Misc

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Really? A live action anime of Kiki’s Delivery Service? I’m trying not to get my hopes up here as it was one of my favorite works from Studio Ghibli. I hope it does justice. The only thing that will for certain be missed is the voice of Phil Hartman.

From Anime News Network

Here’s a picture of a pink loveseat. It has nothing to do with this post.

I want to thank you for coming by and reading the blog day to day. It means a lot to me.

It won’t be long now and I will have posted an article every day for a full month, which is a major record for me. I’ve thought several times about giving it up, but I’m determined to stick with this. I’ve had some good feed back from my friends and even from strangers. This is exciting because there are people out there that aren’t reading this stuff because they feel they have to.

If I may ask a favor from you, when I post an article, Like or Share it or whatever to your preferred social platforms. Some of them *cough*Facebook*cough* are designed to lower the chance of a post appearing on peoples’ streams unless they receive a good number of Likes and Shares.

I’d like to see just how many people I can get reading this daily. The average number of views per day has gone up from 23 in May to 50 in June. This is awesome for the short time I’ve been posting.

One other thing…

Please Subscribe via email on the left, Like the Facebook Page, +1 the Google+ Page, or just Follow my Twitter account. This will help you stay notified when I post something. For the record, I’ve been scheduling my posts to publish at 7 am sharp. I’ve decided to move the publish time to 2:30 pm because more people are awake and/or paying attention to notice when the articles go live.

Ok, that’s all, I now return you to your regularly scheduled boredom.

I think I do pretty well at avoiding game hype. However, every once in a while, I get an itch for a game that I just can’t ignore. Usually something triggers it. In the case of my latest obsession, it was this video that was my trigger:

Yup, I’ve resisted the siren call of Skyrim for a good year and a half, and a video that doesn’t even show gameplay managed to spark my interest. The main reason I kept from playing Skyrim is because I know how these games go down. I’ve been playing them since Daggerfall back in the 90’s.

They’re all prettier and have some new feature that makes the game better than the last one, but every time I end up wandering the landscape ignoring the main story line in deference to the billions of side quests and random objects I can steal. It’s always the same. And every time, I end up playing the next one — eventually.

Just when I think I’m out, they pull me back in.

Two years ago today my wife gave birth to our son and our lives changed forever.

Oh sure, like harbingers of doom, everyone told us life would change. While they were right, the change was much sweeter than anyone ever let on.

Sleep filled nights changed to warm baby snuggles; free evenings to wrestling matches and sweet night night kisses; late Saturday mornings to sticky fingers covered in mushed banana offering a “bite…” The list could go on and on, but suffice to say, our lives have changed for the better.

1 Samuel 1:27-28
New King James Version (NKJV)
27 For this child I prayed, and the Lord has granted me my petition which I asked of Him. 28 Therefore I also have lent him to the Lord; as long as he lives he shall be lent to the Lord.” So they worshiped the Lord there.

Like Hannah, we prayed fervently for a child, and with Wayne we are blessed beyond what we could imagine. Also like Hannah, we have vowed to teach him the ways of the Lord, and only time can tell if we are doing a good job of it.

For now, however, he seems to pick up on everything very quickly. He can count to 15 without prompting and say all his ABCs and their associated sounds. He loves books and blocks and playing outside and his face lights up the second his hands touch anything electronic. Right now — to us — he’s a super toddler, capable of doing anything.

And he certainly tries. As Christina is fond of saying “He’s all boy.” He takes life at a run and when he stumbles, he gets up and ignores the scrapes on his legs. Sometimes watching him play is like watching a game of pinball. He’s always bouncing from one activity to the next with very little pause, even in the case of injury as mentioned before.

He keeps us on our toes, life interesting, and our hands full, to name a few cliches we hear often. I love him dearly and look forward to seeing the type of man he becomes.

I love you Wayne! I hope you have a great birthday. May God bless you in everything you do.