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( Oct. 5th, 2011 10:26 am)
Well, at least I'll be on a river-the Danube. I'm leaving today for a cruise down the Danube from Budapest to Bucharest, with stops in between. I will have email but I doubt I'll have much time or that the connection will be good enough to check anything but email.

I hope you all miss me. And while I'm away -read (and/or write) stories and books.

Back late the 19th.
I'll post photos when I return.
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( Sep. 28th, 2011 12:45 am)
Visited my sister and went antiquing and fleamarketing. No great finds but fun, even though it rained a lot on Saturday. Have been psychologically preparing for two week cruise up the Danube with my family next week. Got the plane tix and confirmed flights. I fly from JFK to Milan to Budapest, we take a boat up the river, stop in Serbia and Croatia and Bulgaria and end up in Bucharest, where we stop for a few days. I'm missing next month's KGB reading because of the trip unfortunately. Trying to figure out what to pack-I need to start wearing my cowboy boots and closed shoes so I can walk in them during the trip. I've been wearing sandals all summer.

Lost my glasses and found them (thought I'd packed them for visit to sis, couldn't find them when I get there nor when I got home then searched bag assiduously one more time and there they were in a never-before-used compartment.

Found the Nikon instructions manual--in a pile of books but not the pile it had been in.

And currently going through the copy edit of After, stetting things and querying the contributors with other copy editing changes that I either agree with or that are more serious. Whenever I go over a copy edit I discover how much I missed in my line edit and get annoyed with myself. It means that I wasn't focused, not paying enough attention to each ms.

Need to send out a couple of cartons of books Thursday via UPS pick up. Pull down some of the piles of books currently living on my sofa and either sort them or read them. (they're mostly anthologies with a few collections/magazines thrown in for variety.) And of course those are only on my sofa-I should take photos of the piles of "to read" material for Best Horror one of these days.

Anyway, that's where I've been. Back to work before hitting the sack.
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It's a weirdly crazy NYC summer that's more like tropical --sunny then downpour in the afternoon and then more sun.

I don't care, I'm taking off for upstate NY tomorrow (where I gather it's also been raining) for a real vacation for a couple of days.

Meeting with speech and physical therapists today (and my mom and dad and sister) and it went well. Dad's definitely improving. They're worried about his climbing up the stairs to the garden apt in Yonkers. And my sister, mom, and I worry too. But they just started putting him on steps a couple of days ago, so no surprise there. Ann gave us a rundown of how she's working with my dad to help with his reading comprehension as well as his speech. He can read simple sentences (he can definitely read and comment on the tabloids) Has more trouble with complex questions. But hell, he's only been in rehab two weeks come tomorrow (or about to be today).

My sister and I are more worried about our mom, who's having a very hard time of it. She refuses to take time off and is having major pain in her knee (this is new to us)--she's apparently had arthritis in it for awhile but it's been acting up. If possible my sister will take her to a walk in clinic (of course, this has to happen July 4th weekend when NO doctor will be around). She's taking aspirin and putting a heating pad on it. The only good thing about it is that it means she probably will take a day off visiting our dad tomorrow. We'd like her to take a day off and see friends. She won't. My sister is staying over till Saturday and I'll be back Sunday night, going up there Monday and Tuesday for the day.
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