Ramblings, Incoherent Thought and Family

***SURGEON GENERAL WARNING*** The below blog is EXTREMELY geeky and talks about a community that almost NONE of my usual readers belong to and probably won't understand. However...I felt like writing...so I did. If you're offended by geekiness or feel that by writing this I'm showing how not 'with it' I am...or that I care too much for something so trivial...I encourage you to close this now and read another post. I don't really CARE care about this...but just wanted to share my observations about things as I've been watching this play out over the last 6 days. You've been warned. ****** Man...who knew? I haven't had the iPhone a month...and already I'm hooked. Ok...if you know me at all you knew THAT would happen...let's face it I'm a gadget fiend. What I didn't know though was that there was a whole COMMUNITY based on this. See when I first got the phone I said I wouldn't 'jailbreak' it. I thought that meant that I w...

This week has been NUTS! Chris who usually gives the challenge at the men's group during week 2 was indisposed...so he asked me to go up a week. What I didn't realize is that that means I'm in Week 2 of my month as well. The week that consists of a church leadership meeting on Monday, Tuesday with Deb, Wednesday Business Meeting for work, Thursday Gauntlet/rehearsal and Friday Radio Show. He asked me on Saturday I think...and I said yes without thinking. WHOOPS. I had TUESDAY to write the challenge. However...sitting down Tuesday I just didn't feel it coming...I started writing but one of my readers felt it may not work...so I scrapped it...so on Wednesday...I figure I'll write during my business meeting.(which is usually done remotely). Except this week. Nope...they wanted us on-site. GREEATTTT. It was cool seeing the people I work with locally...but still I planned to stay awake and try to write...and experienced writer's block like you wouldn't be...

One night. One night is all it's taken me to know that I can NEVER go back. I'm awake at 6:00 in the morning because as soon as I'm done writing this I'm going to shower, and get dressed and go to the hospital where my beautiful wife is resting (I hope) comfortably after elective surgery. I left the hospital last night at around 9 because she had just gotten out and was out of it. I came home for the first time to an empty home without her. For the first time in seven years...I was to sleep in our bed without her. Feed the cats without her. Flush the cats toilet without her. Eat without her. Watch TV without her. Game without her giving me that knowing look that says I'm playing too long. We've spent nights apart before. I've been in ministry awhile and also had to go away for work a few times. However...she's always been the one here. It's somehow easier I think to have to sleep apart from her somewhere else. The whole house is her domain...

April 1, 2009. A day that will forever live in Infamy. When the news came down last week about Time Warner's plans for Internet Capping in Rochester...I remember feeling outraged and a little ambivalent at the same time. On one hand I sit and think "Man...that sux. I'm furious..." and then I think "They won't do it...they can't do it...that's nuts right?" Fast forwarding 9 days...I'm seeing now the truth. It's probably gonna happen...at least for awhile. Which has only infuriated me more. Time Warner is made up of people who's only goal is to make money. That should surprise ABSOLUTELY noone. To hear the words monopolistic, and unfair makes sense. It is...but they've got us by the short hairs here. TWC is made up of shareholders, corporate raiders, and executives who are being hit in this time by the 'economic downturn' (and by 'hit' I mean may need to only take 10 weeks of vacation in Bora Bora). So having them lo...

I woke up this morning...thankful for my friends. Such an odd statement coming from me. Especially given how little sometimes I truly know about being or having friends. Yet here I am...thankful for 'em. Most of my life...I've gone through my days thinking "why can't I have friends?...what's wrong with me?" I've said it before but I was a VERY AWKWARD geeky kid. VERY hard to get to know. I seemed to revel in being unlikable at times. Sure I desired it more than anything...but my actions and outlook seemed to cloud that. I'd make a stupid joke here that could be insulting...I'd ask a stupid question...I'd play dumb for a cheap laugh. I'd throw an insult at someone so then I'd then be backed into a corner where I usually tried to fight my way out (very badly I might add...I was NEVER a good fighter...I got one good one in once...with John Stambach in 7th grade...in Mr. Y's class...he was busting on me...pushes me and I punched him in...

Hey all; I went and saw Watchmen on opening day. There may be some spoilage here...so if you haven't seen it and want to...don't read further. OK now that that is out of the way... Watchmen as directed by Zach Snyder is NOT a comic book superhero movie. No matter what you read, see, or hear...this is NOT a movie that you should EVER EVEN CONSIDER bringing a kid to. It is based upon a 12 issue mini-series published in 1986 by DC Comics. However...it is NOT Superman, Batman or even Doom Patrol. It is a dark, gritty and very thought provoking drama using Heroes and masked vigilantes as a looking glass into a world teetering on the edge of nuclear armageddon. The heroes are not 'white hats' and not without their own hangups, issues and motivations for being 'heroes'. The book is 23 years old...and for me still very readable and relevant today (unlike much of the 80's comics). It's not a 'feel good' or uplifting story...but a morality play and...

Ya know...I didn't think it would happen to me. I mean I'm a very young at heart kinda guy. My office has Battlestar Galactica miniature ships on top of one of my monitors, I have a Green Lantern Postage Stamp Picture my in-laws got me for Christmas, I game, I watch Cartoons still. I genuinely thought I was still with it. Nope...NOT EVEN CLOSE. The below is a snippet from a friend of a friend's kid who friended me on Facebook. They replied to their Dad in their doing status...and it just made me realize how unhip I am. Below is the response to their father: "y should i b nicer 2 others while others r bin mean 2 me!!!!??? yea ik im not @ skool but i have u dat keeps tellin me 2 clean n borin stuff like dat no wonder y im bored!" WHAT IN THE SAM HILL OF DAMOCLES DOES ALL THAT MEAN?!!?!?! I've seen the commercial with the kid texting her Grandma...and Granny is a hip granny dropping an idk on her son. But man...I just don't get it. I mean I can understand wha...