September 29, 2013

My dear little friend BIG DAY..........

Hello All,
 Just a few days ago, it was Wednesday from this past week or maybe it was Tuesday I'm not sure, but one those two days my friend Gabbi seen here 

and her mom Lisa came to the store to by some extra bunch of groceries to share with Gabbi's school friends on this past week's Thursday. I went and helped bagged their very groceries which had consisted a bunch of party goodies and the one that really stood bout was some really rich brownies and cupcakes combined with ice cream middles. Gabbi I'm just guessing at this, but had a wonderful time with her school pals which also consisted of a little boy having his Big Birthday shared because on the following day the whole class had a flied trip. I have without doubt can say this about Gabbi and know it to be truthful no matter what, and that is I have heard many parents tell me "I bet you've seen many babies grow up around your kinda work, and you know them almost as well as we do the parents do, huh?" Well in truth it is very much the only answer that I can not ever disagree with, when any said person weather the are yet a parent or not. With Gabbi though I can say it for sure, from the very innermost of my very soul that every time I see her just like every time I get together with these two 
kids seen with me and Santa and his elf, those two kids are known as Heidi & Cannon my niece and nephew here in town. I sometimes wish I could see them more often at times...I'm just saying that it has been quite a long overdue bit of time since I saw them or my brother Micheal and his loving wife Kathie. The one thing that I have always wanted for quite a number of years to have are my own children as much as anyone who cares about not only children as I do but life as well, and the greatest thing about Gabbi is that even though I'm not a actual father figure to her I know that her mom and dad know me well enough to know I would lay my life down for her if the moment was ever needed. For I care as much for Gabbi as any family would about their own offspring and I hope if she reads this years from now, that she has earned more than just the emotion of feeling like kin to her but my respect as a true family friend not just as the courtesy clerk from just her favorite store that she visited while growing into a young lady. Gabbi L. I do hope you enjoy your first double digit day of life and whole upcoming year. 
Your good friend and pal Matt Byrd   
         


September 17, 2013

What is this a tease to?


Hello All,
 As I'm sure you have all been waiting about more news of any kind from my break from Albretson's this year. Now I know without a doubt I still have many more parts from when I went with them and these two
 on the Disney Wonder cruise to parts of the state known for Ice fishing and much more, called Alaska from in 2011. Still who are these two persons I am talking about your wondering right?, well maybe not so much if you go digging through certain entries of this very blog, and here's a quick way to find out who the them are look to "TO MY NEPHEW JOSHUA" for whom I'm bringing into the fold now are my mother Nancy Powers Watson & my step father Charles Ross Watson 
seen here in Vancouver Canada boarding  a local Canadian tour bus which we took all over the two cities of Canada that we visited this past May. One of the many things we did get to see in both Vancouver and Toronto was we caught the very rare stuff known as filming a scene for a movie or television show. 
The one I want to talk about is this one here  
,where I am standing next the poster in while waiting for a subway train. As to Why you'll find out the true answer by this weekend. Till then let me fill you in on some goodies, okay?, While for our three day stay in Vancouver we had chosen the Hamilton Inn hotel right in downtown, on our last night which  was Monday the sixth of May we had chosen to eat at the restaurant of the hotel next to where we were and I can't recall it's name right as I write this, but I think it was a Canadian owned company, when my folks and I saw this wreck at the street corner  
 and we were like "What the heck is gonna on?, did someone actually have a real accident...." at least I was saying this to myself, I'm not sure what my folks thoughts were. Then Chuck had spotted the camera crew and cast dressed for the scene 
and we watched as we ate our dinner of the shot for the final scene or at least close enough and dramatic sensing for the end of season two of the Canadian Sci-Fi series known as ContinuumAn here it was 
in progress of what was going on after the crash for the scene 
. The only thing I can say about this is I wanna know more about this series, yet I can't because it's not shown in the states expect on the SYFY channel from what the scene coordinator said to me or Net-Flicks both of which I don't have but am now wishing that I do!          
           For sure Continued..........

September 16, 2013

Look at those #s ...........


Hello All, 
   I really can't believe it?, I was just chatting about this thing with one of my many followers just today 
 











and what can I tell you?, when I got home I was expecting to see a prime score of fours like these seen here

oops, I guess it's really one off of a prefect straight board in truth. There has in the past been a few times that I loved trying to be dead on with the sign of this # which I always thought meant fro numbers in someway or other. I have in recent months come to know that this symbol is now NOT referred as a anything having to do with with numbers at all, so if it's not for numbers as most knew for an infinite amount of forever time what is the reference of the symbol in the High tech computer age of multimedia as we know now? People now say that it's new name is a hash tag, which  I don't know I guess it can/could be one of those many things as that it is up to who decides how they want to use it meaning wise! Now back to another time of when I was trying to really keep track of the hit of the numbers counts which is the real meaning of this post, I had found back last October that the number of views was closet to the year that "ALL life on planet earth was to be extinct on this famous first Anime in America 

way back in the year known as nineteen seventy eight. The  whole count at the time was two thousand one hundred and twenty one which was the closet I could find to that mentioned year which is 2199. And the only other time I was tracking the number set was back in the month of May of two thousand and eleven when the said numbers were really close to a certain registry number of a very famous ship known as
the Enterprise of Star Trek lore with a number very close to 1701, the count of the May numbers were one thousand seven hundred and sixteen now as you can see I did try to round off to the closet set to the said rounding of the prime goal number wise. Finally before I leave you today I give you just another very omnibus number that.....
, well listen to the clip and you tell me?          

A long over due update from way back when?


Hello Travelers,
 I just got to thinking it's been a long enough time that I should share a about my past vacation in someway from this past May that I had left a wide gap of a whole week open for. So let's begin with what weekend it was which was May fourth, and as you know if your a sci-fi fan of any kind that day is dedicated to Star Wars fans the world over, more later on what i found in hotel room once we got to Vancouver. An even though we my folks and I were on a train on our way over to Vancouver Canada from after turning in our rental car  in Seattle at the airport and waiting from 
 












four thirty till six o'clock, in the train station for it coming from the state of Oregon so we could rest on it on the rest of the night.  Here are a couple of shots of the interior car that we rode in and 

while trying to read some of of The Hobbit I also happen to snap this grand sun set.
 

 









 
That thing over Chuck's head from the interior car image happens to be 

a map guide because the conductor  of the train knew that they had sleepy passengers on board and had no need for irate people mad because of lack of ZZZZ. We eventually pulled into Vancouver's train station at fifteen minutes till midnight, we then gathered our bags and went through customs to enter Canada, we then grab a taxi from the train station to our hotel which was a Hamilton Inn. We got up on the next morning and planned our day. It was at that time Star Wars fans are you ready for this that I found this 


in a little travel guide of the city of Vancouver, pretty cool huh? We had a quick little Continental breakfast then we took a tour of the whole city, we got on a trolley and saw some interesting parts of the city.  The tour started by going through Vancouver's "China Town" 
 










 
district
, then by the water front pier
, and by a couple of neat churches
 












then from there here are two parts of the city landscape that I can't find how to put into words other than beautiful 
 





















 .
Finally  a little Americana 
thrown in for good measure. Then we went looking for a sun hat for me before we went and ate at this great little Tia/Curry  restaurant     

 which full of get Asian art of many kinds

 Mom felt a wee bit sick so she went back to the hotel which was just a couple of blocks away, then shortly a hour or so Chuck and I went to go souvenir shopping or at least idea wise 


anyway. On the way back to the hotel ourselves we saw this Sherman tank 
and this Cannon outside 


of the city's old military recruitment area. Believe you me there is a story you won't wanna miss the next time we come to visit Vancouver Canada for sure.....

To be continued..... 



 

September 15, 2013

To Joshua my nephew....


Hey world, 
Well it has happen yet again, just today.......What is it your asking yourselves huh?, it turns out that I have happen to of written about this day for friends, an old girlfriend of mine, stars of my favorite television series and of course artists of comics. Still today is really very special not just because it's my eldest nephew's big shout out of number sixteen years on this loving planet known as Earth, but it's truly a real wonder that I don't still like I used to get his birthday mixed up with it being just a couple of days after his older sister Portia 
, now in this half circle that family of the Mickleson KNOT can you spot her? Joshua was the main little guy when he was years younger that I hang out with when Portia was celebrating the end of her cancer treatments while we were at the Holiday Inn in another town of Minnesota that escape me for the moment but Joshua and I played our hearts out on the arcade games that they had there, the one thing I remember most was we got a bunch of free games on two player mode of a boat racing game. I recall it was at that time that I introduce him

both the marvel universe of what I knew of it boy I wonder what that is huh, don't you? and to one of my ol Friday nights favorites of the boob tube in part with the two, two parts of Michal Knight and his car known as K.I.T.T. battling Garth Knight and his armored semi truck called Goliath of season two the series known as Knight Rider. In fact before my folks came to take me on my trip to Canada this year Joshua spent some time with them in Cuenca, Ecuador. Here he is on the 
Cuenca bus tour with Poppi and with Mimi at the equator marker in Qutio 
 , which I have been there as well not to that very spot though. There is definitely one thing that both young Joshua and his uncle Matt have in common?, what's that it's a thing of seeing Joshua doing here 
with a copy of The Hitch Hiker's  Guide to the Galaxy: We both love reading which is great, because beside it being enjoyable, it makes us not only think with our minds but also believe with our hearts in the words of the written page.   Once again have a grand sixteenth, Happy Birthday Joshua from your ever loving uncle Matt, from Washington state. 

September 14, 2013

Into the ZONE.......


Hello All,
Earlier today, I went to the one place I haven't been in over a month's wroth of time and even though I did forget to ask them at Adventures Underground if they had seen or heard of this book 
,that I have only brought up a couple times here so far. I did happen to while picking all of these trades and comics seen here 

did get some very next excitement in the way of news of there being a get this but before I tell you can you even guess with these pictures 
as to what it can be? Okay I really do know I can't say what science fiction series is liked just as much if not more than what insider news I found out about at the store. Other than that yes it was created by this man seen here 
known as Rod Serling. Now I know that I have promise my own stories on those other forms of Sci-Fi and yes I will keep my promise of them, of course......but I want I did find out was is that either by the end of this year or the start of next year that there will be a comicbook of the Twilight Zone . All know is that since it's been brought back to Memorable Entertainment Television since Labor Day and even though they didn't ever buy seventeen of the episodes of the fourth season out of eighteen I will say this I can hardly wait to go into new parts of what is the best anthology of not only science fiction with these words uttered here:  "There is a fifth dimension beyond that which is known to man. It is a dimension as vast as space and timeless as infinity. It is the middle ground between light and shadow, between science and superstition, and it lies between the pit of a man's fears and the summit of his knowledge. This is the dimension of imagination. it is an area we call the Twilight Zone." it also was great at defining the human condition as well, and like I have said before I'm cited to see what's next from the Zone.      

September 11, 2013

12 years ago..... (pt 3 of 3)



Hello All,
   As everyone who reads this knows that this of what I'm talking about I sure will affect each and everyone of YOU very differently. You also know I've been writing about this two whole other days and why shouldn't need to be asked at all! It seems to me that every year when this very date approaches since it happen of the events of the Twin towers in New York fell seen here 
 


on smoking fire from one of two airplanes taken over by terrorists known as al-Qadea, their whole intent was to strike the GREATEST EMOTIONAL RESPONSE in a world and country far from their own: THAT RESPONSE: FEAR from an unknown scourge that would result in malevolence violence in the USA by attacking not only New York but also the Pentagon in Washington D.C. which did happen and aimed for the Capitol or the White House.... (Which failed because of the brave passengers of United Airlines flight ninety three, ended up in Shanksville Pennsylvania, southeast of Pittsburgh), The attacks started at eight forty six EST and lasted till three minutes after ten am. Now I know it may seem silly or maybe not to show two fictional paramedics known as Johnny Gage and Roy Desoto  who were played by Randolph Mantooth, and Kevin Tighe respectively in accordance with anything to do with 9/11, but since the other part of their fictitious characters were that as firemen I personally feel that a image of them getting ready for a given call 
, is very much warranted in this very post.  On today's date back in two thousand and one, after the whole carnage was over (is it really in our hearts and souls though, still till this very day )  four hundred and twelve emergency workers were killed. I know I look back on this given day and see a tear of sadness comes from my own two eyes, why you ask? Here is my own answer: Our heavenly father known as GOD gave not just everyone who is an American or even Russian or Islamic, if YOUR a HUMAN BEING a choice that WE ALL HAVE A MOMENT IN OUR little lives that matter to GOD, HIMSELF and the end result isn't at all just TWO BUILDINGS falling to the ground.....But for ALL OF HUMANITY to NOT FEAR DEATH in ANY GIVEN MOMENT, for HIS SON JESUS WAITS for US ALL. Weather WE ARE DONE with enough with our lives Jesus his son will claim our LOVE when we are sullen or suffering and give ALL WHOM DIED THIS DAY a moment of 

reflective peace in Heaven. What I mean by what I am saying here for all of us little humans is simply this GOD OPENED the DOOR for everyone, to be LOVED.Even Still till this day twelve years later the ONLY THING I SEE (AND I'M SORRY IF I LOSE A LOT OF MY READERSHIP HERE....) IS THAT, WE ALL WANNA FORGET WE ARE LOVED NO MATTER WHAT? For a reason of love I feel that we as humans, don't want to remember for a few moments in our work places where ever they may be WE ALL should pray for anyone who is a hero protecting our hopes and dreams as well as their own as well, on every 9/11 so it won't happen again........
To be always continued out of hope and love every September 11th!                        

September 09, 2013

12 years ago Pt. (1 of 3)

Hello all,
   We all know what had happen just a few days from now on a date known as 9/11, don't we! It was a very scary time that very morning of Tuesday when people all over the world saw the results of two planes hitting the twin towers in New York city. In every forthcoming year since September eleventh two thousand and one, I have always tired to find strength from the very words I type, so as to be an sounding board of hope to everyone or anyone who wants to talk about what they feel in their soul, since. I can certainly YOU tell no matter what that I may not be able to completely feel YOUR OWN take on how Your tears meant to YOU only, but as a person who does understand feelings of the soul, I'm willing to be one of the very few who will listen to YOU! The reasoning of why this year I chose to give three parts to 9/11 is because I really want people to remember that it is by talking about it will make every red blooded human that is of the country known as the United States may need to grieve longer than just the given day of of the event that without doubt forever changed the way the world looks at itself...... I DO HOPE IF YOU KNOW an group of Americans people in a far off foreign country weather it is safe for them or not because of their work, will you take a moment an pray for everyone you truly love come 9/11......

To be remembered every September 11th,

To be continued....     

September 06, 2013

Portia's Day always and forever.....



I still can't believe how special this very image is to me as well as the two young ladies in it, one that by the way happen to be celebrating something known as a Birthday......