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Title: A long weird week.
Date: 2022-05-10
Device: Desktop
Mood: Sombre.
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Ugh. What a strange week.
My grandfather is steadily declining. He has been
frail for the last month or so, but it's a
noticible drop in the last week.
Yesterday I had a tearful phone call from my mum
saying we should go and visit soon. I was kind of
blindsided by this (at the time I didn't
understand how quickly his cancer had progressed);
so I went to pick up to boy from school, and I
figured we could both visit him together. I named
my son after my grandfather, and it's important
for me that he has some memories of him to carry
forward.
When I arrived, my grandfather was sleeping. I
didn't want to wake him, so I just sat with him
for a while, holding his had. My son was sat with
us, quietly. I think he understood the atmosphere
rather than the circumstances.
My wife went to visit him last night, and
apparently he was beginning the cycle of morphine
via a pump, so he could relax in the face of the
pain. I don't know if he will wake up again. I
hope that he will leave us without pain, or
regret. I'm going to visit again this afternoon.
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Work continues; we are steading draining the AWS
swamp (ha!). Only about 20 application remain now,
and then the costs will crater once we can take
the RDS and ES instances offline.
Lots of useful upside at the moment as the
engineering team is beginning to recognise the
benefits of Incredibly Simple Unix Hosting.
There's even talk of moving some of the low
traffic applications from traditional
network-availabel RDBMS to something simpler like
SQLite. This is good progress.
