This blog entry will help explain the entry of Nick's titled, 'Putting my best foot foward'.

I'm currently spending some unexpected time with family. On the morning of 6/14, my youngest sister called me to me know that one of my older sisters died during the night unexpectedly. I didn't leave for Indiana until Saturday morning. I had a doctors appointment scheduled for Friday plus another appointment. I know, I could have rescheduled them, but the Doctor's appointment had been scheduled for eight weeks already.

My sister was a diabetic also and had been since the age of two and a half. At that early age, the early 50's, something happened that caused some brain damage to her. After high school, she became involved with a local organization, Carey Industries, that worked with the challenged. Local industry would bring in work for these individuals to do like sort and package small items.

She was also involved with the Special Olympics.

The arrangements made were a bit unusual from what I'm used to. For obvious reasons, the was no viewing scheduled for Sunday, Fathers Day, so the viewing was scheduled for Monday from 2 p.m. to six p.m. with the service scheduled for 6 p.m. the same day. This allowed for her friends from CI to attend. Burial then took place Tuesday morning with just my youngest sister, a cousin, and myself going. My cousin brought some balloons that we released.

I've had a couple of the sweetest emails from Nick this week and they have been greatly appreciated.

This is the reason why Nick hasn't posted anything new in the past few days. Although, I will admit that I did bring some editing work with me since my brother and nephew are also away at Scout Camp this week. This was also another reason for the arrangements, so they could attend. The work I took with me is a book that I'm editing for a published author. It took me awhile to get into a rythym to work on it. I'm used to doing chapters when they are sent, not the entire book.

I wasn't sure about my internet time. The local Uni that I go to to use their free wireless, doesn't allow you goto any sites that have anything to with LGBT. So that meant sites like Awesomedude and Gay Authors are blocked. I did go to a friend of mines house, but we spent too much time doing other things, don't go there, to go online. I found out last night, out of curiousity, that one of my brothers neighbors has an unsecured wireless network set up. Do guess how this post is being done.

Jan