The Greater Drives Out The Lesser

Posted on by Sarah A. Hoyt

Pat Patterson, aka Papa Pat, wrote a blog recently about how the greater drives out the lesser. You think you’re having the worst day in the world till you get that phone call and you find your best friend has cancer, as my husband did some years ago.  And suddenly all the petty stuff at the office, or the household repairs are … just petty stuff, and you don’t even remember them.

Nothing bad happened, but yesterday I spent the day in a hospital waiting room.  And then we heard everything had gone well.  In fact very well.  And then we came home.  And I crashed hard.  So hard that today I barely woke up in time to go collect the two-legged critter from the hospital and make him comfortable back at home.

And then I did a quick clean because well, the house was dirty.  And I only now remembered I hadn’t blogged.  I’m sorry.

Family took over for a while.

I am okay and everyone here is okay.

60 thoughts on “The Greater Drives Out The Lesser”

  1. Using Cthulhu to banish Gojira? :)

    The beginning of that story would have to involve a now moldering ‘Shinto’ shrine of dubious origin, and tracing its history back to the 1200s before the records become too sparse.

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      4. See that link to previous posts, the one about Gremlins and Parallel Realities? It be that the answer is no, as the idea in one part of the thread is that there is really just one reality (“How many universes?” “One, hence the ‘uni’.”) but it splits and re-merges. It’s sort of like a single photon producing an interference pattern in a dual-slit set up. one reality filtered through n-minds and then the pattern appears… though there is some change to the ‘image’ due to all the diffraction and scatter.

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        2. Foam. Where the bubbles merge and split and sometimes pop. Many futures, many pasts and many presents. (My theory for why I remember some things wrong. They really happened, but in a different past than what we have now :D ).

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      1. And I highly recommend the book. Just not when you are supposed to be getting ready for bed/work/chores/concert/what have you, because it pulls you in hard and just keeps rolling.

        Kansas . . . and here I thought it was under a high school in California.

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      1. I annoyed Dan earlier today with call because, no blog. Tell big critter I hope he feels much better very soon, if he’s awake.

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  5. Congratulations on the good news! I noticed yesterday a comment about waiting rooms yesterday and worried. Whew!

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  6. Good to hear all is well. Or at any rate, ready to heal. Take care of yourself, and don’t worry, we won’t redecorate the place while you’re distracted. Much.

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    1. Really? Then what is that new wing doing there? And what’s in there making that godawful noise? Are you sure Her Highness won’t notice once she comes back? We’ll all get carped…

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      1. Which noise? The one like full soda cans and squid being thrown in a giant garbage disposal, or the one like the universe changing it’s mind, followed by a “Doink” ?

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  7. Glad things worked out well.

    As for forgetting the blog, you don’t owe us nuttin’ … and I says that the day after getting Paypal’s notification my monthly blackmail stipend payment went through.

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    1. Seconded. You especially don’t owe those of us who haven’t paid a single thing.

      Take care of family. Family comes first. And take care of yourself while you take care of family.

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  8. Family first! If you didn’t follow that rule, we would know you had been replaced by a pod person.

    And Sarah second! Or you’ll crash so hard, we’ll all worry even more.

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      1. But how can you write without internet? How can we distract you when you’re not connected?

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  9. What them above said: Take care of him what needs it, and yourself as well. Happy to hear it went well. Get back to us when you can.

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  11. Yes, we are a high maintenance fandom – if you don’t feed us blogginess on a regular basis, we’ll likely wander off and overthrow third world countries so we can fix them.

    [Mike performs a blonde high-maintenance hair flip. Tricky, with now-grey and never blonde hair as short as his.]

    Joking! We’d never go take over countries. Probably. At least not after but one late blog post. So, nothing to worry about from us. Mostly.

    Glad to hear all went well, and you to reinforce what others have said, you can do whatever you want here – it’s your place.

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    1. We might take over countries, but we know better than to try to fix them. No, we would just have legions of people baking cookies to tempt the entire planet over to the dark side.

      Good to hear that things went well also. Take care of yourselves and celebrate a little even if in one person’s case that just means a hard boiled egg instead of a soft boiled one.

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      1. *Carefully shovels piles of semi-discarded hopes and dreams over the plans for the Kaijin Instrumentality Project*

        Yes. Of Course. What he said.

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  16. I’m glad to hear everything is well. Don’t worry about us; it’s unlikely things will fall apart in such a brief absence. Although, time does move differently in hospitals. Some sort of dimensional shift, no doubt. Perhaps it’s actually next year by the time you get back. And in a different leg of the pants of time.

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  17. *hugs* You take care of yourself. Not us. We can take care of ourselves. And if we can’t, your only responsibility is to decide whether you’re going to point and laugh, or use us as a warning for future generations.

    …That covers all the ways we take care of ourselves, too, doesn’t it?

    I’m sorry. I’m sleep deprived to lunacy. I have never before made the mistake of adopting a kitten, but I just couldn’t refute the farmer’s argument when he dropped a purring kitten in my lap, and said “You need to take this one home. He’s too pretty to get eaten by the ‘yotes.”

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    3. Try to enjoy those few months while the kittenhood lasts. Afterwards you’ll remember the cute, not the shredded/dropped/otherwise destroyed stuff and other havoc. Lots of pictures, and maybe something for Youtube so cats can take it and internet over even more than they have already. The Cat Gods demand it.

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  25. Glad to hear your two-legged critter came through all right! Here’s to a swift and successful recovery!!

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