Blog of a crazy man

With his eyes closed, Mark felt the warm sun on his face. The heat brought back memories of his childhood, when he would run and play in summer days. But just a few months ago he thought that he would never feel the heat of the sun again. The boys over at Sky Reclamation Service, however, could do miracles. It was the first sunlight that earth had experienced since the nuclear war ended three years ago. Eternal winter finally gave way to new summer.

Of course, there still weren’t any green plants, and other animals were no where to be found. But Genetic Reclamation Service was already at work on bringing them back. Even if they never succeeded, Mark was happy just being able to feel the sun on his pale skin again after all these years.

Mark inhaled deeply. Yup, the air still smelled like he remembered it, nauseating, but at least he didn’t have to breath with a mask over his face anymore.

Mark opened his eyes and saw the ocean out in front of him slowly beginning to thaw in the light of the new sun. Mankind had put earth through hell, but that was over now. He knew that he would live to once again see more hot summer days.

Steve and Akiva both sat with their backs against the tree in a grassy field. Akiva was staring at a pocket watch that he had recently acquired.

“You know,” Steve said, “I used to have a pocket watch just like that.”

“Oh yeah?”

“Yeah. My father gave it to me as a gift when I turned 13. It was a family heirloom. He got it from his father at 13. I loved that watch. It was engraved on the back with the words, ‘To my beloved son, Benjamin.’ That was my father’s name.”

“What happened to it then?”

“I was angry. I forget what about now. Something pithy I’m sure. I threw the watch into the road. It was run over by an 18 wheeler. I tried to collect the parts, but it was so badly damaged that I couldn’t get it to work again.

“I wish that I could go back in time and change the past so that I had never thrown that watch, but I know that you can’t undo the past. That makes me wonder, if you can’t undo the past, can you undo the future? Isn’t the future just somebody else’s unchangeable past?”

A few moments passed as they both just sat there in silence. Akiva finally broke the silence, “I think that you can undo the future.” Akiva got up to walk away, but stopped short and handed his pocket watch to Steve. “Here, you can keep this.”

On the back of the watch was engraved,
“To my beloved son, Benjamin.”

I know it’s been way too long since I posted here. I guess I’ll start with the most important news first. Christian James Lee Weirick was born on October 19. He weighed 8 pounds 2 ounces and 21 inches long. He was born with a cleft lip which was fixed just last Wednesday, January 9. All went well with the surgery and he was allowed to come home that day. His stitches did get infected though and we had to take him to the emergency room to get antibiotics for it. He gets his stitches taken out this Thursday. Other than that all seems to be going good and I’m very happy to be a daddy.

As for the money troubles I mentioned last post. Alicia is still on maternity leave due to complications arising after the pregnancy, but  money isn’t as much of a problem because I have full-time job working at PPG. Money is still tight but we have enough to pay the bills. God gave me the job at just the right moment.  I have a lot to be thankful for, and life is going really well for me and my family.

If you didn’t notice I moved my blog, again. I decided that weblogs.us was just not the right product for me at this time and wordpress.com seems to fit my needs for the moment. I’m still writing in my spare time and will hopefully post more soon.