re: #189 Alyosha

I post more infrequently than I’d like but I hope you’re doing okay.

I loved Camus’, ‘The Plague’. Metaphors aside, it was a keyhole into the kind of horror that is seeing loved ones die in such numbers that even the sensation of mourning is affected.

Thank you for that. We got through my mom’s funeral yesterday pretty well. It was cooler than usual, which helped once we got to the cemetery. My infamous brother Judas behaved more or less like a human being. I suspect someone took him aside and gave him the dire warning. I will never have to come face to face with him again. The other a-hole relatives were similarly well behaved. Decent people would take this for granted but this group has misbehaved before at funerals so precautions were in order.
I drove my Rolls-Royce rather than my usual Toyota and the obnoxious relatives seemed properly awestruck. Little do they know that I payed less than $13K for it three years ago. The reason for taking it was not to impress the goobers, though, it was because my mom really liked it and had asked me specifically to drive it to her funeral if I still had it when the time came.