Tuesday, January 27, 2004

“The Other Brother”


Well I would be willing to bet that to most of even my closest friends this news to them. I don’t know if anyone other than Ryan knows what you are about to read. Incidentally I saw Ryan today for the first time since Christmas at the end of my street he yelled he would call me later, but I am still waiting.

Anyway when most people ask me if I have any siblings I respond that I have a brother. Of course as most of you know that my brother is married with a kid making me an uncle. However my father was actually married before he met my mother and had a son with his first wife. I didn’t even realize this until I was like 9. I thought this older kid Rick was just some random kid that came over I guess. But I technically have a half brother.


Well apparently my father married too young and his first wife is nuts. Things went south (the cleaner less personal version) and thankfully for me they spilt so he met and married my mother. Things got really ugly over spending time with my half brother Rick because my father’s ex gave him a hard time. Rick ended up being a troubled student and eventually things went south with Rick and my father. So much that I pretty much erased his existence from my brain. I never think about him at all.

Apparently, he got married to a woman with a kid, and is going through what does it all means phase in his life or something. He contacted my father and wants to patch things up. This was attempted before and he was at my house like 7 years ago with many family members, however after the get together he fell off the face of the Earth again.

Now Rick wants to see his two half brothers again and has actually been in contact with my father for months. My parents went to dinner with him in his wife, and the next step is a sit down with all members of my immediate family.

I really don’t know what to expect and feel pretty bad since I don’t feel know how to feel any brotherly bond for a virtual stranger who is a good deal older than me. I know if he expects to give me nooggies when walks in the door or us to slip into a close relationship. The whole time he was pining to reconcile with this father (who is my father and that still bugs me out) I thought about him maybe 3 times in a calendar year.

We will sit down for an obligatory dinner and I honestly don’t know what I have to say to him. I honestly am not even close with my actual brother for what ever reason and I don’t know what Rick is expecting. It is a socially awkward situation for me and but I totally understand him wanting to do this. I have nothing against Rick I just don’t have any connection with him or know how to deal with magically having another brother seemingly appear out of no where like one sitcoms when they retool. If he looks strikingly like Chris Eliot I was suspect my life has been one life long EDTV type experiment.
"MORE SNOW"

I am going to go out and say we are getting more than we what most weatherman are saying...4 inches. Maybe even 5. It is a fast moving storm but a heavy one. Sadly the early timing of it might result in me going to work tomorrow. If it hit later tonight or earlier I would be off tomorrow. However it could easily be out of here by 1 am. Unless it taps into more mositure off the coast.

Its been rough to call cause of the whacky weather system. I hope you like Snow because the next 3 weeks we are going to have storm after storm. GET YOUR SHOVELS READY READERS!

Monday, January 26, 2004

"Snow"
We will get 3 inches out of this mess. My record is 3-1.