January 2007 Archives
For those who I've mentioned a move date to San Diego (when the movers are doing their thing) - it's ON! Dates were confirmed with the moving company yesterday and we're locked & loaded! I'm not publishing the dates for security reasons, but if you don't know, feel free to ask me :)
My new title (officially) at Sony: Manager, Studio Applications
I could always alter it to "Studio Applications Support" if I wanted to be part of the SAS. I haven't quite figured out how to work "MI-5" or "MI-6" into it yet.
We think somewhere between 5am - 6am last night (7 Jan 2007) my dad passed away. My mom checked on him at 4am and he was quiet & peaceful, but still there. At 6:30a, her next check, he was gone.
I remember I woke up at 4:25am with an upset stomach. Couldn't go back to sleep for at least an hour or more. Ironically, my brother woke up too and couldn't go back to sleep either.
The blessing is that he wasn't in pain (except I'm sure the mental anguish of watching himself deteriorate from behind his own eyes, and losing the capacity to interact with his environment, or communicate properly or well).
I'm sad, yes, but I've been mentally prepared for this for a long time, and watching him deteriorate over the last few months I've really been making ready for it. The other ironic thing is that the whole family (well, me, my mom, my brother and his new wife/daughter) as well as Mariann, who's virtual-family to us, all converged at my folks' place yesterday - we all got to have lunch & stuff. It was a good last day for my dad, I know.
I'm glad the painful ordeal is over. I'm very glad my dad is in a much better place in heaven now. I'm glad that my mom, as she gets through the grieving process, can start to have a normal life again. I know it's going to be hard for her, and she's not as prepared as she thought she was - but it's just a process we have to work through, and each person deals with it differently.
I don't even know if I want to take any time off work for any of this... maybe only wants necessary for the family memorial tomorrow night, and the actual funeral. I'm not very good at just "sitting around" and grieving. Mostly I just want to get out of this apartment (it's having more and more memories which are touring sour) and into my own place (which I signed the lease for yesterday, and take possession of on 1 Feb).
Til then... I'm going to brunch with some dear friends of mine now - and have them and some other Goons over for dinner tonight. Those are the people I need to be around in the immediate term.
YAY! My PS3 is set to arrive on Thursday!!!! I have a test-kit at home, on-loan from work. It only plays games. I'm VERY eager to have the retail version up & running - especially with the new TV I just got!! I should goto Best Buy & get some more BluRay movies -- things that will look uber-sweet in 1080 :)
