You’re Gonna Carry That Weight
Posted on August 8th, 2005
Filed under: General — Karl Olson @ 1:37 am
So, I just got home (well, I got home about 6 hours ago – I needed some TV time to unwind, and I had some stuff to watch. Kodocha is the awesome for the whole family.) What happened to a Thursday return? My grandfather took a bad fall while looking at (almost in bitter irony) retirement homes where he would be safer than the split level he currently lives in. There was no way we were going to leave early after that. So we stayed, took him to the doctor and he seems to be recovering, however slowly. By Sunday, it was ok to head back. Scared the hell out of me though, and really, I’m still worried. I’m just not ready for this. The whole experience as it stood was more stressful than I could have previously concieved of. I felt sort of useless in the wake of that kind of thing. I hated the fact that if I had just tagged along with my father and grandfather, I could have prevented it, maybe. I loath the hindsight aspect; while I was watching the last of the Gundam TV series I brought with me, my grandfather was taking a tumble that would have atleast been semi-mitigated by having another person walking with him.
Now, all that time I had internet access through both free dial-up and “borrowed” wifi. However, between the dial up being a little slow (to put it mildly) and the wifi being not quite secure enough for my worrisome nature, I didn’t post on the blog. Sorry to all two people who cared. I barely kept up with the more pressing responsibility to Toon Zone, and even that isn’t fully dealt with. I’ve got three DVDs to review, maybe even more like 4 or 5 depending on how you want to cut it (do I just review the stuff that was sent explicitly for review, or do I also shine a few spotlights while I’m at it to give series I know I like exposure?) I’ve got some new lyrics that I wrote while on the trip that need to be smoothed out and have songs written for them too. I should get serious about scheduling time with one of the advisors at BCC so I can figure out whether I should apply for graduation yet or whether I should pick up a couple more courses to ensure I’ve gotten every last ounce I can out of that line of education before moving on to bigger, hopefully better and definitely more expensive things.
Basically, I’ve got things to do, and I’m glad I do cause other I’d probably ruminate way too much on the current events on my life. That’s not to say a little self-analysis probably isn’t healthy, but I’d rather not let it overwhelm me and crush me; I’ve got things to get done, and they are things I want to get done.
BTW, expect a bit of retroactive blogging of some posts I wrote up when I didn’t have access then forgot to post, maybe later today. I’ll probably just condense it into one chunk or something like that.
PS: When did I start getting traffic? I mean, two hundred visits in two weeks. Something I must said must be goofing google up or something.
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