New Year's Reading

I don't know how you'll be spending your new year, but I'll be spending mine in the written word. Here are five things that will be keeping me busy over the next couple of months.


1. The Stand by Stephen King

2. Crazy Love by Francis Chan

3. unchristian by David Kinnaman

4. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie

5. My Kindle. It was a Christmas present. On it is Stephen King's 11/22/63, Dean Koontz's Shadow Street, Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, The Next Christians by Gabe Lyons, and a half-dozen novellas/short stories.

What's in your book stack?

Merry Christmas from the Casey family

And the cutest kids in the universe. Of course, I may be biased.

Hugo: preview and review

Go see this movie. And read my review HERE.

All I want for Christmas

A while back, Nintendo partnered with West Coast Customs to construct a working life-sized Mario Kart go cart.



And now, Gamestop is giving one away as a part of their PowerUp Rewards program.

I told my wife about it yesterday and did my best to describe the epic-ness of such a prize. It didn't go so well. The conversation went something like this...

Me: Hey, if we buy or trade a game at Gamestop, we'll be entered to win this full sized Mario Kart.
Bekah: (pitiless sarcasm) Ooooohhh.
Me: Wouldn't that be awesome? Christian would love it.
Bekah: Who in their right mind would want one of those? What would anyone do with it?
Me: I'd drive it to work.

She proceeded to mock me.

winter bird

Hijinks

If you were following my twitter/facebook feed on Saturday night, you may have noticed the following updates.

• I actually broke a sweat playing ping pong. On the plus side, I won.
• Feels like should be midnight. #dang
• Been playing air hockey & ping pong with the kids for the past two hours. #ImGettingTooOldForThis
• However, I took a break from the fun & games for highjinks that may or may not have included toilet paper. #AlsoFun
• For the record, toilet paper was involved. Lots of it. There are pictures.

Pictures were promised and I deliver.

I told Bekah about our plans via text message.

Which leads to one of the other tweets you may have seen from me:

• "Are you one of the adults?" question someone just asked me. #hehe #thanks

Revisionist History

The following email conversation is one I actually had yesterday. The name has been changed to protect his ego.

From: Nicholas Casey
Sent: Wednesday, November 30
To: Coworkers
Subject: Message about Einstein

(company related jargon)

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From: Odie
Sent: Wednesday, November 30
To: Nicholas Casey
Subject: RE: Message about Einstein

Einstein has been dead for over a 100 years. I am pretty sure everyone knows already he went down.

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From: Nicholas Casey
Sent: Wednesday, November 30
To: Odie
Subject: RE: Message about Einstein

Actually, it’s only been just over 55 years, and it was from an abdominal aortic aneurysm.

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From: Odie
Sent: Wednesday, November 30
To: Nicholas Casey
Subject: RE: Message about Einstein

Really? Lol I thought he died like forever ago. How long has the light bulb been out then?

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From: Nicholas Casey
Sent: Wednesday, November 30
To: Odie
Subject: RE: Message about Einstein

That was Thomas Edison. His light bulb came out in 1879, but he wasn't the first to invent the light bulb. He died 80 years ago from diabetes.

He never replied to that last email.