okay, so those of you familiar with my past blogging endeavors were probably wondering when the first hiatus would occur. so to you i say, “hah! 3 days is a heckuva lot shorter than [x] months!”

no, what happened is i picked up strep throat from some kind soul (probably my son, bless his little heart), so Sunday and Monday were not great days for me. i’m pretty much over it now, though, i’m happy to report. hurray for penicillin and its derivatives!

“the daughter” hasn’t responded to my mom’s last email. i’m a bit frustrated with my mother for this, because it tangented into all the sexual indescretions of virtually everyone in the family. she was trying to show how life can be okay despite some of those shortcomings, but i can’t help but wonder if that didn’t make The Elder and Unknown at least a little uneasy about things. in her communications with mom, church and church functions have more prevalent than mentions of family, after all.

since we are going to be in San Antonio, the Spouse-Unit sent The Elder and Unknown an email. there’s been no response to that, either. but she now knows a little bit more about all of us, and has the Spouse-Unit ‘s contact information. mine, too, since the Spouse-Unit gave her the link to our website.

but that’s where we stand for now. i leave for Saint Louis early Thursday morning, then the Spouse-Unit and I will join up in San Antonio late Sunday. it’ll be impossible not to think of The Elder and Unknown while we’re there, of course, but at this point, it’s pretty much 50-50 (or less) that we’ll get to see her. more likely is some sort of meeting with my adoptive parents, as i will be going by our old house while the Spouse-Unit is at her conference on Monday. i won’t be knocking at the door, but i am curious as to how the neighborhood has changed since i was there last in 1990 ~ which was when i dropped The Elder and Unknown and her mother off after they had come to visit me and my (real) parents up in Lubbock.