9. What time is it?

Wow, what a confusing day. Daylight Savings Time always messes me up. I wish I could say my blog is late because of it, but no. I'll be honest and admit that my blog is late because I'm prone to forgetting really important things. Hah hah... But seriously, this totally slipped my mind. Oops... Of course, up until now I didn't really have much to talk about. But the last three days were very... interesting, to say the least. I just didn't have Internet access during those times, and thus I was unable to blog about it.

Two major things happened this week. First of all, I got Fallout 3 on Tuesday. It has effectively turned me into a hermit. Seriously, this game is fun! Its essentially a post-apocalyptic adventure game, where you run around America after the world got nuked. The game is set a century or so afterwards, and its interesting to see the after-effects of mankind's stupidity. Modern landmarks and cities are the equivalent to ancient ruins, and mankind hangs on by a thread by forming small towns and camps. Its kinda weird, though. I mean, its just a game and everything, but you can't help but think about how the world really would be after a nuclear war. This will probably never happen, of course. At least not on a large scale... But as we've seen with scenarios such as Chernobyl, even a small nuclear explosion of any kind can reap destruction on a massive and long-lasting scale. Quite a disturbing thought...

The other thing that occurred, which has caused so much confusion and chaos for my family over the past few days, is the revelation that my uncle only has about a month to live. We knew he had brain cancer, but he was expected to last at least moderately longer than that. But it seems the experimental treatments the docs tried on him failed miserably, and apparently gave the cancer a chance to spread like wildfire. I was supposed to go visit him over Thanksgiving, but due to the apparent time limit on his life, my mom and grandmother left today to go see him. I couldn't go, of course, due to school, and I pretty much missed my chance of ever seeing my uncle again. Such a happy thought... I talked to the youth minister back at my church, though, and he gave me a lot of advice. All I can do is pray...

So, what sort of reflection can be had from these things? Hmmm... Well, I have decided that Fallout 3 was well worth the 80 bucks it cost, the world would suck if it got nuked, and my uncle should have stuck with the treatments that were working.

Oh! And my grandmother said she'd bail me out of next semester. So now I can focus on paying for next year here at MC. Phew... That's a lot less to worry about...

So yeah, apologies once again for putting this blog up late. Thanks for reading it, to whoever actually did so. Um... the end.