What a Week

I was going to do the PhotoQuest finally, but I am so tired, I think I shall instead just complain.

It has been quite a week. I went into it a bit tired from my re-org project. I've moved onto my office now, and it has a ways to go. So far, I've moved out several old computers, retired a HP PSC 2210 inkjet multifunction in favor of a new Brother 7820N networked laser multifunction, and started clearing off my hard disk in preparation for a new computer which arrived today.

The week also started off with a big worry. I wrote about it in a prayer request on TSN. A friend of mine residing in another part of the country, who normally seems to returns calls very quickly, failed to do so for five days. I had a bad feeling that something was wrong almost from the beginning, since this all started when the said friend called at an odd time (for her) on last Saturday and I missed the call… I started to wonder what the call had been about, since there was no message. Thankfully, after actually sending an e-mail noting my concern (rather than just saying I was returning the call, as I had previously), she called and my fears that something bad might have happened turned out to be false. That was truly a wonderful relief and an answered prayer!

Unfortunately, the call from her coincided with a call from my grandmother's nursing home that said what we had suspected for several days: that my grandmother is making a steep decline and death seems eminent. I won't hash out all the details here, but I'd ask for prayers. You can find a bit more of the details, along with more specific prayer requests here. I blogged about the beginning of the long journey that has been most pronounced part of my grandmother's decline here on asisaid a couple of years ago.

It has been an emotionally and physically draining week. Now, I think I should get some sleep.