Hope everyone is have a great week.  The boys are getting bigger and funnier everyday.  E just told his mother he was going to go commando because he was wearing his last pair of underwear  after his bath.  Gman is working on his homework.  His handwriting is better than mine.

Mom is still working through Granddads will and the stuff at the house.  I wish I was closer to help  her and the sisters.  I still think of him and Mama Jo every day.  I miss them both dearly.

Good news at the doctors today.  H1C was down to 6.1 and I had got back under 225 (221 for those scoring at home).  She gave me a nose spray for my sinuses.  Not sure if I really need it but the Zertic is not cutting it anymore.

Beth is under the weather as well. She has lost her voice and so her yelling is a little scarier than normal.

Saw a strange thing the other morning driving to work.  Some Canadian geese were starting to fly up.  They seemingly could not get into a good v.  First time I have ever seen geese fly into each other.  It was very strange.
I saw 2 of them fall back to the ground and get up.  The rest just all flew off in other directions.  I wish I could have videoed it.

Just a small thought on Jim Bunning.  This is why I do not favor term limits.  When someone has nothing to hold them accountable then they become very self centered.  Bunning is ticked at his party and fellow Ky Senator.  He then uses his very questionable principles to stop a highly popular bill because he has no one to answer to now that he is faced with a party imposed term limit.  There is no way he pulls this if he was running for reelection.

Dragons Age vs Mass Effect 2

Been playing 2 games made by the same company recently.  Bioware  puts out a lot of very cool high end video games for the PC , Xbox 360 and Playstation.   I have been playing both Dragons Age and Mass Effect 2 for a couple of weeks.  Both games are great but I think Dragons Age is much better.    

Dragons Age has a more in depth feel and finish.  I think that is because ME2 is a part of a planned trilogy and Dragons Age is the start of a new series for the company.  It makes me feel that video games are becoming more like movies everyday.  They are trying to be an all consuming entertainment option.  Trying to build a franchise instead of just making a good game that is fun to play. 

I think thats why the Wii does so well.  The games are not the best in the world but they are great fun to play. Both of these games are great to play but they are trying to hard.  Downloadable content from the internet that should have be with the original game.  Fancy packaging instead of better content.  Comic book tie ins instead of a good manual.  And these are great games.  

Passion and a Job

I have been thinking about this a lot today.  I have no real passion in my life.  I love my wife with passion.  My family is wonderful.  But I have no real passion for anything else.  Work is now a job.  I enjoy reading history and playing games on my computer.  Baseball and the boys sports are great fun.  But none of the that is something I would call a passion.  I am not sure if I have ever had a real passion.

I loved playing baseball as a kid up until high school.  I was not that good but I enjoyed playing.  I did not burn to be playing.  There was no passion to do it everyday. High school brought band and history.  Both were great fun and I put a lot into them both.  I again did not have enough talent for music and did not put the time into my writing to make history work.

I have enjoyed some part of all my jobs.  I really like talking and interacting with customers, guest, clients, etc but I am not a people person, just ask my friends.  I am a great problem solver and organizer.  I do well when writing out policies and procedures but it drives me nuts to do it.  I read  one of those find your perfect job books and it said find your passion.  Well that helped a lot. Okey it gave me the idea for this blog.

I think this may be the reason for part of my end of year blues.   Each year I get older and still no passion. The closest idea of passion I have is for politics but is that really a passion or just my liking to argue?  Oh well.  Any feed back would be helpful.

Bubba

Bubba weekend is here.  It has been a really long week and I can't wait to go see everyone.  This one just seems a little strange.  I not sure why but it just feels different.  Beth feels it but thinks its because she has not got everything as organized as she wants its.  It good be not knowing if Marc and Megan or Brian and Angie are going to make it.  It could be that we have changed location for for first time in years.  The boys are going to be with us part of the weekend as well.  Mom is going to take them Saturday for the day and night but they will be there tonight and Sunday.

I can't wait to see everyone.  Praying for traveling grace on all us.

Hey I have not written this week so I thought I would say hi.  Had a great friend remind me it was Stalingrad Day.  So Happy Stalingrad day everyone.  Been having a 3 day headache and it is killing me.    Bubba weekend is just a week away and can't wait to see everyone.  Still not sure if the Texas people are coming but Marc seems to be doing good according to FB posts.  Hope the can make it. Looks like the boys may be going with us.  This is news to the group so I would bet I will be in trouble with Beth but thats not stopping me from posting it.
Hope all is well with everyone.

Ipad Really? Ipad ?

I really was looking forward to the Apple release of a tablet computer.  What I got was the Ipad. Please insert your favorite tasteless joke here.  I am not an Apple fan,  I had to use 1 with work years ago and it was terrible.  I find them very expensive and not user friendly.  I was hoping for something better from an Apple tablet.  


A PC tablet is a type of laptop with a pivoting screen than can be laid flat so the the screen can be used as a touch screen.  They usually come with a stylus allowing people to write out by hand on the screen instead of having to type. Hp and Toshiba make some of the best ones but they are very expensive.  They are full blown laptops with different sizes and specs.  All to fit into what you need to do. 


Apple came out with its Macbook Air  a few years back.  Apple people love them and many Pc people said they would be great except for the price for what you got in computing power.  I was hoping for an Macbook Air tablet.  I could see a use for a small light laptop with built in Apple support for Itunes, Iphone apps etc.  Touch screen with a great stylus for handwriting.  A good handwriting program that would fit with Apples creative image.  The main reason I was hoping for this was to use to hand write the book I am to lazy type out.  Those of you who know my hand writing please keep the laughing to a small giggle and not a belly laugh.  So as a devout anti Apple I am pc guy, I was hoping for a great new toy to try out (Beth has an Iphone but I do not even own an Ipod).


I hooked my Blackberry browser on Cnet's live blog yesterday and set to refresh as fast as I could.  


I was very disappointed.  


I wanted a tablet I got a big Ipod touch. 


This thing is a joke right?  From the guy who said we do not read anymore we now will read because of a fancy screen?  Its a ebook reader with Itunes and Iphone apps.  The hard drive on it is smaller than some thumb drives. It has no connection for HD.  It has no real software beyond the apps on the Apple store. Iwork is not a real good software suite and if you can only open 1 part of it at a time then its is even worth less. 


Here is an Hp base model tablets specs and costs http://www.shopping.hp.com/webapp/shopping/cto.do.  Here is the spec page from the Ipad.  Tell me which you would rather have for around $850.00.  It is a joke and we need to just laugh at it and go on.