Looking at my coffee table

you would think you are a giant stranded on a world of little people! Little people and animals made of plastic that is.

My son has taken over the table and created a world where my old Playmobil live and play. He has built a fort out of Lincoln Logs as well as the Playmobil fort pieces. He has men riding horses, standing around a table. He has one person that looks to be sick laying in bed with a trio of people tending to him.

And now into the mix is added a rather large robot/bulldozer transforming thing (must be the leader). Also a Large man in a Bobcat tractor rescue vehicle is perched up on a high vantage (the question this raises is he friend or foe?)

Well the point of all this is how I am so amazed at his imagination. How he painstakingly puts together his "worlds". The amount of attention to detail that goes on. He knows exactly where it should go and why it should go there. If you or anyone else moves a piece he knows it. And he will fix it.

Well I need to go and inform the guy that it is now bed time and that he will have to postpone building his little environment. I will be nice and let it stay set up and let him finish tomorrow instead of putting it up right now.

Oh Noes!! I got a virus........

..... and it looks like you may have just gotten it also!!!!!!!!

RPG's (Role Playing Games)

Ya know those pen and paper games. The ones that TSR started with Dungeons and Dragons.

Well me and my wife have played a few and I have decided to share the ones we like:

Earthdawn - originally published by Fasa. But since Fasa went bye bye it is now being published by Living Room Games (LRG). This is a my tied for first favorite RPG. This is set in earths 4th age. An age is defined by being magic or science (our earth is the 5th age which is science). The game is after the races have emerged after the horrors (which fed on sentient suffering) have left the plane of earth.

Shadowrun - also originally published by Fasa. Now being published by Studio 2 Publishing. This game takes place in the 6th age of earth (the magic has reawakened but technology has not been lost). Originally Earthdawn and Shadowrun could be tied together since they where by the same company. So a campaign in one could feasibly have a session in the others world. Shadowrun is a futuristic game where the corps rule all.

Cyberpunk - published by R. Talsorian Games. This is the other first place one. This one takes place in the dark future like Shadowrun, except no magic. Corps are a power house to be reckoned with and EVERYBODY goes armed (if ya don't ya could very well be a victim). Also getting cyber enhancements (hence the cyber in the title) is a very large factor.

Those are the three major games I have played and the three I would like to play again. Other games I have played are: Star Wars (well attempted to play as it was played online thru GamersOasis in a sorta turned based not seeing each other style). AD&D (only played 2 sessions after getting the chars set up). DC Comics (cant find a website. But basically you are a super hero (an original not one of the existing ones) in the DC universe. Got chars made but that was it).

A good book or two to pick up and read.....

Eragon! This is a book that my daughter bought at a book fair and I picked up and read. Man it was awesome.

Eragon is a boy about 16 years of age who is hunting in the mountains when a blue stone lands at his feet basically. Well he takes the stone home to find out it is a dragons egg and it hatches for him.

Then all hell breaks loose as the Emperors henchmen come hunting for the egg. They kill Eragon's uncle and destroy his home. So Eragon with the help of a the village story teller flee town and attempt to exact revenge upon his uncles murders.

On the adventure Eragon learns a many a secret and watches as his dragon grows and his own powers that he has discovered grow also.


The next book is Eldest in which picks up where Eragon left off. ( I don't wanna give any spoilers so I cant give too much back story) This one my daughter bought for me for Christmas since I enjoyed Eragon so much.

Anyways in this one Eragon has to travel to the Elven woods from the Dwarven stronghold. There he learns even more about the bond between him and his dragon and strengthens the skills that are his to command.

I highly recommend both of these books and I am eagerly waiting the third one in the series.

Oh and the first book Eragon is being made into a movie that should come out around Christmas this year.

A deflated Youth Minister

No not me. The Youth Minister of my church (LHBC).

Ok let me bring ya up to date. My church was host to Team Impact this week. Team Impact is an evangelism group made of very big and very strong men. They go around doing Feats of Strength such as: Breaking large stacks of bricks, huge bricks of ice, bricks on fire, ice on fire, breaking bats, bending bars of steel, rolling up a frying pan, blowing up a hot water bottle till it explodes, etc. All this to preach the message of Christ and how He came to die for our sins.


Any ways one of their stunts is to lay on concrete blocks, have a bed of nails placed on their chest, then have blocks of ice weighing between 600 to 800 pounds on top of the bed of nails (pressing the nails into the chest), then another member swings a 16lb sledge hammer onto the block of ice until it breaks!

Well tonight they got our Youth Minister up on stage and laid him on the concrete and then placed the nails board on his chest and then a 200 lb block of ice on him and then took their sweet time in breaking the ice. LOL

As I said they are an evangelism group and over the 5 nights their where over 110 confessions of faith!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!