I keep meaning to update this thing, but I've just been too busy. I'm still too busy, but feel like I'll forget if I wait another two weeks.

Here are the major updates / changes:

• I went to Detroit on the 7th for Bernie's Memorial service. So sad to lose him, and so unexpected. Moved by how much he was loved and respected. My favorite story shared at the memorial: Bernie was a professor of rhetoric for 35 years. One grad student of his shared that a few years ago he was teaching in a class (specifically, discussing a passage of scripture from different perspectives) when a woman snipped, "Gays don't read the Bible." Without missing a beat, Bernie said "Well I'm gay, and I read the Bible." ... Bernie never told his students whether the statement was 'true' or 'false' ... He was so committed to equality and dialogue that mattered that he was willing to put his ass  Met more of A's family and friends. Toured some of his old haunts, including houses he lived in and schools he attended. A is doing really well, considering. Met Barley for the first time ever - she's lovely. A is returning next week to keep working on settling Bernie's estate. I hope it goes smoothly for him.
  

• While in Michigan, we drove to Windsor, Canada. My first time there. Almost got stuck - we only had our driver's licenses, and they almost didn't let us back in.
  

• I have a huge crush on a very cool guy. More later.
  

• I read "The Time Traveler's Wife" while traveling. Loved it. Should say more later.

I'm going to Detroit next friday the 7th, in time for Bernie's memorial service on Saturday. A and I will then be coming back on Monday.

My birthday is tomorrow. I had sent out invites to a few folks, which I then cancelled. But since then I've called a few of them back. I don't want to spend my birthday alone.

And I'll also be doing more gardening. I excitedly discovered today that the raspberries I planted last spring are sending up four or five new canes from the roots. I'm planting two more bushes, and will be setting up a better, more well-drained bed for them tomorrow morning.

I also got the lighting for my seedlings at home depot. Now I just need to figure out how to hang the light from the ceiling in a non-intrusive, easy to disguise kind of way. Don't know how that will happen.