I always get wind of odd news happenings in my former home town of Dayton, Ohio. I lived there for nearly 10 years. My wife and I had our first apartment in Georgetown in Kettering, Ohio. I’d say this one tops the strangest of the strange, yet it’s not that shocking.
What a week!!
I am so glad for this weekend!! YAY!
Tonight was game night, and we all had a blast. A few folks showed up and we loaded up Halo 3 and some Rock Band. We probably would have played Rock Band all night, but it finally happened. The yellow drum pad broke completely off (it was either the yellow or green one, sorry I’m color blind!). So that was cut short and now I must replace yet another piece of equipment for that game. First, it was the drum pedal, which quickly snapped in half after having it for not even a month. Next it looks like my guitar will be going out. The strum bar is getting pretty weak. I should just pick up the complete Rock Band 2 set anyways, have yet to pick up that game.
But Halo was fun, until (yeah it’s always something with me, right?) we had problems loading maps. I’ve NEVER had problems with being booted, not being able to load maps and what not. Until recently! I think my game disc has just been overplayed and is not loading the maps correctly. In fact I hear a little “click” when it tries to load some maps. Yeah I know, I was worried it was the hard drive too, but it’s rather evident that it’s coming from the DVD tray. So yay, another game I have to replace. I have had 2 other games get scratched from my own Xbox. Yeah somehow the system put a rather thick scratch line all the way around a couple of my game discs. I was NOT happy about it then and am still not happy about it now. ARGH! Plus I do seem to get booted more now, not sure if it’s the game disc issue or just my overall network issues. I have had this router for awhile and this modem, maybe they too are starting to flake out.
OH, and I got to dust off my old skating skills. Devon brought over his 755 (?) board and I gave it a try. I have no problems riding, even though I skate goofy, but the ollies weren’t coming to me as easily as I remember. I managed to land a few, but nothing spectacular. I really do miss skating!
The biggest news today was that I got my new gadget. A multimedia player, it’s awesome and hope to do a full picture review this weekend. I really like it. Have to get a few more things to make it exactly what I want, but it’s off to a great start.
So yeah, I best get some sleep. Night everyone.
I’m so confused, I thought these maps would only be available first to those who purchase the Limited Edition version of the upcoming Halo Wars. But the reporters says “new downloadable maps”?
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Okay, just pulled up the Halo Wiki and YES it should be available first with the Limited Edition of Halo Wars. Saw something there I didn’t know though, another set of maps to be released with Halo: ODST. Check it out here.
Today was just a “blah” day! So I thought I could use some words of encouragement, so I went looking for some. You can find ANYthing on Google, don’t ya know?
Here’s what I found, let me share it with you if you too are having a “blah” day!
Rob is the kind of guy you love to hate.
He is always in a good mood and always has something positive to say.
When someone would ask him how he was doing, hewould reply,
“If I were any better, I would be twins!”
He was a natural motivater.
If an employee was having a bad day, Rob was there telling the employee how to look on the positive side of the situation.
Seeing this style really made me curious, so one day I went up to Rob and asked him,
“I don’t get it! You can’t be a positive person all of the time. How do you do it?”
Rob replied,
“Each morning I wake up and say to myself, you have two choices today. You can choose to be in a good mood or … you can choose to be in a bad mood. I choose to be in a good mood. Each time something bad happens, I can choose to be a victim or…I can choose to learn from it. I choose to learn from it. Every time someone comes to me complaining, I can choose to accept their complaining or… I can point out the positive side of life. I choose the positive side of life.
“Yeah, right, it’s not that easy,” I protested.
“Yes, it is,” Rob said. “Life is all about choices. When you cut away all the junk, every situation is a choice. You choose how you react to situations. You choose how people affect your mood. You choose to be in a good mood or bad mood. The bottom line:
It’s your choice how you live your life.”
I reflected on what Rob said.
Soon thereafter, I left the Tower Industry to start my own business. We lost touch, but I often thought about him when I made a choice about life instead of reacting to it.
Several years later, I heard that Rob was involved in a serious accident, falling some 60 feet from a communications tower. After 18 hours of surgery and weeks of intensive care, Rob was released from the hospital with rods placed in his back.
I saw Rob about six months after the accident.
When I asked him how he was, he replied. “If I were any better, I’d be twins. Wanna see my scars?”
I declined to see his wounds, but I did ask him what had gone through his mind as the accident took place.
“The first thing that went through my mind was the well being of my soon to be born daughter,” Rob replied. “Then, as I lay on the ground, I remembered that I had two choices: I could choose to live or… I could choose to die. I chose to live.”
“Weren’t you scared? Did you lose consciousness?”I asked.
Rob continued,
“…the paramedics were great. They kept telling me I was going to be fine. But when they wheeled me into the ER and I saw the expressions on the faces of the doctors and nurses, I got really scared. In their eyes, I read, “He’s a dead man.” I knew I needed to take action.
“What did you do?” I asked.
“Well, there was a big burly nurse shouting questions at me,” said Rob.
“She asked if I was allergic to anything.
“Yes, I replied.”
The doctors and nurses stopped working as they waited for my reply. I took a deep breath and yelled,
“Gravity.”
Over their laughter, I told them,
“I am choosing to live. Operate on me as if I am alive, not dead.”
Rob lived, thanks to the skill of his doctors, but also because of his amazing attitude. I learned from him that every day we have the choice to live fully.
Attitude, after all, is everything.
“Therefore, do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.”
After all, today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.
