Last week I received my Boondock Saints Shirt from the official website. The people there are very nice and sent me a shirt because I am directing traffic there. For a while there was not a good website for the movie and my site still gets tons of hits from the info I have posted. The store has a lot of products that are priced very well and look awesome. The shirt is of very good quality and the one I chose is actually on sale now, so go get your Boondock Saints Shirt! Let them know I sent you maybe I will get a free Rosary :).

Most of the time a blog slows down when the writer thinks that what they are writing is either not relative to them or to their readership. I write for me even thought comments make me very happy. Conversation is the key that unlocks the potential of a blog. However I am facing a problem. I have too much to write about.

Writing directly about work is out of the question, but it would be a nice outlet when I have something to talk about. I have several subjects that I want to develop on that arena and specially how important it is to have a job you love. I also want to write more about tech stuff, programming and video games, but I would hate to alienate people with how Delphi is still a good language to write on. The topic that is calling me the most, even above culture which is my favorite to discuss is life improvement.

The problem with talking about life improvement is that I need time to develop ideas and subjects. They take time to flesh out and my primary job is not being a writer. I really want to have time to write but I feel that when I do have time free I need to go and read my friends blogs. I hope to start fleshing some of those topics out soon… and I also welcome any suggestions on what topics you like and have enjoyed. Tell me how your blog has changed, is it changing or is it going to change? What do you enjoy writing about the most?

What makes me happy!

16 - Working with friends rather than coworkers.

17 - People loving my cooking, even just the beef quesadillas.

18 - Having a short drive to work… commute under 5 minutes is a huge blessing.

19 - Eating chicken off the bone

20 - Soccer, futbol makes me happy… and I should be playing soon not just watching.

I attempted to play D&D once with Aaron, but coming up with a character took too long that by the time we were going to start playing we were all too drunk, come to think of it we were already drunk when we started LOL. He is the only DM I know personally and I have always made fun of the whole D&D crowd thinking I am a Computer Nerd with coolness +5 because I know how to drag knee on a motorcycle and can accidentally wheelie, danger + 10 I can probably enter a TKD tourney and with a couple of months training do fairly good.

Daniel’s visit has sparked my curiosity for role playing games. He plays with a group of his friends and I find it very cool, he even has his own geek bag. I am not a jealous person, but I really think it would be cool to either start a group or get into one. It would be nice to tell Daniel to bring his geek bag so we can get our RPG on. Then Filegirl posted about Rodney playing with his friends, while kind of trashing geeks and their possessive girlfriends*, and she kind of made me start looking for a local group of nerds to play with or create my own.

I have a group of local anime geeks with who we meet regularly to watch anime and just chat. Some of them have become friends and we hang out whenever we get a chance. Most of them are female and they do have an RPG game going, but they are all girls and I am not about to create a Vampire in Drag to play with them (kind of exaggerating.) They have their own group and I am sure they would welcome me, but its more of a girls lusting over cute boys kind of thing.

I kind of wish I could game with the group Daniel does. They sometimes use a Firefly inspired game, which I think would be awesome to play, but I think it is mostly because I have fun talking to Daniel and hanging out would be cool. I used to play poker with my college buddies after we graduated but it went from two times a month to two times every month to not happening at all. I do enjoy poker, but I think RPG’s would be more fun… I am a programmer so calculations and logic are always being stimulated, the fantasy part not so much unless I am reading.

So here is my cry for local geeks to start (or let me join) an RPG group. Maybe it is time to go check out meet up dot com.

* Maybe I should check with the wife before going on the quest! LOL

Michael, who is a huge meme procrastinator tagged me with this very interesting meme called The face behind the blog.

“One picture is worth 10,000 words”.
- Chinese proverb

Putting a face to the name of someone you haven’t met helps recognition and adds a more personal feel to your conversations. I have always loved how Oso has all his links dressed with pictures of his “friends and enemies.” I hope I am counted as a friend, LOL.

Here’s the “rules.”

1. Post a short blog article that includes a photograph (or a series of photos) showing the face behind your blog. If you already show a photo somewhere on your site, then make your post more interesting by choosing a photo that’s not currently online.

2. Include links to other people who have displayed a photo.

I will put people here that have followed me to keep the chain going… so make sure to let me know so I can put your links here.

3. Link back to the original post.

4. Tag as many others as you like.

I will tag - Bea - Daniel - Barb - Kamylo - Mike.

So, here we go!

I will thumbnail the pictures here, but to see them on their full glory you have to be one of our friends in Flickr!


This is Bea’s and I first NFL football game together. It was an awesome time full of Friends, Beers, Peanuts and just overall fun. This is my new favorite picture.

This is a picture of me when I recently shaved all of my facial hair, I had been wearing a mustache and at time goatee for years. It was a nice change, it felt really good.

Off to see the Chief beat the Dolphins and boo Trent Green!

*** Thing that makes me happy ***

16 - Going to Arrowhead!

*** Thing that makes me happy ***

13 - My Wife’s cooking.

14 - Mario Strikers Charged for the Wii.

15 - Being famous in the interweb, go watch this video and wait for the reader mail… right around the middle of it! One of my e-mails was featured this week on viewer mail on The Wiicast.