Only a few days left for Christmas shopping before the big day arrives! You better hurry up. Am I into all the consumerism that’s running rampant this time of year? You bet I am and I’m not afraid to admit it. I really like going out and getting gifts for friends/family. It’s a lot of fun to get caught up in the holiday spirit and forget, for a while, the problems of the world. It’s easy to forget about the war, survivors from the hurricanes, and a host of other problems. But since I’m a pretty cynical guy when it comes to life (I like to think of myself as a realist, but I think my wife would call me a complainer), I do like to see the Christmas lights, hear the caroling, and just try to have some fun.
My wife and I wrapped Christmas gifts last night while watching the film “The 40-year-old Virgin.” I like to keep an open mind, but I didn’t really enjoy the flick. It was boring. While watching the film, I felt really sorry for the main character, wondering why he was being portrayed as such a loser. Some people choose to live a celibate life and reducing a man to the worst possible of everything (he doesn’t drive a car, he has a crappy job, he collects action figures, etc.) was a bit unbelievable. Yes, there were some funny scenes, but give me “American Pie” over “the 40-year-old Virgin” any day. Hands down.
Again, I’ll watch all sorts of flicks. I’m definitely not a prude.
So my Christmas shopping is mostly done, presents are wrapped, and about half of our cards are out in the mail. The tree is up with lights, but no decorations outside. I still have to find out what my family is doing this year. In years past, my family would come to our house and we would hold Christmas Eve dinner (the seven fish Italian dinner—but don’t tell anyone—we didn’t always have seven fish), all opening our gifts up after the kids went to bed. What will we do this year? I believe we’re going up to my brothers and hanging out there. Plans aren’t definite yet, but that would give us time to relax and not have to worry about moving unpacked boxes out of the way. With Christmas only a little more than a week away, we’ll be finalizing all our plans soon.
Speaking of unpacking, I’ve been having a blast in finding old Dungeons & Dragons rule books, modules, and back issues of Dragon magazine. I’ve opened some of the issues of Dragon magazine and they’re 22 years old. Man, that makes me feel old. I can’t believe that it’s been that long since I used to subscribe to the magazine. Time passes by quickly. I still can’t believe that it’s been over 12 years since I started playing the card game Magic: The Gathering. Speaking of which: I finished episode 2 of the Magic Sock and am waiting to see when/if MTGSalvation.com will be running the video blog on their site. Hopefully, it’ll be before Christmas. We shall see. I also submitted the Web blog to iTunes, but it’s not showed up there yet. My thought is that I could obtain some traffic via people looking for Magic: The Gathering podcasts via iTunes. I’m hoping that iTunes will list my video. I don’t know if they will or not, I’ll have to see. I think it would be great if they did, but it’s out of my control.
From the stats on the first episode, I had over 560 people download it. I don’t think that’s too bad. Will I find an audience or not? I’m not sure, but it’ll be fun in trying. I like tinkering with the technology to put The Magic Sock all together, but it does take a lot of work and time. Both of which I don’t have much of these days. However, it’s my goal to work on episode #3 around Jan. 1st. Again, we’ll see how much time I actually have.
Well, I’m off. I’ve stuff to do. Take care and have fun.
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