Welcome to the USA!

  • June 15, 2008

My parents fly in today. They’ll be spending a couple of weeks with my brother in California before they come out here to stay with us for a little over a week.  Here’s hoping you enjoy America mum and dad 🙂

Happy Father’s day today, by the way, to all deserving.

We went to Indian Ladder Farms (a local farm/shop) earlier today to see their baby animals. However the advertising was a bit misleading, because most of them were the biggest ‘babies’ you’d ever see! The rabbits in particular were amusing: the ‘babies’ were just full-sized rabbits. But we may believe they were actually babies since the mother was gargantuan. I took some photos…I’ll post them later if they turned out.

It’s hot out and I’m down and uncomfortable today. In a week we’re off to Puerto Rico for our brief vacation. I know I’ll enjoy it; I just wish I could be more enthusiastic. Maybe after I get past this next week of school (which has been tedious recently…)

  • Posted in Family
  • Robert

Atomic FTW!

  • June 10, 2008

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Momomo (my World Of Warcraft character) is the guild master of Atomic, a FF guild on our server.

FF means ‘family & friends’, which in this case includes 3 other players: Foosrazzle (JBF in real life), Fyrenze (SFL) and Numinor (JF). That’s me (on the right) and Numinor above.

I’m still enjoying WoW, but interest in the game within the community seems to be waning. This is of course partly seasonal (it always wanes this time of year) and partly because more and more information about the upcoming expansion tempts some to hang up their subscription until the release date.

Momo is just spinning her gears now, fooling around in the virtual world waiting for Northrend (the expansion continent) to allow her new avenue’s of advancement. Until then I’m content to assist my guildies in their endeavours or – if no-one else is on (sadly the norm these days) – to ‘play the auction house’ daily for a quick profit…

  • Posted in Miscellaneous
  • Robert

My Names Day?

  • June 3, 2008

When we were kids we celebrated names day, which was the feast day or the saint we were named after. Mine is June 6.

The Catholic church designated June 6 as the feast day of Blessed Robert Salt. Blessed is one step below Saint, but since he’s been Blessed for hundreds of years I figure he’ll always remain that way. There are other Saint Robert’s (quite a few in fact), each with their own feast day (one, for instance, has June 7) but for some reason in our family we always celebrated mine on June 6.

Anyway names day is a time of great celebration and – more importantly – abundant bestowing of gifts. I haven’t celebrated it in quite some time (say, 25 years) but I have decided to resurrect it this year.

I can’t wait to see what I get 🙂