Yesterday Laura flew back to New York after quite a long stay with me. In the past ten days, we kept on saying everyday that all paperwork has (almost) been done but the fact was that we were quite busy everyday getting multiple tasks finished. Laura was scheduled to leave one week earlier but she was on the phone for me for four straight hours before the scheduled flight and then decided to delay her return. Every day during her stay was very well utilized. Indeed, Laura (and Muffin) provided much appreciated distractions that helped me dig out some grey holes.

Looking back, a lot has been accomplished in the past month. In addition to the all required long calls to various beneficiary related accounts, I have additional items that demand attention, like selling the house at the Cove, moving, changing address, untangling all joint accounts while old ones are frozen, some complicated old and new trust accounts that needs the care of both attorney and accountants, to name a few.

I am happy to report that the house at the Cove has already been in escrow after showing only one day. The house was spotless due to the heroic efforts of many of you. Steve cleaned up Ron's office, my office and then all books/files in the library and journals in the upper garage. He was the one who knew where everythings was and managed to pack up boxes to send to some of you. Most of the books/files/puzzles/tiles were packed and shipped in 100+ boxes 6000+ pounds in total. Now they are all unpacked in Steve house as seen at the website `Graham Archives' https://www.rongraham.org/ron-graham/archives

Laura and Jeff were extremely efficient in cleaning up the rooms and moving an unbounded number of boxes to the new house. In particular, I should mention the incredulous event about the trampoline. (Ron would have laughed about this in heaven since he knows how heavy and clumsy the trampoline is). I couldn't believe it when Jeff (and Laura) first told me that Jeff thought that he could make the old and rusty trampoline disappear. I knew how difficult and how heavy the whole setup was since I recall that Ron (+3 strong Mexican gardeners) moved that trampoline into its current spot. Nevertheless, after I agreed, Jeff went to Homedepot (multiple trips of course) to get the power tools for cutting the huge steel beams etc. Laura tried to move one separated relatively small piece to the upper garage (eventually for the junk pickup) and it was still too heavy. Here is a photo of Jeff and Laura in power tools and sledge hammer http://www.math.ucsd.edu/~fan/photo/dtramp.jpg

During this period, I have received countless email/cards/letters many of which included warm words and stories about Ron, especially after the articles in NY Times, Wall Street Journal and the Guardian. I have updated the page http://www.math.ucsd.edu/~fan/ron/kayak.html which contains additional links about Ron.

I think that the bulk of the paperwork etc has been done and I am more or less ready to say goodbye to Ron and to those wonderful days that we shared (but so hard to put out of my mind).

I have completed moved out of Coast Walk. The new place is bright and cheerful. There are plenty of rooms for visitors to stay over. I plan to talk to my students again through zoom. I hope to meet up and perhaps have lunch with some old friends again.

So, this is the update. Stay healthy and safe.

Fan