I’ve been thinking more about adding discipline/structure to my time, and here’s what I plan to do so far: 1 hour a week on Visual Basic 1 hour a week on Gimp 1 hour a week on GameMaker Workout 3 times a week with my son (going to join the Y again soon – probably [...]

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My kids asking me about “family game night” again got me reflecting today… What I’m lacking in my life is discipline.  I start a lot of things, and keep some of them going in spurts, but rarely have enough discipline to see them to fruition.  As a matter of fact, this blog is one of [...]

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My son turned 13 today.  Since we’ve already celebrated for the most part, we kept things kind of simple and stayed at home.  I bought him donuts for breakfast, and we let him pick the dinner we cooked.  I also cooked some chocolate chip muffins for him for his dessert.  After big eating over the [...]

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My son is doing his science fair project on lasers.  His experiment is going to be to see if a blu-ray laser is strong enough to pop a balloon.  A little over a month ago, I ordered a kit that had a blu-ray laser in a housing, a circuit board, a resistor, capicitor, and other electronic [...]

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As I mentioned in the last post, my son turns 13 at the end of this month.  He was actually born on Thanksgiving Day, 13 years ago.  My little turkey boy!    Last weekend, we let him have what will probably be his last “real” birthday party with friends.  We went to Fort Rapids, and [...]

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I’ve let my kids play games from the time they were able to hold a controller in their wee little hands.  I enjoyed gaming growing up, and I think games are good for hand-eye coordination, and they can teach strategy and basic problem-solving, among other things.  The primary reason we game, though, is entertainment.  I [...]

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First of all, my parents came down and took the kids for the weekend.  Freedom!  It was nice to have it a little calmer around here for a couple of days, and to spend some quality time together with my wife, but truth be told, I missed having the kids around.  They’re back now, so [...]

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Forgive my language, but I find what happened in this video despicable… There is absolutely no place in sports for this act.  It’s intentional, it’s reprehensible, and it’s just about downright criminal.  I remember when Robert Reynolds of Ohio State choked Wisconsin’s QB.  Even though I’m just a fan of the team, I felt shame [...]

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After nearly a month, I turned on my Xbox 360 again.  A month ago, I was a Gold Xbox Live member, now I’m relegated to Silver.  I’m not sure when I’ll renew, but I probably will.  I hardly play online, but I do enjoy the arcade, demos, and so forth. I fired up NCAA Football [...]

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