The young fellow above is about to become a new Dad. And I suspect that means that I will soon become a Grand Pa.
Shocking to think of it. One the one hand there is a huge fantastic WOW!! Congrats!! All my love to the 3 of you!! form of joyous response. There follows a period of reflection, a working back through memory. A reliving of the past.
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Wipe out! A few seconds after the above image was captured, the surfer disappeared in a cloud of angry foam. Shortly after I completed work on the image, one of my piles of tottering paper let go. There was a minor earthquake as it collapsed and a landslide of papers spilled out across the base of the stairs. I have been trying to clean up and organize. Hence the greater mess.
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I saw Dr. D yesterday and discussed the problems with TAQ document creation. She offered a number of great insights and confirmed some of my interpretation of events. I am listing these from memory and my recollection is bound to be wildly imperfect, but I believe we discussed the following issues. When combined, all of these form a wall of psychological resistance I have difficulty overcoming.