It's an exciting time to be a PlayStation 3 owner.

20 years ago a struggling game dev named Hideo Kojima was faced with the impending doom of potentially being fired from his job at Konami. In a last ditch effort to win over the top brass he came up with a game unlike any other at the time.

This game was called "Metal Gear".

6 core games and many spinoffs later, we have come to the final mission of the man known only as "Solid Snake".

18 hours of bliss and I'm sad to say that I have beaten Metal Gear Solid 4. The saga has ended and I want more. This was such an epic adventure that will shake the foundation of the industry for years to come, and finally we PS3 owners have a game that we know could not happen on the XBox 360. 

Anywho, if I say anymore I'll prolly go into some spoilers and I really don't want to spoil this game for anyone that cares and that may at some point play this game. But yeah, epic! Yey Mr. Kojima.

On the home front, we finally have a baby ro we might have a baby at some point very soon (woot) now all we can do is..well, wait.

  
Leigh says hi :P
      

Anywho, this is kinda hard to see...gonna let yall go, l8rz!     

so lets get this outta the way right now...yeah I know. I suck.

Now that we're all clear here is the update!

I'm sure by now you've all migrated over to Leigh's Xanga for baby updates and know that we're gonna have a little baby boy. (Score!) and right now he's HUUUUUUGGGEEE! Leigh's tummy is like this massive ball attached to her, its amusing and awesome...and the little guy loves to kick and puch and all the stuff to make mom go "Ouch!" and I sit back and smirk like every good father should :P

Long story short... I'M EXCITED!!! (and...a wee bit nervis perhaps?)

No update on the story in awhile (sorry Kira >.<) if you want updates on the story, your gonna have to let me know on the comments. If peoples want to read more I wanna hear it :P

I was reading this artical in the paper about being a "proud carnivore" and ways to eat meat with a little more responceablilty and whatnot and it pointed out a few books I'm thinking I might wanna check out, one in perticular caught my intrest as it was written by an ex-vegan.

I guess what has got me thinking about this is my good friend Kristy and her walking the path of the rabbit and its very cool, but I'm a firm believer that we peoples where designed to eat meat like lots of things on this earth, but at the same time respecting the animals is a fundimental thing that we have lost in this dollar sign world we live in.

Just things I'm thinking about. Biblicly we're called to take care of the creatures the live with us and the world we live in and well, we as a people have pretty much screwed that all up.

Anywho...

I'm like ->this<- close to disowning my brother....like for real...blah...

anywho, I better eat and head to work. Peace

So, I have finally found out why I do this one crazy thing I do.

So, whenever I walk outside (from indoors) into a bright sunny day, I sneeze. It never fails. The first thing I do when I get out in the sun is sneeze. I mother would always tell me I was allergic to the outdoors, and being such a shutin I would believe it too :P

Turns out there is a name for what I have, here is the Wiki writeup on it, enjoy!

Photic sneeze reflex

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Photic sneeze reflex is a medical condition by which people sneeze with sudden exposure to bright light, and possibly also sneeze many times consecutively. It is also referred to as photic sneeze response, sun sneezing, photogenic sneezing, the photosternutatory reflex, being photo sensitive, or even whimsically as ACHOO syndrome with its related backronym Autosomal dominant Compelling Helio-Ophthalmic Outburst syndrome. The condition occurs in 17% to 35% of humans. The condition is passed along genetically as an autosomal dominant trait.

The first mention of the phenomenon is probably in the later work attributed to Aristotle (Problems, book XXXIII).

The probable cause is a congenital malfunction in nerve signals in the trigeminal nerve nuclei. The fifth cranial nerve, called the trigeminal nerve, is apparently responsible for sneezes. Research suggests that some people have an association between this nerve and the nerve that transmits visual impulses to the brain. Overstimulation of the optic nerve triggers the trigeminal nerve, and this causes the photic sneeze reflex (persons familiar with data cable insulation issues would understand this undesigned stimulus as "crosstalk").

Another theory suggests that tears leaking into the nose through the nasolacrimal duct are a cause of the photic sneeze reflex. The speed of the reflex seems to favor the first theory, as it happens much too quickly for tears to be generated and drain into the nose. In addition this sneeze reflex can be brought on by a sudden inhaling of cold air or a strong flavor such as a strong mint gum. This implies an overstimulation of any nerve close to the trigeminal nerve can cause the sneeze reflex.

While this phenomenon is poorly understood, recent research has shown that antihistamines being used to treat rhinitis due to seasonal allergies may also reduce the occurrence of solar sneezes in those people suffering from both conditions.^[1] Further, the oft pleasurable nature of sneezing means that there is less demand for solutions to the reflex.