On Tue, 19 Aug 1997 GuyverKuno@aol.com wrote:

In a message dated 97-08-19 09:38:29 EDT, you write:

<< 
 At 07:26 AM 8/19/97 -0500, you wrote:
 >I just realized something while going over this morning's mail...
 > 
 >Please note the following items of ill fortune which have befallen 
 >various among us this past week:
 >
 >-I've become blind in my right eye (and for those of you who e-mailed 
 >me about the simplicity of a detached retina, you already know that I 
 >spared the list the *gory* details of my condition)
 >
 >-Krista-san has been laid off work
 >
 >-Ichinohei Hitomi-san has mysteriously disappeared, and kami-sama 
 >knows who can tell us what happened
 >
 >-fanfic.com is scattered across White Wolf's apartment, its 
 >components snickering at him
 >
 
 -a good friend of mine, Sandi Hayden, female, 18, was killed in a car
 accident late last week.  I attended her funeral Friday morning.
 
 -one of my co-workers knew the diver that had perished in Cozumel<sp?>,
 Mexico (was a good friend of his).  He owned a diver shop here in Columbia,
 SC.
 
 -Bert's maternal grandmother perished over a week ago after an extended
 illness.
 
 >Everyone be on your guard this week, there's a bad moon rising, and I 
 >don't mean the Black Moon or an evil Tsukino Usagi.
 >
 
 I tend to agree with that assessment. >>

 I think I developed an ulcer.... 

And Monday my uncle died.  He had been in the Okanogan visiting my
other uncle.  The uncle who lives in the Okanogan had surgery Monday. He
has a brain tumour and is not expected to live long.  The uncle who died
stopped in Manning Park to have lunch and had an heart attack.  It took
the paramedics 38 minutes to get to him and when they got there the 
batteries for the defibulator where dead and so was my uncle.
 So now we have to deal not only with his death, but the inquiry into
what was wrong with the batteries.  

Peggy

it never rains but it pours, ne?