Me Smash!

The other day I finally finished this book and I must say it is better than the original but that is like saying having only one arm is better than having no knee caps. Don’t think about it. The more you do the less confidence you have in your original hypothesis. And forget about the 13 and a half minutes you’ll spend with your eyebrows raised and head tilted sideways staring into oblivion while your brain is occupied on the subject. You’ll never get those 13 and a half minutes back nor will you get the time spent reading the book.

Lesson learned, despite all conventional reasoning the presence of zombies does not always elevate the subject matter to the desired Coolness level. Remember ‘The Man with the Screaming Brain’. Just because it has Bruce Campbell doesn’t mean it is awesome.

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Thank you, HBO. Thank you for “A Game of Thrones”.

Now back to your regularly scheduled programing.

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I’ve been listening to M. Ward for several years now. And gawd damn it if he doesn’t get better every time through. Currently I can’t stop listening a very nostalgic Standby Me-ish tune called O’Brien/O’Brien’s Nocturne from M. Ward’s End Of Amnesia album. Holey frackin’ Christ-ka-bob it’s good. So run out there kids and get your mitts on some M. Ward.

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I’ve been reading Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. Its an adaptation to Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice. I’ve come to the painful conclusion that Jane Austen Zombified is still Jane Austen. Adding a few zombie fighting scenes and some references to training in the Orient doesn’t make this book easier to read. I just tortures the reader into reading more in hopes for some really zombie violence. The damned book is only 314 pages long and I started it at the end of December. It’s taken me almost 2 full months to read it and I’m still reading. Ugh.

My good friend The Frog Queen has Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters. She offered to trade me when I’m finished. I think not. Frog Queen you can have P,P and Z when I’m finished with it but I’ve had hit my fun quotient with Jane Austen.

Next book on my list to read is A Briefer History of Time by Steven Hawking. Yes, A Briefer History of Time. That means there was a previous volume titled A Brief History of Time. More on that to come…

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In a recent debate my wife taught me the difference between surprising someone and scaring them. Here’s how it went down:

Friar: Why isn’t it called scaring someone when you get 12 if your closest friends and family hiding in a dark house jumping out at you and yelling “Surprise!”?

Friar Wife: It’s because you don’t have cake. If you jumped out, yelled and then handed me a piece of cake it would be a surprise. No cake, no surprise. That’s how it works.

I love my wife.

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I’m getting bored with the old layout so I’m trying some new ones. I know how pathetic it is to write a blog post about changing your blog theme but it is seriously busy around here. Plus I’ve had a distinct lack of creative content for quite a while now so I’m trying to kick start it by changing the look a feel of the site. I’m also considering spinning off a second site will be used for work related industry type things.

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My oldest son Quinton loves Calvin and Hobbes, so does my father-in-law. My best mate Jeff Davis also loves Calvin and Hobbes. Now our younger sons, Gabe and Collin, and our niece, Emily, also are big fans. So, my wife and I have been talking with our friends The Davis’ for several years now about making a yard display of Calvin and Hobbes for my father-in-law from the grandkids. Last month on one of the coldest day’s of the year The Davis’ helped us build it. Here are some pictures at various stages of the process, Calvin and Hobbes Project. Despite being wicked cold, severe fun and merriment was had by all. And my father-in-law was giddy like a school girl…which for him is something special.

An enormous thank you to Chris and Jeff Davis for you help, skills and resources.

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