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Financial considerations and other matters have prevented me from straying too far from home for the last six years, much as I've always loved to travel, it's been neither within the means of my pocketbook nor my overall well-being.
This July will be somewhat different, whoever. I have been fully-funded to attend a conference on the ADAP crisis from July 4-8, complete with liberal access to the Hospitality Suite and a generous food allowance. Expect a full report on what I've learned regarding the appalling ADAP (yep, AIDS-related) barbarity currently perpetuated by the current HHS/Obama Admin and, hopefully, have an answer or two in my vest upon return.
In what is surely the most surreal event of the last few years, my parents, separated since 1975 and divorced in 1981, have decided to re-unite. Let's just say that, while it's an oddly not-horrible thing for two drug-addicted drunks to find solace in each others' company over 30 years later, it leaves the kids...perplexed.
Nevertheless, my dad has been trying to make amends; provided my mother doesn't misbehave too horribly in the bargain, she's been shoved in my face as a bargaining chip: we were estranged for over 20 years. It's all very strange. but I've accepted a week's long invite to their home in the Berkshires from 7/14-23. I presume that my limp will be no worse than before
So if you notice that I post less, it's not a case of abandonment. And, FWIW, I detest swan-dive threads: this isn't one. Expect full-jacket Bbucko back in August, with live-blogs from the front(s) as I can in between, not owning a laptop and all. Maybe Dad'll feel guilty enough to get me one
This July will be somewhat different, whoever. I have been fully-funded to attend a conference on the ADAP crisis from July 4-8, complete with liberal access to the Hospitality Suite and a generous food allowance. Expect a full report on what I've learned regarding the appalling ADAP (yep, AIDS-related) barbarity currently perpetuated by the current HHS/Obama Admin and, hopefully, have an answer or two in my vest upon return.
In what is surely the most surreal event of the last few years, my parents, separated since 1975 and divorced in 1981, have decided to re-unite. Let's just say that, while it's an oddly not-horrible thing for two drug-addicted drunks to find solace in each others' company over 30 years later, it leaves the kids...perplexed.
Nevertheless, my dad has been trying to make amends; provided my mother doesn't misbehave too horribly in the bargain, she's been shoved in my face as a bargaining chip: we were estranged for over 20 years. It's all very strange. but I've accepted a week's long invite to their home in the Berkshires from 7/14-23. I presume that my limp will be no worse than before
So if you notice that I post less, it's not a case of abandonment. And, FWIW, I detest swan-dive threads: this isn't one. Expect full-jacket Bbucko back in August, with live-blogs from the front(s) as I can in between, not owning a laptop and all. Maybe Dad'll feel guilty enough to get me one