What a difference a year makes

OK, this is just silly.

A year ago -- longer, actually -- I found some quiz out there on the internet that rates how badly you suffer from each of the Seven Deadly Sins. Sounds like a hoot, right? So I took the quiz and posted my results here. The part that was a little embarrassing was how low I scored on Lust. It kind of made me wonder if there was something about me that drove Wife to all of her affairs in desperation, because she just wasn't getting any from me?

What a difference a year makes. In the fifteen months from then till now, I have come to realize that our lousy sex life had a lot more to do with Wife than with me; and with that realization I have come to see her affairs in a new light too. I also just re-took the quiz.

Greed:	Medium
Gluttony:	Low
Wrath:	Medium
Sloth:	Medium
Envy:	Very Low
Lust:	High
Pride:	Medium

The Seven Deadly Sins Quiz on 4degreez.com

Of course, maybe all this proves is that the quiz is too simplistic. But the contrast with last time sure caught my eye.

D's husband has had a stroke

I just got off the phone with her. She just heard the diagnosis. A couple of days ago she talked with him on the phone, having been back home the weekend before; on the phone he sounded very confused. One son is home for Christmas; D talked to him, then called again the next day and her husband was better. But not enough better -- she and her son decided that Husband should go to the hospital. She has been driving back home this evening (once she got off work) and just called me. The hospital confirmed it was a stroke.

She doesn't know what this means, but tells me she is sure her life has just turned a sharp corner. As a veteran of so many of Wife's medical emergencies, I have told her just to put one foot in front of the other but not to think too far ahead or make any long-range plans until she really has to ... and until she has more information about exactly what happened, how much damage there was, etc.

And she remarked that of course she has been planning to divorce him. But today, tomorrow, it may be useful that she can still sign forms as "Mrs." How long will that be true? How much does this change? We don't know.

Wow. "Turned a corner" indeed.

"Cheap K-Mart earrings" ....

Anyone who was reading last year will remember that Wife and I have very different attitudes towards Christmas presents ... enough so that we have fought over the subject any number of times.

Over the years I have tried to shield the rest of my family from my fights with Wife. But of course that's not her policy at all, so I'm sure they have heard plenty about this issue, ... plenty more than they ever wanted to hear, in fact.

And so, apropos of nothing at all, my father e-mailed me this little video today. All he said was that one of his old friends e-mailed it to him. No idea where it came from originally. He didn't add any other comment at all, but perhaps he didn't feel he had to ....