The next couple of weeks will mostly be about family.

In the morning, I started work helping my brother fix an old Marantz HI-FI receiver that had lost a channel. We had to go out and buy a Multimeter before we could make much progress. We were in the middle of determining where the signal was lost when we had to put it aside in order to join a meeting with the health care professionals that were taking care of my father.

That meeting turned into two meetings, the one afterward was a family meeting, that got everyone in the family up to speed.

It was nice to see my father was physically doing pretty well, and his sense of humor was as sharp as ever, if not more than ever. He is truly a very funny man. On the other hand, it’s horribly sad to see how some people slowly decline and eventually lose control of their own destiny.

After the meeting, we reconvened at my mom and my sisters in order to christen my sister’s new grill with some brats. I found their doorbell was broken and determined that she needs a new chime. I pulled the old one off the wall and started preparing the wall for a new chime. The button also needed wiring work, but I think it will work OK.

My mom and I ended the day by driving over to Home Depot in order to pick up a new chime. This new one had 16 different chimes, so I think we will have some fun picking the perfect one.