A Mixed Bag

Today was one of those days where people were determined to piss me off, I got through the day without letting it get to me but it probably wouldn't have taken much for someone to push me over the edge. I can not stand people who lie to your face and then when you catch them out in the lie they stand by it and dig themselves deeper. Dealing with people like that is just the worst, it's plain to see that they have no idea what they are doing but for some reason they have their management all fooled and everyone thinks that they are doing a great job and can't see what the problem is.
I was feeling pretty good about getting through the day without losing it and I actually got a fair bit done.
Once I got home I found out that my wife's Nan had passed away during the day. She'd been a little unwell in the last week and it was expected that she wouldn't last long. On Sunday she was in a fairly bad way but seemed to make a recovery on Monday. Yesterday she was going downhill again and today she passed away peacefully with her daughter in law (my wife's Mum) and her granddaughter (my wife's sister) at her side. Nan was a great woman I a really enjoyed it when we would visit her. She'd outlived a lot of her family including two of her own daughters, so she was probably missing a lot of them and was somewhat looking forward to seeing them again.
It's one of those things that I struggle with in my head, the afterlife. I'd love to believe that there was one but I just can't. I personally believe that when someone dies, they may see people that they missed or had forgotten about as their brain shuts down and different neural links are either being broken or formed in one last panic. As for any part of our spirit living on I again don't think so. 
I do believe that there may be unexplained phenomenon that people believe are ghosts or even images or impressions that people left behind in the environment, almost like a photo, but if they contain any of the actual spirit of a human, I can't see how. We are just animals, why would we have ghosts and the dinosaurs not? I don't believe that humans are any different than any other animal, the absence of dinosaur ghosts, or really any ghosts from before the Victorian time, leads me to believe that there aren't any real ghosts.

Bomber
I'll miss Nan