Catching up

It's been a tumultuous few weeks, to put it mildly.  I have another week of business, and then I will hopefully be able to start catching up, and post some stuff retroactively.  In the interest of not getting too backed up, I think I will just start posting as usual and then fill in the past few weeks little by little.  The big news is that my dad died on the 13th of May.  I had flown in the previous night and so I was able to see him before he passed away.  We had a memorial service for him shortly afterwards.  He has been in my thoughts every day, but I have luckily been incredibly busy, so it has taken my mind off of things a bit.  I miss him a lot.