European Arrival, Rick Matters
Have just arrived in Europe after spending the better part of twenty hours in flight via Bangkok, which is about as good as it will get travelling from Australia; roughly a nine hour trip from Melbourne to Bangkok, two hours at the airport, then roughly eleven hours to Frankfurt. At the Melbourne airport had a chance encounter with ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
frou_frou who is on her way to Wales for a heritage tour. Our journey was via Thai Airways; polite, functional, and inexpensive. Neither the food nor the in-flight entertainment is anything special (indeed the latter is overly cautious), but it does the job. Of some note was The Shannara Chronicles; I wasn't fond the books when I was in my early teens finding them too derivative of The Lord of the Rings, and too much like someone's D&D game mixed with a Gamma World setting. What I have seen of the TV series hasn't dissuaded me of that point of view. Obviously sleep deprived I also watched The Sound of Music, which remains a curious film, with its saccharin yet memorable score and an unreal but still charming plot. By chance I finished the film exiting Austria airspace, as one of those little moments where life imitates art.
Just prior to leaving Melbourne I dealt with a couple of major issues concerning Rick B., including completing a new financial statement for VCAT, and moving him from Carnsworth to Mercy Place Abbostford. I am working on the basis that the latter has a significantly more affordable fee structure and that is does have a better sense of community. It was quite a trial getting all the necessary paperwork together for the move - who knew that even in for the same purpose that state and federal governments won't share medical information even if the POA tells them to? Anyway, it's done now and the next step will the sale of his apartment. Once that is done I can close the door, as it were, on what has not been the easiest set of financial transactions that I've had to deal with. I seem to be taking greater care of another person's finances than my own, although this said, there is also greater need.
frou_frou who is on her way to Wales for a heritage tour. Our journey was via Thai Airways; polite, functional, and inexpensive. Neither the food nor the in-flight entertainment is anything special (indeed the latter is overly cautious), but it does the job. Of some note was The Shannara Chronicles; I wasn't fond the books when I was in my early teens finding them too derivative of The Lord of the Rings, and too much like someone's D&D game mixed with a Gamma World setting. What I have seen of the TV series hasn't dissuaded me of that point of view. Obviously sleep deprived I also watched The Sound of Music, which remains a curious film, with its saccharin yet memorable score and an unreal but still charming plot. By chance I finished the film exiting Austria airspace, as one of those little moments where life imitates art.Just prior to leaving Melbourne I dealt with a couple of major issues concerning Rick B., including completing a new financial statement for VCAT, and moving him from Carnsworth to Mercy Place Abbostford. I am working on the basis that the latter has a significantly more affordable fee structure and that is does have a better sense of community. It was quite a trial getting all the necessary paperwork together for the move - who knew that even in for the same purpose that state and federal governments won't share medical information even if the POA tells them to? Anyway, it's done now and the next step will the sale of his apartment. Once that is done I can close the door, as it were, on what has not been the easiest set of financial transactions that I've had to deal with. I seem to be taking greater care of another person's finances than my own, although this said, there is also greater need.