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.