Relationship Engines of Note - World News

This site is amazing, almost a threat matrix-style visual overview of the news hot-spots around the world. You can imaging the President gettinging this kind of visual, top level report (and then having someone read it to him. Slowly. ;)

Battlefield 2!

What a killer game!
This is my character profile page, (a second,and a 3rd one).

Now a 4th!

Kitchen Chaos!

So, we're remodeling our kitchen, new cupboards, countertops, floor, ceiling, lighting, everything except the walls, the fridge and stove has to go. My kitchen looks like it belongs in Baghdad!


There's something primal about ripping out your ceiling!


Each chunk of ceiling dropped a shower of sawdust all over the place.


Cupboards are down, now for the counters!


And now, without the counters. If I were playing The Sims right now, I would SO BE LOSING! ;)

Fan Faire in Las Vegas!

Schmitter and his cousins - one of the few pics of that night I can show. :)

Station Exchange's maiden Voyage

...is starting soon. Read about it here.


I'm watching the feedback thread closely.

Toybox construction with Jack

Jack and I put together a bech/toybox today by the sandbox. He was a big helper. ;)


He tried to hide the holes in the hinge so I couldn't find them. :)


This is comfy!


After all that hard work, we needed a rest! Whew!

Games - Currently Playing

PC

EverQuest II

World of Warcraft

PSP

Wipeout Pure

Untold Legends

Lumines

GBA

Advance Wars 2

PS2

Final Fantasy X

Games collecting dust on my desk I wish I had time to play:

Half-Life 2

Counter Strike Source

Games - Wish List

PS2

Shining Force Neo

Fianl Fantasy XII

Xbox

Advent Rising

PSP

ANY kind of FF-style RPG! Please!

PC

Act of War

Imperator

Orson Scott Card on Permissive Parenting

OSC is my favorite author, and what do you know, his parenting philosophy is the same as mine:

The other word for repression is self-control. And here's how it's learned. First, your terrible mean awful horrible parents keep you from doing what you want.

Then, as you get older, you begin to realize that your friends whose parents didn't stop them from doing those things are now having horribly messy lives. You're glad your parents kept you from doing it. Now you keep those same rules yourself. You have learned to control your desires because you now understand the consequences.

But during those many, many years when children are too ignorant, inexperienced, self-willed, stubborn, or angry to grasp the idea that really bad things can actually happen to them, parents have to have the strength to say no, to mean it, and to make it stick.

That's what happens when parents actually love their children.

New TV shows to catch

Oil Storm - What if our massive oil consumption was chocked off at the source? Time to buy a hybrid!

Over There - Lokks like an edgy, "Band of Brothers" set in modern Iraq. Going to be controversial. I hope.

Jack's first foray into IT

Jack helping me build my new PC!

Easter Egg Hunt!

Here's a good one, Jack and me on our Easter Egg Hunt!

The 2 loves of my life, Jack and Kerry. This photo was taken about a year ago, and is a fitting start for my blog, as it will be mostly about them, not me. :)