O-Dark-Thirty

The cake was yummy! Our youngest son, JV, turns nineteen today.   Happy Birthday, my beamish boy! He's away at college and we really miss his smiling face and the way he would walk around the house humming. Not only do I love him because I'm his Dad, but I really like him as a person. If I were a fellow student, I'd want him as my friend. Der junge Mann (family joke) has accomplished much in these few years. At an early age he put together a portfolio of drawings. He doesn't share them, but they showed a lot of innate skill. Darling, who is a good artist herself, once tried to teach my Darling Daughter, Youngest Son and I how to draw a tree. DD and I drew something resembling little bird tracks across the page, studiously focusing on the paper and how the tree looked. Trust me, neither of our drawings even resembled the tree (sorry, Honey, but it's true).   However, the lad not only drew a passable tree, he shaded it. Darling didn't even mention sha...

Darling and I played World of Warcraft for over five years. We enjoyed it immensely, though we quit because it eventually became a little ... trite. I'm not sure what the word I want is. Boring fits, but it was boring for us, and others didn't get bored with it, so I don't have a good analysis. I miss playing the game because of the interactions with my brother, his family and my son, but I really don't miss playing WoW. I even get a free week occasionally and don't use more than an hour dropping into the world and looking at it. There were some things that happened in the virtual world of WoW that still make me grin, though. Recently some players exploited flaw in the game and started wiping out the entire population of all the major cities, player and non-player alike. There are some YouTube videos on it. Of course there was the classic Leeroy Jenkins video , which still makes me grin. As a quick overview, a team discusses their next battle encounter and m...