family news

a typhoon is going through the Visayas, meaning relatives of Joy and the staff are in the danger area. No reports yet. Here it is dark and overcast.

Downtown, they are putting up the Christmas lights near the plaza, so the electricity is going on and of to keep their workers safe (a few years ago, one man was electrocuted when one of the ligts he was putting up connected to a live wire.

Sigh. Reminds me of a guy who put up a TV antenna and the wind knocked it over and electrocuted him. We did CPR for over an hour, and got him back once but then his heart stopped again. Sigh.

One of the problems of retirement is that with leisure a lot of little things bring back memories of terrible things. I was a doctor for 36 years and saved many lives but it is the failures that come back to haunt me.

Sigh.