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IAN: March 16, 2025 - Family stuff again [1]

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Date: 2025-03-15

I’m fairly sure my daughter thinks I’m losing my hearing — which tests out at roughly what it was 12 years ago, actually (I’ve lost some of the high notes, but basic speech is well within my hearing range). I doubt she’s noticed that she talks a lot faster than she used to and refuses to raise her voice.

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I’m getting a lot of junk mail from companies that lend against expectations. I got quite a few just after my mother died. I guess they try again at around 18 months. I haven’t even been opening them — straight to the shredder.

I haven’t been this cranky in several years. And it’s lasting too long. Some of it is, I grant you, worry about friends and family; I’ve mentioned this before. The rest is a heaping helping of self-pity — and, whether or not anybody even wants to believe me, I have little patience for that, even when it’s me. Which doesn’t help the cranky.

Still binge-reading.

My firstborn just told me that her father married his long-time girlfriend last week. This is the one we divorced over. He’s had one or two others, but always went back to her, and if her divorce was never finalized (which it might have been — after the last time I heard anything about it), the man died a year or two ago.

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Love you guys!

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