No, we are not on vacation — but given the lack of activity that my email bag reflects, maybe we might as well be. It seems everyone else is.

Probably just as well this is a somewhat slow week news wise, (at least in the airline sector) as things with PlaneMom continue to, well, get worse and worse. My dad and I are now rotating shifts at the nursing home and Mom is pretty much unable to communicate, except through physical touch. She can acknowledge and respond if I am holding her hand, or massaging her shoulders and her fingers, but that is about it.

I just keep hoping that her situation will end sooner than later. For her sake. For those of you who have been in this situation, I’m sure you understand.

Yesterday was spent working on the cards we are going to send to folks for her memorial service.

I know, nothing to do with airplanes. But a lot to do with life and what we all face to some extent when not ruminating over the new 787 photos, or which CEO has screwed over his employees more than anyone else, or which airline has the worst labor relations.