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Things in FL
Feb. 26th, 2010 11:53 amThings down here have been not what I expected exactly. Bob (my father-in-law) is in the hospital. He is constantly wearing an oxygen mask (a BiPAP) so that he can continue to breathe as his lungs are not capable of giving him enough oxygen on their own. His spirits are pretty darned good for someone who knows he's looking at dying within a few days.
He doesn't *look* like he's on death's door. He actually looks pretty good. Yesterday he kept trying to take the mask off while I was with him and I told him I couldn't let him do that or Dot (his wife) would kill *me* and he said that at least he wouldn't die alone (with a smile on his face). Gee, thanks Dad! ;-)
He's truly accepting of the whole thing and it makes it very surreal. It just doesn't seem like it is what it is. On the bright side, it means that our final memories of him will be good ones.
On the work front, we've had about 10% of our customers down since Monday and we've been struggling with that in conjunction with my network engineer who has been in NV all week trying to handle this remotely, our service provider, myself from down here in FL with limited access and Verisign because it appears our SSL certificate *MIGHT* be the problem. It's been a nightmare on top of the personal stuff. The last thing we want to do is give free service to 10% of our customers, so we've frantic. It looks like the things we did last night finally have things working, though none of us have any idea why. If the fix solved the problem, then 100% of our customers should have been down for the last four days. I guess for the moment I shouldn't question it and just count my blessing.
He doesn't *look* like he's on death's door. He actually looks pretty good. Yesterday he kept trying to take the mask off while I was with him and I told him I couldn't let him do that or Dot (his wife) would kill *me* and he said that at least he wouldn't die alone (with a smile on his face). Gee, thanks Dad! ;-)
He's truly accepting of the whole thing and it makes it very surreal. It just doesn't seem like it is what it is. On the bright side, it means that our final memories of him will be good ones.
On the work front, we've had about 10% of our customers down since Monday and we've been struggling with that in conjunction with my network engineer who has been in NV all week trying to handle this remotely, our service provider, myself from down here in FL with limited access and Verisign because it appears our SSL certificate *MIGHT* be the problem. It's been a nightmare on top of the personal stuff. The last thing we want to do is give free service to 10% of our customers, so we've frantic. It looks like the things we did last night finally have things working, though none of us have any idea why. If the fix solved the problem, then 100% of our customers should have been down for the last four days. I guess for the moment I shouldn't question it and just count my blessing.
