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Well, looks like everyone local (within 200 miles) on my friends list beat me to it, but I thought it was worth posting to mention that I was woken up this morning, not too long before our alarm was due to go off. RUMMMBLEE "What was that?" "I think it was the cats." "No, really, the house just shook! Was it wind or thunder?" "Hmm?" (pause) "No, it's not raining or windy... I think it was an earthquake!" "An earthquake? Are you sure?" "I think it was! I'll have to check when I get up." Our alarm goes off after a bit. A snooze later I found a single article online about the 5.4 earthquake in SE Illinois. I should have checked here on LJ because sexywitch and sirvalence were on top of it only a couple of minutes after it happened! kushinada felt it all the way in Cincinnati. Of course, I feel almost lame posting about it because the morning news has wall to wall coverage of it...
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So I haven't posted here much in a long while. I've been dealing with anxiety and depression and have been busy a lot. Over the weekend, Karl and I celebrated St. Patrick's Day together, in part to remember Chuck, since the last time either of us had seen him healthy was when the three of us got together for St. Pat's last year. I associate the day with Chuck a lot as well, since he was always about all things Irish and we used to celebrate the day together a lot. Anyway, I have a friend who is a part of the "Find A Grave" website... volunteers who go out and catalog graves and put photos online. I joked that "it reminds me of Myspace for dead people," but it is much more than that. It's a place for genealogists and for looking up dead celebs and finding obituary listings archived. But it's also a place like an online cemetery, a place to remember people who have passed on. Anyway, I found that there's a page for Chuck up already, probably taken from the obituary. When I found it, I added a better picture of him and sponsored the page to banish ads there forever. Heather (my friend who's a volunteer for the site) let her find-a-grave friends know in a posting and many many notes were posted, leaving virtual flowers, motorcycle icons, and so on. It was very thoughtful. I've been hesitant to mail the link out, because I am not sure how others might react, so I thought I'd post it here. If you are a friend of Chuck's, please feel free to repost or circulate it if you like: http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=22508633Back to the anxiety... seeing this page let out a lot of pent up stuff and I realized that it is likely that the excessive anxiety might be due to not dealing well with Chuck's death. It was just too big, too hard to take in, and I think I'll be working through it for a long time to come. Meanwhile, I think I'll drink a toast of Irish whiskey tonight in his name. I miss you, Chuck.
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