Out of the blue, my mother received a package from my dad’s office this summer. It contained a CD of personal photos they had saved from Dad’s computer. What an amazing and thoughtful gift from dad’s co-workers. What a reminder of the man we lost nearly two years ago.
The vast majority of the photos on his computer were of family members, and most of these pictures we’ve all seen before. Pictures of each of us kids, weddings, and grandchildren – Including this picture of me, with my niece and nephew, at my wedding five years ago tomorrow.
But the really interesting photos I had not seen before. These were photos of my dad from his tour of duty in Viet Nam in 1968.
It’s so interesting to look at the contents of someone’s computer. There is so much evidence of who we are lying around in those files. It would be easy, of course, to jump to conclusions about a person’s values, or who they are, based on their computer files. But that wouldn’t be quite fair. For instance, if a person wasn’t represented in photographs on the computer, that wouldn’t necessarily mean that the person was unloved, or unimportant. But, like poking around in someone’s bookshelves, or pantry, or closet, maybe we can find a little extra insight.
The photo I’d really like a little insight on is this one.
I would just love to know the story behind this. I’m sure it involved a lot of laughter.
Saturday night we celebrated Captain RedBeard’s birthday. By Captain RedBeard, I mean my little brother, Timmy (Pronounced timMAY! a la South Park).
We celebrated with a pirate themed pub crawl through some of Seattle’s finest drinking establishments, led by the soon-to-be Mrs. RedBeard, Mel.
Mr. H and I dressed the part as well.
What? You’ve never seen a pirate wearing an argyle sweater?
Yar!
Then Grandma called to say Gem was missing me, and I did my best not to drive like a bat out of hell all the way home. This was the first time we’d left her to go out and play.
Yesterday was Genevieve’s first big day on the town.
The first stop was to see her pediatrician, which went very well. Her length remains at 20 inches and her head circumference at 13 inches, but her weight is up to 7 lbs 12 oz – that’s 3 oz up from her birth weight. All the measurements are squarely in the 50th percentile.
The doctors visit went well, the immunizations and the blood draw for all the tests, not so much.
But we’ll get over it.
The big event of the day was lunch with Grandma Candy. Grandma Candy is 98 years old and she is Genevieve’s great grandmother, my maternal grandmother. (Grandma Candy got her name when my niece and nephew couldn’t pronounce Grandma McKinley). My mother was there as well, so we had a ladies lunch with four generations.
Notice the green blanket on Grandma Candy’s lap? She knit that for Genevieve.
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