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Wednesday, September 03, 2003
Yes, I am aware that it is September. I am aware that I have not updated since June. I'd offer up some lame excuses, but, well, they'd be lame excuses.
Yes, I did do the Alaska cruise in June, and I very much enjoyed it! I spent a couple of days in Vancouver, BC first, visiting a friend of mine who lives there. Then we sailed off on the one-week cruise along the Alaskan coastline. We stopped in three Alaskan ports along the way, and sailed very close to Hubbard Glacier, which was a very impressive sight. Then it was back to Vancouver for another couple of days before reluctantly returning home. I have to say, Alaska was beautiful, and the cruise ship was very cool. If you ever get the chance, I definitely recommend the experience.
July and August passed in something of a blur. If I did anything particularly interesting during those months, I cannot now think what it was.
I'm heading up to Oregon to visit my sister in a couple of weeks. She's going through a bit of a difficult time at the moment and wants a bit of company, and I've been wanting to get back up for a visit, anyway.
I'll try and remember to update again before December, but don't take that as a promise, 'kay?
Betty 4:38 PM
Tuesday, June 17, 2003
I'm getting ready to leave on my vacation tomorrow, and am getting pretty excited about it! As I mentioned before, I'm going to be spending a few days with friends and family in Vancouver, and then we're taking a cruise along the Alaskan coast. Should be a lot of fun!
For the record, I did get the swamp cooler leak fixed. Turns out I hadn't gotten the panels on quite right, and that's why it was leaking. In future, I think I'm just going to pay somebody competent to set up the cooler instead of trying to do it myself.
Betty 2:42 PM
Saturday, May 31, 2003
Well, I did finally get my swamp cooler up and running. Unfortunately, it's also leaking like crazy, so it looks like I'm going to have to get somebody in to take a look at it. Hopefully very soon, because it's starting to get really hot here!
I'm working on getting ready for next month's vacation, a cruise to Alaska with my mother and a bunch of her family. I've got my plane tickets, and I also went out and bought a new swimsuit, so I guess I'm pretty close to set. They'd originally planned this trip last year, before my stepfather got sick, but he was very insistent that if anything happened to him, he wanted my mom to go and do it anyway. Which I think is a really good idea, though I very much wish circumstances had been such that he was going instead of me. Anyway, it's a one-week cruise, but I'll be gone for closer to two weeks, as I'm spending a few days on either side in Vancouver, which is where the ship leaves from. My mother wants to see a bit of the area, my sister and her family are coming up from Oregon to see us before we go, and I've got a friend in Vancouver I'd like to spend some time hanging out with. All in all, it promises to be a very full vacation.
Betty 7:27 AM
Wednesday, April 30, 2003
As you can see, this page has taken on a whole new look... And a whole new address... Pretty much a whole new everything, really. There's several reasons for this, pretty much all of which boil down to the fact that this sort of once-monthly update-on-my-life thing really is ideally suited to the blog format. Instead of an increasingly unwieldy single page with updates going back to 1997, you get the most recent posts, with the earlier ones archived for anyone who's desperately interested in combing through my boring past. (I'm leaving the original page with everything from Nov '97 to March '03 right where it was, though, so only the newer stuff will be found here.) Do let me know what you think.
As most of you probably know, my stepfather, Charlie, died last month, after being diagnosed with cancer only a couple of months earlier. I was with him at the end, and, while the last days were very rough, they were mercifully short. Up until the last three days or so he was in good spirits and not in much pain, and he went very peacefully. My mother seems to be holding up very well, although I know it's hard for her, as this is the first time she's ever lived by herself. I'm going to see her again in June, when several members of our family are getting together to go on a cruise to Alaska. I think that's going to be really good for her, and I'm rather looking forward to it, myself. I'm sure I'll have more to say about that in the future.
Things are going much the same as ever here in Socorro. The weather is really starting to get warm, which means I'm going to have to climb up on the roof and start struggling with my swamp cooler again very soon. Although when I'm going to find the time, I have no idea...
Betty 5:19 PM
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