wow, even eldest brother agrees

That all 8 or so plus of us have all done poorly in the maintaining communication department. So, eldest brother is quite interesting. He's in IT in Dallas (dad said Houston...pshh) and he has a 15-month-old daughter (my niece!) who has a cute name and by default, though I have yet to meet her, must be cute.

That was strange.

Anyways, next task for me:

I'm going to phone up the sister in Montréal whom I just found out was barred from being in communication, or seeing dad for all her life by her mum. She doesn't know him and I don't know why. If you guys want to speculate do whatever you want, I won't be able to answer any questions since I virtually know nothing.

Oh what an awkward phone call this shall be...

A bit silly though that we 'mobilize' only when dad is dreadully ill or critically injured like this.

In other news, I have a shiny new pair of indoor soccer shoes, plus shorts because my BRIGHT VIVID royal blue ones are only good with a white jersey or blue one but since I wore none of those but a bright orange long-sleeve jersey (I wore an old pair of navy track pants that later got duct taped at the knees and said duct tape fused with my pants due to heat caused by friction against the evil incarnate and every indoor sports player's archnemesis that is Astro Turf), my t-shirts that I would wear wouldn't work. Plus I'm not used to playing goalie in a t-shirt. In all due honesty, I feel slightly bare not wearing a long-sleeved shirt with pads at the elbows.

In other news that would make sense of the previous paragraph, I discovered there's drop-in recreational soccer on Mondays.