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Finding Peace And Happiness After The Death Of A Loved One

For obvious reasons, I have been thinking about grief and loss a lot lately. I have never really experienced grief before, so I count myself as one of the lucky ones. If you have, you know and understand what I am talking about. If you have not, tell yourself you are lucky, and prepare yourself for the inevitable. In the meantime, I really love the Stoic strategy explained in this Seneca quote. You really don't have to be a practicing Stoic to apply some of its wisdom to your life. In fact, I don't like the way some folks wear their philosophy on their sleeve. For me, it is just about living a good life by applying principles that make sense. Not complicated. Here is the quote:

"Inevitable as it is that the names of persons who were dear to us and are now lost should cause us a gnawing sort of pain when we think of them, that pain is not without a pleasure of its own... Thinking of departed friends is to me something sweet and mellow. For when I had them with me it was with the feeling that I was going to lose them, and now that I have lost them I keep the feeling that I have them with me still. You have buried someone you loved. Now look for someone to love. It is better to make good the loss of a friend than to cry over him... he whom we suppose to be dead and gone has merely been sent out ahead."

Seneca.

Restore Your Windows System With One Click

Quick Restore Maker: Create a System Restore Point in 1-click. You change the oil in your car every few thousand miles. You maintain your other important possessions. Why is it so hard for you to maintain the computer system you have come to rely on for everything in your life? Windows occasionally encounters problems. But, when it is running smoothly, why not use the built in restore feature to take a picture of a healthy system? If something goes wrong, you can go back in time, and recreate the healthy system. But, you don't even have to learn how to access System Settings to do it. This free little utility sits in your Task Bar or on your desktop, and you just click it once to create a System Restore Point. Next to a complete system image, which you should be doing once a week at a minimum, you can create a restore point whenever you want. I do it at least daily. It takes about 20 seconds. It is free. What exactly is your problem, grasshopper?

Old Man

When I wrote this, it never occurred to me that I would survive my beautiful wife. I have lived my life so as to avoid the sad end of this gentleman. In her honor, I will continue living. If you see yourself or someone you know or someone you love in this poem, do your best to help them to engage in life and living. It will honor them and those who preceded them. 

"             Old Man.

He slowly pattered to the chair
Cloth rubbed raw and chafing
Slippers worn and in their place
Pipe and Ashtray next to the lighter
his wife had given him on Memorial Day.

His body bent forward
and his gaze fell on the carpet
threadbare from walking and pacing
during illness and crisis.

He was alone now
Slowly dying
and living slowly.

He watched the flickering television
looking for meaning
and not looking at all.
Did he remember the President
and the year
or did he remember a kiss in 1947...
Or was it ‘48?

He felt a tightening in his chest
and knew his end was coming
He closed his eyes
and remembered the past
thought about the future
and prayed to whatever God
was up there.

When he died
They removed the body
Boxed his belongings
Threw them in the trash
Emptied his bank accounts
and went on living. "

 

T-Mobile SyncUP Drive - Bring Your Own Wifi To Breakfast

T-Mobile SyncUP Drive. The SyncUp drive has many uses. Plugged into your car, it tracks your trips, warns you of low battery, tells you about recalls, and other handy stuff. But, as this photo shows, it also, when powered on, provides WiFi to you and your passengers within a 30 foot range. Here is my computer at breakfast, connected to the WiFi in my car. I prefer to tether or connect to my Smartphone; but, where there is Internet, there is a way.

Stingray City - Happy Place

Stingray City | Starfish and Coral Reef snorkeling | Grand Cayman. You can have the wonders of the world. One of our favorite days was spent in the waters off of Grand Cayman with friendly Stingrays, who don't sting if you feed them. These gentle creatures played with us and it is one of my most precious memories with SWMBO. If you haven't been, you need to go. 

Signal Secure Messaging - For Lawyers And Everybody Else

Why We Should All Be Using the Encrypted Chat App Signal | WIRED. What looks like a messaging app, walks like a messaging app, acts like a messaging app; but, is much more? Why, Signal, of course. I have recommended it before for really secure, encrypted messaging that everyone should be using as their only messaging app. This article makes that argument; but, also considers that using different apps for texting can create confusion and lack of communication. In fact, Signal acts just like any other messaging app if you are using it with someone who isn't also using it. So, if someone else sends you a text, you get it just as you do the encrypted ones. But, you need to tell anyone with whom you want secure communication to download and use ti also. That way, you can make your messages disappear after a set time, or after being read, and you can call back messages if necessary. Most importantly, your communications will be secure. Really. And, it is free. Every time I read about some celebrity or politician or FBI agent being embarrassed by the release of a text message string, I wonder why their IT people didn't tell them about Signal. Jeez.

Google Scholar - The First Place To Go For Legal Research

Using Google Scholar For Legal Research In 2017 - Part 1 - MyCase Blog. This is a great primer, by Nicole Black, on the use of the free Google Scholar case research tool for every day legal research. Covering all 50 States and Federal Courts, this free tool is the first place to go for finding applicable case law in any legal research project. It is free, and available to anyone with a browser and an Internet connection. Legal research has come a long way since I was a law student in the Stone Age, and we had to search printed volumes in a law library. I spent a semester of my life learning how to find cases in Shepard's Legal Citator, and then pulling the books and turning pages. There are excellent paid legal research resources; some of which are made available by State Bars for their members from their dues. If you are paying a lot of money for legal research tools, you owe it to yourself and your pocket book to see if you can't get the job done with free resources on the Internet. Now, go find some case law.

Your Honor! It Wasn't Me! The Car Did It!

Can a self-driving car be negligent? A motorcyclist allegedly injured. We are already seeing the first self-driving car liability actions. Courts are being asked who is liable in an accident that is caused by a self-driving car, even with a human owner at the wheel. I suspect that the answer will be "everybody", given that, in Florida, the "dangerous instrumentality" rule makes the owner of a vehicle liable for negligence caused by someone driving her car with consent. So, if you put your car into the "hands" of a computer, both you and the computer creator will likely share liability. The jury might be asked to apportion liability according to fault. So, the owner's first defense might be: "the car did it". I was just an innocent bystander. Hey, anything that makes more work for lawyers is okay by me.