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Yesterday I stood pallbearer for one of my favoite uncles…

Sigh, it’s so hard to put into words how I feel about uncle George’s passing… “Unk” was a great man… He was a bit loud, a bit opinionated… a bit of a “wise ass”… In other words, you’d think he was part of the Slusher family by blood rather than marrige… :) He and Aunt Lelia have alway been there to support me… I can’t quite imagine what a Slusher get together will be like without him….

At the same time, Unk’s been sick for quite some time… I really only saw him once while he was really sick… when my parents and I went to see them for Christmas this past year. I don’t know that I was prepared to see him that way. Unk had always been a big guy, every bit as tall as me and a bit heavier… But when I walked into the room I thought I was looking at a different person because he was so thin he was literally skin and bones… It wasn’t until he opened his mouth and that familiar voice came out, along with that familiar wit… Though his body was drawn and tired, his spirit was still strong…

Unk and I spent a long time talking together that day… and I think that made yesterday easier for me to handle. When we went to view his body at the funeral home, I knew he wasn’t really there… His spirit, his essence, what made him… well, him… was finally at peace… and though I miss him greatly, my heart felt a great release, knowing that he was now in a far better place…

You don’t have to say it… I know it’s be a hell of a long time since I last blogged… But it’s not my fault! I’ve been busy! I had friends to visit, birthdays to celebrate, rollercoasters to ride… I bought some droids, freed the wookiees from slavery, and rescued the old republic from the evil tryanny of the sith… ummm… I bought a grill (just a little one)… ummm… OH, and at work I had to deal with at least 3 different virii/worms and so many Windows security flaws my head hurts…

See, lots of stuff… :)

But I’m hoping things might settle down a bit now… Work was actually quiet the past two days, which is a nice change…

Also we had our first FYP Tech meeting of the semester last night, which was exciting…. and quite amusing too… Check out the sketches by Caitlin Stapleton:

Napkin Art

Excellent stuff… :)

Ah well.. back to work… I’ll try to blog more later on… hell, maybe I’ll actually even talk about how things are going in my life?!! :)