My dad’s been out of the hospital for a little over a week now and things are going okay. He’s off his memory pills so we’re having problems with basic stuff like him not remembering who his visiting nurse or the nurse’s aid were. He’s also right back into having the basement in the mid-80’s heat wise. We’re not going to make it through the winter on the wood we have if he keeps this up. It’s not a great situation right now.
Tonight I caught up on some old Ring Reports. I filled in the rest of 1997 and the entire year of 1996. I have about 150 regular issues to go then the pre-1993 and flashback issues. It’s going to be a lot of cutting and pasting and I’m going to do it as I can get to it now that things are calming down at work. I think my next step will be to do TechTV’s season 2 probably tomorrow then alternate Ring Report and TechTV days until the TechTV stuff takes over. I wanted to get into the pattern of either 1 year a day or one season a day until they’re done. Not sure if I’m going to do that or not because I have quite a bit or reshoots to do for some of the TechTV stuff.
My former friend screwed me over pretty badly. I’m not going to mince words about it. She was in a good 100 issues, sometimes being the focal point of those issues. The character of Louise is a stand in (in animated form) and something you’re going to have to get used to if you remember the old strips. The plus side is that she’ll eventually go and it segways into her eventually finding her way into the original Media Elite comics and later into the SpaceTV comics if I ever do bring them back. I’m kind of dying to write that comic. I really am, but time’s an issue and I have issues with time.
Amazing Incredible will be back. Honest. I’m just in a weird place right now. My time has been missing a lot with dad the way he is and work’s demands just eating a hole in what little social life I had left. The past few months have really drained me and it may be time to make some serious changes with my life. I’m not getting any younger. I don’t want to look back at my life and realized that I peaked when I was 26. I’m hoping the best is ahead of me, not behind, and I may need to shake things up to go forward.
But the past is… well, yeah. A name popped into my brain this week. Just a stray thought of a girl who I once thought was the love of my life. Waaaaaaaaay back in college. Of course she was someone else’s girl, of course, it was complicated, of course my code of not hitting on/getting involved with “taken” people stood in my way. I regret that, I regret a lot of things, but looking back, I should have taken the chance when I had it. When we were close and before we lost touch.
I looked her up on Facebook, I found her, looks a lot like she used to. Married now to a guy who *wasn’t* the one she was involved with when I knew her. Looks like she has older kids, so they must have started just as we parted ways all that time ago. I didn’t friend her, I didn’t say hi, I just let things be. It was good to see her face, it was good to know she’s okay, but she’s the past and I’m still not sure why I thought of her this week. Just stray thoughts in chaos, I guess.
With that, I’m winding down.
Today totally and completely sucked. But there’s always tomorrow.
Jim