Boy talk about a way to keep yourself on the interlectual go!

Hello all,
Let me at first say this I don't really know if I'm a super smart person all of the time, but I know that I know what my strengths are at times and also what they are not. I'm not grand with the higher forms of math like Algebra or Calculus...... , yet anyone who reads this very blog knows that I without a doubt have quite a very vivid imagination with more than just ideas or thoughts but with what it is that I am forming with these very letters to form what it is you are looking at known as words to bring about wisdom of any given day. With it being that time of year known as Christmas time and every one having a million things on our minds like will my family and friends get those gifts I'm sending them this year, are my words of what I say to them in a card enough, can I pray for those who don't understand that praying for them bring them a bit of trust that I Matt care. 
      Sure like you I as well have many things to think and dwell on over this time of the year, when it seems hard to feel that need for encouragement. Yet today for some great reason I decided to keep my main thoughts about working in that piles of white stuff known as Snow, when at about one thirty and I was outside grabbing up carts I thought to myself "HOW CAN I BEAT THE STRESS OF WORRYING SO FREAKING MUCH,DARN IT!" Then it came to me within a split second of a mere nothingness..... A Game of sorts like Scrabble or Upwords both are games meant to make you build your skills at vocabulary by making words off of letters from already existing words that another player has already done from a word that you have put down. So I thought well maybe to keep my own brain sharp as a tact why not give it a go for myself and others that I share things with as much as do of my everyday life. So here are the rules and since I will be doing this every month this one part will always be ever changing the word I have chosen to start out with must be related to the season of giving, and related to this very month of December! The thing you have to do is make a word off of each letter, BUT IT MUST MATTER TO YOU of each thing to remind YOU of the MEANING OF THE SEASON here is this month's word  H.O.P.E. I can tell you this my own answer was like I have always known of this as you should to. I will be really surprised to see what everyone puts down as a answer to this. So now you all have few things to look forward to each month from my blog and I hope you'll like it as much as those very other little things as well!

    Oh and of course Good luck with this just being a bit of lite hearted bit of fun from your friend, Matt Byrd                

Finally ALL CAPTAINS are mine!

Hello everyone,
   All I can say is thank you again to my brother Michael, for introducing me to a true addiction of my favorite family thing that ties us as ultimate nerds of nerds together. Even though I brought it up so far in only my Thanksgiving post of this year. Way back in the month of the  summer called August my brother had asked me after attending his neighborhood block party If I wanted to try a new game that he said that he has found that is Star Trek based. game and after he showed me some bits of the game play I was really invested and so he downloaded to my tablet that I have had since my trip to Mount Rushmore and Minnesota from back in twenty fourteen's vacation break. 
           The game is called Star Trek Timelines it is put out by a online gaming platform publisher called "DISTRUPBOR BEAM", the game let's you start with your choice of captain of  James  Tiberius Kirk, Jean -Luc Picard, Benjamin Lafayette Sisko, Kathryn Janeway and finally in reversal of going into the twenty second century before Kirk there was Jonathan Archer. Every game is tailored to each individual real life player, my game player name is "Captain Matt Shandor VII". I started my whole game with a common green Ben Sisko. Here is what I have him leveled  at

currently. I had Sisko for months at leveled at level ninety two out of one hundred  and once at one hundred each  character is Immortalized!  Earlier this week in the game had put into the area known as the Time  Portal a limited four day released hunt with a "THE FIRST CAPTAIN"

,seen here. I finally got him, I got Christopher Pike as a playable character after use two other tries with the game element known as  Dilithium which is purchased with actual money in differing amount. Here is what his

whole tally screen looks like. Oh and one other very neat thing about the Christopher Pike character is he is a Gold boarded Card. And I have only two other ones of those A GOLD boarded PIcard card and a very odd hologram character from a Star Trek Voyager episode number ninety five   titled "NIGHT" Which was named DOCOTOR CHAOTICA  in the HoloProgram in the episode called "THE ADVENTURES OF CAPTAIN PROTON " which run by Voyager crew member Thomas Paris. Again Thank you my brother Michael for this fun additionally game!               .                 

And now the long awaited plate change....

Hello everyone,
      Well as you all know it is finally come upon us all yet again the very last month of the whole ever encompassing span of time known as the year of twenty sixteen, or for those of us who see the year as two thousand only it's two thousand sixteen, in the end of it all it is based on how YOU see time as it relates to YOU that MATTERS MOST OF ALL! I do not know if anyone else reading this has ever had a huge amount of super special days in the year counting the upcoming gift giving day known as Christmas in the way of remembering very important people in your life. Like friends, celebrities, or better than all of that family members that have a little bit of a leaping a whole year older. Yes that is right how many of us know close to exhaustive ways that we wish to put aside those who have Birthdays in the month of December.....and still since they are so very special are words of any kind able to stand up to a tiny gift like a card that we could put into the ol snail way of traveling the mailbox. I think what we write helps us all feel more connected even if those words barely scratch what it is we wish to contribute to the other that is receiving the interpretations whole hearted meaning. So IT IS THAT I AM GETTING AT IS NEVER FEAR YOUR ALWAYS IN MY THOUGHTS, EVEN IF I SAY NOTHING AT ALL! Ok I also have to admit that at least in some way or form I like you go and know it to be hard of finding that right gift for that day we spend with our families and true friends but let me ask you now how do you get going of being in the gentle yet generous area of  not think of just YOURSELF OR THE ME factor for this time of year?
          For myself, even if I can't find the right way to feel from day to day all of the time being ever changing as it is I always stay on the positive side of things when others ask me "How is YOUR DAY? or HOW IS IT GOING TODAY?" I reply with " I'M ALWAYS HAVING A GRAND OR HOPEFULLY GOOD DAY AND I'M HOPEFULL THAT THE DAY IS BEING KIND AND WELL FOR YOU TOO." is what I respond with as to weather it is the right answer to the question that they wish to know of, Whomever is asking it knows that I'm always trying to be set for whatever is coming with a inspiring look at life. I love to get into the holiday spirit by this I mean getting ready for CHRISTMAS $HOPPING by watching CHRISTMAS specials that are airing on television or one of my many Christmas movies on DVD that I have. Also I listen to or try to listen to classic  CHRISTMAS MUSIC but of all of these things I have listed here I have yet to do for the next twenty four eves till CHRISTMAS MORN, Yet I am trying to do so when I can. 
              So for a very long while it has actually been since this past May even though I have had plans for so long as July itself to go and do the thing called the switcheroo with this image seen


here..In truth it wasn't because I didn't want to......The main reason was I wasn't thinking of the other portion of when I change from the beginning of the month with my Chess match up of for the time being in honor of it being Star Trek's fiftieth anniversary this very year I have had it been ever since January I have placed a Trek character to be judged upon (This didn't limit me to thinking of just the main crews of the Federation starships like the one

,seen here.  OOppss??? so very sorry about this folks but I seem to be unable to bring up anything Trek wise ship wise or whatever!! till apparently I get to see a upcoming movie release known as ROUGE ONE an star wars story....,) So I guess the only thing to show you all is my starred back at me during all of November desktop Your going say what is going on here because you just said YOUR NOT RELEASING ANY STAR TREK pictures TILL YOU HAVE SEEN ROUGE ONE???? And yet here

you are showing us Benjamin Lafayette Siko of the worst Trek series ever, I greatly hope to prove every Trek fan options on why Deep Space 9 is truly very awe striking awesome instead of just the Darkest form of Trek ever. Yet while everything was going on during this last presidential election I want us to remember we all NEED to RESPECT ONE ANOTHER NO MATTER WHAT OUR TRUE HERTIGAGE IS in the real world as just as much in an fictional one to!
   Here.in a way still keeping within Star Trek yet in a very different take whom of these two foes of 

 The Dominion












or the race that separated from the Vulcans known as The Romulans  















the Federation you run from?  the choice is yours choose ever so wisely my dear reader for next month's answer will surprise you for sure!        

Why Thanksgiving is always the importance of sharing

Happy Thanksgiving to all (for real this time)
   Hey there, now I know that I actually wrote of my family one just yesterday but I hope everyone who is reading this is having a very grand Thanksgiving today. I had to actually work for what I always reinforce as my well maybe millions of other people call it this too I just don't "Turkey Day". I  was of course thinking of all of my many branching families that I know of like my folks of course, my many cousins and their gatherings today also that of many friends while pushing carts and bagging groceries of the few people who forgot all kinds of little stuff, then about one thirty I ran into my ol high school pal Sondra Smith seen here with me 

,from earlier tonight at her house. She was at the store with her sister in law and had invited me to gracefully join her and her family when I was able to get off from Albertsons, which I thought was three thirty and had told Sondra of that and to give me to four fifteen to go home and change into something other than working duds I gave her my address so she could come get me since I don't drive ever.....then I came to find out that we were so slow at Alby's that they let me go home a whole hour early at two thirty. So I found Sondra in massager on Facebook and let her know that I was able to come a bit earlier if she wanted me to be available sooner rather than later. Since I had the time I thought I would go through my closet for what I thought was best to wear which in turn took a lot less time than I actually thought it would. She pick up my message still at close to four away which I was ok with I mean everyone is busy talking about family stuff so I could relate and understand on that given note of richness.

     So once we got to her house I was introduced to her husband Darin's side of the family that was visiting. Here is what was about their whole kitchen

,in the way of goodies.While I enjoying spending time of consuming my choice of those very set of plate toppers I also was delighted to be in very good conversations about family stories of my friend's husband and his neat collecting habits, and the most interesting of places of where Darin found said type of unique treasures. I went and shared that I was highly involved in besides reading a lot these days the online game

,seen here. It is known as Star Trek Timelines. After enjoying my plate which is seen here.

 

Not most of Sondra's brunch but the grandparents and Sondra and I went to go and witness her son Elijah Edwards playing musical chords on his electric piano 

in his room downstairs.     Then as I was enjoying watching the game of Football for Thanksgiving day and enjoying these pieces of pie seen here

, I got to chat with Darin about both the big two American Si-Fi franchises known as Star Wars by Gorge Lucas and Gene Roddenberry's Star Trek series, we also chatted about new books and old classics.....While this was in play Sondra's other son Cade was busy playing the card game "Old Maid" with two of his younger cousins, which was fun to observe for sure! 

Now I might be getting ahead of myself by saying this, but I truly know that  we as a species all have our own take on what the meaning of being thankful for means and that is fine I hope.....yet for myself I always am thankful for the small things just as much as family and friends are for me being their small invite to a HUGE family gatherings or the one needing to eat a very tiny microwavable meal if need be because of the place GOD chooses for me to be at during any given holiday matter more than that green  printed paper known as DOUGH, for GOD and Jesus his son know that I care about their matters more than my own...whatever they maybe?              

     

First time for everything.....

Hello All,
   Well for the last few weeks or perhaps two weeks M.E.T.V. which is an acronym for Memorable Entertainment Television (maybe the owners of the station could think up of a better use for the letter V as in Viewed just a suggestion? I don't really know myself , but Television is only ONE WORD when you pronounce it is all.....Just a little more thought for us thinkers, I guess!), was showing that they were going to be airing the M*A*S*H* finale titled "GOODBYE,FAREWELL AND AMEN" on this upcoming veterans day. Which is today, and I have always wanted to see this because when it aired back in nineteen eighty three I was only eleven years old and even though I had  known what the definition of what war was I was I still vey much into "Kid Things" and what I MOSTLY KNEW OF WAR WAS FINCTIONAL!
    M*A*S*H* was airing for up to ten years at this point, it's closet competitor in years of airing wise was on television was with the leather jacket wearing guy seen here

  
known as Arthur Fonearelli better called Fonzine played by Henry Winkler on the series called HAPPY DAYS yet was started a whole year apart from one another, with M*A*S*H* starting production  in nineteen seventy two the year I was born in. M*A*S*H* was about the Korean War that went and started in June twenty fifth, nineteen fifty and ended just three years later by a month and two days, which was July twenty seventh, nineteen fifty three. The ending result was an Armistice cease fire by both the South and North Korea and still till the present day both sides are in dispute over what is right.
          What I had found out from watching this was a whole lot of the stories that were told did in part actually happen during war itself that are in the series itself. This was from the segments with the cast and production crew during the commercial breaks while it aired original on M.E.T.V. back during Veteran Day a few years back in twenty fourteen which  had been thirty one years since it's original airing on the CBS network way back in February twenty eighth, nineteen eighty three. As I watched this I could see why so many Americans and others around the whole globe for that matter were tuned in for seeing the heartfelt ending to the series that they came to know as home. M*A*S*H* had comedy in it, it had seriousness in it's tone, yet most of all it dealt with the ordeal of what the impact of  war IS weather your coming home or the exact sadden reversal of dealing with NEVER COMING HOME BECAUSE YOU DIED IN ACTION.
        Now I have to say that I have also seen the M*A*S*H* movie that the television series is based on back in nineteen eighty four or eighty five and I have to say it had it's own powerhouse way of hitting the viewer with tearing at your soul. Again if you know anyone who has returned from any war that you are remembering to "THANK THEM FOR THEIR SERVICE of doing what YOU may find very hard to do which is laying THEIR VERY LIVES DOWN FOR THE SAFTY OF THE WHOLE WIDE WORLD!
    
   

WHY EVERYTHING DEPENDS ON EVERY AMERICAN WHO IS A VOTER!

Hello to everyone who is a AMERICAN CITZEN,
   I NEED NOT TELL YOU HOW CRAZY THE LEAD UP TO YOU CHOOSING WHO YOU WANT TO BE OUR NEXT PRESIDENT IS?, Neither should it be hard to know it seems like BOTH CANIDATES are loose cannons either way you look at things......It seems weather "IF WE VOTE OUR CHOICE FOR THE NEXT FOUR YEARS and MAYBE EIGHT, IS NOT AN EASY ONE?, for both ways can be very uncertain no matter how we want the FINAL VOTES to BE SWAYING.....YOU HAVE EITHER ONE WAY TO DECIDE BLUE OR RED...... I KNOW MY WORDS MAY NOT SEEM LIKE AN ANSWER IN THE CORE OF YOUR HEART OR THE EASISET ON YOUR WACKED OUT BRAIN BUT NO MATTER WHAT YOU THINK YOU KNOW OF YOUR CHOICE EVEN IF IT IS "INDEPENT" REMEMBER THIS, WE ALL HAVE TO LIVE WITH WHAT WILL BE? ALL THAT I AS A FELLOW AMERICAN CAN SAY IS THAT FOR HEAVEN SAKES DON"T VOTE FROM WHAT YOU HAVE ONLY SEEN IN BOTH THE MEDIA OR THE DEBATES.....VOTE BECAUSE YOUR HEART AND LIVING SOULS DEPEND ON WHAT YOU DECIDE AS YOU MARK YOUR BALLOT FROM WHEN THE POLES OPEN TILL WHEN THEY CLOSE. WHICH IS 8 in the morning till 8in the evening....today! Remember TO GO VOTE!     

Hastings stores are no more with in the Tri-Cities area or for that matter.....

Hello All, I'm sure that everyone around the world is very said to once again see the downsizing of yet another business that has kept a lot of us entertained weather we realized it or not. I used to go to the address of where Hastings is seen here

on George Washington way in Richland. In fact I remember when the very building use to be the grocery chain known as Food Pavilion and even further back than that it was in the mid nineteen seventies when it was Buttery's who were a huge chain that competed with both Safeway and Albertson's. I am not sure of when they changed to Food Pavilion exactly I believe it must have been when our family was living on the east coast which was in nineteen eighty six to the summer of nineteen eighty eight. Hastings to me was always a place to go to when I couldn't make it out to the other city known as Kennewick to get to Colombia center to shop at Barnes and Nobles or any other reason to go to the mall. Hastings was in fact the place to go to and find music, books, posters and of course for some the coffee shop when Star Bucks just wouldn't wait! I had actually seen someone back in August holding up a big Yellow sign with Black writing on it that stuff was up to fifty percent off on sale at the store.  

When I just happen by there today at two thirty on the outside of the entrance window it said last day in Capitol letters with a big red number 1! So in a way I was lucky to see the place one last time. After I was there for a half hour they went and told every one in the store that you had a choice of a White plastic bag that could be filled with anything expect books for forty dollars. The other bag was a Black bag and if you filled it with books they were five dollars apiece. So I filled up a white bag with these DVDS and other stuff

for forty eight eighty five. There four DVDS missing but I went and had a WHOPPER of a savings of two hundred and forty nine dollars and seventy eight cents. I then went over to Adventures Underground and made sure that even though they as well were having a massive book sale of both books and comics I resisted the urge to get only these two very nice Spider-Man drinking glasses for

a little over ten dollars a piece. The all RED one has Peter's suit that Tony Stark made for him before CIVIL WAR started known as The IRON SPIDER-SUIT and the clear one has a Stencil of a Steve Ditko image of Peter in his first hand stitched one from as far back as AMAZING FANASTY number fifteen. Yet I know that I will miss going to Hastings when I'm in Richland from now on the thing that I hope happen for the former employees can get a great standing in their future job searches..... This really I hope that ALL, Hastings employees from state to state can have a reckoning of ease for since the company as a whole filed for bankruptcy when getting a new start in the work world.                  

A Black and White graphic novel known as.....(pt 1 of 8)

Hello comic readers who love comics of ALL KINDS......,
    Here is what we are reading for our upcoming review for the comic book group


at Adventures Underground in Richland Washington at the uptown shopping center. It will be nice to see if this set of reviews bring new comers to the store, that want to just see what the club is all about, or just if you want to make new friends.... Here is my personal take on the first book called "CUBBY HOLE".

Kids are......

Hello All,
        You know many of you who choose to read these very entries have at one time or another have been little or small in every way possible. I will admit that I love to talk about a certain part of my own childhood mainly because I love to remember my younger self so much because I think it will help me be ready for when I'm ready to have an offspring of my own, not that I'm planning on that at any time real soon. Yet what it is I'm waiting to talk about today is how children of any age really go and slap us older adults across the face with something called humor. I just want everyone to know as I am writing these very words I'm try so hard but finding it completely impossible to hold back from laughing at all.
           So it was about two thirtyish almost and whole hour before I was leaving from work at Albertsons. I was busy taking a bad set of plastic bags that had cuts in them so they couldn't be used at all to our plastic recycle area at the front of the store across from the front entrance. When a young mom and her five year old (I'm guessing at the age part really I am?) little blonde hair baby girl came into the store, and I had said "Hello" to each of them and the precious pretty little princess let out before any words of any kind a huge for her anyway belch that had me taken aback. Especially since she was kind of happy to of gotten rid of it with a small laugh and smile as her mom put her into a cart to go shopping for groceries the mother told me, "She has very often pulled other funny moments of unexpected fun around family even, and she loves to make everyone smile from her given occurrences' when they do happen to come out of the no where moments of life." As they left go about their trip at the store I just had a huge inner smile on my whole soul that made that last just fly by. Most people don't know that it's because of wanting to help any costumer and their kids have nice experience is why I LOVE my career more than the money part of being rewarded. It is all keeping the costumer leaving with a good thought about your day that makes me so very happy to know that I care about them as a good friend even if I don't always know their first name, I do care about their tomorrows as much as they care about me.               

Every so often stuff just well how can I say it?

 Something very colorful has happen to my Television just with in the last eighteen to twenty four hours time span .....Look below to find out what has occurred.......

The Wave build up to Star Trek Beyond for this Trekker is .....part 1

Hello to Trekkers everywhere....
  I know that everyone who is looking at this very blog entry is just wondering will that fella who writes about that series in the far off future by each stories being about the exploration of  humans learning about Beaming here, or is it there, or really just about everywhere.... yes that is so right I'm talking of Star Trek which is as I have said many times throughout the year is the franchise's greatest moment ever, it is celebrating fifty years of  being not only an American Icon but a worldwide too. I of course happen to have my personal favorites from both all of the five television series that started way back on September eight, the year was nineteen sixty six When captain James Kirk and his crew starting filling our hearts and minds with many thoughts of here on earth everyday happenings will be getting better one day if not every day. Then something happen after three years on the NBC network on June third, nineteen sixty-nine it aired it's final episode called  "TURNABOUT INTURDER" pictured here

Where a vengeful love from Kirk's past changes places with him. Then just a few shorts months into the year of nineteen seventy....What was killed was reborn through Syndication repeats and then because that series of replays it reignited Star Trek for ever for then came in nineteen seventy three a cartoon series by Filmation studios. Then the films started in nineteen seventy nine with the Motion picture, then in late nineteen eighty six not only was there a fourth movie, which was titled          

 "THE VOYAGE HOME...."  Star Trek was for the first time in live action brought back to the small screen with THE NEXT GENERATION as the new series itself broke beyond it's parent series by having not only a special episode in season four called "LEGCAY" it went on to prove through seven seasons and other Treks being spawned that Star Trek was both grand on the small screen ever more so, and with NEXT GEN four feature films of their own Stars  remained boldly going till late two thousand and five in the month of May. The series that Star Trek ended it's Television history of eighteen long years was called

"ENTERPRISE" for it's first two years of being produced, by it's Third and final fourth year the series had Star Trek above  the stand alone "ENTERPRISE" title sequence of the opening credits for when the show started. 
         Tonight to really get myself ready  for the alternate movie universe set of Star Trek films which star Chris Pine as James T. Kirk, and Zachery Quinto from the series known as "HEROS" as Mister Spock in the latest Trek film "STAR TREK BEYOND". Which has a Pre-Screening tonight at a lot of movie theaters across the whole United States and begins officially tomorrow I am watching the Deep Space Nine season four opening episode known as "THE WAY OF THE WARRIOR", Now this is summary here is just to hype myself up all the more for STB, I will have a whole lot more detail to this very episode when including it in my overall DS9 series of reviews, yet that will go for each of every episode I do write about here....
  The writers and production staff had wanted to pick up where they left off at the end of season three with (Rene Auberjonois)  character of Odo  having to deal with what his people the Founders were going to do with him since he broke their number one rule "No Changeling shall harm another" which he did when they set out to infiltrate the whole Gamma Quadrant at the end of season three's final episode titled "The Adversary". The show in season three was trying to built a darker organization to fight against Starfleet's Federation. So they put the two main races which we had seen in other DS9 episodes to this point and called that darker side "The Dominion" the were set turn the Star Trek Franchise on it's head completely..... The opening of W.O.W . has everyone looking for a surprisingly snuck aboard Changeling only to prove they can hide in plain slight and still take over at their given time...Then out of no where all of the Klingons arrive to help fight the Dominion or so the claim to?  Captain Sikso feels that since he can't get answers from asking the Klingons himself he sends word that he needs help from the only Klingon with in Starfleet Mister Worf from that series



known as NEXT GENERATION . With WORF's help the Federation saves the Cardassian local government from toppling from within on itself. This very episode of the third incarnation of Star Trek fourth year opener shows how crazy thing are in the real world as well. I mean when you have every species of even a well known fictional science fiction series showing us the viewer how split we all are on everything in life I think we know what the answer has to be in dealing with everyday type of topics, take the time to reason out matter for the better understanding that we all are different in a whole lot of ideas but for sure one thing is very certain no matter how we see topics in the whole wide world we all have one darn thing in common and as sure as I am writing in the color that it flows in of RED I bet you wouldn't guess that I'm talking about BLOOD huh? 
     So with watching that great episode of Star Trek's past I know that I can hope that this new one with the title "BEYOND" is a grand send off of more is hopefully better as Star Trek wraps all over the whole world during it's fifty years celebration!
       To Be Continued  very soon.....      

              
          .        

I can say this about fathers and know it to be true!

Happy Father's day to everyone who is a dad,

    Hello everyone, I want anyone who is a father to know one very important thing and not just because it is your day to being honored for all the lessons you work hard at to teach us, but also for your understanding the hearts of your offspring. Every year when it comes to Father's day I feel a great part of myself missing a very dear man known as Michael Joe Byrd who was the father of the three kids seen in the far right photo seen

in this group here. I remember that he always loved to hunt or fish when he was young and played football when he was in high school, he served his country as a army ranger back during the Vietnam war. I know that he was strong with punishment if it were called for, and I know that he loved all three of his kids myself Raymond Matthew Byrd, his son Michael Benjamin Byrd, and his daughter Mary Kylie Byrd. He was also a lover of dogs the main three that I remember were "Casey", Greta, and named after my good friend of when I was in element school James potter my dad named one "Jamie" My dad wasn't super religious, yet the one main father figure I can attribute that to is my mother's daddy Ben Powers seen here.    

As I have always said about my Granddaddy he was a great man in many ways he at times helped me feel love more than even my own dad was able to show at times I will say this besides being a strong man of faith in God Ben was full of  grand humor and laughter and I have to say it again full of great stories. I do believe it's from my granddaddy that I have learned to be so patience in my every day life. Then there is my brother in law Ken Mickleson whom was living in Spokane Washington when he met my step sister Merri Watson during their collage years and of course fell in love and are raising a very nice family of eight young women and two young gentlemen in Minnesota. Here is a photo of us,

during the event in Spokane Washington known as "BLOOMSDAY" which is held on the first Sunday of every month of May. I think the best thing that I can say that I have observed from Ken is Family is always at the core of  every relationship in life itself. Then I have my own blood Brother Michael that I have mentioned earlier in this post with his wife Kathie Schwarz Byrd

and for his fathering I would say that he has shared with me the everyman spirt of you deal with things as best you can with, what you have available. Which is I think of how most Men deal with life weather if they are fathers or not, the one thing I know is that being a father is really special because you get to reflect on your own childhood in strengthening ways of showing your offspring the best of who you are as a fellow human being. To all of my friends that I have known from both my own high school days to my coworkers at Albertsons, and elsewhere  just remember you have done/ are doing what matters most to you and that's raising a great family with encouraging respect of love for your inner soul of spreading hope in the world knowing the best you that you are!     
      Again  Happy Father's Day to every trying father, in this world of planet earth.

It's all about that glowing Necklace (part 1 of 3)

Hello to those following Miss "Kitty's adventures thus far"

    If you thought that fighting aliens is what Airborne Division, which is part of the Alpha Centaurion  who help protect our planet earth from all kinds of Interstellar invasions from happening while trying to live their own kind of normal is ever easy then you don't know what is about to be coming their way! In the past two novels in this ongoing series by Gini Koch which are seen here

which are respectfully titled "TOUCHED BY AN ALIEN" and "ALIEN TANGO" . So far as I know all together the count of the novels is at thirteen with the latest one called "CAMP ALIEN" with a fourteenth one with a release date in the last month of 2016, and it is known as "ALIEN NATION"...... So where to begin with "ALIEN IN THE FAMILY" is that it is the first in the series to kick or launch off with a very short prolog by Kitty herself telling us the reader of  how everything she tries to plan goes from down right a simple hopeful good set of thoughts or ideas......to everything leading to her outright demise in one form or other! This time it seems as if she and her alien pal who in the other two novels has been either overprotective of her in a outright first laid eyes on you feelings type of way, because a evil SUPERBEING was out to posses her soul while thriving in a old rich billionaire....   Or used as punching bag by a certain human political official whom had shown most other humans greatest fear of accepting help from  true outer space beings, who wear all out Armani Black tuxes for the males or a Black slim skirts and a White Oxford-type shirts for the females of the Alpha Centaurion species, which are the scientists as well.
        It opens in the middle of the night with half of Airborne Division which has two humans and two Alpha  Centaurions  who are Paul Grower (who has an entity inside of him which the team found residing in old boyfriend  of Katherine Katt whom is known as "Kitty". Who gave it the name of A.C.E. from in "ALIEN TANGO"), and of course there's Kitty's overprotective A-C boyfriend Jeff  Martini. The two humans are James Reader  whom is Paul's alien genuine lover along with being the world top male magazine model. Finally the team leader the aforementioned Katherine Katt are atop Animas Peak in  New Mexico with the other half  of three groups of  Airborne's team being, located  in Arizona on Chiricahua peak made up of just humans Air Force pilots, with Jeff's cousin  team being yet the final part of Airborne's combined human/ A-C teams with their home mountain peak being that of  Big Hatchet also located in New Mexico, yet nothing was happening just yet. That is until Kitty's old life long friend from her high school and Collage days whom is working for the Central Intelligent Agency ET division  found something very interesting about those three locations and the Unity Necklace that Kitty is wearing since six months ago according to the time between  (this very novel and "AT"). Those three locations in someway make a prefect Triangle like the shape of the necklace itself, but more importantly that very Triangle is the hotspot for Alien Landings. 
        From all indications it seems after "Operation Fugly" and  "Operation Drug Addict" as Kitty calls the missions, that The Unity Necklace is a beacon that is sending out a call from Alpha Centauri of  a great misgiving is coming to planet earth in the form of  family coming to end the choice of Jeff Martini union with Kitty, because they feel she isn't worthy of being their next queen. While the team is examining The Unity Neck Kitty reaches out to touch it and is burned on her palm, in the shape  of one the jewels from what the  

cover looks like next to a Doctor Who fan fiction novel while I seem to be shocked or is it excited to finally be reading this grand novel of a out of this world wedding. Don't worry I will show you the full image of the cover artwork closer to the end of the review with a lot of other things as well since it just so happens to be the first of June anyhow!!
    After Kitty has her palm looked after by Lorraine, one the female AC's she decides that she and Jeff need a bit of away time from the team at one of the  places she really calls "THE BAT CAVE", once or twice in the past two arcs. When she get a call from her own mother who is just as frazzled about her daughter's grand day ever more so than Kitty or Jeff seem to be aware of. Yet her mother still wants her "Kitten" and  the C.I.A ET expert together even though she is rather Mum in a very Hush, Hush way of mentioning it. Kitty is so just wanting to run off to Vegas and hook up in a small church  she just doesn't want to deal with two worlds at once and besides the chimes of bells that other "W" Word of work happens to take the very team to Los Vegas  for Charles Reynolds is in charge of the team's missions more than Jeff is, and he thinking is that they shall be safer out in a bigger playing felid than being closer to all of the other Alphas since Jeff seems to be the main focus as much as Kitty is this time around. When the team meet Chuckie in the office of the hotel he has chosen they find a very strange listening device in the form of a pineapple. which is attracted to The Unity Necklace for unknown reasoning other than that the pineapple isn't really a piece of Hawaiian fruit. 
    To get her mind refocused on the matter at hand or rather all of the fellows at the meeting to be more exact Kitty gets their attention by showing off her twins under her shirt. Which does the trick almost without question for both Martini and Reynolds, It is after this that Jeff's cousin Christopher shows the whole team how the placer of the pineapple got into the meeting room undetected to start with. Then Kitty and James Reader head out to go shopping for her wedding dress and a few other set of clothes on the Vegas strip, when out of nowhere someone directly attacks  James by posing as him at the store they are shopping at. When Kitty finally gets help for herself and the real James she finds out the imposter had the idea  that he was Martini and left  leaves James for near death! 
        
          Okay like I said it's the start of June just a bit ago and you all know where I am teleporting to with this one I think ? maybe you don't but that is very much A oh Okay especially if your a new to this site or a regular visitor every now and then. Last year around  the second day of the whole year I started a on going game of witty chess matches if you will and I've really fallen behind this year...... Yet here were last month's clues 
   1. SHE was a huge part of Star Trek because of the many roles she happen to play in the entire
        series all  incarnations to some degree?
   2. SHE WAS also deeply connected to Trek in a personal way, by knowing it's Creator , do you 
         know what that was?                    
   3. The first Star Trek film, since the Star Trek next Gen last film was dedicated to her, can you   
          name both of these films YES or NO?     
                 Okay so who was last month's Star Trek Answer it turns out to be 

Majel Barret Roddenberry. So Who is Our Trek clue master hints point to for next month? I really want to go with someone that is rather Expected  yet really important to almost all of history in a way? And remembered just as much as the BIG day of next month known as the fourth of July! So who is it well I can tell you this it a guest star for the answer played by the late Lee Bergere, Sorry this set of clues doesn't have a his character of Trek in it but here is one of Lee's character from in          

the Get Smart series which had Don Adams as the bumbling super wise Agent 86, better known as Maxwell Smart. Okay so that every one can see the stones of The Unity Necklace here is the actual cover to "ALIEN IN THE FAMILY" without the mast head of the text

so you can guess for yourselves if there is more than just one stone in it?  Finally here is what grace my anticipation of seeing Captain America Civil War 

 

while I was on my vacation during last month as my desktop image!

 To Be Continued....   

         

The most interesting thing of sorts to keep one thinking of the best hope.....

Hello All,
   You know I have recently been thinking of not only of the things that I care about like my friends and family of late because every one of us little humans (now by this I don't mean we are at all small at all in the heart of our height.....) what I am referring to is that I hope to dear heavens that anyone who is reading this doesn't just want to give in because of the pressures of like how I love to phrase it "THE WAYS OF THE WORLD" are not always kind to those we like or love at times but we have to be strong in our hope for the future of the human race. I know that yesterday was Memorial Day and we shouldn't forget those who took it upon themselves to protect our way of freedom and sometimes I will admit I judge things at time that I should see through our father's eyes I am talking of God and am thinking with everything going on with the fighting among us of  people of different pigmentation to there skin should we still treat them as a lesser human being just because of that difference I say heck no we should all treat each other with respect in a gentle way. 
       The reason I hopefully opened today's entry about the power of fighting our own Darkness is not only because a whole bunch of us jump on the learning of disliking someone is a proper thing to accept is right. I mean we can have other reasons to find something we choose not to care about our fellow humans besides their outer chose of ways of working through their everyday life. Today or actually all the past two weeks I have been thinking of a profound author whom early this year passed away and her book seen here

    on the left on my coffee table "TO KILL A MOCKING BIRD". You all know regardless I am a huge fan of books of any kind yet mostly I do take a break every so often from those that I love most of all known as science fiction. I remember even having at one time the movie which had Gregory Peck in it on DVD when I lived with my folks I'm not hundred percent sure if I do still have  it in storage maybe I still do I'll have to check it out when I want to watch a truly fascinating classic film that never had to use special effects to tell a great story. Yet there is always a really awesome  sense about rereading a book because you spot new things in a story especially because the reader has given themselves time to remember key parts that they will like or love forever.
      I remember that this was one of two books from when I was in Language Arts in my sophomore that showed me the true impact about caring about characters and events of a book, also it showed me through great words how our span of life is full of race judgement  no matter what the decade is and how one person can set forth the start of change of acceptance for people who are considered as lower class because of their skin's pigmentation or tone. It taught me we are all equal no  matter how we see someone else's walk of life.
       This time of when I begin to read it since it has been some twenty something years ago in time that I can learn something very new from this classic. I am sure that it's long awaited sequel "GO SET A WATCHMAN" which came out this very year a few weeks before it's author Harper Lee's passing back in February of this year. For like many with a thought about her time Ms. Lee showed we are all capable of opening our souls that like Gene Roddenberry was showing through his science fiction series known as Star Trek that we can all have a better understanding of the human condition called ACCEPETANCE OF ALL THOSE AROUND US!

What Memorial day is at it's heart!

Hello Everyone,
   Okay with today being Memorial Day I was wanting to let everyone know that I may go and write about what I like and love most of the time on my blog here, and yet for some reason I can't help thinking do we all take what the armed services do for granted in some way? I know that we honor our men and women who have returned from war in November with Veterans Day but in all truth, when you see a person wearing their branch of service outside of their work in defending this great and grand land that we call home have you really said "Thank You for putting your heart and soul on the line for me the one that shows as much love for our country by giving you our inner prayers of being noble  by being strong in the almighty as you sir or madam wherever your station maybe!"  Now that is just one of many ways of thanking a person who protects our very freedom another way with a firm handshake as well. Today is about those many men and women who never came back from the battlefield or whatever you want it to be known as in your given words, and with not many men who fought in world war II left all would be in their early nineties for the ones still alive I just want to say from the bottom of my inner soul to yours Thank you for serving your country and showing us and your fallen brothers in arms why we shall always remember why we are always have a choice to choose from, even now seventy one years ago. Still their are many also still serving today this very moment overseas and putting your hearts and souls on the line and still fighting for the same reasons as your great grandfathers did and I really do applaud your inner spirit as much as those who have lost someone that showed them in their dedication of life why Freedom is forever being fought for, by those who hold strength and honor as a shield every darn day of your existent!