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.....      

              
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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!        

     
    

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.