Apr 13, 2007

After going to a colloquium today, Gary had his first fully independent van-transported restaurant outing (actually, first independent van-transported outing of any type other than going to and from school). He drove himself to and from the restaurant and made the transfers on his own. He said he had an audience when he left the restaurant for home – a bunch of the math people wanted to see how he got himself wheeled into the van and transferred into the driver’s seat. “The pressure was on,” I joked when he told me this. He said he’d said the same thing, and thought, “This better be a good one!” (meaning the transfer into the driver’s seat; evidently it was good enough ;-))

Tomorrow is the first anniversary of his accident.