Phone calls can generally be assigned into three categories: MUNDANE, GOOD, BAD.
Yesterday I got one each in the latter two.
Princess Leah (Wisker's sister) and Pete the Prince had a 6.3 pound /19 inch baby boy. Big sister Queen Nora is ecstatic, she now has a baby brother. Henry James Silas was a little early but not in as much of a rush as Nora was a few years back. No further details are available.
My son also called to inform me that one of his good friends died overnight Wed/Thu. Marlene was a contemporary of his and I had known her since her late teens. She had some major medical issues that she dealt with bravely and quietly. A single mother, it was her 12yo daughter who found her. She apparently passed quietly in her sleep. R.I.P.
"Let's all be careful out there!"