It's 5:45am as I begin to type this, silently, but it feels like 10am. I'm currently keeping an eye on my Dad, who has gone through a sudden change in the way he acts thanks to his cancer spreading. A cancer we can do nothing about. He's still aware of his family, but he has completely lost track of time, mumbling about events that have happened a week, months, and a year ago as if it happened mere hours ago. He also now has trouble doing simple tasks like using the remote or computer. When he isn't being like this, he has drifted in and out of sleep every 2 minutes for the past 4 days, sometimes attempting to get up after "waking up", which is an impossible task in itself, since it normally requires two people to help him up and walk due to his weak legs. It's hard seeing him like this, because he's basically gone at this point. Lost. And it has taken a toll on my Mom, who has had a hard time sleeping since. This is why I'm here, silently typing at 6:10am, watching my Dad, so my Mom can sleep. He was acting so fine a week ago. What a difference.

I'll probably regret typing all of this up later, but for now, I just need a silent release...

The current picture is from Tetris Plus for the Game Boy, a game he has been playing probably every day for the last 7/8 years. He is the man that got me into playing video games at an such an early age.