With all my thanks

[ealgylden]

I really need to thank you guys for the kind thoughts and hugs. You've been wonderful. And it's helped, honestly. Calling hours are on Saturday (which is also Rosh Hashanah, but I've never been particularly observant so oh well. Actually we don't even have a rabbi anymore, since the last one retired, so I don't think I even have services to skip), and the funeral is on Sunday. And then we all go back to regular life, I guess. Slowly. Our town does have ties to the military, in that there's housing for the local base here, but we haven't lost any of our own soldiers since, well, Vietnam. Travis was a visible guy, well-known in the community, and even those who didn't know him (or his sisters) probably know his parents, who both teach English at the high school (I had his dad for tenth grade). Town's not a good place to be right now, and I'm keeping well out of it and close to home, with the kitties. I spent all yesterday looking for apple-and-honey dessert recipes and watching Kim Possible, thanks to the divine kathlaw, supplier of monkey ninjas and evil discos. A fitting tribute for such a lover of cartoons, I think. This week is pretty much turned over to mourning and reminiscing, and then we go on.

My big TV premiere night is tonight, with CSI and Without a Trace both returning. I'm not as eager as I normally would be, obviously, but I'll still be watching. It's either that or sit around and wish for things to be other than they are, and since I don't have reality-warping powers, I'll take closeted Fibbies and Gil's terrifying new facial hair instead.

So anyway, thanks guys. Your kindness and concern has been much appreciated. You're wonderful people, and I'm extremely glad you're out there.

Comments

[castalianspring.livejournal.com]

No thanks necessary, my friend. I'm glad you have so many people rallying to you during this time.

Here's hoping tonight's fannish activity provides a nice escape. *hugs*

[ealgylden.livejournal.com]

See, this is the sort of thing I always point to when my dad (or other non-computery relative) asks why I spend so much time talking to people I only know through the computer. "Because a lot of them are really wonderful, caring people that it makes my life better to know, even if it is long-distance" is a good reason, I think. You guys have just been so great, and so helpful.

[cruisedirector]

Just wanted to send condolences and hugs -- I didn't read your post until today. My good friend who's a captain is home, with her unit in Chicago -- I feel much better now.

[ealgylden.livejournal.com]

Thank you. I appreciate it, truly. And I'm so glad your friend is home and safe- I really wish everyone else was too. I hate seeing new casualties every day when supposedly the war is over. Sure it is. But anyway, thank you.

Speaking of safe, how are you and your family? You haven't exactly been having the greatest week here either. Are things getting back to post-hurricane normality? Is the computer crisis healed?

[cruisedirector]

The computer crisis seems to be healed, knock wood, though I have been VERY careful not to have too many programs running at once (the combination of MSWord, Netscape and IE along with Norton Antivirus seems to be noxious). Our refrigerator still has little more in it than milk, cheese and hummus, and our neighborhood has big trees down and chopped up along the paths, but we got very lucky all in all. Thanks so much for asking!

[kbfan.livejournal.com]

I wish I knew what to say...but as is the norm, what can you say to make thing's better. Not much really. But, I just wanted to send my sympathy and let you know that I'm thinking about you.

[ealgylden.livejournal.com]

That's enough, really. It does help. So thank you, I appreciate the thoughts. And I hope your migraine has finally gone and that you feel better!

[carmarthen.livejournal.com]

I didn't really know what to say, since I don't know you terribly well, or whether it would be good/bad if I emailed you, but I am very sorry, and I hope you are coping okay.

[ealgylden.livejournal.com]

That's okay, really. That's one of the reasons I turned off the comments on my original post- I didn't want anyone to feel guilty if they couldn't think of what to say, because goodness knows I never know myself. And it's even tougher online, where you sort of know people but not really. But I do appreciate the kind thoughts (and the sympathetic note in your own journal as well, if I'm not being presumptuous in thinking part of that was directed at me. It was a bad week on LJ, though, wasn't it?). So thank you again.

[carmarthen.livejournal.com]

Not at all presumptuous; that comment had a lot to do with you.