Modern relationships with kids

My son comes in from school and plays Halo most any day. Yesterday he begged me to play so from separate rooms we were playing the same game. With headsets we can talk during the game, so I was asking "what did I get for Christmas?". From across the map he sniped me (using a sniper riffle to kill me) and said "there you go daddy! There's your Christmas present!" I had to laugh but it makes me think of how the time have really changed. Here we play games together in the same house but from separate rooms. We talk but at times using headsets and bond by whooping each others butt! Times may have changed, but I don't think I would change a thing.

Holiday season is upon us

Funny thing, Holidays. They can be warm and comforting, bringing families together, or they can bring up memories of years gone by and the hurt that may have been dealt by people we were so close to. This year has both of theses truths for me. On one hand my very close family (wife and kids) are coming together so very close. There is great excitement for the gifts we are waiting to open and our home has a warm feeling that I wouldn't replace for the world. But then there is a darker side. From as far back as I can remember my family has known how to dish out some real pain. Always someone was made to feel as though they were not good enough for the rest of the family, or that what they had done something so bad that you could be spoken to. I recall years of being the outcast. I had many holidays spent by myself. I would go through a wide range of emotions, from hurt to anger, resentment and finally acceptance. I accepted that I had no family that I could count on and only a strong will could provide me the support that I sought from a family. I also knew that with making a family of my own that I would try harder than I had ever done with the family I grew up with. Years had passed and apologies made for the years I spent alone, but nothing has ever felt resolved. I'm not sure what it would it would take to truly put the past behind, but it's not likely to happen any time soon. Without going in to detail one again I had a family member try to have me pushed aside. In the old days this would have been done by phone and there would have been a lot of miss quotes, but this time it was with e-mails. A privet conversation that gone blown out of proportion was then sent to several members of my family. The claim was that it was to set me strait, but in my heart I knew that this, like the times in the past, I was to be pushed out again. This didn't happen this time because with e-mails everyone could see the conversation in its entirety and saw how absurd it was. Since I was not banished as expected, I guess there is now some sort of backlash. I can't say I don't care, but with all I have ever been through, I can say I have little empathy for someone who shoots them self in the foot. I have lived for many years on my own and now have a family that counts on me for my love and support and will not easily take crap from anyone who wishes to give me any gripe over how I chouse to live my life. Nor will I have anyone tell me whom I should respect, especially from someone who only recognizes part of my own family as being family. I love all my kids and my grandchild. With their support I know I will enjoy this holiday season.

Time flies

It's been so lone since I really tried to keep a my blog updated. Well I lost my job at to computer sales store 'computer USSR' (criptive, but your bright. You'll probably figure it out) I lost the job due to a lack of sales. Get this! The store stopped having commission sales like so many others have done. The reason stores stopped having commission sales was so all people would get help regardless of what they were shopping for. But get this... They replaced it with tracking your sales numbers of what you take to the register. So since I truly believe that all people deserve help regardless of how deep there pockets are, I didn't 'hit the numbers' that I was required to I was canned. So here is my advice to anyone who wishes to buy something small from the big chains. Let's say you need a new mouse for you computer... Tell the sales guy your buying a new computer. Even go so far as let him talk you in to the expensive one. Then say you would like a better mouse to go with it and let him show you all the differences. You see once he thinks your on the hook for a big ticket item he will take the time you need to really get what you came for. Once you get the mouse you need, say "I'll take this now and get the computer later, perhaps next payday". At this point the sales guy will feel really let down, but you can ask to make sure you have his name and assure him that you will look for him when you make the purchase will keep him happy as he will feel that in time he will 'hit his numbers'.

DJ rocks Halo

Ever been beaten down by 'DJ AKAAWOL' in a game of halo? Ever wonder how he reacts when he's got you? watch this!