A Wet Few Days

I signed off on Tuesday saying that it was going to be a wet day. It was and so were Wednesday and Thursday and today more rain is forecast. South East Queensland is saturated. We are OK having only 220 mm of rain over three days. Some areas have had that in three hours and are flooded. Louis has been having a ball as there are some deep pools in out local park which he loves to play in and he comes home looking like a happy drowned rat. I rub him down in the garage and he the lies on a towel at the foot of Margaret's bed to dry off.

This has all meant that we have been literally confined to the house most of the time. I have spent the time putting together a little tutorial on using Wiki on a Stick (WoaS) to generate a portable Wiki page. I hope to present this tutorial at the computer club in a couple of weeks time.

Margaret stays in bed most of the time except for dinner and a little while afterwards. She is much the same, confused about dates and a really bad short time memory loss plus continuing incontinence. I am taking her for a blood test later today and will get the results next Tuesday.

One interesting thing about her behavior is her making up stories which become real life to her. I hope K doesn't mind but this is an example. K and Margaret have been friends for fifty years and in happier time communicated by e-mail sending each other jokes. Because of Margaret's problems and K's personal life this communication has been disrupted. Recently K has tried to forward some jokes to her and these have given rise to a real problem. Margaret thinks, based on absolutely nothing other than disrupted communication, that K is being isolated from her by his family who are preventing him communicating with her. she believes that K has set up an alternative communication method by getting another friend to relay messages.

The last e-mail contained an attachment in the form of an e-mail with a video video titled "Do You Know Who I Am" attached to it. Unfortunately the video didn't play. I have actually received it attached to another e-mail so I explained to Margaret what it was. Margaret doesn't believe me. She knows that the forwarded e-mail is a request from the original sender, a woman, to set a up a clandestine communication route to K. I pointed out that K had sent the parent e-mail and the attached e-mail was just that. She has spend hours trying to contact the the "contact' to let her know that she does know who she is! Short of disconnecting Margaret from the Internet I don't know how to prevent her sending spurious e-mails to this lady. I hope K understands.