More sad news...

Nothing in the immediate family luckily, but still sad.
I've been involved with an online chat group for... good lord over ten years! This group is mostly older, all sci fi fans of various degrees and all over the US and one in Canada!
One of our members by the name of Brad (BLRWIZ to us)  took a bad fall a few months (?) back and ended up in critical condition. Well, he passed away this morning of complications.
This is sad, very sad only.
Brad had a good life, had a wonderful cat companion named Zardoz and a wicked sense of humor. His presence in chat has been missed and it brings home again the whole getting older thing. His brother got on under his chat name so it was kind of weird talking about BLR and his name was right there. Kind of like that story about the old lady that claimed her husband was just out hunting and she left the window open for him every day, but the visitor was told that her husband died several years ago.. when the husband shows up the visitor runs screaming.
Just kind of weird but in a way a fitting memorial that he was there in name at least for one last chat.
I decided tonight to give in and had myself a Kahlua shake. Vanilla ice cream with a splash of Kahlua for flavor. It was very good, but kind of had a plastic after taste..don't remember that with the Kahlua I had years ago. (I'm talking about over thirty years ago...so my taste buds may have changed a bit.)
I rediscovered a favorite quote from Babylon 5 that I forgot to mention after I discovered my car had been broken into.

"I can only surmise that I'm paying off karma at a highly accelerated rate." - Ivanova

Because now, I can't find my favorite necklace that I've worn almost non-stop for years. I took it off yesterday to wear another necklace and could have sworn I put it in my purse. I can't find it.
I was reconstructing my bedroom last night as well so I don't know if it fell out somewhere or what.
I'm kind of distressed about this because it's not replaceable. It has a quartz crystal and a pewter celtic knot disk that I haven't been able to find anywhere other than the Ren Faire that I got it from.
I honestly have no idea where it went. My purse doesn't have that many pockets, granted is is black, but I've checked all the pockets and it's not there.
This is reminiscent of when I had to move from San Jose and I had three cats. A few weeks before we moved, my two favorites disappeard. Peaks and Frisky just up and disappeared. They were home turf cats and didn't go very far from the front yard. To this day I suspect my neighbor had something to do with their disappearance. That was the last straw with that situation and this is feeling the same way.
I have cancer, going in for surgery, my brother is having chemo for his surgery, my son gets arrested, daughter is pregnant with twins, my car almost got stolen and now is dying....and now my necklace is gone.
Just call me Job.
I've had that crystal for almost forty years from one of my brothers, the disk I've had since I moved down here and was a gift from my nephew. I've replaced the cord about four or five times since I took them off the chain. This is something that is my personal symbol. If you have seen the circle rainbow knot on some of my older posts, that's the symbol that's on my necklace and my belt buckle. It's kind of my totem.
When I moved down to San Diego, it was just me and my three kids. I used that as a symbol of the four of us, some people call it a 'Mother's knot' others say it's the four seasons or eternal knot.
My brother Talib started it with a plaque that he carved for me and I had hanging over my front door for years. It was lost in one of our moves and so I had my necklace as a personal totem to carry that on.
I've looked for a medallion like it online and can't find anything.
Well, I'm going to finish this up, chat some more and then head to bed. Hoping to remember where I put that necklace or it gets found. I have a picture of it somewhere because I was going to post it on a jewelry site to see if anyone had seen that style medallion.
Okay, quote time:

"I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth."
  - Umberto Eco