Argonian Monday

I’m listening to this fascinating segment on NPR about Near Death Experiences. It supports the common notion that there is an out of body experience, but expands upon that with a story on one of the case studies. It makes me think about if I were to have one of these experiences and what some people close to me had to answer for or be confronted with in a lush paradise. An omniscient point of view on life would be utterly refreshing.

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Back down to earth, highlights:

Created a new character on Skyrim, an Argonian named Kracken (HA! he has two longer horns and two shorter horns for "hair." Argonians are the lizard/reptilian race in the game). In 10 hours I managed to attain level 17. I’m a Gemini, and don’t fully finish products. On my main profile, I have a character at Level 72. On Twin’s, I have level 52 and Xbox achievements to attain still. In my head, I’m still in Skyrim plotting my next goal to achieve a level quickly.

LG has a character that needs salvaging. He’s at Level 9. Conversely, I have a character on his Hard Drive, a Khajiit at level 24 or so. LG, like ETaurus doesn’t have the patience but more importantly hasn’t accessed all the information there is on the UESP Wiki and a strategy at which to achieve immediate goals (or they aren’t generally goal oriented people).

DLion still has an air of mystery to him. Despite being unaccepted by his family for being openly gay, he still has connections to them that he’s going to slowly let go of. He seems to have some health issues, which is interesting and unfortunate. LG does seem to be really happy with him around which didn’t exist with the girls we’ve met (they always seemed to be more friends than romantic interests). I have some theories about his personality and how he interacts with people, but I need more time see if I’m correct.

My sister seems to be tolerating us more directly now. She stayed with Twin and I when my mom wandered off to smoke a cigarette and talked. We seized the opportunity to find out what was going on in her personal life first hand.

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I have to commit this to memory, and a talking point I have not made here or something Twin and I don’t talk about much.

I have a half-sister faternally who is 5 years older than me, February 28th so she’s a Pisces. I may have mentioned in the past she’s really quiet and when she was with my family a few times I would speak up for her if she needed something. She gets along with me just fine. She just seems to have some pent-up rage/anger with my father that my mom ignores and told my sister and I my dad didn’t stay with her mom because she was abusive. I could contemplate what really happened but that’s an entry for another time.

Anyway, I am a half-uncle if that’s what you call it to a 6 year old and now a 2 week old. My half-sister doesn’t have a husband, so these children were conceived and will grow up with a single mom. Both of them were at the birthday BBQ for my Grandpa. I haven’t considered what my role should be. I obviously don’t have much of one because I prefer not to interact with my family (its obviously very fractured, my dad left a wake in his life and getting back to that near-death experience thing I’m sure he had a few actions to lament) and neither does my half-sister for her own reasons that may be pretty obvious and were never functionally addressed. All I know is I was embarrassed when someone pointed out I was an uncle (which wasn’t conscious of) and didn’t know how old she was. We found out. I’m not sure of the exact date, but she was born in 2006 if her birthday is before this time of year. I believe it is. I think she was born Jan. 20th, 2006.

Now I know consciously that I’m an uncle to a kid born Jan. 2006, and one born May 21st, 2012. You now also know that, though its a fact that will not be mentioned often nor really significant in the past, present, and future course of my life.