I Am The Messenger

…I haven’t blogged in a while.

Over the weekend, I purchased the book: Retribution, by Max Hastings at Borders with a 40% off coupon that I had. The hardcover edition was $35, so the coupon really helped out, and Megan had a Borders gift card she let me use which, although a small gesture said alot to me. I don’t think I’d ever share a gift card I got as a gift with anybody, including Megan. Sometimes I have a hard time letting go of what I cling to as being mine. Nothing is really mine, and nothing is so important that I couldn’t give it to the person I love the most in this world. I felt like an ass for taking something I’d never give.

Anyways… I’m excited for this book as it deals in detail with the Pacific theater campaign of WWII and is written about topics usually overlooked by history texts. Such events as the Tokyo firebombings, Burma, and an in depth look at the island hopping and navy battles operations. This should prove interesting, and if I can judge the book by the (short collection of ) pictures alone, this book will be amazing. I have never read Hastings, so I am unfamiliar with his writing style, but I’ll make sure and blog about something I find in the book that is interesting.

    Over the weekend, I purchased the game Noby Noby Boy. This game was created by Keita Takahashi, of Katamari Damacy fame. Instead of rolling a ball around collecting things on earth to create a star, you are a boy whose body stretches and is able to stretch even further by eating things. Your stretch length can be reported to an online database, and the amount in meters that you stretch is then added to a cumulative score of meters of stretching by everyone in the world playing. You are trying to report enough meters so that you can contribute to the cumulative stretch to reach the moon. After reaching the moon, planet hopping will then begin and so on and so forth. It is a relaxing game with no enemies or time limits, a nice soundtrack, unique controls and charming graphics. For $5 on the PS3, you can’t go wrong.
  

Griffey is a Mariner again. Here’s a pic from Geoff Baker’s blog of him back in an M’s uniform and reported in for Spring Training:

He will be wearing number 24 again.

    In other news, I was in a car accident last week (this shortly after our other car no longer runs). Through this, I am learning about having more faith, and trusting that God will provide for me and my families needs. It’s amazing how many people have reached out to help. I was offered by a couple of people their own personal cars if I ever needed them. Sometimes it’s too easy to believe that I have things figured out, that I have taken the necessary precautions to provide for my family; however most of that faith is placed into material things I felt I needed, and when that is taken away, I began to realize in what I need to place my reliance in.

    It’s been an expensive past couple of months. Chuck got into some Lisinopril which treats high blood pressure in humans. He ate 12 of them. We had to drop him off to stay the night at the vet; he was fine. He slept more than usual, but his heart rate and blood pressure never lowered, so it was basically a very expensive hotel stay for him. The bills for this came shortly after paying the better portion of a grand to  uncle sam for taxes. On top of that are medical bills for both Megan and I having Dr’s. visits, pre-registrations for childbirth, and whatever other baby things we’ve needed. I think these things would normally frustrate me and stress me out more, but I am learning to again rely on God and rest in His care, and to have faith that He will provide.