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My grandfather is in the hospital. A couple of days ago, he fell in the shower and fractured his pelvis. I believe he also has a broken wrist, and there may be some broken or cracked ribs. He's not doing really well in the hospital. He has Alzheimer's, and he can't remember, from minute to minute, why he's there or that he needs to stay in bed. He keeps trying to get up.

He can't go home. Mom and her brothers will have to find a nursing home for him. It's really sad because they had good care set up for him in his home, with someone living there to be on call all the time (two care givers, one there for three weeks at a time with the other taking one week after each three week period). It was even a little cheaper than a nursing home. He was happy with that, at least as happy as he could be when he couldn't remember why this strange person was in his house. Now, he'll be in a strange place, surrounded by strangers.

I wish there was something I could do.

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I've finally picked a fic to remix. I haven't decided on my angle of attack yet, but I've selected the fic. Writing starts tomorrow (tonight, I'm busy with Scott's Babylon 5 game). I actually consulted with Scott in the process of selecting the fic because nothing leapt out at me and demanded to be remixed. My remixee is prolific, so I had more choices than I knew what to do with. I'm remixing in a fandom I've not done much with before, so it should prove interesting.

I decided to sign up for the Finishathon. The process of signing up and having people vote on the plot bunnies takes long enough that assignments won't go out until right around when Remix is due. I can live with that timeline.

It looks like we're going to be on our own for Easter this year. At least, I can't imagine that Scott's sister's in-laws will invite us to join them when Scott's sister and her family won't be there. They've been kind enough to include us in years past because we haven't anywhere else to go. Scott's parents are always traveling at Easter now.

At any rate, I'm now trying to figure out a good Easter meal. It'll just be the three of us, and I can't handle a ham (it does bad things to my reflux). Maybe we'll roast a chicken or experiment with lamb. I've never cooked lamb or mutton. Then again, given how warm it already is this year (it passed 80 today!), we may need to focus on things that don't require the oven. We have no Easter traditions to speak of, so I suppose I should look at this as an opportunity to create some.

Delia is working her way steadily through Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. ( Spoiler if people care )

Since she says she's okay with bad things happening to parents now, we're going to try the Percy Jackson books next. At least, we will if I can find the copy of the first book that I bought last month. It's disappeared into Delia's room.