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I just watched that show on discovery channel  "The Lost Tomb of Jesus". I think that was a great show. It was very interesting and it was very compelling to me. It was also just as enlightening watching the after show which was "The Lost Tomb of Jesus - A Critical Look". Ted Koepel and a bunch of experts throwing semantics that are pretty much irrelevant to what the film maker was trying to accomplish.

If you didn't watch it then shame on you.  Why shame on you? Because I know all you sucker heads. If you are reading this then I am confident I know what your standpoint is on this thing and I think all of you are smart enough that you would have WANTED to see it just for your own curiosity.

What did I get out of it? That people (in general) really would rather not put any time or effort into  Jesus as a man right now. That it is just too touchy and that there are many more things they would rather talk about other than the idea that Jesus could have been a normal guy. And if anyone of you says "the bible says" in a responce to me or this post you should be warned that I might just slap you! Yes even you Mom! You know where I stand on that and if you ever plan to say to me "Because the bible says so" then I am going to smack you in the mouth and steal your car, your personal electronics and anything you own running on electricity or anything invented AFTER the electric lightbulb was first sold commercialy that uses technology based on physics. Because the bible says the world is flat and that it is the center of the universe and if you beleive that then you shouldn't be allowed to use ANYTHING based on gravity. And EVERYTHING IS BASED ON GRAVITY! So lets just avoid that whole thing cause I don't have enough time to drive around turning people Amish against their will. Love ya!

So there was this angry little man with glasses who was one of the panel "experts". I want to make a special point about him. He called himself a scientist and made a special note of how he is a personal friend of one of the scientists mentioned in the documentary and that he "Absolutely refuses to believe that Mary of Magdelan was called Mariamne".

As soon as he said that the National Academy of Sciences should have swooped in like the spanish inquisition and slapped in across the face with a trout and taken away his credentials. He is no longer a scientist and once I find his name, (right now it appears he was a fill in for someone listed in the credits whom we did not see) I will be sure to send an e-mail to SOMEONE over his head and point that out. It was just rediculous. I REFUSE TO BELEIVE THAT! Ok then you are not allowed to call yourself a scientist. You are now a lobbyist. That is all you are allowed to do is assert your personal point of view based on what someone else tells you. GOOD BYE SCIENCE FOR YOU ASSHEAD!

 Next I would like to say I am a little disapointed in Ted Koepel! He badgered a point so badly that he began to look ignorant. He kept bugging the filmmaker about the added dramatizations of Jesus's life and how these little dramitizations were unfairly influencing the viewer.

Well, I don't know about you guys but the Blonde Haired Blue eyed Scruffy beard Ted Nugent lookin Jesus I have seen my whole life are pretty much a dramatization, in fact I would say BOLD FACED LIE, about what Jesus really looked like. But noone seems to care about that. Reasonable people know that Jesus wasn't Ted Nugents twin brother, we just don't have to talk about that anymore now do we.

Come on Ted, I distinctly remember watching YOU on TV years on end putting your personal spin on stories while you were reporting them. Calling scenes montrous and terrible and infathomable attrocities. Well those statements are personal dramatizations based on your opinion, but it was OK for YOU to do it. Well maybe the goose and the gander really do have different standards they have to live up to. Otherwise you would have simply said, "There are a bunch of non living humans and parts of those humans scattered randomly all about me in the scene you are seeing here today. It is commonly held by those around me in positions of authority but not yet emprically proven that this situation has been caused by a bomb of some sort exploding at some point today".

But that is again pedantic.

So what if Jesus was a normal guy who had a wife and kids. I actually find that very comforting. I don't want to worship harry potter ok. I don't. The poof here it is god has always bothered me.

I would like to think that since I am created in gods image, that god is in fact pretty damn smart. I don't like the magician god. POOF here it all is. No way. If god was going to make a world full of things then astrophysics has a pretty good model of how it all came together. The models can't say that it was absolutely random, so there is no way of saying god didn't influence it. If god wanted to cover a ball of dirt with critters then evolution and DNA seems like a pretty smart system to pull that off doesn't it. You get to make all kinds of stuff by starting with the same base system and expanding on it as you need to in order to make more complex and interesting animals! WOW what an idea. God as a logical systematic being, kind of like we are. How insane.

If you want to worship Harry Potter, go ahead. I would suggest you move to Las Vegas and find Chris Angel, cause as far as magicians go right now he kicks ass and he is pretty readily accesible. You can see him nightly by paying for tickets. On the other hand if you want to see god by way of the holy trinity then you have to make alot of toast or eat alot of dorritos before you get a good image of the jesus embedded on it. And then it is a static image. It doesn't talk or walk or pull doves out of it's ears. Much better bargain going with Chris Angel.

I guess I am just irritated that people freak out over the idea that Jesus was mortal. I think if we could prove Jesus was mortal and had a family that MILLIONS of people would be reinvigorated with Christianity. Part of the problem is that Jesus, as prequaled by Hercules and a dozen other mythical guys, isn't that interesting.

We are all the children of humanist principles that started in the 15'th century, well actually resurfaced in the 15'th century and as humanists we find comfort and solace more often in commsierating with the human condition. So many many people can't connect to god because god is not human and nothing about him is something we can associate with and take true comfort in.  The closest thing we have to empathy with Jesus came when millions of people were willing to watch the absolutely horrible and brutal torturing of someone that is supposed to be their god incarnat JUST SO THAT THEY COULD FEEL LIKE THEY HAD A SENSE OF WHAT HE LIVED THROUGH.

YEah I would rather know what he taught his kids and how he spent time with his buddies rather than focus on just how hideously and graphically he was tortured to death. Yeesh. But apparently thats just me. I probably wouldn't have enjoyed Rome as it fell either. Not a fan of wrestling or other human brutality. Sorry.

OK I have ranted. I feel better.

WOW stuff.

I was so sick for two weeks I was pretty sure I was gonna die. I couldn't breathe, I couldn't do anything.

It was as bad as the great plague of 2002 when I was sick for a whole week and then came to work for a second week just a sick and made EVERYONE in my office so sick they all lost 3-4 days of work as well.

It was bad. It finally went away. I feel ok now, but that period of time seriously screwed up all my rituals and habits and routines. 

School is still going OK. I just finished perspective and Fundamentals of Design with a C and a B. The C came from being sick for two weeks of a 6 week class. Didn't help me at all the sickness. I was able to maintain one class but the second class suffered for those two weeks.

My new set of classes are Color Theory and English Composition. I think I will do ok in these classes as well.

The boys are doing well. There is much laughter and learning and Aaron is really growing personaly. He is trying new foods. He doesn't try to argue back as much over every little thing. And it really is the long term behavior modification stuff that I had learned from his therapist. But now it can be consistent because my rules are the only rules and there isn't one set of rules for one group and another set of rules for another group. That seems to be making the most difference.

Kristina and I are good. Kritistina is great actually. She is a little superstar at her job. She has been working 86% over the average and is one of the top ten loan counselors at her company. She is also Mahjoy!

For Valentines day the boys stayed all night at our friends house Chris and Dyann are ANGELS, and Kristina and I drove to Tallahassee to see a concert called "Celtic Woman". It's classical and gaelic vocals and an ensemble band. I will admit it I was assuming it would be kind of boring and a bunch of banshee wailing at ear splitting pitches by flaming haired bitches! lol.

I was wrong. It was beautiful! The singing was amazing, and there was a violinist who played classical and gaelic styles of music and she was just amazing. She was running and jumping and doing all this lord of the dance stuff WHILE PLAYING THE VIOLIN almost as fast and precise as I have ever heard it before. It was just amazing. The harmony and the purity of the voices was really something to hear. It was like every note was perfect. I am a big fan of Alto female voice and there was only one alto. But the four women had enough variation in sound and style that when all four sang the same words you could still clearly hear each one and still hear the overall harmony which was just haunting and kind of mind controlling.

It was a really good show and if you get a chance to see it I very much suggest you do so.

We went to a fancy french restaraunt called "Chez Pierre" oohh lala! It was great. Cheeses and Lobster Bisque and Roast Kuabota Boar and some glazed duck confi. It was an excellent meal though Kristinas duck was so much more succelent than my boar chop! I had a glass of cabernet so strong I could smell it from 4 feet away when the waitress was bringing it.

At the show we had a couple Vodka and Cranberries, and then we went back to the Bed and Breakfast room Kristina reserved for us at "The little English Guest House". Totaly dug that too. Giant bed. Antique Furniture and just really cute decor all over. You know, union jacks in every corner and little suits of armor and stuff like that. It was just a really wonderfull little trip and I can't thank Chris and Dyann enough for watching the boys so we could do that.

And I can't thank Mahjoy enough for going with me and being just so lovely and such a wonderful person to spend time with. I am madly in love with this woman. It's like this all the time too. Even when we aren't doing something special, it's just a joy to be around her. One of the best things is that no matter what is happening, even when I was sick and when she was sick (right after me of course) if I smile at her, she smiles right back at me. And it is a big honest sincere smile. It is the kind of smile you smile when you love someone and you want them to know it. And that is soooo great.

Another thing is her little celebrations. She has little parties just for her whenever something goes her way and she gets excited. She will squeek a tiny little "yeah" and wriggle around in her seat or wiggle her but with joy when something good happens.  Sometimes all it takes is for me to grab her up and tell her I love her, and she does her little " Kristina Party". I love it. It makes my heart melt every time she does it.

OK it is late and Mahjoy is sleeping alone in that big ole bed and I need to snuggle her and get lost in her curly hair.

Love you guys but hot chick in my bedroom trumps yakin at you sucka heads any day of the week! lol

I'm alive!

I know I haven't talked to anyone in a bit and I am sorry for that. When christmas break hit I totally vegged. I needed that break and I damn well took that break.

Back in classes now. A little off on the timing and the organizing but otherwise I LIVE!  Q-ball and Vickie are expecting a baby. I'm so excited for them.

Christian and Aaron are doing fine. They enjoyed the holidays and things are pretty consistent around the apartment so they are getting through life like little troopers. No big fits no real big problems, just two little kids trying to learn and do at the same time.

Things are going great for me and I am very excited that Kristina still puts up with all my sillyness. It's like things are allowed to be good right now. And I just have to appreciate that and not freak out.

I love you guys, have fun and I will post again sooner than later!

Oh man.

I have passed my other two classes.  Art History - A        Transitional and Elementary Algebra - C+

HOLY CRAP!  I'm so relieved you have no idea. I have stressed over this freakin math class SO MUCH.  It is such a relief to know that at least at this point I passed it and get to move on to my NEXT math class which will of course be actualy difficult and which I will probably fail hehehehe.

Anyway, everything is goin ok. Christmas shopping is done and it didn't kill me. I stayed under my limit, and I got the things I knew the kids really wanted the most.  I also bit the bullet and purchased myself a christmas gift that I have been putting off as long as possible. I got a digital camera. I was in Wal-Mart and they had a person standing there trying to sell off the overstock of this years digital cameras. It was reduce sale price of $129 ad then they took another 20% off if I got it right then so I paid $103.52 for a 5 megapixel Kodak EasyShare C340 with 16 mb internal memory and video and all these little bells and whistles and stuff and IT"S FREAKIN NIFTY AS HELL! I didn't have to do anything special, just dropped in the batteries and started snappin peechers.

So I will get around to figuring out how to get my images uploaded here and take some more pictures of the kids.

Love you guys.

Have fun.

Aside from electricity issues everything is going well.

My electric got turned off. It sucked. I had to call and badger everyone I knew.

I'm not even going to rant about the electric company right now. I just don't even have the energy for it.

BUT on a good note, I am still passing school. Currently in my algebra class I have a B and in my art history class I have an A.  Not bad indeed.

I think I have a better outlook and motivation now than I used to so it is definatley helping. Being allowed to work at my own pace doesn't hurt either cause I can knuckle down and hammer on something when I feel ready. There are still due dates but I have only turned in one late assignment, and that was because I truly needed another day to understand parts of the math. I just didn't get it on the first try.

The monkies are doing OK. Christmas is coming and I have already made my "big ticket" purchases earlier. And the big ticket purchases for 3 people still only totaled around $70.00. I have learned some lessons in the last few years.

And one of them is that buying less presents, costs less money. Expecially when you are buying stuff for little kids who do not appreciate the things they already have.

I know I have said this before, cause I looked at the post, but this year is definatley in the bag. I will not spend another 6 months being angry at how much the kids don't care about the stuff that was given to them for christmas.  They seem much happier just having more time that I spend with them doing things anyway.

And that's all good.

Well I will make a bigger post at some later point. Maybe this week maybe not. Depends on how my brain is working.

Love ya, have fun.

Final grades............OH YEAH!

Drawing: 91 A!

Strategies for successfull learning: 97 A!

Oh yeah baby! But I will tell you honeslty, Art history is already kicking my ass. It's alot of reading and the set up so far is looking like a thousand workds a week minimum across the 2-3 projects. And the class is only six weeks long. So it's a bit rough. And my transitional math. Oh don't get me started.

I already screwed up both assignments with wrong answers and had to repost them today. But such is the life right?

I am taking my best shot at it and hopefully I won't screw it up too badly this time around.

I am fighting the urge to ask Kristina to move in with me. lol. Yeah I know. I'm a freak. I miss her. And we only spend like 11 hours apart a day. On the nights when she needs to stay at her place to do school work it is very blah for me. I have gotten used to being hugged all the time and being allowed to hug someone all the time. It's a great feeling and I like having it. She hugs as much as I do. I can't get over that. She never acts like I am bothering her when I go and touch her or nuzzle her and I have never had that in a relationship. Even the good ones I had the girls liked a little more personal space than I give.  Not Mahjoy. She never seems to mind.  But I guess time will tell won't it. I need to stay focused on the realities of her life and my life and that moving in together into such a small apartment would be a bit ick. Three slobby fellas and a girly girl. Too much like snow white for me I can tell ya that.

Oh well. I'll let time show me the way. It's pretty good at that.

Love yah!

Well my grades have moved around a bit. 

 As of this week I now have an 87.63 in Drawing I. That's because I messed up an assignment and forgot to answer two of the three questions required. The instructor let me make them up though. As of right now that grade is showing as a 7/20 instead of a 20/20 so I have to wait until he updates those grades to get an accurate measure of the overall score. I know I will lose between 2-4 points for missing those questions early on. But overall I am still happy with my grade.

My strategies for online learning class is yielding a 96.97 which is up from last post if I remember correctly. The last two weeks I have gotten perfect scores on every assignment. I'm not used to that lol. But I really have been giving it my best shot. I research, read and make my discussion argument based on my honest opinion after gathering the info I need to feel like I have made an informed opinion. And it seems to be working.

I have to ask the instructor of my drawing class if there is any way I can pull one or two points out of a little thing I set up in the student lounge where I got two other students to get involved with a cheesy little drawing excercise. Basicly planning ahead in case something went badly I figured I would try to get a few people to post extra drawings and focused themed drawings so I can point to them at a time like this and say, "Can I get anything for doing that, I didn't have to I wanted to, can that be extra credit"?

Hopefully it will work and I can get up over the 90 mark before the class ends. I don't need a 4.0 but A's across the board would really be something I would like to make happen. Even if a little bit of it is social engineering and not direct classwork. I don't have a problem with that. hehehehe.

The monkies had a good halloween. Aaron was dracula and christian was an axe weilding skull zombie. They were cute and for the most part polite. Aaron was so excited he could barely contain himself all night. It was very funny.

Kristina and the boys and I carved a pumpkin and I told them that we would put a candle in the pumpkin and if the flame of the candle grew bigger and couldn't be blown out then the Jack-o-lantern spirit was trying to grow inside our pumpkin and if it grew all the way to halloween, an evil jack-o-lantern would be created and it might try to eat us all while we slept. And I let them know that it eats children first. Kristina backed me up trying soooo hard not to bust out laughing.

Of course then I used the trick relighting birthday candles Warren had sent in one of his kid friendly packages and all hell broke loose when the boys tried to blow out the candles. It was hilarious. Aaron was getting upset saying "I don't wanna die, I don't wanna get eated", and Christian was just blowing like his life depended on it trying to make those candles die.

I finally hit them with some water to put them out and both the  boys felt better.

My plan involved waiting until they were asleep and putting the pumpkin in the door to their room so the next morning it would look like the pumpkin head had moved. And then the next night I would put it on the dresser inside the room and then finally the night before halloween I would put it at the foot of the bed so when they woke up it would be right there.

Aaron had a nightmare about the evil jack-o-lantern that first night and I decided not to terrorize them with the pumpkin head anymore.

Still damn funny idea though. Yeah I know it's kinda evil, but I am an evil bastard like that. Aren't I?

 Love you guys, hope your holiday went smoothly.

OK I finally got my last weeks work graded and I no longer have two A's.  I have an 89.96 (in drawing no less)and a 95.83 (surprisingly in strategies for successfull learning) Which is a B+ and an A. My GPA so far is 3.62. That's not bad for a guy who averaged D's in everything since the 3'rd grade I think.

So my drawing class is yielding a B+ and my "how to study" class is yielding an A. WOOHOO! It's almost like I'm not an idiot.

Other stuff:  BF 2142 IS THE BOMB! So far Art has it, Chris has it, I have it, and Juan is getting it, and Dave is getting it.

THAT'S 5 SUCKAS! Hold back now! Once we get a sixth we will be legion! lol  It's fun. Kristina wants to play it but is stopping herself cause she can't buy it and if she gets her hands on it she is afraid that we will end up arguing over the computer when she hangs out at my place.

HOW COOL IS THAT? Seriously. That is...that's just....I can't even explain it. It makes me very happy. Not that I get to dominate my own game, but that she is that considerate, and that she is that interested in the game.

 Juan is getting settled. It's awesome to have him at Northrop. He is just jumping right in. Both feet and hit the ground running. He's going to have a really good run of things at work. And I get one of my homies back so bonus.

Kristina has applied for some other job openings inside her company. She wants a challenge. She knows enough in her section that they loan her out to other sections so she wants to do something new. I really think that is great. It's exciting to see someone stretching you know. Just saying, hey why not I know I am capable and I am willing to try.

I got the honor of being assigned to what was described to me as "Our most ambitious training program so far". It's just a role play scenario teacher, but it is on a very aggressive subject and will require quite a bit of intricate scripting, and the schedule thus far for the project is from 10/06 to 10/07. That's a pretty big program. I'm excited about it. I can't even start it until after I finish my current project, and possibly some alterations to an older project, but those won't take long.

I get to mess with some higher level system building in this new project and I am pretty excited about that. I really want to get my script on and build external function libraries. That definately seems like the way to go and then I can run everything from the top down. We'll see. It may end being too much for me who knows. But I think I can do it and I know for a fact I will give it my best shot.

But for now I will get back to livin it instead of talkin about it.

Love you guys.

I have talked about Kristina. Not much, but I have.

Well things keep rolling, and I have to say I am absolutely falling in love with this woman. It's on. She is SOOO right for me, and we have so much fun together, and there is always a consistent effort to be positive and constructive and supportive and helpful.

She is :

Kind

Considerate

Funny, very funny. Her invader zim impressions are worth gold. And she makes funny voices when she tells stories, and she makes noises and isn't aware of it sometimes. SHE MAKES HER OWN SOUND EFFECTS YO! It's doesn't get any better than that.

She plays video games, many of the same games I play and a whole nother genre of games I don't have the patience to play.

She used to play role playing games and I hazard to think she could be talked into it again if the situation was right hehehe.

She reads really fast and reads alot.

She is brilliant.

She is very supportive and caring.

She is a snuggler/hugger/nuzzler/wiggler, meaning she wants to touch and be touched easily as much as I do, so there is never an issue of me trying to give her a hug or a kiss and I get shrugged off. She will stop what she is doing to give me a kiss. Just like stop what she is doing and give me the thirty seconds of attention that I wanted just to get a little kiss. IT'S AWESOME!

She is beautiful, oh she is beautiful. She has the curliest craziest red hair, and the cutest freckles EVER. And I'll not go on anymore about this part cause. Damn.

She is very independant. She has her own thing going on and her own goals and dreams and she is my age so when I make arcane pop culture referances she knows them and goes me one better and brings up the "other" thing that was always associated with whatever I mentioned.

She makes her own little pop culture referances and movie qoutes.

She is into some unique stuff I don't know alot about but enjoy likfe celtic music and bellydancing and history.

She likes me for who I am and she never makes faces or acts like she is embarrased to be with me. I can act as silly as I want and she just laughs and smiles and accepts me.

I can't explain how wonderfull that feels. It's like being free all the time.

It's like being free. All the time.

Those of you who got to meet her got to see it. When she opens up a bit, she is a shining light of joy. She is merriment.

She brightens up at the smallest thing and shines for hours off of it. 

For me, it's serious. I want her around all the time. But I can't exactly let go of everything and just accept it. So we are taking things slow.  Yeah I know I can hear the jokes already, "Slow, what does that mean Kevin, instead of buying her a car you'll just make the payments on her current one"!

Yeah Yeah I know. No I actually mean slow. She has her own thing and I have mine. We are spending alot of time together and she has clothes in my dresser, but she isn't moving in. She is worried about the kids and I am too. So the kids are really setting the pace for us. We are good. She and I. We are solid as far as I can tell. I am very comfortable around her and I really really want all my friends to get to hang out with her now. In a situation where we can be chill and joke and all that stuff. She got to meet a few but it has been a situation where there was other stuff going on and we couldn't just hang out.

But like I said. We are working it. We are enjoying what is happening and I am loving every minute of it.  She is awesome, and she is Mahjoy. She makes me very happy and I think I make her happy. Cause she seems happy. And I love that too.

OK quick update, SCHOOL:

I have an A in both my classes and I am at midterms. YEAH! It only took me till 30 to appreciate school and handle it properly.

MONKIES:

The boys are doing good. Christian got A/B Honor Roll this semester and his teacher thinks he can pull out A honor roll next semester.

Aaron got all S's on his report card and needs to practice his handwriting. He is doing very well and he is using his tools to work on his temper and his blow ups and it is all working pretty well.

Aside from regular sibling rivalry they are getting along and having a fun time and sticking to their responsibilities pretty well.

Kristina got them both a Betta fish cause they keep talking about a pet. So far we are in day2 of the betta fish and they have fed them on time and not gotten in a fight over them and they really are excited about them.

I got them venus flytraps 2 weeks ago and those are still alive. So things are going well.

The move was stressfull and to be honest it's not completely over cause there are still boxes in the garage, but with school and work and the boys and Mahjoy, there is alot to do in a week and I have to  prioritize work boys and school before most other stuff. Including Mahjoy. But she is cool like that she understands.

Love you guys.

So I got inspired to write something that is beautiful in hindsight.

Several years ago when I got to live out my dream and I started working for a video game company, all I wanted in the world was to share that with my Dawg. I wanted my boy to roll with it and throw down with the rest of us.

I am of course talking about Q, and I talked and talked and he listened and listened, and eventually we were heading toward something like agreement. Q was coming out a relationship and he wanted what most people want. He wanted validation, he wanted change, he was inspired to reach for new things and I was excited for him.

I tried to talk him into moving to Florida and filling a position we had for IT/Webmaster/Scripting programmer. It was his dream job from his own admissions. He got to use his current skills, advance them, and learn new skills pointed in the arena of video game development. It's what we always dreamed of as kids.

I talked and talked and finally everyone was in agreement, my bosses were ready for him to move down, and I was ready to house him till he got his feet under him, and he said, "Let me talk to my family about it".

COOL! No not cool. A week later he decided he didn't want to leave his family and friends in Ky.

I knew what he was really saying so on the company phone at like 10 pm I  just flat out asked him.

"Is it because of HER? DO you think you still have a shot with HER? You don't want to leave Ky cause you know it will pretty much destroy any chance of getting her back?"

To which he very quietly said, "Yeah kinda, but I really can't leave my family either, I just can't".

I knew that family was important, but video games and adventure were calling. I still wonder if he ever actually talked to his family or not, or whether he just decided that he didn't want to be out of the possible Vickie loop.

So needless to say I spent the next hour chewing his ass off about how it was over and he should move on leave it alone, and it was starting to get scary that he was focusing so much on HER and that he didn't even know who she was anymore cause so much time had passed blah blah blah.

 He didn't give up.  He didn't give in.  He held onto his dreams and he persued HER. And now she is his wife.

ROCK THE FUCK OUT MAN!

I will always love you, and I will always respect you that you went after your dream and you achieved it. It's no differant than my chasing the video game thing. I saw something I knew I wanted and I went after it. You did the same and no matter what happens from this on, even if you and Vickie go down in screaming ugly divorce flames, it doesn't matter because you went after your dream and for however long you got it. You did it. You succeeded and got to taste that which burned inside you the hottest.

Congratulations dude. Congratulations!