Well, it’s a few days into the new year and I find that I haven’t made the required “new year” post. I don’t plan on posting my resolutions here- I’ve made a list of things that need to get done in the next year (along with when, if there was one) and put it in remember the milk. This is good enough for me (and it’ll ensure that at least SOME of it will get done).

I will, however, share some of the highlights with you. This year I will:

• Travel back to KC to see my family in March
• Travel back to KC/Columbia to attend my brother’s wedding in August
• Try to keep my home office cleaner
• be better about updating this blog.

Not so exciting, is it? 

Now, I could bore you with what we did for NYE (nothing) and talk about how we shouted and cheered at the Chargers game, but that’s all that I’d have to mention.

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Earlier this year, I posted about my father being diagnosed with a rare form of cancer (Pleomorphic Liposarcoma) and about its etiology.

Yesterday, before the family christmas party we had, the family ‘it’s terminal’ discussion. They mentioned the general mortality for this form of cancer is roughly 80% within 9 months. 

As you can probably guess, this put a damper on the holiday celebration. 

I’m close to my father. While his faults are legion, he’s been a man that I can count on, whose service to his country I respect, and who I’m proud to call Dad. I hope that he’ll be in the 20% who survive 2-5 years, but I’m also a realist. He’s had difficult health for the past several years and the men on his side of the family don’t seem to live much past 65 (I suppose this is something I should worry about- though I hope I take better care of myself than they have). I’ll be travelling to KC a lot more this year- I want to get as much time with him as is possible. Though he’s got a list of things that he’s always wanted to do. He and my mother are going to cruise the panama canal, visit the bahamas, he wants to see a regular season game in every MLB park, wants to be at my brother’s wedding in August, and spend Christmas in San Diego next year. I hope beyond hope that he gets to do all of them. If what I want really had any bearing on cancer he’d be here to see my middle brother, who’s taken a troubled route through life, graduate with his Bachelors degree (maybe 2 years from now, maybe 3); but then again, if I had my wish, he’d live forever.

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