The goodish news, Dad’s home from the hospital and back to being himself pretty much. Which means he’s stubbornly refusing to deal with doctors and do much of anything about his health. His assertion that all they want him to do is stop drinking and smoking is a veil. While I’m sure they strongly recommend those things because he’s tearing himself apart with those habits, there’s more that could be done. Not surprising at all, but unsettling. It’s annoying that our family has both a worry gene and a stubborn gene. The two amount to having a devil on each shoulder throwing shit back and forth. It’s pretty shitty that he got himself in this situation and it took me calling my all of my grandparents and getting the closest to drive down the hill to check on him to find that he had hurt himself days ago and did nothing about it. Despite all of us having talked to him in the interim, he said nothing. It’s confirmation that he really shouldn’t be living out the woods alone. If he’s not getting help when he has the ability to pick up the phone, what happens when he can’t? Do I have to arrange some kind of neighborhood ‘check on Barry’ schedule with my aunt, neighbors and grandmother? None of them are savvy enough for a google calendar. Meh. This wasn’t the best move to get us to leave him alone.

So I’ll probably go down to the Phoebe House tomorrow with mom for christmas. Otherwise I’m home in Seattle until January 7th when I’ll go back to Maine for a week. The thought’s crossed my mind if I should try to arrange being able to work remotely for a few weeks and go back to stay at my dad’s. We’ll wait and see how the next few weeks go, and then what things look like when I go back to visit.

My yellow card stickers came in, which unveils bikealive. A number of people on .83 want a handful of them. I should email safety-third too. I want to distribute them all and get a vibe for the reaction. It seems more positive than I expected at this point.

Otherwise, I’m pushing hard to get some packages into Debian. It’s such an odd structure. I may be able to use some social connections to find a package sponsor. As soon as things quiet down I’m going to work more on that.