Where’ve you been, Dave?
Hey there, stranger. Sorry I’ve not stopped by to drop a post for a while. Not like it really makes a big difference in the world, but at least it lets the few visitors who do come by know that I’m not in a coma somewhere due to a horrible skating-ring limbo accident… Which would be quite rare because I’ve not been to a skating ring since I was old enough to believe that biker gloves looked really cool. They sold them at places like that right next to bottles of vanishing ink.
As far as trends in technology lately… well, there’s probably plenty of stuff I could rave about but nothing much has really caught my eye enough to make me want to write something about it. And I’ve been rather lazy the last couple of weeks. To be honest, I’ve been a little apathetic. And then, as so predicted by Joseph Campbell in that first Mythos video I saw, I’ve begun to sort of disengage myself from the rest of the current events in the world. As much as I would love to possibly alienate you with my own political satire, I’ll spare you. I really have a lot of other more important things to focus on for the time being…
As mentioned in my previous blog a couple weeks ago or so, my girlfriends’ father had been diagnosed with colon cancer. Soon after I got to Missouri a discussion with an oncologist had took place, and the prognosis he gave was much more dreadful than what we were hoping for. His cancer has spread to his lungs, and chemotherapy has been scheduled to begin next week. His spirit and mood have remained high, odd as it may seem to some who otherwise might feel great despair and depression, if not anger. But I perceive him to be living, in some aspects, the best days of his life as he proceeds to carefully squeeze the last few drops of it, savoring it with a grand smile. It is actually hard to tell just how much there is left for him to enjoy, which is just the way things should be in life. Disturbing prognoses be damned.
And of course there is plenty of room for optimism and hope. I’m looking foward to future visits to help support him and the family that I am also a part of. I’m also looking forward to reading more of his blogs. By the way, if you consider yourself to be a literary buff who appreciates extensive vocabulary and vividness in the stories you read, do yourself a favor and subscribe to his blog.