7:26 on 7/26 – nice catch, Lauren!
Highlights: A sleepless night due to ongoing neck issues, general restlessness and the dog in the way. I set up the "light alarm clock" now that the season is changing, and it's not as light in the am. It worked fine this morning. I was just so damned tired. I still languished in bed for another hour. Work went well. I had a good appointment with Denise and discussed the internal conflicts surrounding Linda's passing, my "ambivalent grief," and my need to practice "radical acceptance." It's hard balancing it all sometimes. Kathy called, and we chatted while working out the logistics for the trustee transfer to me. She sent the document, so it seems like it's all done. That relief will make managing their trust funds much easier for us. My call with Kaiser about the MRI for Stanford was frustrating; it felt like I would have to go through hoops and ladders to get it done. I ran a few errands with Lauren and got a huge fan for the garage, which I set up as an exhaust, and it worked wonderfully while I tackled the 1st past at getting all of my tools consolidated into the tool chest. It went well, and I'm on an excellent path to thin out a lot of duplicates and have a straightforward centralized source for tools vs. the scattered and limited mess it's been for a while. I do well with structure and organization. Tommy was impressed, and I told Denise he's been better. But I have to press on the sessions for him; he's evading still. Matt texted that the actor who played Wally Cleaver died and I replied that it's have been more fitting if he'd passed last month. He got the joke! I heard Karen yesterday that her father Helmut passed away at the age of 94. What a run. And he lived close to them throughout these past years too. Something to aspire to, for sure.