Fun and games in meetings

This passed on from a friend:

We just had a company meeting today, after which the DBA here told me a story about a meeting he had with our MD.

The meeting was just the two of them in a small meeting room that was, apparently way too hot.

The meeting dragged on for one hour then two...at some point due to the heat the DBA felt his eyelid starting to droop and he eventually nodded off.

When his eyes snapped open again some time later his instant reaction was, of course, panic. He was relieved to discover that the MD was slumped to one side drooling slightly: they were having a two person meeting and both of them had falled asleep.

To get out of the situation the DBA started talking loudly in response to the last this he remembered being said which woke the MD up and the meeting continued as if nothing had happened.

The fourth stage of parents

First they're Gods.

Then you find out they're imperfect.

Then you realise they're just people, trying to do a good job.

Then they start to get old...

My Dad's been having tremors in his hands. So off he's gone to the doctor's for tests. The first of which has come back showing a narrowing in the space in the spinal column, which isn't new news, as he's known about that since he was laid up with it for two weeks over the 1972 olympics. But it's probably getting worse, so now he has to look into osteopaths, and what can be done to ameliorate the situation if it's not fixable.

My mother's sister is also in hospital, having gone in on Christmas Eve with jaundice, and it turns out she has a blocked duct from her gall bladder. Which looks likely to be cancer. With a 20% chance of it being operable, so she's off to the Hammersmith for more tests to see what's doable. And while obviously I care about my aunt, it's my mum I'm really worried about - this is the first of my parent's generation to start getting hit by the traditional old-age diseases.

All of which is, of course, conspiring to make _me_ feel old...