Okay...
It seems another family crisis is going on. Let me explain.
The reason I was absent from the forums before was because my Dad had gone missing. My Dad is Bipolar(Manic-Depressive) and he went into a Manic episode, then ran off for a couple weeks. We had no idea where he was. During this time, he tossed his cell phone and wedding rings into the ocean...gave away most of his clothes(he took a suitecase)...etc. When the police found him in Malibu, he was ranting and raving about all kinds of crazy things. He was obviously sick. Dad was taken to the hospital down there, but was shortly released. Though, he wasn't released because he was better...he was still extremely nuts. The reason he was released was due to the fact that he was planning on taking the mental hospital to court. California law now requires that all mental patients have a patient advocate assigned to them...kind of like a public defender. Pretty much the patient advocate was bound by law to take the hospital to court on behalf of my insane father. Rather than go to court with my Dad, the metal hospital released him. While this was going on, my family and I apparently had no rights in the matter... even though we wanted Dad to stay at the metal hospital and get well. When he's sick, he can get violent and we were scared. My Dad was released anyway. For the past month or so I've been living with a crazy man. As of now he still isn't well! This past month he's been on all kinds of medication, and he's still being a jerk. It was yesterday that my Dad got extremely angry with me, unprovoked I might add, and threatened to "kick my ass." He pushed me around a few times, but I didn't want to fight him. "You're 18 now," he said...along with all kinds of swearing. The end result is this: I'm going to stay with my grandparents in Montana. They have dial-up, but I don't think I'll be able to come around to the OWF until things get sorted out. This really sucks, because I just finished moving...now I have to move again. Blah. I wish I could keep my mod positions and pick it back up when I hopefully return, but if they have to be removed...I understand. I also have to face the fact that Abe Babe might have to get a new Oddworld-Web reporter. This is just terrible.
Anyway, I think I'll be leaving by bus on Thursday. I'll stick around until then.
-oddguy
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