So, after the Christmas 2003 incident, you would think my family would have the good grace to avoid Heart Attacks on holidays. Unfortunately, we apparently forgot to tell my grandfather. We got news this morning that he is in the Hospital in Minneapolis after suffering a heart-attack at some point last night. My uncle Gerry and my grandmother are there now, finding out more details. My parents, who are visiting my sister and I in California are looking into cutting their trip short and heading home today to be at his side, and to be there for him.

Apparently Grandpa Ness has been feeling “not well” for the last two weeks now, but he’s a stubborn old coot, and only sought out medical help on Tuesday or so of this week. I can only pray that he hasn’t let this go too long, and that this is just something that he can recover from, and learn a lesson from. Regardless, I’m looking into flights to Minneapolis right now, and figuring out what I need to do to be there.

I’ve been fiddling around with Google Groups recently to communicate with my Roleplaying Game Group (Yes, i’m that kind of geek). I’ve been finding it very useful, and noticing one of the really nice hidden features: the “Page” editor. This page editor is basically a slimple CMS based on a standard “Rich Text Editor” sort of interface, but it’s very powerful for my small group to be able to document things without going through the trouble of a full blown Word/OpenOffice/RTF document, or trying to link in a Google Docs Document.

Expanding beyond my current use, I can see it being very useful for a small development group to store API Docs, Design Docs, Requirements, etc. Yeah, there are more powerful tools available, but this one works really well, and has just the sort of versioning capabilities that are useful without being obtrusive.