signed up for this Thursday afternoon not realizing that she was supposed to sign up with a male partner. So she looked at me and said please and what could I do. It will be fun and I will be exhausted on Friday morning for those games. She is late forties, a little order than my eldest son, and has way more energy than I do. But we play well together and she's smiling whether or not she wins. Perfect partner.
Living for long enough is painful at weird times. I keep getting caught off guard.
John Prin's death at the beginning of the Covid epidemic was a gut punch. It still rattles me. I'm not sure why. Lots of others around that age, just ahead of me, have died and I just nod and move on. But his landed.
Rob Reiner is the same. It is going to be a long while before I move past it. He was a mainstay in my life due mostly to All in the Family. Sally Struthers is the remaining member now. Of course Reiner did a lot more than that and there are column inches and hourly podcasts being built right now to honor the works.
The last couple of days have been pretty bad in general. I need to sit with it all.
Beaux is NOT sick but has an occasional cough and sneeze. Texas has year around allergies so I think it is a permanent thing. But he's fine and perky and just as happy about walking and anything else going on as he can be.
Today was pickleball day and it was right around freezing. I'm now an indoor PB player for good, I think. This time last year I'd have been putting on my cycling gear and heavy coat and gloves and playing. That was OK but I was sure happy to be NOT doing all that today. It will be the same in the summer when it it hot at 9AM and we're playing in the AC.
Meanwhile I signed up for a mixed doubles series of matches with the wife of the couple we had dinner with. She'd signed up for this Thursday afternoon not realizing that she was supposed to sign up with a male partner. So she looked at me and said please and what could I do. It will be fun and I will be exhausted on Friday morning for those games. She is late forties, a little order than my eldest son, and has way more energy than I do. But we play well together and she's smiling whether or not she wins. Perfect partner.
Living for long enough is painful at weird times. I keep getting caught off guard.
John Prin's death at the beginning of the Covid epidemic was a gut punch. It still rattles me. I'm not sure why. Lots of others around that age, just ahead of me, have died and I just nod and move on. But his landed.
Rob Reiner is the same. It is going to be a long while before I move past it. He was a mainstay in my life due mostly to All in the Family. Sally Struthers is the remaining member now. Of course Reiner did a lot more than that and there are column inches and hourly podcasts being built right now to honor the works.
The last couple of days have been pretty bad in general. I need to sit with it all.
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Date: 2025-12-15 21:22 (UTC)I found your post on Latest Things.
Sending good wishes.
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Date: 2025-12-17 16:38 (UTC)And it's so awful about Rob Reiner and his wife. I'm in shock. :(