When my grandparents were in hospital all my aunts and even my mom started taking pictures of them in the bed hospital. They both were alive by the time, but it was clearly not a good situation (both died short after). I felt grossed that they were taking photos of them in that state. But their reasoning was to take as many photos as possible while they were alive.

People do weird things.

I have been trying to build a forum recently, but found phpbb really ugly and difficult to customize (even changing the logo was oddly difficult). I know about discourse but I would prefer a PHP based solution I can host in one of my current servers.

Are there any better solutions?

What? Red Bull should shut down? What are you saying?

I have had success with a monthly reminder in my google calendar. Sometimes I skip it, but I have been updating and keeping everything nice and tidy much more frequent than I used to!