A Mostly-Taking-it-Easy Weekend, Part 2
Jun. 4th, 2023 10:02 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
canyonwalkerToday was pretty much a taking-it-easy Sunday. The only fixed plans we had were to meet friends for lunch and to hang out in the afternoon. That's even less than yesterday, when our plans were housework and hiking— and we didn't go hiking. The hike(s) we didn't take will stay on the list for next weekend or sometime soon.
We went to see friends who live on the coast a few miles south of San Francisco. For those of you who don't live around here but are curious what we mean when we talk about "microclimates".... It was 82° here in Sunnyvale today and only 58° up there. Yeah, a difference of 24° just 30 miles north. And 30 miles east of here it was 95°.
One of the friends we saw today, Del, is dying of cancer. Yeah, I know it's generally preferred now to say, "Living with cancer", not "Dying of cancer", but, man, Del is dying. As in it's inoperable Stage IV cancer and they ceased medical treatment a few months ago and there might be only 2 weeks left. We've been visiting every few weeks to support him and his family.
Today Del wanted to play a big boardgame. "Do you have the spoons for that?" I checked. "Versus us just hanging out and chatting for a while?"
Del did. But I had to check because his husband warned me that some days lately he's barely gotten out of bed. At the same time I understood that he may have been looking forward to this visit and playing a game with us; he might tap a reserve of energy for it. It was no sacrifice from any of us to play a boardgame, so we did. And we spent 4 hours on it.
We wrapped up the game a bit after 6. Del was pretty fatigued and went off to lie down. Hawk and I caught up with one of the other people in the family for a bit and then left at 6:30. We stopped for dinner on the way home. Since getting home we've just been taking it easy. Tomorrow starts a new work-week.
We went to see friends who live on the coast a few miles south of San Francisco. For those of you who don't live around here but are curious what we mean when we talk about "microclimates".... It was 82° here in Sunnyvale today and only 58° up there. Yeah, a difference of 24° just 30 miles north. And 30 miles east of here it was 95°.
One of the friends we saw today, Del, is dying of cancer. Yeah, I know it's generally preferred now to say, "Living with cancer", not "Dying of cancer", but, man, Del is dying. As in it's inoperable Stage IV cancer and they ceased medical treatment a few months ago and there might be only 2 weeks left. We've been visiting every few weeks to support him and his family.
Today Del wanted to play a big boardgame. "Do you have the spoons for that?" I checked. "Versus us just hanging out and chatting for a while?"
Del did. But I had to check because his husband warned me that some days lately he's barely gotten out of bed. At the same time I understood that he may have been looking forward to this visit and playing a game with us; he might tap a reserve of energy for it. It was no sacrifice from any of us to play a boardgame, so we did. And we spent 4 hours on it.
We wrapped up the game a bit after 6. Del was pretty fatigued and went off to lie down. Hawk and I caught up with one of the other people in the family for a bit and then left at 6:30. We stopped for dinner on the way home. Since getting home we've just been taking it easy. Tomorrow starts a new work-week.
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Date: 2023-06-05 11:24 am (UTC)~Sor
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Date: 2023-06-05 02:43 pm (UTC)Five of us played. That was kind of a mistake in terms of game balance. The game ran long and slow, with too much waiting for one's turn to come around again. Though playing a game efficiently wasn't the point. I could tell Del wanted all five of us sitting together at the table.