Nergal
Greater God of Death, Undead, and the Underworld
Alignment: Chaotic Evil
Symbol: A single white skull

One of the Old Gods, Nergal once ruled the Underworld and the spheres of Death and the Undead. He was deposed and presumably destroyed by his sons Orcus and Set.

This will be Christmas number six without dad, bless his heart. But I sure am comforted knowing that his faith was solid, his eternity secure. Yes, I miss him. It's wistful, melancholic. But I know he is with the Lord, and therefore he is in perfect delight and security.

So while I'll be getting together with family and celebrating the Reason for the Season, dad is actually with Him. What a comfort and joy that is to know, and I'm thankful.

I'm going through old photos, optimizing, and blogging them. Here's one I found. I think it's when my nephew was born. This would have been in March 2018.

As a family, we continue dealing with the aftermath of my brother's death six days ago on 8/31/2022. My heart especially goes out to Makayla, his daughter. I appreciate work giving me three days' bereavement leave. I still feel mentally numb and emotionally fragile, the aftermath of this tragedy. Mother is really struggling.

The last few days, I've spent some time using Visual Studio Code to do some console programming in C#. I really like the editor and how customizable it is.

My brother died at 11:35 am EST today. His heart stopped. He'd abused his body with alcohol for many years. Such a shame. My niece is making arrangements and at this point, it's looking like an Ohio ceremony will likely take place on Sunday, August 4th.

Rest in peace, Big 'Al. Love, Big Brother

I returned to work today, having missed Monday and Tuesday due to illness — flu, I think. The workday went pretty good. I was fatigued but didn't feel particularly bad. I got a member's OTR submitted, and billed on seven clients in TR.

We learned that coworker Catherine F. lost her baby. She found out last night at Hardin Memorial that the baby had no heartbeat. She was induced with Mitosin and delivered it this morning. The cord was around her neck :( Mindy A. told her the funeral expenses have already been paid for them, so that's a blessing, at least).

It was really nice weather this afternoon, but I opted not to run today. Still fatigued from the flu, or whatever it was I had. Might run tomorrow, depending on how I feel and the weather.

Did some rearranging of computer gear in the bedroom this afternoon. I moved the ThinkCentre M53 to the desktop, behind the monitor, I've got four external drives hooked to it — currently, a 5 TB MyBook, a 4 TB Seagate, and a two-bay HDD enclosure that right now has a 1 TB and 465 Gb disk in it. I figure that arrangement will be more convenient for housing Macrium backups in multiple locations that are still immediately accessible to the PC. And I've enough hard drives I can keep at least one backup at work containing Macrium backups on my laptop and both home desktops.