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My grandfather passed away this week.

I wasn't that close to him, so I'm doing ok.  I think it'll be pretty hard for my mom though (she took a year to get over her uncle's death a few years ago).

It's kinda scary though, cause he was in the States visiting my uncles for the past four months and only went back to India in late September...

Life's far too short and unexpected to take tomorrow for granted. 

On that note, I'm thinking about taking flying lessons.  It's a tad expensive, but it seems like a lot of fun and would be a very unique skill to have (I read that only one out of 10,000 people have a pilot's certificate).