Thanksgiving Tracking, Health

Not in that order!

Thanksgiving was pretty good. Good Turkey. Good Ham. Games with the fam. Never a restful day, Thanksgiving is still one of the great secular Holidays. There is not much to tell. The level of dysfunction in our family is high enough to be normal but too low to be really interesting. My daughter and I had a little fight. I'm not really too sure what it was about. Harrison woke up today with the stomach flu, so I hope no one ate after him yesterday. Beyond some questionable calls in the game we played yesterday (what does it mean when the main referees and rule interpreters in the game end up winning it?), it was a very pleasant day.

It was the first time I ever really felt the ghosts of our departed family members. I missed Dad and Debbie so much. I also thought about the much older times of gathering together when the main family was based around Grandma & Grandpa Cornell, and I'd see all my Aunts and Uncles and Cousins. Aunt Peggy would always give me an early Christmas present and I'd share my latest poems with her. I don't know if kids today feel this way, I would suppose they do. But there is just a little bit of us that we see in our relatives. Peggy was the youngest of her family as I was the youngest of mine and we shared a love of art and creativity. She'd write poems to share with me when she found out I had an interest. My Aunt Glenna liked science fiction (or at least acted like she liked it) where as my Dad and Mom really had no use for it. Of course Mom is a voracious reader and always to this day spends a great deal of her free time devouring books.

So I guess Thanksgiving was a little more melancholy this year. Last year was the first year "the kids," meaning us kids, celebrated Christmas with our immediate families. As you may recall, my family was on the road swinging through Houston and doing some genealogy stops along the way. Not really a new tradition, but our kids, who were adamant that we should not travel over Christmas, were asking if we could do it again this year. I think that is the kind of thing that best happens just once.

My album is progressing nicely. i tracked some of the horn parts Last Wednesday and hope to do more on Monday.

My health is holding up pretty well. I feel demonstrably better. Manolo, my protocol nurse, called about a week ago asking how I was and seeing if I felt well enough to go back on the clinical trial. I almost do, but while I feel good I want to keep after the album. I can edit when I'm not at my best. The tracking has been holding me up, however. I have to get the parts down and it's very difficult to do the extended sessions necessary when I'm not closer to 100%.

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