Vacation Day for Dave

I have an appointment at 11:00 to get the stitches out of my mouth from last weeks surgery.

I have taken a vacation day to accommodate the appointment and go to a funeral.

In the meantime, I have this to deal with.

It started snowing last night and continued into the evening. At some point, it turned to rain and I expect it will be gone by the end of the day. I'm going out to fire up the snow blower but I think the snow is too wet.

I'll let you know in the next paragraph.

It's the next paragraph but only about 15 minutes have passed. The snow is too wet for the snow blower. I tried to do a little shoveling but to hell with that. I don't want to attend another funeral today. Especially as Guest of Honor.

To compound matters, the snow blower is running like shit. I think I left gas in it all summer. I got some gas stabilizer but that has not seemed to work. I need to get it in for a tune up.

11:48AM: The dentist was a breeze. Sit down, cut out the stitches, get some instructions and get out.

Now I'm going to relax until I go to the Memorial gathering for Dave Rowand. I knew Dave from High School but became his Beta Brother at Washington State.

I always thought we would be attending my funeral before Dave's. He was in great shape, skied all the time and had just retired after selling the family business last year. I suspect something with his heart took him down.

I also learned to about another death, this one a high school buddy who died last week. Another Dave! In this case, Dave Gaiser. He was just a year older than me and died of heart failure. 

I may end up out living all my peers because my heart issues are identified and monitored and under the control of lots of drugs.

Either that, or I'm dead tomorrow.