UPDATE: The Cruel Passage of Time… - March 26, 2019
Last week was a cruel reminder (at least to me personally) of just how much that
TIME is not on our side in life…
The first had been the belief that Palanto and I would have “
Chapter One” of the Prologue game out to all of you this month, but the
TIME that Palanto had to put into his new job, prevented us from being able to do that, which meant bringing on the ever lovable and talented Booom313 on board…
…but while Booom313 was able to create an import script and assembled a
BETA of the game for people to test, we realized that the script a had a bit of a problem distinguishing data (or in this case words) that included an apostrophe in them to show plurals and also had problems with my side-by-side panels.
Booom313 is working to correct it now and would’ve finished last week working on it, but
TIME got away from us and our lovable programmer had to switch gears and work on
BlueCat’s release for “
Ecchi Sansei” this weekend.
While I was able to get some much-needed work done last week, working on “
Chapter Two” and keeping an eye on the Beta Tester reports,
TIME decided to show me that for us, it isn’t as
INFINITE as we’d like, when my good friend and next-door neighbor, Lew, suffered a massive heart attack and passed away this weekend.
In his early 90’s, Lew was a great neighbor and a connection to a past that was a simpler
TIME… I’d spend many days together with him in his family room, listening to days long past… of how far humanity had come in the forms of technology, war and ways of living… and how things have changed and devolved in the form of the Human Spirit in such things as simple communication, brotherhood and good neighborly actions.
For me, it had been since my
CHILDHOOD YEARS since I lived in a neighborhood in which neighbors looked out for one another… communicated, shared chores with one another, dropped by with a dish of pie or desert and were quick to help one another… but this is the sort of neighborhood that I moved into and live in today, one that
TIME had seemed to forget about.
Despite being as
FUBAR and physically disabled as I am, I find myself often racing and competing with my neighbors to get out of the house to remove mine and other’s snow or mow our lawns before they can do mine… some
times we even work side by side and work together to all of the immediate houses around us, to help our fellow neighbors… to give to one another and, maybe, make someone’s life a little easier.
It is a good neighborhood and I am proud to say that I am
GOOD friends with my neighbors… so, when Lew’s kids called me with the news, I was devastated and somewhere, in the back of my head and in the darkness of my thoughts, also concerned…
What would become of the neighborhood now? Will one of Lew’s sons or daughter move in… or will the house go up for sale? And what sort of person will move in and become my neighbor now? Will they be as good as the neighbors around me? Or will I have to, at some point, undercover of the night, bury them behind my shed?
Lew had seen his fair share of
TIME… watched as it wrestled his wife away from him, watched as it slowly ticked by and the world around him evolved in some ways and devolved in others… he sat and bided his
TIME, waiting patiently for it to come and collect him, as it will do for all of us, and this weekend… it finally did.
I am going to miss him. Going to miss our talks and him sharing with me about his life and the
TIME he lived in it… but, I am also happy for him! He is in a place where
TIME no longer has meaning, no longer can touch and affect him and is, now, once more with his wife in whom he loved and missed dearly.
In the mean
time, it is now up to me to live out the rest of my
TIME without him, to remember the days and life he led and slowly chip away at the
TIME I have left before I can go and see him again, as well as, my many family and friend who have gone before me…
…however, till that
TIME comes, I will get back to work with everyone to get this game done and out to all of you and hopefully, some
time this week we’ll have some good news and reports from the
Beta Testers and get “
Chapter One” out to all of you, so we can share a bit of
TIME together and entertain you.
Till that
TIME comes, though, know that we are working hard… haven’t forgotten about you or our job to you and thank you for the
TIME you’ve given us, as well as, your love and support.
~Jack