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The hosting company needed to take them down temporarily in order to resolve a problem with the server.

That was great. Thanks for posting the pictures. We're going to be getting a tree-urn for his ashes, complete with a tree to plant with him.

Sounds like Melbourne. Deb and I met in 1971 at Florida Institute of Technology in Melbourne, a town that at one point rioted against the school for changing a zoning rule that made some of their existing houses illegal.

Thanks for that, @latbear4blk. I'll pass the link on to his other tech friends who are working to preserve his sites and close out his affairs.

Hey, watch your tongue! I'm only inside on a technicality, having registered in order to stitch a wormhole between this community and the group of Daddy's friends up in Washington State. Besides, I've retired from active software work, and haven't written any fiction for my blog since the pandemic started.

The social worker at the hospital was unable to locate one, but the courts will wait for one to come forward for a while before allowing a non-family member to take on the responsibility.

Thanks, @notarobot, @poolboy48220, and anyone else who wants to chip in. Neither my wife (I'll use her handle from elsewhere,) Rue nor I have had our second covid shot yet, so travel during this pandemic has some extra hoops to jump through. We're in the midst of coordinating schedules, monitoring air fares, and working out what can and can't be accomplished at this stage so she can make the best use of her time in Vegas. It's looking like the first trip will be for getting into Daddy's digs to see what's what, take pictures, and follow any leads opened through keys and notes. We won't know what that trip, or the next one will cost yet. In the meantime, it might be useful for you folks to coordinate how such support might be handled without unduly exposing anyone's privacy. That could include making a member in Vegas point person for handing off whatever help you can offer.

That’s us, and it’s 40-something years, since met Daddy in Portland, Oregon in 1978 as co-workers programming various things. As to the funeral arrangements, that means you qualify, but the court has the final say.

Thanks for the heads-up, deej, but I learned how to program in 1969, and spent my career in IT, some of it working on projects with Daddy. So we're safe in that department.

Some of the members already know that a few of Guy/Daddy's loooong-time friends have been helping to deal with the situation. I'm one of them, and I just registered so I can provide some info as we can to keep the community apprised. The group of us are trying to gain access to Guy/Daddy's apartment and keys. We've been promised both, but we have to get the keys in person, and we're not in Nevada. The hospital has said that my wife has to get the keys in person, and she's looking into flights that we can afford. Once she gets to Vegas, she'll find out what they will and won't give her. She's the assigned medical decision-maker for Daddy, because no family was located, but she is neither his power of attorney, not executor, so we have no legal standing to get into his accounts. She can file for special administrator status in Nevada, but that only gets her so far. If someone pays for funeral costs, that person becomes eligible to be the administrator, and the administrator (equivalent to executor if from outside of Nevada) has the legal right to get into the bank accounts and to decide who get what of Daddy's possessions. Otherwise, if no will is found, all of Daddy's money and possessions go to the state of Nevada. It's really complicated. We are trying to get around as much of it as possible. First things first, get to Nevada; get the keys; see what's what.