Sometime in the next half hour, my mother will be gone one year.
I hope she is still out there somewhere and that she is happy.
I miss you, Mom.

My previous post detailed how I and my family received the news of my Uncle Bruce's death last week. There had been some confusion due to miscommunication combined with the foreknowledge that my father's cousin, John Dupree, was dying. It was sorted out and my father spent two days out in Santa Rosa [...]

Uncle Bruce and my father in 2004.

A Few Weeks Ago
My father was going to Cincinnati to visit John Dupree. John is my father's cousin and they grew up pretty much like brothers. John has been fighting colon cancer for a couple of years now, but my father didn't get a chance to visit [...]

Well, there is some new information from the CDC today and it contains both good and bad news. Based on statistical modeling, they estimate that more than half a million New Yorkers and probably more than a million Americans have been infected with Swine Flu (novel H1N1/A).
So, where's the good news? Actually, the [...]

Today, Australia confirmed 876 cases of swine flu. That means they are more infected on a per capita basis as the US.
The US has a population of about 304M, and the CDC is reporting 11,054 cases. That's one case for every 27,500 people.
Australia on the other hand has only has about 21M, but [...]

The CDC number for confirmed and probable cases of swine flu in the US should be over 6700 today. This is based on the numbers being reported by the state web sites (when available), which differ considerably in places from the CDC numbers. The CDC's own stance is clearly stated on their daily [...]