Even Vultures wait for bodies to be dead, don't they?

[susandennis]

Today's chapter is more an appendix on yesterday's. Mom asked Polly to call all three of us and see what we wanted of her stuff. My brother said there were a couple of paintings her wanted. (the car thing was added later). I wanted nothing. My sister, it turns out, wants everything.

According to my brother who got this from his wife who got this from Polly - you following here?... My sister's list is huge and she wants it all. Polly apparently told her she can't have it all and what she can have she will get only if she pays for transporation. Go Polly!! (And Go Mom for giving Polly good instructions.)

Dana - sister-in-law - got there last night and reports that Polly has everything so organized and under control. One set of movers comes Tuesday to move stuff to the storage unit. Another set of movers comes Wednesday, I think, to haul off everything else. The second set is an estate guy - he'll auction off the good pieces and sell the rest for a percentage of the sale. Polly has used him a couple of times before.

I think Dana and Mom are in Mom's apartment right now going through the closet.

So, vultures aside, things are moving along... Hopefully. Polly is going out of town on Thursday so I think the plan is to have it all done - the apartment completely cleared out - by then. If not, then early that next week.

I'm ready for a weekend. I have to stop at the library on the way home this afternoon. Safeway is coming tonight with groceries (they sent me a free delivery coupon to lure me to try again and it worked - we shall see...).

While I'm waiting for Safeway, I think I'm going to set up my new wireless router. I want to give it a shot before 7 p.m. My ISP customer service leaves for the weekend at 7 and I might need them. I've never had a wireless network before because I've never had - for very long - anything more than one computer to use it. I did have an IPAQ for a while but that's when I had neighbors who had unsecured wireless so I just used them.

But, now, I'm going to have my own. My new Fujitsu P1000 will be able to use it. And, hopefully, one of my Tivo's. The older Tivo won't but the newer one should be able to.

We shall see.

But, first, I guess I'd better get to work!

Comments

[legalmoose]

Wireless TiVo is a good thing. No more cords to trip over (at least in our place - the phone connector was on an inconvenient wall and the wire had to go under an obnoxiously slippery rug).

[susandennis]

Total Wireless would be great but, alas, the older Tivo needs his telephone wire which has to be snaked along the bookcase, around the fireplace, under the windows and sliding glass doors, behind the couch around the desk to the wall plug. This is why I haven't done it earlier. But, it will be fun to mess with the newer Tivo on my pc.

[fj.livejournal.com]

The whole wireless TiVo is good also for me because I think it allows the TiVo to "phone home" more often, and that makes it get the instruction to record new stuff I leave at the TiVo website more often. It is cool to be able to tell your TiVo "go tape this" from your desk at work.

[susandennis]

Exactly!

This happened with my grandfather's things

[kosseferal.livejournal.com]

He had re-married and his second wife's family took everything when she died, even things that had belonged to my grandfather, like his mandolin. It's appalling how people descend on material things when there's an older person or a death in the family.

Re: This happened with my grandfather's things

[susandennis]

It is appalling. In Mom's case, when she dies, I will be the one in charge. The problem now is that she's not dead. But the vultures are landing anyway. Sigh.

Re: This happened with my grandfather's things

[fj.livejournal.com]

Are you sure you want to be?

Since you don't want much, do you want this hassle, instead of having your sister be in charge who wants it all anyway?

Strange how you accumulate stuff and then things start getting stripped away together with your faculties. Your life becomes smaller in all way as you slough off your body and your material footprint.

Re: This happened with my grandfather's things

[susandennis]

Oh no... after Mom dies, I am truly looking forward to my duties as Avenger Executor... That's probably why my sister is trying her current grab and go. She knows that after the last breath, she is so toast.

[miss-hand.livejournal.com]

Oh dear. That dividing up of the stuff is the worst - and you are like me in saying you don't want anything - and then the rest of your family either snatches and grabs or tries to convince you that you DO want the stuff. My mom always warned us that this issues causes more grief in families than anything.

[geordie.livejournal.com]

When my mother goes I want nothing for its material value. I don't particularly want to think about that. My brothers are all much worse off than me so they can divide the spoils, but this makes me really uncomfortable even as a concept.

Why not visit your mom and drive her car back here, say you got bumped off the return flight and didn't want to wait. They'd have to be really keen to drive 3000 miles just to get ti back.

Then again I have no plans for thanksgiving, you pay the gas and I'll fly myslef over there just for the experience of the drive back.

[susandennis]

yeahbutt then Mom would not have a car and I'd be stuck with the damn thing!

It is fun of you to make the suggestion but I really don't want Mom to give up the car right now. I don't think it's a decision she needs to make right now. I think she'll be in better shape to make that kind of decision in a couple of months and there's no reason for her to hurry.

[geordie.livejournal.com]

I know, I have been keeping track, nobody can know if she'll drive it again but it's just as well if you can keep it safe for her for now.