So Ronnie finally created her blog.... please ridicule her mercilessly!

http://wyndsong28.blogspot.com/

Fist

So here I am thinking wow I am such a geek, and then I find that there is a website that has everything for today's geek... the problem is that I just discovered it. I mean come on, how can I call myself a geek and not have known about it.

I highly recommend it for geeks everywhere.. www.thinkgeek.com

On another geeky note.. this weekend coming up is the 2008 San Diego Comic Con, and I won't be going this year (boohoo). It is mecca for geeks and if you haven't gone, you should!

This coming weekend Is Iain's 9th birthday party, and Its gonna be a blast.

I have have recently been studying Buddhism and begun to practice some of its techniques, specifically vipassana or insight meditation. I am not going to get into my personal beliefs on life the universe and everything but I will say that many of the concepts that Theravadan Buddhists hold are similar to many of the concepts I happen to ascribe to.

And lastly, my wife is full on geek!

Ciao for now

The Mind creates the abyss...

The Heart crosses over it.

I told you I was terrible at keeping up with these things, tried a diary once and I lasted maybe three days, not sure if its because I'm lazy or what.

So i have been listening to the audio book version of " After the ecstasy, the laundry," by Jack Kornfield . Its a great book and he is one of my favorite Buddhist writers. I wonder how many years we spend looking for something spiritually before we realize it has always been right there. Just a thought.

I cant wait for the Hobbit to come out in the theaters.

So Iain took his Ocarina to school for show and tell and played all of the Legend of Zelda songs he knew, one of the Kids in his class who can do everything said "Wow I could never do that!" what ego boost for Iain as he has been in a bit of a funk lately about his capabilities compared to other kids his age. I sometimes wish I could take over for him, be right there and say okay now when this happens do this, when he comes to a difficult situation. But I suppose that's how we grow.

That's all for now

Ciao

I found out today that artist John Berkey died at the end of April, When I was young his art work had a strong impact on me ( I'm sure you can guess why), It's not that I followed his work all my life, but it was one of those things that when you find out someone has passed you kinda go "Wow that really sucks ." and you sort of look back and realize how much of what he did had an affect on you in a professional sense.

Apparently he had never even seen Star Wars, although the Death Star was based on his artwork and he didn't even consider Sci-fi a form of literature.

So right now we apparently are on our way to having a whole kingdom.

• Lets see we have a princess
  
• a baron
  
• and an ogre....
  

• And a lady Too!

omg I can' t believe I missed it ...
It's like I've sinned somehow. ME I missed STAR WARS day!!!

so

Here goes... to all my friends ...

MAY THE 4th BE WITH YOU !!