max versus star

finally the star island corporation has released the registration forms for the 2007 conferences. i downloaded them and printed them out. hoo boy.

now it's a matter of filling out the forms and writing the check. (it's gotten more expensive over the last decade!) and then it's wait and see about max's health. we have until may 26 to cancel and get our registration fee back. if max is well, relatively, at that time, then we might be in a pickle. if he is alive when july rolls around then we're not going to star. kara can't leave him for that long at his age. it would be too hard on him. the conference itself is a week long and we'd take a few days on either end for travel and visiting with family, so we'd be gone the better part of two weeks.

max does still have occasional moments of cognitive lucency, though he's quite physically unstable. his back legs keep going out from under him and he's frequently incontinent of bladder and bowel. sometimes he stands with his nose against a wall for minutes at a time and i have no idea what's going on in his head. kara says i could go to star without her, if it comes to that, and that's sweet, but i don't know if i want that. we'll see. it's not that i want the old man dead, no sir. he's a good old man, he truly is. at the same time, it would be wonderful to go to star with kara this year.