So this is x-mas

Morning sleepyheads! (And shame on you if you read this before like, 10am!! Why aren't you doing the family thing?!?)

I, of course, am at work (but don't feel too sorry for me, I'm getting about $35 and hour for being here, today AND tomorrow), so it's kind of a 'meh' day for me. Possibly even a 'feh', day, but that may be a tad excessive. Right now I'm seeing a very pretty sunrise over the 'Alcoholic Chamber' (our nickname for the high noise testing lab on campus (the Anechoic Chamber)), and am one of the very few people on campus.

After work I'm heading over to Orlo and Jojo's for a few hours, and then back home. I might like x-mas more if I didn't have to work every damn one of them, and got to enjoy spending a day with friends or family instead of drudging away at work (for any amount of money). I have very few x-mas memories to speak of. Seems like the few I do have all revolve around Orlo and Jojo too.

They're pretty much my best friends. I've known Orlo since he was Little Orlo, a mere lad of 11 summers. He, his older brother OG!!, and their friends Log, Mugg, Grog, Tonga, and a few other non-tribal types used to hang out at my place and play RPGs back when I worked at the shitty cable trap company I used to work for. That was when the Tribe formed, actually. Jojo I've known since she was just betty( the Tribe's name for any non-tribal random woman (though she was an older girl-child actually)), whom Orlo fleashed one day lo these many years ago at the shitty cable trap company.

(I'd like to pause and marvel at the fact that I have created such a useful word as 'fleashed'. Talk about serendopity!!)

(Ugh, my coffee's gone cold.)

I've been there through their whole relationship. Been a sounding board, shoulder to cry on, sympathetic ear, to both of them for as long as they've been around. I've been lucky enough to have the perspective of being a friend to both, and knowing both of them well enough to know how good they are for each other, and being close enough to help them through the rough spots when they had fear and doubt. I've heard that fear and doubt, when it came, from both sides, and been able to communicate it without saying it directly to the other, to let them both see past it and keep hold of the reasons for loving each other, without betraying their trust. That's a gift I'd been given by a much greater power than myself, and it's been a pleasure to use that gift to help them both.

I couldn't have asked for a better present, but they found one anyway. They're married now, and have Lojo. The 'little sister I never had' and my best friend. I'm an uncle. All I need now is about 8-12 more hours in a day, and 3-4 more days in the week, and a few billion dollars, so I can properly spoil my nephew and any others, or nieces, that come along.