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It's no secret I'm a big Lord of the Rings fan and that I disagree pretty strongly with many of the liberties that Peter Jackson took in translating it to screen, but I didn't go this far: A Nit-Pickers Guide to The Lord of the Rings... I did however read the entire page. Draw your own conclusions.
A while back I blogged about how uneventful things have been around here. Well, what a difference a few weeks makes. Nothing bad has happened, but last week I accepted a job with Griffin Technology. It was a very tough decision as I work with a great bunch of guys at GLW doing some very cool work. Except for a little, um, break, I've been at GLW since 1988.
Lately I've been thinking that a change of scenery make be good for me and when the opportunity presented itself to join Griffin, I decided to go for it. Not only does Griffin makes some pretty cool gizmos too, but another former GLW employee and friend, Mark Rowan, also works there. So odds are good that I'll get along with at least one person at Griffin.
One problem though: GLW has been gracious enough to provide space and bandwidth on their server to host my web site back since it was called "Casey's Bits of Things". I'm hopeful that GLW will continue to host my site for some time while I make arrangements to transfer it to a real web hosting company, or possibly to Griffin's servers. So, depending on how things work out, I may have to scale back pr3d4t0r.com or maybe even do away with it altogether. I don't think that will happen, but I'll keep everyone posted.
Hello, this is Susie. Some of you may know me better as Two's! Casey has made this wonderful web page and has done a pretty good job of keeping you up to date on the funny things our kids do and say.
Since I have become a Brownie Troop Leader (go ahead and laugh), I have had to start learning how to use a computer again. I thought this would be a good time to tell an Aaron story that is really cute, but might leave some wondering what kind of parents we really are.
For those who do not know, Our neighbor Mrs. Tracy, recently lost her dad. Well Tracy's son Adam has had a hard time dealing with the loss of his "PaPo". Adam and Aaron were playing togther the other day and Adam was explaining to Aaron that his PaPo is in heaven with Jesus and now he doesn't have a PaPo. Aaron replied "you don't have a PaPo anymore?" to which Adam said "no, he's in heaven with Jesus". Aaron then said " I have a Glanddaddy, (which is his granddaddy) Glanddaddy will be your buddy too". Now that's the cute, sweet part of this story. Wasn't that so sweet of him?
Now comes the part that will make you wonder. After offering to share his glanddaddy with Adam who wants so bad to be able to play with his PaPo Aaron said "you're PaPo's in heaven?" Adam said "yeah he's in heaven with Jesus" and Aaron then replied "Jesus? Who's Jesus?"
Sue decided the other day to check out Old Yeller from the library so her and my 6 year old daughter Alex could watch it together. I raised an eyebrow and suspected I'd be consoling my daughter about poor Old Yeller after she watched it.
Well, today they finally did. And when it got to the end there wasn't much reaction from Alex. Susie asked her, "Alex do you understand what happened".
"Yeah", Alex replied, "they had to kill him".
She continued matter of factly, "He turned into a bad dog and got into a fight".
Good thing JoJo has his rabies shots.
You know that old Chinese curse: "May you live in interesting times"? I can appreciate that because long ago my life was very very interesting. Obviously, not in a good way. Lately things have been very quiet and so I haven't blogged in quite a while. I'm perfectly happy with that situation, but my wife was asking me today, why I hadn't blogged lately and I told her that nothing much has been going on.
"Well", she said, "I'm sure you could write about something."
"Such as?", I asked.
"Like how beautiful I am!", she joked.
Maybe that's not such a bad idea. My wife is beautiful. Inside and out. Especially, given that she's been able to put up with me for almost 10 years. I'm not sure how I got so lucky as to meet her. Before we met, I lived in interesting times. And since then my life has become significantly less "interesting". But I wouldn't trade it for the world. I have beautiful children and beautiful wife. Perhaps not very interesting to the rest of the world, but just fine by me.