Penultimate
My grandfather was an amazing man. Well, both of my grandfathers were amazing men, but in this context I am thinking specifically of my maternal grandfather. He was one of the smartest people I have ever known and my parents and sisters and I all lived together with him and my granndmother in this amazing 1020's mini-mansion so he was very involved in my upbringing. He called me young master and I loved him more than words can describe. He was also a linguist and a librarian and as such he shared with me a love for languages and even individual words that has stayed with me forty years after he passed away. And one of the words that he shared with me was penultimate. Okay... great. Touching and heartwarming story but... penultimate? Really? This is just one example of many memories I have about my grandfather but as I sat in the comfortable reclining chair at the cancer agency yesterday I remembered him and I sitting at his workbench as he taught me how to solder components t