Well, I can't use that excuse anymore....

According to THIS article, I cannot tell my kids to stop playing video games because it will hurt their eyes. I guess instead I should start playing them more! If I could only get my kids to let me get on the XBOX, I could cancel me eye doctor appointments. I hate going to the eye doctor. They stick things on your eyes!

Ode to my dad...

Prior to my father passing away more than two weeks ago, I had it in mind to write something about him and his life and what he meant to me and my family. I never got around to it, and when we knew his time in this realm was limited, I really tried to put something down. But try as I might, I could not come up with anything. Not that he didn't have a huge impact on all of us, but probably because I had already said it to many people as they asked me about him. I had told them simply, "My Dad is(was) my Hero." I told this to one collegue of mine and she sent me this poem about three days later.

SUCCESS
by Martin Buxbaum

You can use most any measure
When you're speaking of success.
You can measure it in fancy home,
Expensive car or dress.
But the measure of your real success
Is the one you cannot spend.
It's the way your kids describe you
When they're talking to a friend.

Friends, I tell you again. "My Dad was my Hero."

That life story did get written, but in two different ways. Two people, one a blood relative and the other just as close as one, told my dad's story in wonderful ways. One was in a endearing, touching, and funny video montage of family photos, and the other was in a letter written to him about how much he meant to all of us. So I am happy that the story of my dad got told in the way it did. It was far better than anything I could have ever done on my own.

Later!

And so it begins?

Check this out!


Marxism, Leninism, Stalinism, Obamaism. It is just the same old socialist attempt to control us and our lives. What you do, what you think, what you own.

Bet I am on a list like this now...

More Music to get fired up with...

I was browsing the site, Playlist.com and found a whole bunch of tracks from the Battlestar Galactica TV series soundtrack. If you have never watched this show, too bad for you. If you have, then you know what I am saying when I say is has to be the best Sci-Fi drama/action series ever produced.

I was going to post links to a number of the tracks that I think are the best but apparently that is not going to work from the blog site, so I suggest you go to my playlist and give it a listen. My faves are the Main Title, Prelude to War, Storming New Caprica, Dirty Hands, The Dance and Wander my Friends. And finally, you have to listen to the remake of Bob Dylan's Along the Watchtower, which fits so well into the series.

You know you are a Trekkie if....

You own Star Trek Cologne...


There are two other Trek related colognes that will send your personal ensign in to warp drive! Buy them all and be the envy of all the other trekkies at the convention. The Orion Slave girls will fall all over you!