Month: March 2026

Currently my daughter’s non-Chromebook computer, this D630 was saved from the Goodwill #scrapbook pile, including stickers. The keyboard isn’t the best, but I like the rounded case edges and the wrist-rest battery.

#writerdeck #amwriting

The sale of my mom's house was complete a week ago. I'm still getting used to someone else living in the house I grew up in. It was different with renters. They were borrowing it. Now the house is gone.

I had felt for a long time that the house was dead for my family. My parents divorced not long after my brother and I moved out, and my mom lived there alone for another twenty years. I liked seeing families with kids checking it out during the selling process. It's a house and yard with a lot of room for a new family. I hope it brings them joy.

My mom has been in a memory care facility since June, 2025, and the cost has gradually increased from $6800 a month to $7800, due to room changes and care needs. She declined more in the last month and an opening came up in a house with "increased care." It's now $9800 a month.

We were fortunate in the sale of the house. It happened just before her other savings ran out. Now we have enough for about three years before I'll need to figure out Medicare. The house is still taking care of her, I guess.

There won't be anything for the next generation, but I never really expected that. I worry about housing for our kids, but I understand why they wouldn't want to be tied to the logging town where we grew up.

Still, it's amazing how fast the medical machine can eat a family's legacy these days. The house is gone, and in just a few years the money will be gone, too.

#getablog, #sandwichgeneration

A few springtime flowers from this morning

#bloomscrolling #springfieldor

This week's library haul:
Breakneck by Dan Wang

"EACH TIME I SEE a headline that officials from the United States and China are butting heads, I feel the state of affairs is more than just tragic; it is comical, too. I am sure that no two peoples are more alike than Americans and Chinese."

#amreading #getablog

GitHub – ericjenott/Evertop: E-ink IBM XT clone with solar power, ultra low power consumption, and ultra long battery life. · GitHub

https://github.com/ericjenott/Evertop

#diy #3dprinting #solar