My cutest girl

I mean...gahhh!

Goodbye XBox

I'm not so sure that the reason I haven't posted since January is because I've been playing XBox. let me tell you something, I used to pick on people that played video games for hours on end, til the wee hours of the night, until I met Call of Duty Modern Warfare II. I know, it sounds dumb even writing it.

Friends, I confess, I have played over a full week of my life on this game since March. Seriously, they log the time on the machine, and it tells me that over 7 full days of my life have been spent playing a video game.

Embarrassing? Yes.

Sad? Yes please.

So I'm getting rid of it. For less than half of the mint that I spent on it. The blows just keep coming.

So if you're interested in making your wife feel unimportant, sleeping less, being in bad moods in the morning, and imagining that around the next corner there might be someone waiting to snipe you down, then I suggest you buy this from me.

I should burn it.

The End of an Era

It's a new year, which makes some think of making "New Year Resolutions".

But Ben and I decided last year not to make a New Years Resolution. We dumbed it down to calling it what it is, A DECISION. Not because it's a new year, but because it's Tuesday, or Wednesday, or just another day. This fits right in with on of my secret philosophies of life: "My life would be so much easier if people weren't dumb."

Now, I'm dumb, and I know that, but the old principle of making yourself feel better by putting other people down applies to this situation for me.

I digress.

The biggest event of this new year is the departure of one Benjamin Kyle Johnson from the Sloan home. It really is the end of an era. An era that's been filled with a good friend other than Leslie to hang with, someone who loves my kids, someone who makes me try/do things that I would be too afraid to do, someone who smacks at the table, someone who is not flattered by me but still wants to hang around, someone who has made me look like I can fix a lot of stuff when he's the one who actually fixed things, someone to play beat guitar hero with, someone who has sat upstairs through some serious fights between leslie and I downstairs, someone who wants to be more like Jesus and less like himself.

Ben Johnson, Hoss, SFBF, Crapface, and so many other endearing names, has gone off and rented himself a house with some other awesome guys in Asheville.

Way to go man. You're a beast. Glad to have you a part of our family.