Things left unsaid

 
Not for any particular reason, I haven’t made any allusion to several fairly significant recent life events. Didn’t do it at the time, because I was busy with other things, and left it unmentioned as time went by because I wanted to tell it in the right way (without caring enough to give it that much thought). Eventually, though, the weight of the unspoken comes to nag for relief. So here are the pertinent facts:

My son got married. Back in April, and he and Mei-li are back in China now. He’s talking about them moving to the US sometime next year, though recent events raise the possibility that they’ll do it sooner than that.

My daughter got married. (Yes, sroni.) This was in July, and though she was able to attend her brother’s wedding, he couldn’t be at hers because of the China thing. On the other hand, several members of her husband’s family flew in from Ireland for the ceremony, and we had them around for visits and sightseeing and even attendance at my wife’s annual family reunion. Conal is back in Ireland right now, interviewing at various prestigious firms, and sroni is living with a girlfriend and working to build up a cash fund till the time comes to go join him. (And there is now significant evidence that she’s pregnant, so even if they were inclined to wait much longer, that would probably override it.)

I’m no longer working as a long-haul truck driver. I really liked the life, but it was hard on Susan for me to be away so much of the time and then gone again after only a few days back. I may do it again some time in the future, but more likely I’ll settle for something closer to home.

And that’s it. Any other life updates I feel like mentioning, can now be assessed in proper context.