i hated halo.

i am so excited. this is for sure the peak of my day, and maybe my week. hold on. let me pause one second and think of other high points. no, no. this is it! i think i remember looking forward to things that ought to have been high points but weren't and getting them confused with real honest-to-zues high points. road to perdition is a good example. it was supposed to be a wonderful judelawissexy movie and it WASN'T. and i was supposed to have fun with jill and the boys on saturday night, but the boys were all playing halo. do you guys know about halo? it's like, the best video game, ever." all i know is, i've lost an entire generation of dateable boys to playstation and xbox and whatever the heck else ultimate gaming platforms might be out there, and i'm pissed about it. only one of the guys at jill's house even got up to say hi. and he's married. the other boys sat thier staring at thier screens (they had 3 different tvs in the living room hooked up), oblivious. sugar sean said i'm a brat to complain, "no one pays attention to me!!" but you know what? no one paid attention to me. and i'm worth paying attention to. can i get a witness?

so many high points on this last leg.

fatty i will take pictures of adam downing his first tatonka (is that how you spell it?). and you will see them come august 8.

i love you and i know how you feel about God. and, i don't know what to tell you. but read your bible fatty. and if you have a bookstore go buy a cs lewis book. any one. and don't give up. and don't be complacent. that's a big thing, a big place satan tries to get us. (this is a cs lewis idea, from the screwtape letters. mixie bought it for me for christmas 2 years ago.) he tries to get us to feel like God is not worth the effort (we know this is not true) and that we have better things to do (this is not either.) and i fall for it all the time. and that sucks for me and everyone else. but anyway. be encouraged. i love you. come home.

I wish I could be a pirate. shanghai the seas with a bottle of rum and rob any ships that come in my path.... (sean mc grath)