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Originally Posted by Rumpelteazer
It look like there's no need to supplement grandma's ashes. My father and aunt have decided that if my uncle starts demanding things he can have the ashes, do with it what he wants to do with it with his family and my aunt's and our family (and my uncle's kid and ex if they want to) will go to the forest and remember grandma by just taking a walk and have a drink at the restaurant. We don't need ashes to remember her and grandpa.
I wish my great aunt, my grandmother's half sister, was still alive. She wasn't afraid to speak her mind and would have given my uncle an old-fashioned b**locking years ago.
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RATS. I've been sitting here contemplating various and sundry Grandma 2.0 augmentation schemes.
Boy, nothing like common sense kicking in to ruin a perfectly good idea. Dammit.
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Been there. Done That. When you're the screwed-over sibling--no matter how much, what the screwage was...you just never get over being furious. It's childish. After all, the world isn't fair. I don't quite know why we are so susceptible to the pain inflicted by parents, or why it's so hard to get past. Nonetheless...it is thus.
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Comdex was fun. I was working (I wish I could remember it all better). At the time, I was putting Basic 4 minis into hotels, in L.A. Comdex just seemed like it would go on forever. New amazing things and OSes and whatever all every year, y'know? But lo...new and amazing things, and all that, are fewer and further apart on the ground than we thought that they would be.
Although...even so, the things and gadgets and capabilities that we have today would have been considered George Jetson fluff and nonsense back then. Hell, the big "advanced" (ha!) removable drives that the Basic 4 had then were like, half the damn size of my body. Well, okay--half the size of my torso, and I'm not a wee petite thing. Now I store more than that on thumbdrives. :-) A LOT more.
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