Gravitate to Me

[tracker7]

The heartache finally hit me today, an hour or so before I left work.  I held it together, and it passed quickly enough, but damned if I'm not hurting right now.

There's a compounding factor.  One of my cousins was shot and killed Thursday morning, in what is starting to look like a shootout with a co-worker.  Steve was always very kind to Matt and I when we were growing up, treating us more like welcome visitors and friends, instead of young critters trying to tag along.  Funeral arrangements are still being made, so I'll probably be making a daytrip to West Virginia sometime in the next few days.

Going to WV for a funeral, instead of to Chattanooga for wings&ribs, or Newport/Cincy/Dayton/Louisville for fish and animals and planes and all that good stuff.

Dammit.  Dammit, dammit, dammit.

Comments

[kinesys.livejournal.com]

My brother's heart is full of winter.
And all i can do is sit with him and wait for spring.

I'll light a candle and a say a prayer for you and your fam.

[tracker7.livejournal.com]

Thank you.

[tragical-mirth.livejournal.com]

That's messed up. Srsly, what kind of coworker? That's my nightmare.

[tracker7.livejournal.com]

Steve was a lineman, I believe, with Pike Electric, and there was ongoing bad blood between him and this other guy. They were working on a new subdivision in the Raleigh, North Carolina, area.

The most recent newspaper story on it is here: http://www.newsobserver.com/102/story/559322.html

[cybogoblin.livejournal.com]

....bugger.

We're here if you need us, dude. Good luck for this weekend.

*big man hugs*

[tracker7.livejournal.com]

Thanks, man. Never rains but it pours, y'know?

[cybogoblin.livejournal.com]

Oh, I know. Here's hoping it works the other way too, later on.

Also, I don't know if it's common practice State-side or anything, but I found it kind of odd that they included the home addresses of both men in the newspaper article above.

[tracker7.livejournal.com]

We'll see how things shake out.

Printing addresses is the norm here - it's an artifact of the muckraking era.

[spoe.livejournal.com]

Damn. Sorry to hear that. If there's anything we can do...