VERY Long time no see.

Well, things have definitely been interesting.

Dad died back in March of 2013.  Mom's still around, at present.

I'm still surviving, as per usual.

More to come, a bit later.

The blood dancing has begun.

The bright side to the #NavyYardShooting is it reminds us that the Sandy Hook kids didn't die in vain. Just kidding... America is dumb.
— Micah White (@micahwhite) September 16, 2013

What a complete fucking bastard.

The situation in Turkey....

...is certainly coming to a head.

Read about it here in the words of some who are actually there.  It's pic heavy, be advised.

Spacebattles thread about the situation in Turkey

What in the actual fuck is *WITH* this week?

Now we have the town of West Texas being essentially fucking leveled in a fertilizer blast!

I know this is most likely an accident/coincidence, but for it to happen during this week?

This definitely brings a chill to the old spine, it does.

Another unbelievably horrid day

The events of Boston prove only one thing: Evil exists.  Some might blame demons or evil spirits.  Some might say chemical imbalances.  But whatever the true cause, evil is real. 

My prayers go out to the families & the victims of todays atrocities.  Hopefully, this particular group of evildoers will be explaining themselves to The Big Dude Upstairs shortly.

News on Dad

He's been in the hospital for a few days.  He'd spent the last few days before on his couch, just slowly fading away.  It took some doing to convince him to go to the hospital, but when we finally did get him there, the news really wasn't all that good.

He's got sepsis (a blood infection,) pneumonia, and he may have had another heart attack (the other complications make it difficult to really tell, so they say down there.) When I visited him yesterday, he basically told us kids to live our lives, don't worry about him, he wouldn't be around for much longer.

They say one knows when their time is coming up, and from the looks and sounds of it, his time is coming soon.  It's not really a surprise for me, for over a year he's been on a big downward spiral.  But I still don't have to like it.

RIP Neil Armstrong (8/5/30 - 8/25/2012

The first man on the moon has indeed made his final journey into the night.

RIP, good sir.

Musings on the attack in Aurora, CO.

I've noticed a massive increase in the amount of bullshit blissninnys shrieking for the immediate total ban on "assault weapons," after 12 people were murdered and 58 wounded at Aurora, CO.  Folks, the plain and simple truth is this: You are NOT going to stop mass murder by outlawing guns.  Period.  Full stop.

Timothy McVeigh didn't use a gun, he used an ANFO bomb in a moving truck.  He killed far more than this cowardly fuck did.  The 9/11 terrorists used boxcutters to 'jack 4 airliners and killed a couple thousand innocent people.

Despite all that, even if you outlawed weapons completely, since when the hell have bad guys ever went "OH SHIT, this gun is ILLEGAL for me to own/possess!!! FUCK, so much for that murder spree I was about to do. "

Guns are effective weapons.  The greater majority of firearms are possessed by law-abiding people.  Taking away all guns will remove them from the hands of the law abiding.  This will NOT stop these incidents.  Only people willing to fight back in any way they can will do so.

What's been going on this last week or 2....

Last Saturday at 12:30am, my Dad had a bit of a heart attack.  It had been coming up on him for quite a while, given his labored breathing and the weakness that had been hitting him, but he's of the school of thought "I ain't going to a fucking doctor unless I'm damned nearly dead!"

He very nearly was.  He was rushed to the hospital, where he gave them a bit of a problem (he wasn't really cooperating well,) so they tranquilized him.  Probably a bit too much, in retrospect.  Upon closer examination, it was found he was suffering kidney failure, which totally contributed to his heart problem.  He very literally was colored as grey as his beard.

After a few days in the hospital, he was set up for dialysis (which he originally wasn't going to do, but we wound up kinda emotionally blackmailing him with his grand daughter) and so far is handling it.  He's not liking the kidney / cardiac diet a whole helluva lot, but what the hell?

More to come later....

Loki has crossed the rainbow bridge

I know it's probably considered unmanly to be sad over a cat dying, but Loki was definitely a special little guy.  He was the kind of cat that basically forced his way into your heart (claws first, if acting cute didn't do the job) and stayed there.

He got sick not too long ago, he wouldn't eat or drink, and basically withered.  The same day he died, he seemed to recover massively... this concerned me, as I know that lots of animals will do this.  Later that afternoon, he died.

It's odd getting up in the mornings and not being tripped hello, only to look down and see his clearly amused blue eyes looking back up at me.  He was an awesome cat and will be sorely missed. :(