Thanksgiving with My Brothers
This year for Thanksgiving we broke away from our normal ritual of going to my aunt Maika’s house for family Thanksgiving dinner. Instead we decided, for the first time, to get together with the other side of my family, my brothers.
Cass Rockin’ One
Our good friends Neil and Diana Evans introduced us to Cass Wines a few years back. On our first visit we were impressed with their wines, I think we brought home 6 bottles, maybe more. However, it wasn’t until the days and weeks after our visit when we started to open up the wines at home, we started to realized how amazing their wines really are.
Lost in the Nordic wonderland of Skyrim
While I’m nowhere near being ready to write-up my full thoughts on The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, I’d like to share my enthusiasm for it. I suspect it’ll be a few months before I’m able to complete this incredibly massive game. However, I do want to share how thoroughly impressed I am after playing it for the first few weeks.
The Great American Political Standoff
What is wrong with politicians these days? Why can’t they all just learn to leave their personal agenda out of politics and agree to do the right thing for the greater good of all Americans. I think that most politicians have become so blinded by their own ignorance and greed that they have forgotten why they are really there in the first place.
The Love of My Life
One year ago on December 3rd, 2010 I got married to the love of my life, Jenny. This is after living together for over nine years. We recently passed our ten-year mark last August. Being able to share life with Jenny over the last ten years has been some of the most memorable and enjoyable years of my life. Yet I feel like we are just getting started in our lives together.
Drake’s Uncharted Adventures
The Uncharted series is easily one of the best action and adventure games made to date. The developers at Naughty Dog continue impress gamers and the industry with their vision for the perfect form of cinematic interactive entertainment. Their latest release, Uncharted 3: Drakes Deception raises the bar to new heights for gamers to enjoy, appreciate, and drool over.
Los Angeles Rock ‘n’ Roll Marathon 2011
The day before Halloween on 2011, Los Angeles hosted the annual Rock ‘n’ Roll Marathon. My wife Jenny signed me up for the Mini Marathon, 5 kilometers, while she signed up for the half, 13.1 miles. The Rock ‘n’ Roll Marathon series draws in a big crowd, often 20,000 to 30,000 runners. It can be very exciting to be surrounded by that many excited runners at the crack of dawn getting ready to run.
Homemade Quiche
Earlier this year while browsing the fresh vegetable selection at our local Valencia Farmers Market I got inspired to try to make a homemade quiche. Really it was the seasonally fresh squash blossoms, carried by one of the local vendors, that got me thinking about it.
Low: C’mon
Low is one of those bands that can take a good amount of time to warm up to before you really start to enjoy their music. Low’s music and signing style falls into a genre called slowcore, characterized by slow tempos and minimalist arrangements, a subgenre of alternative and indie rock.
Rage
Rage is one of those games that has a lot of big expectations to fill since this was coming from the notorious developer id Software. Notorious because id Software is usually referred to as the originators of the first person shooter genre in video games with games like Wolfenstein, Quake, and DOOM.
