SoC's Blog A Rantspace for a Soldier of Christ

I Think I Missed a Few…

I've also started dabbling in PHP frameworks and am currently working in CakePHP to build my image site.  If this works as well as it looks like it will, this may become my new preferred method of web development.  I'm looking at building my comics and forums sites in Cake after the image site is up.

In more personal news, Caleb is now 18 months old.  He runs (not walks) everywhere he goes and babbles sentences in his own little language, all the while learning new words almost everyday.  The other day he said "Spongebob" and "two bowls."  He is up to 3 feet tall and over 30 pounds (as my dead arm can attest to after holding him for more than a minute).  As I write, he is dancing to the music (tobyMac) on my computer and playing with his plastic lightsaber (*sniff* I'm so proud!).

Ashley and I have been watching a lot of TV shows online (since we don't have cable) lately.  We recently watched through Prison Break (yet another review in the pipeline).  I am glad and sad that I missed this masterpiece of a show while it was still running.  Glad because I didn't have to wait a week for new episodes.  Sad because I would have loved to be part of it's fanbase during it's run (as I would have loved to be in Firefly's fanbase while it was running).  We started watching Criminal Minds which is truning out to be quite an interesting show, though it is very dark (even compared to Dexter, which we also watch).  There's been a few times when we had to turn on an episode of another, lighter show so we could go to bed.  It's a great show, don't get me wrong, but be warned if you are going to watch it that getting into a criminal's mind as they do on the show has psychological consequences.  We also started watching USA's new show, White Collar.  So far, it's as good as the rest of their shows that we watch (Monk, Psych, Burn Notice, In Plain Sight).  I'm watching through the last half of Battlestar Galactica's third season and I'm loving what I'm seeing.  My friend was right when he said that from season 3 on, it's like a completely different show from the first two seasons.

We watched the season finale of Heroes the other night and loved it.  I hope NBC keeps this show for next season as the ending was quite exciting.  I love that they've brought Sylar around to being a hero now and not in the way they tried in volume 3, when Angela and Arthur tried manipulating him.  Now he's actually made the decision himself, which is the only way it was ever going to stick.  It was weird watching Samuel, though, as it was during the holiday break that we watched Prison Break and I kept expecting him to break out T-Bag's southern drawl.

On the reading front, I've been reading a lot of Tom Clancy's work (Clear and Present Danger, The Sum of All Fears, Without Remorse, and Debt of Honor) and I finally took the time to read The Bourne Identity.  Let's just say that the pen is obviously mightier than the camera for all of those that are also movies.  Currrently, I'm reading The Bourne Supremacy and a new Star Wars book, Crosscurrent.  It looks interesting for two reasons: 1) it follows the character from the game Jedi Knight III: Jedi Academy, Jaden Korr and 2) it's the first Star Wars story I know of with time travel.  Once I'm finished with those, I have Millenium Falcon to read on the Star Wars front and The Bourne Ultimatum on the other, then on to the rest of Clancy's Jack Ryan series that I own (Patriot Games, Executive Orders, Rainbow Six, The Bear and the Dragon, Reb Rabbit, Teeth of the Tiger).

So there's my big blog for the last two and a half months.  I'm going to try to be a bit more active here on my blog and write a new post at least every week, if not more often, as I used to do.  Actually, I won't try.  I will do as Yoda said: "Try not.  Do or do not.  There is no try."