Family: November 2005 Archives

Well, we made it home all in one piece. Very tired though. The kids did great on the plane. Rachel slept the first half and Jax slept the last half. Shawn and I tried to catch a few winks when we could.

We had a great (and exhausting) time in Arkansas. Got Kelly married off. She looked beautiful and Jody didn't look to bad himself. They had a great time in Branson. Wish I could have gotten to spend more time with them but we had to get home. Thank all of you for everything while we were there. I already miss you all.

I got our christmas tree today. I don't know when we'll get it put up. Hopefully I'll have the house back in order by tomorrow so we can get it up before the weekend. I'm ready to get started on my shopping so you all better get your wishlists to me.

I about ready for a nap. Jax woke up three times thru the night last night and tboth kids were up at 7:00 this morning. I'll unpack another suitcase or two then hit the sack.

It arrived! On time! Actually pretty early. I ordered pizza for lunch wanting to snack a little bit because I expected UPS Saturday delivery to be a little late and I could have pizza for dinner while I played, but the 360 arrived before the pizza at 11am.

It didn't have Madden '06, instead it had Kameo which is a pretty good game. Taking out the mini-camps for the 360 version of Madden really stinks, that was THE best part of the game. Anyways, I played Kameo for about 6 hours and when I finally went to bed my ribs where hurting from laying on the couch for so long.

The wireless controllers are great! No lag at all, very responsive and the AA batteries have lasted for over a month, I could never go back to wired controllers.

It also streams music, tv and recorded tv from my Media Center Edition 2005 computer in the other room. I recently used Movielink to download a movie online to watch on the 360 and had problems initially but finally got it to work. Hint: turn off Xbox while installing Movielink, get it to work on the computer with a free sample first.

The MCE2005 experience is so great I convinced my Dad to get one as well. Of course he can't find one anywhere...

Imagine by John Lennon was mentioned on a local talk radio show as a song well suited to be the anthem of Liberals all around the world. Thinking about it, I never really listened to the song. It had a good sound and I just thought that it was about "hippy love" or "let's all just get along". After reading the lyrics, I realized how much of an aethesitic and socialist diatribe it is.

Imagine there's no Heaven
It's easy if you try
No hell below us
Above us only sky
Imagine all the people
Living for today

Imagine there's no countries
It isn't hard to do
Nothing to kill or die for
And no religion too
Imagine all the people
Living life in peace

You may say I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one
I hope someday you'll join us
And the world will be as one

Imagine no possessions
I wonder if you can
No need for greed or hunger
A brotherhood of man
Imagine all the people
Sharing all the world

You may say I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one
I hope someday you'll join us
And the world will live as one

Imagine no heaven or hell? Ok, Johnny. No heaven would mean nothing to ultimately strive towards or look forward to because after death there is nothing. No hell would mean there is no ultimate consequence or accountability for our actions, live however we want right now...if it feels good do it...no sense of absolute morality...social conditions determine morality of the day. Is that good Johnny? For a decent and moral society, of course not! How can you have morality without an unchanging standard of right and wrong? If morality is defined by the masses, today's child rapist can be tomorrow's hero. Ever seen Natural Born Killers? Of course you haven't Johnny, you were shot down by one.

No countries + no religion = Nothing to kill or die for? Ha! So people don't kill for a nickel bag? I hate to keep mentioning it Johnny, but you weren't killed by Mr. Nationalist or Mr. Christian. Without borders or religion, people wouldn't magically just get along. Right Rodney King? Was he beaten because of borders or religion? Imagine this one Johnny, imagine the world without evil or without liberal wackos...

Imagine no possessions? Socialism 101: Take from the rich and give to the poor. There is a reason Robin Hood is a fairy tale, socialism feeds corruption. But let's just assume we're socialists, what motive would there be for anyone to get ahead in the business world? What types of innovations would there be? What medical advances? The only innovations would be the things that the government wanted because it controls the money. Good for society? No, no, Johnny. Wrong again. Good for slackers and those wanting a handouts? Sure, I'll give you that.

Go ahead, sing your anthem liberals! Just realize that Socialism and Aethesim are the pillars of only one thing: a morally bankrupt society.

Got the Mt.Dew/XBox360 party in the box last night. Too bad all the T-Shirts are XL and say that "I won". Makes it hard to give them away. The hats are a little too big as well, they barely fit me. I guess they assume most people that drink Mt.Dew and play video games are obese with big heads.

We're getting hit quite a bit with spam, I'll try and fix it by upgrading to MT3.2 this weekend. Until fixed, I'm disabling comments.

Rachel, Jax and I have change our travel plans. We are going to be going to Arkansa on November 9. I wanted to spend more time with family and be there for Kelly's 34th birthday and to help with wedding details. I'm also ready to come home and just relax and take it easy for a while. Shawn will still be coming down on the 21st. He only has so many days left for vacation. Hope everyone is doing well. See you next Wednesday!