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Oh jeez! I'm on 2013 of 2020 but I can't sleep so I guess I'll spend the time to catch up.

Went to orientation today. Lots of admin stuff. The usual.
But then, while I'm gone, or maybe because I'm gone, mom decides to call my brother and ask for $1600 because the woman who use to take care of her brought a bunch of stolen clothes into the house and changed them for her wigs and she's afraid FBI is going to come take her away for harboring stolen goods. *Deep breath*

I leave for one day and...

Ok, now, my brother is blowing up my phone while I'm in orientation just 5 minutes from his house and is leaving messages I can't return quickly. I finally get through to him and remind him this is an ongoing paranoia of hers and that she doesn't recognize her own clothes anymore. And the wigs thing...I have no idea.

He asks me about the $1600 and if we need it and I tell him no. He wants to make sure she hasn't done something silly behind our backs and I explain that if she has, we sure aren't going to blindly throw money at it.

My realtor called today as well. She had a good showing of our house today and they were very interested in the place. Now we just have to see if the banks are as interested in loaning her money for it. She's a local teacher with a small son. Single mother in assuming. I wish her well if she likes it.

Can't sleep. I wonder why?

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Good morning from Texas! Flew into Houston yesterday and at a good friends here. Then down to Montagorda Bay today.

Nice thunderstorm at 0300!!
Wish I still lived there and could have shown you around too. I hope your friend took you to Matagorda to fish. Best speckled trout fishing I ever did was there. Sea anchor drifting over oyster beds.
 
Oh jeez! I'm on 2013 of 2020 but I can't sleep so I guess I'll spend the time to catch up.

Went to orientation today. Lots of admin stuff. The usual.
But then, while I'm gone, or maybe because I'm gone, mom decides to call my brother and ask for $1600 because the woman who use to take care of her brought a bunch of stolen clothes into the house and changed them for her wigs and she's afraid FBI is going to come take her away for harboring stolen goods. *Deep breath*

I leave for one day and...

Ok, now, my brother is blowing up my phone while I'm in orientation just 5 minutes from his house and is leaving messages I can't return quickly. I finally get through to him and remind him this is an ongoing paranoia of hers and that she doesn't recognize her own clothes anymore. And the wigs thing...I have no idea.

He asks me about the $1600 and if we need it and I tell him no. He wants to make sure she hasn't done something silly behind our backs and I explain that if she has, we sure aren't going to blindly throw money at it.

My realtor called today as well. She had a good showing of our house today and they were very interested in the place. Now we just have to see if the banks are as interested in loaning her money for it. She's a local teacher with a small son. Single mother in assuming. I wish her well if she likes it.

Can't sleep. I wonder why?

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Sorry to read as your life right now seems stressful. Sending Zen.
 
Has anyone here been to Berlin? Heading over soon; been all over Western Germany, not the East. I am sure there is lots to see and do. I think also Magdeburg, very historical.
I have a few times. I have distant relatives there.

Go to all of the usual touristy places. Tiergarten, brandenburg gate, reichstag. They’re all nearby. There’s patched up bullet holes all over the place in former East Berlin.

Berlin Wall is still in a few places. East side gallery and the wall museum. There’s a nice one near the flea market in Maurpark too. Flea market is pretty good - open Sundays only in memory serves.

There a ton of cool old buildings and museums to explore too in the central and east Berlin part. Nice old churches and the old East German tv tower.

U-bahn and s-bahn (subways) are cheap and fairly easy and intuitive. The zoo is amazing.

And then there’s this advertisement!
 
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