people older than I am having bad days

[sistawendy]

The Coming of Mom is delayed by a whopping forty-four (44) hours. My mom gets to enjoy beautiful Atlanta for two nights because, ultimately, a plane skidded off the runway in Salt Lake City. Then Delta had four gate agents to rebook 350 passengers, thereby enabling Mom to miss a flight to Philly that would have gotten her to me today.

It gets better: Mom left her medications in her checked luggage. She's not supposed to skip a day of some of them.

So now I'm alone in a my squeaky-clean apartment. Le sigh.

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And in other old person news, I went over to my Aspiring Ex's dad's last night to get Windows 8.1 on his recently repaired 'pooter. I plugged everything in, but I couldn't connect over his DSL, which he says is provided by - wait for it - AOL. I had to get m'boy home to bed, so I gave him a brain dump of what I did and left it to him. We'll see.

I have to say, though, that even after two TIAs he's more mobile and coherent than his wife. If no one had told me about them I wouldn't have guessed they'd happened.

Comments

[tylik.livejournal.com]

Can she get to a pharmacy? Mostly will call your home pharmacy and give you a few days of meds for that kind of emergency.

(And once upon a time I did a commando raid on the mall of america and managed to get in and out in under thirty minutes, spending no money and acquiring a new sim card and still made it back for my plane. And that was a much shorter layover.)

[sistawendy.livejournal.com]

I call her tonight to see if that's what she did.

[parityanimal.livejournal.com]

At least if she's got to be stuck somewhere, Atlanta is a decent place to be stuck. We like it here. But then we don't actually live in the city, but out in the burbs.

[sistawendy.livejournal.com]

Mom was telling me about Atlanta's art museum, which she is all about. I have no doubt that she (or I) can find something fun to do there, but she's still not here.

[alton-lust.livejournal.com]

Sorry to hear about your mother and the plane. Hope she's okay!
I didn't get to the art museum, but the aquarium impressed for an hour or two. (There must be pictures online)

I've been wondering about the dad. Glad he's doing better