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Dad called tonight to say that anyone who wants to see Linora should do it as soon as possible.
We did the stupidest thing we could do by rushing out head-on into a snowstorm to get up to my parents’ place.
Mom’s on oxygen and Carla says she’s weeker than she’s ever been. The hospice people [...]

Dad was told today that we probably only have a few weeks left.

Santa came to see Ana this year and brought some neat toys. After we did some Christmas stuff at home, we went up to see my parents.
Christmas has always been my mom’s favorite holiday. I think she was saving up for this. She was really tired and we had to break out a [...]

In case nobody wants to give out their info to the Leader Telegram, I’m posting this here. I’m sure this violates some sort of copyright or something, but I don’t care. It’s about my mom, and I didn’t get a paper copy of this so I want this here for my own personal benefit anyway.

One [...]

Dreamhost servers were killing off my new application and so I did some digging and found this great hack by a nice fellow named Gary on the Dreamhost forums.
Modify ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rails-0.14.3/lib/fcgi_handler.rb
or
ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rails-1.0/lib/fcgi_handler.rb

def exit_now_handler(signal)
dispatcher_log :info, “asked to terminate immediately”
## force to restart
dispatcher_log :info, [...]