
After we got back from Hawaii, we got into Phoenix at 11pm. We got our luggage an hour and a half later. Same problem everytime. Buncha slackers! Then the shuttle guy stiffs us and we had to call in a different guy because the original shuttle guy, with 4 peeps on his 20 person bus didn't feel like stopping where we were standing. Assclown! We tipped the next guy fat! Richard at Sky Harbor Airport Parking..you are an ass! I hope you get crabs.
I finally get home at 1am. To unpack, repack and then get a 3 hour nap before having to be back at the airport to fly out to SJ.
I get to San Jose and Dad can't drive, Mom isn't confident enough to drive that far, and no other family member is available. I end up having to rent a car to visit home. They stuck me in a PT Cruiser. Faggy! Comfy...but Faggy!
It was good to hang with the family and see and talk to the folks. Mom is stressed out and Dad is in bad shape, more mentally then physically. Not only is he recovering and reliant on pain meds as well as a whole shmorgasborg of other drugs for other ailments, but he's facing the dilemma of affairs of his own mortality. Wills, trusts, final plans. Not happy about it. I need to step up my actions and be more gung-ho about helping out with the family business, but I need to do it in a way that is divergent of the current plans. I don't want any of that mess. I don't mind the family business, just not on the angle it's on. The whole business isn't my expertise, but I need to suck it up and get with it to help out. I foresee a whole lot more trips out there to deal with Dad's recovery and business affairs. So much so that I have given thought to limiting or eliminating my current job in the future to accommodate the family's needs. I don't know what the cards hold though, and I have to wait to see where they fall.
All I know is that while I was there we had a good time and it was a breath of air, maybe not fresh, from the same old run around from here.
Well there is pictures from the past week being processed and developed and downloaded etc. You guys should get an invite to see them all within a week or so. There is a lot of pics, almost 300 just on the digital. The rest are on disposables and waterproof cameras. You'll see em all, it just takes time.
Aloha & Mahalo boys and girls!