About ten days ago my father died. I wanted to hold off on writing any detailed thoughts until i was on a more even emotional keel and my family was through their initial mourning. Plus this account is mostly meant to be a fun space for fans, so I don't want to be too maudlin for too long.
The particulars are in the link below. He was 83, a husband, father, and grandfather. He and I butted heads a lot during my life. But as I myself grew older, I began seeing him less as a n avatar of stubborness and more as person and where e was coming from. He grew up during the depression, served overseas, and was very uncompromising about a lot of things, for good or ill.
He loved sports, and watching them on TV. He especially liked yelling at it whenever the Bills lost, which was a lot more often than he liked. he hunted and fished and played pinnochle with the neighbors and went to church every Sunday and loved his grandsons, my nephews, more than anything.
One thing followers of me here should know is that he was also a very big scifi and fantasy fan. He gave me my love of cartoons and animation. Well into adulthood, one thing he and I could always do together is sit and watch the classic Looney Tunes cartoons and others. when he wasn't watching sports, he watched scifi and science shows, and I guess I got that part of me from him too. So whenever you see me doing nerdy stuff on here and elsewhere, my books and artwork and games and other stuff, you probably have him at least partially to thank for it.
Okay, that will be it for now. Back to my regular stupidity with the next post.
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