Old Post Chapel was old; steam heat made me wish we'd held the funeral in the parking lot. Aunt Emily and Aunt Frances did the readings so I didn't have to; digex shot an assload of pictures,... jamestrainor 's parka) and B&N in Potomac Yards (to confer upon jamestrainor a belated birthday present) but that delayed us enough so hat we missed Heather and the aunts. :( Time for bed

Finished the eulogy and ran through it in a little less than two minutes. It doesn't say everything I wanted to say, but it hits all the important stuff. E-mailed it to Carlos to read through so he can call me with any last-minute suggestions. Would have been done sooner but P got lost on her way over to Forest Heights. More sleep, less work, hija .

Grr! So it turns out my FMIL is being...manipulative, I'm talking hemming & hawing, "I don't knows", guilt trips about us getting married on Halloween.  She is totally against the idea of us getting married...have to add goddess knows how much to the budget. Good news is I found these super cute Halloween Chinese take-out boxes at Michaels the other day. yay for sales! They will be our wedding favors

So everybody's here that's going to be here, it seems. Picked up jamestrainor at Reagan National after a misunderstanding about whether P or myself or a player to be named later was going to...about. I'd thought they were coming in yesterday but I guess I thought wrong. There's some interesting political stuff out there but I have to deal with eternity this evening, so it'll have to wait

Standing in the runway, waving at the plane There goes everything you own You called home collect, and they didn't know your name Staring at the telephone... ...no, it's not really apropos of anything...to the funeral itself. Before I forget, profound thanks to all friends of Carlos' and mine who have called/e-mailed us about coming. Times like these, you find out who your real friends are

Your all failures. Yasuyoshi...I'm very disappointed in you. ...Why is the cable off? Wonder if boxer boy realizes those flowers have meaning, oh well.

We booked our Cruise the weekend! It's this one . It leaves the Thursday after our wedding, so I'll have time to visit with my relatives who live cross county (FI will have to work because he doesn't... I was excited to read your feedback and am now feeling frustrated and sad that I spent so much time and effort working on things for the wedding and you don't seem to like most of what we've done.

Finally got around to loading the first batch of estate books (i.e., all the stuff I got cataloged over at Fox Way) and putting them up on Half.com in my shop. You can find them here along with some... religious meditations, biographies - in short, quite a diverse library. I'll be putting a link on the sidebar, and throwing up a few ads on the Fochase website and elsewhere. More books will follow

Talked with Father McGill today (he's celebrating the funeral Mass) and we ran through the details. First and most important, DO NOT go to the Visitor's Center at Arlington National Cemetery. The Mass...along. I am hoping that Monsignor Sokolowski, who concelebrated Dad's funeral, will be there, but since we didn't remember to call him until this weekend I'm not promising anything on that front

Been thinking off and on about what to say next week at the funeral, and I have to admit I don't have much at this point. I'll come up with something, I'm sure, but it bothers me some that I can't just...complicated than most folks thought from their first impressions, and it's hard to pin that down. P paid off her share of the airline tickets, which is good since I'm a bit low on gas and bandages