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!        

     
    

A place we have been to all before......(Zum,Zum's end wish it wasn't though pt.17 of 17)

Oh No don't say has reached this dear readers.....,
 Well I don't like to think I have to bring this year's vacation tune to an what is the best word I really want to wield here...is it "KA-BLEWEE, the return of the real world awaits!, or Too Much fun is a worthy fight to just try and grip or cling on too at the last seconds in getting away from it all! No matter of how I splice and dice it together I have to say this is the last of this very countdown. So let's see what else we my folks and I ended up doing in a place known as Portland, Oregon. The last time that my mother and I were here was in October of nineteen ninety two. I remember it so very well because we had just the two of us came up for the weekend to go see the Portland art museum and also that very weekend was the one when Star Trek The Next Generation aired the episode every Star Trek fan loves Yelp I'm speaking the one with James Doohan in it titled

"RELICS".  That was fun for one of the many things we also did was we went to a one of a kind book store, which we are seen doing in this very trek of time as well in fact here I am

, just outside of that very famous place. Mom went in for coffee, Chuck went to the travel section to find another book for their travels to Sydney, Australia some time for next year or maybe this upcoming winter time in Cuenca, Ecuador of their own adventures without me tagging along. And I had happen to head to you know what section of choice the one that is so dear and near to my beating heart. That being of course the Sci-Fi area where my soul just melted into a home I hadn't seen since well since my last time at Adventures Underground in my home town of Richland Washington. In fact  while looking up and down those full shelves of science fiction delight I saw this one shelf seen here

that had most of the books of my current series that I reading now by Gini Koch. It was at that moment as I was looking at them the fourteenth book with in the series was out and even though I'm on book three I know you have a long way to go right....!  I also went over to their graphic novel sections and saw two really cool Steve Dittko comic collections one was "Weird Tales" which looked like it was outside of his Marvel works before nineteen fifty six till when he left the company in ten years later. The other one was some of his works collected from the "CREEPY" titled comic that was just before he worked directly with the house of ideas. Then after leaving Powell's we went and took a bus over to the Saturday market place and visited part of downtown Portland that I had never heard of seriously I didn't know of this till my mom had spoke of it late last night after we had gone to Burgerville   after Chuck and I returned from seeing Captain America: Civil War. Here is a really the only thing that I got photos of while at the Saturday Market 

 these three shirts with a pug the top two remind me of my boss Kelsey at Albertsons and her own pug named Max. The Green one with Doxisaurus really hit home for me of my brother Michael and his family and one of their two dogs that is known as Suzie. The last one is to show just a tiny portion of how big it has really grown since they started in the mid nineteen nineties.  

      After going through some really neat vendors that had stuff of wallets to fancy jewelry my folks and I went over to a place that they always eat at while here in Portland It's a family owned restaurant called

which happens to be over a hundred years old. While waiting for our food to come to us I went around the room and got several plates that had photos in them. Like these seen here

these all told the story of how this very restaurant had started out and here is what I had there

which was my last chance at some good ol calamari in what gonna be a very long while as we walked back over to the train station we made a couple more stops along the way back to the Saturday Market and right beside the restaurant was a very neat doughnut shop that I felt needed to be part of my collection of my twenty sixteen vacation

,just because it stood out to me as well. As we walked back through the Saturday Market and I got a cool poster of Jean Luc Picard sayings for a guy that made posters out of popular pop culture stuff we finally got to the train station which is seen here

and we boarded our train which took us till about the time I have posted as the release of this very post before we got into the train station in Pasco, and my folks brought me to my house after that small wait time at the train station for the Best Western hotel shuttle van to pick us up, and take us to their final hotel staying place.  

           

CAPTAIN AMREICA CIVIL WAR (My own review )

Hello Everyone who loves Marvel Comics two warring heroes known as Steve Rogers and Tony Stark...Better known as IRON MAN and CAPTAIN AMERICA,

While at the end of my vacation  for twenty sixteen with my folks Chuck and Nancy Watson along the California coast and a one day stop in Vancouver Canada that lead to a Amtrak train ride earlier today to Portland, Oregon   Chuck and I decided to go see CAPTAIN AMERICA CIVIL WAR, while my mom recovered from some much needed sleep. Chuck and I went to the Lloyd center movie theater and had a interesting time finding the theater itself. Once we got there it only had the 3D versions still open to us so we took it. We got in just at the tail end of  the much hyped DOCTOR STRANGE preview was just ending. Now I do have to admit that even though we did enjoy this movie overall even I the fan of Marvel Comics hasn't read the entire seven part comic book story that this is based on, although there will be certain back entries that would make you the reader think otherwise....yet I also want to be as honest as possible, since that is who I am at heart too. The only one that I have read is part one of the Mark Millar story is what I'm gonna be honest of as well! 
    Captain America Civil War starts out with his friend who was thought dead till the second Captain America film which is called "Captain America The Winter Soldier"  Bucky Barns is being told by Hydra Personal agents a hidden secret to kill someone  and he does it but who they are we do not find out right away. Then we see Cap, Falcon, and Black Widow taking down a group of Bad guys lead by one of Cap's older foes in a neutral country, while Tony Stark is giving a lecture on a multifaceted computer course in New York. When a mother approaches Tony as he heads to leave she tells him that because of Captain America actions her son lost his life ( This is the only true part of the comic story that is in the movie itself....)  When Cap comes back to New York himself he finds his friend Peggy Crater has died and he attends her wake and to me, ( It seemed as if not only the Black Widow accompanied him but so did Falcon, which isn't indicated in the dialogue of the film) only to find out that it may have been in part the Winter Solider who killed Peggy while on another mission altogether. In the meanwhile  that other mission was to start a war with the African state known as Wakanda by killing it's king, whom has a son known as T'Challa who because of his father's passing is Wakanda 's new king and is out for vengeance as The Black Panther. Iron Man has decided to join the government side of making it illegal for heroes to work within their own ways because of one boy being killed of the person he had a chat with about her son, and prevents Captain America from taking certain laws in getting his friend Barns out of trouble.
             My favorite hero of Marvel Comics that has since his first film release in 2002 with SPIDERMAN has had a rough time at the movies  (or RATHER in his own comic, for it has fallen greatly since the end of 2007's worst stories ever known as "One More Day" and if the character in the comics has gotten better please let me know because I want to read about my main man Peter Parker as a intelligent yet broken relatable everyday hero.) It was hinted for months before the release of this third Captain America film connecting to the marvel cinema universe teased on the internet that Spider-Man was gonna finally be merged into the Marvel Comics films outside from his last horrid movie known as "THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN 2" and I admit that I liked that one for certain reasons.... It's when "QUEENS" comes up on the screen I had a small smile on my face. I think that they still had to much last minute crunch filler moments of wanting to put Spidey right with his fellow heroes....He has two great quips the one of his favorite movie being episode  " V of Star Wars Empire Strikes Back" and his bounding with the man of the film is named after.
         After this huge fight between Cap's team fighting against Shell Head's we see the hunt for Winter Soldier's motives is finally revealed that Barns had turns out to be a sleeper weapon of Hydra that was making a army of Winter Soldiers and as a result the only one that was brain washed well was Steve Rogers pal from world war II days was Bucky Barns whom went and killed Tony Stark's parents. When Tony learns of this it is on between him and Steve for personal reasons, Steve reminds Tony about the strengths of friendship weather your wearing a mask or when your walking down the street as your everyday self, it matters that you stay truthful with all of the hurts that life throws you, you still have to have faith inside of yourself. When the movie ends we get Stan Lee's cameo as a Federal Express deliver and he has a package for "A MISTER TONY STANK" which is his coolest slap in the face to his richest comic character that he and Don Heck  created way back in nineteen sixty three in a comic called Tales of Suspense # 39. 

Then in one of the film end teases we see Steve watch as the put Bucky into a safe place till either America needs him again, or at least Captain America does. Then after the credits have rolled we see Aunt May enter Peter's room and Ask how he is doing since he has a blacken eye. He says "I'm Fine, just wondering about my new friend" then we see him shine his Spider signal on his bedroom ceiling as if to test it and sees how it functions! 
     The one BIG thing that was appearing throughout this very was the word "HOME COMING" and the main reason that is Spider-Man    will be under the Marvel movie umbrella in all upcoming films so he will interact with all of his fellow super heroes expect as far as I know "The X-MEN and THE FANTASTIC FOUR" for those two Marvel own properties are under the ownership of Twenty Century Fox films. I give Captain America: Civil War an A minus  as my final grade!      
                            

A very long train ride.......Zum,Zum, vacation (Part 15 of 17)

Hello all again,
   This morning is the actual start of a great end to a awesome vacation with my mother Nancy Watson and my step father Chuck Watson, It was a couple of weeks ago that we took a flight from the Tri-Cities Washington airport in Pasco Washington to eventually California where we visited with my sister Kylie and my nephew Bryce her son. We just spent a couple of days with them, which you can find more about throughout this whole link known as  Hollywood here WE come...! As I was saying before we got up at four am from our hotel in Vancouver Canada and took a taxi ride to the Vancouver train station which we were rather super surprised to see a end of a production of a television series being revisited later this year I think? The name of the show was "PRISON BREAK", It ran at the same time as the SUPERMAN series known as Smallville  did or at least from it's latter half for sure. Here is what parts of the train station looked like 

You were to think you as a visitor were in the foreign county of Yemen in Western Asia, but what was really neat was there was a very interesting area of the set that was hard to tell if the production crew of the set had the tall ladder being part of the scenery or if the Vancouver train station itself was repairing a pair of light fixtures. In the end I'm thinking it was the ladder of these two type of

thoughts. Now all together in all of my most recent years of vacationing with my folks to neat places abroad besides their hometown of Cuenca, Ecuador Vancouver  Canada has pretty much become my second of seconds destinations start points  like this one seen here in the bar town in Vancouver known as "JAMESTOWN"

 in our venture to go see Niagara Falls from the Canadian side back in twenty thirteen. Or not that I was really included at the given time before just a year before the Niagara Falls trek there was the Disney Cruise

t,o three parts of Alaska in '12. When my sister Kylie and my mom went to shore for an hour before heading back to Seattle's port.  Anyway back to the present, we boarded the Amtrak heading back to the states. Here we are in

our part of the train.  The one thing I was able to do while going and in motion of moving was getting a chance to both read in my current novel and what I'm seen

doing right here! I was able to take a few photos as we past Vancouver Washington, Seattle, and a nice water way

       

We ended up arriving in the Portland train station a three thirty and spent two days there.
         To Be Continued....



  

Disembarking in Vacouver, Canada and much,much more The Zum,Zum, vacation nears it's end (Part 14 of 17)

Hello All Crew members of the starship Enterprise Registry number.......Oh just forget it, Whatever I'm saying must be warped right?, Wrong, Wrong, Wrong,
   Okay I have quite a lot to explain from the last three parts of this water log set of adventures onboard Holland America cruise line and have us in up in a place known as Vancouver, Canada. What I would like to do is talk about our cruise ship a little and show you all some of what parts of the ship looked like for example on our second day on the cruise was when as I said started taking the Windows 10 from Mircosoft classes and just when the class was over I saw these two cool displays

across from the ship's  shop seen here 

 ,  by the one easy drug that I can't stand  ever called Cigarettes> I kind of wish that I thought to of gotten a whole wide shot instead. Ah well the choices I made were my own so in truth I can really only blame myself on that given note.   Before I go into all out detail of the ship looked like I wanna take a moment and talk about "THE GOLDEN TRAP OF MARRIAGE", at that's what I wanna call it here I think  that everyone should be able to find the way of when your ready to  propose as seen from the Gentleman's side

seen here  you do not need to be sneaking to see if your love seen below here

      will take your offer of GOLD or a DIAMOND of an offering as a definite "YES" to be with you in life forever, it should be when  it comes to that for an answer and you may not have what "THEY LIKE OR WANT" to be given them something even better like their favorite valuable hand blown glass art that is affordable within your budget  would be a nice touch till you can get the money for your rings that you want. I guess when I saw this I was thinking " Geez, is love just about how much you spend on someone to express it. The True Answer is about where one places the most value in all loving relationships is it about caring and knowing your best friend forever., or about wasting all your hard earn cash being on one thing only rather be it a car, or trip about life itself. I still thought it was a nice way showing off love if your really rich or not?  
    Our ship was made up of ten decks and on our second morning I was talking to my uncle Jim and he said it wasn't until before the day we came aboard or earlier that week he had noticed that in the design of the carpet

          there were dolphins jumping out of water. There was an art show on board that passengers could bid on art pieces like the ones

,seen here. On the way to the main food court on deck nine you went by this big pool area that had in the center a set of jumping dolphins

made of stone. The Tenth floor was where the ship had not only a cool look out observation area where you could play games or put puzzles together it was also a library. Where you could checkout books to read while on the cruise and if you bought one of your own and wanted the one you were reading that was theirs you could make and exchange of your book for theirs. Here are some photos from on

that deck.. Speaking of the ship's very own portraits of arts I in last few hours of this morning went from deck to deck and got these beautiful paintings

,which was a cool last minute challenge that I gladly accepted! After entering Canada from our leaving the cruise ship we went to our hotel in downtown Vancouver and decided we were hungry so we went to the lobby and asked the check in clerk where some restaurants were located at. So we walked through downtown and ate at this place

once we ate mom went to a corner goodwill store of sorts, while Chuck and I saw a tiny art studio that had some very awe striking paintings that had several images inside each one. As we came back to our hotel I saw these two cool billboards

,just a few feet from our hotel's entrance. In fact  I think  it wasn't two billboards but the same one with ads flowing on both side of it. In case if you want to know if I saw Captain America Civil War before it opened just a day before it did, the answer is NOT. Yet Chuck and I tried to find the theater where it was playing and found out when we did find it we would of had to held our heads up high in the front row. So as we were walking back to our hotel for dinner with mom we had happen to of spotted this

Canada's own very start to a Hollywood walk of fame. 
         To Be Continued.....