Mom, dad, and DW picked me up at the airport at 20:00 on Friday evening.  We had a great quick weekend at mom and dad's.  Saturday we had breakfast with mom, dad, niece, and her DH then went to my brother's house for a morning visit on Saturday. We ended up having lunch at my brothers "club". 

Have I mentioned that my baby bro is a business executive savant?  He has done exceptionally well.  No envy on my part.  Just pure pride in the man, DH, dad, son, brother, and leader that he is.  Please give me a lump in my throat proud big brother reset moment. Ha... hmmmm.

We got proof of life yesterday.  It started with a text.  "Sorry, I am having memory problems and keep forgetting to call.".

We both got home early enough to speak with him. He sounded good, works seems to be going well. I always get nervous when he goes radio silent as this was highly indicative of poor performance when he was in his late HS phase.

His cat is apparently demanding, happy, and torturing  him. I like this cat.

It really was not.  DW, SS, and me had a wonderful life as a family while SS was growing up.  We had very little drama IRL. The drama was SpermClan generated. All we did was counter their crap.  We had to make that as painful as neccessary to force behavioral changes.  That took some number of years to figure out.  Once we did, it could be several years before they decided to roll out their old tricks. At which point we increased the pain settings and fried them.  The cycle could be annual, or as long as 3-ish years between their resurecting their toxic tricks.

Woo hoo!

Knock on wood the written offer, CBC, and on boarding all go well.  They should.  Unless some unrecognized alter ego surfaces.  Which might be interesting.

Not great from a base (~30% low)... but incredible variable comp and more than doubles our current marital income.  It also lets us stay where we are and continue to keep the focus on DW's career.