Another 48hrs, another 24hrs of noteworthy chaos, both good and bad, to reflect on. The hard part of daily journaling is wanting to capture the details and nuances but never having the time it takes at the day's end to do them justice. And if I skip a day, I have twice as much to capture. Some of these things might be better written in greater depth elsewhere as a blog post. Only the others have a vast backlog already. So for the moment, here goes my paragraph free ramble. After my prior post about Tommy's muffler, we walked Scottie and met a new neighbor, "Amrita," walking her dog too. They moved from the east coast due to her husband taking a job at Google. She shared a 'crazy neighbor' story from a short stay in Palo Alto, a sad case of pure cruel abject racism. They are renting Doug's old house. I'm hoping we have a chance to become friends. Then, Tommy called and shared the news that he'd been in a fender bender. He was with Karl going to Leigh and turning right, beside a car to the left of the lane with no turn signal on. Tommy assumed they'd go straight. He waited for them to go, and when they did, they turned into him and severely damaged the front end. He handled it well, IMHO. The driver is a fellow senior and admitted to being at fault. Before midday, Tommy had not only worked out the insurance calls but got the car to the body shop AND got an Audi Q5 rental. He managed it all himself, gracefully. Better than I would have, I suspect. My mom's email issues continued, and it turned out that the autopayment for the added space had failed. I helped her resolve that. I met Tim C for lunch in the Pruneyard, in the shadow of the old Martha's Vineyard location where we DJ's so many weddings we lost count. It was a great visit and wonderful to see him and stay connected. Our work Jira account billing failed, and accounting told me they'd had to shut down the card due to a fraud charge to Campbell Union HS District. I said, 'wait, that's where my kids go,' and then found with a bit of sleuthing that I'd 'autofilled' a payment for school food funds with the wrong credit card! We got it all worked out, but damn, that was surprising and a true facepalm moment. I had to skip going to see KISS with Brian because I felt too compromised to risk covid exposure. With Linda's condition, who knows what might happen in the next few weeks, I don't want to be blocked from going there with the kids. I started some BIG Solutions stuff and compared it in detail to WillMaker. Both do similar things, but the BIG focus is far more focused on the dialog and exploration of planning one's wishes. All three of us went to see Linda this am after I grabbed the bulk of her photos to sort through and took them to Panera. She said "I love you" to Lauren, which was wonderful for her to hear. We left. I dropped Lauren at work and spent several hours with Jen going through box after box after album after box of photos. Many were photos from her Mom and Dad's passings that just never got scanned and distributed to the rest of the siblings. If I had to guess, we went through 5,000 photos easily. This is one of those 'blog stories' for later. But they are sorted and staged for tomorrow's completion effort and then getting them to a scanning service on Monday. Dom and Mary reached out to meet up since we proposed doing so this am to Mary. We went to "New Jerseys," the former "Adams Apple" location on Campbell Ave. Then they came over, and we hung at the firepit. Mary and I got into an excellent dynamic talk about psychics, seeing things, other worlds, etc. It was a good evening, and I enjoyed the conversation.