PS2 Or XBOX???

I have had a PS2 since they came out and have been nothing but happy with it. Have a big load of games have played the crap outta them. Stayed up all night with friends playing Tony Hawk. Never had a queation as to which concole I liked... that is until now.

I got a bonus check at work and was wondering what I could get myself for Christmas and not spend the whole thing on myself. I went into Gamestop and they had used XBOXes for $60. So I says to myself, self you should try on of them there XBOX thingys, there are some platform games you wanted to play, and I replies, self you are right. $98 later I leave with an XBOX and 5 games, wow thats not bad.

So what's the problem you ask? I CAN'T BELIEVE I HAVE BEEN THIS DECIEVED BY THE EVIL SONY EMPIRE!!!!!!!!!!! XBOX stinkin rocks.

The load times are so fast. Here I am playing the game and wow the graphics are good... hmmmm no memorycard needed cause it has a hard drive, wow built in ethernet too, I had to buy a modem for my playstation oh I feel so violated.

Now the games, I bought Return to Castle Wolfenstien, Halflife 2, PGR 2, Ureal Tournament and Forza Motorsports Challenge. Played halflife and castle for awhile and then started up forza... holy smokes this games rox. I have played all of the Gran Turismo games and loved everyone of them, Forza is better. Better Graphics, Better gameplay, you can paint your car! put decals on it, and the XBOX controller with its trigger for the gas is way better than using the x button as the gas.

I will still keep my playstation cause I gots lots of games for it, mostly cause of guitar hero :) but when it comes time to buy a new console I will do a really close comparision before I buy one. But for now I think it will take me a longtime to go through the xbox games and man are they cheap now.

oh oh oh I almost forgot, since the xbox has a hard drive I can rip music into folders and have my own soundtracks for the games that have that feature, which forza does. How cool is that, I usually don't like the soundtracks to the games and have always thought it would be really cool to be able to play my own music and still have the games sound effects. Well guess what now I can

* random things

So my Daughter says I have to post 8 randoms habits or unusual things about myself, hmmmmmm.

1. I manage a 50 bed Alzheimer's unit, how did I learn to manage people? I am so glad you asked, in my younger days I was ride supervisor for a carnival. Yep thats right I am one of those guys your MAMA warned you about. Seriously though, by managing the setup teardown hiring and firing and such I learned to be a manager.

2. I became a Grandparent at 27. I don't know you figure it out. Now almost 46 and have 8

3. I like to be a little scared, I guess that is why I ride my quad like a mad man. I love to catch air but at the sametime its kinda scary, makes you all warm and fuzzy inside.

4. I own more vidoe games than my younger son in laws, prolly play them more too, I also owm 3 consoles and 1 handheld. PS1, PS2, PSP and just recently aquired an X-Box (more about that in another post)

5.I have hitch hiked across country 8 times. Would not reccomend it nowdays but it was an adventure. Hopped a train once, would never ever and I mean ever do that again ewwww

6. I cry, yup thats right I am a man and I admit I CRY. I was labeled once as a hopeless romantic cause man if its sad or happy I can cry. I cried at my girls' weddings, I cried when I read the Neff's christmas letter. Wow now that I look at all that maybe I'm a girl.... hold on, nope after checking deffinately a boy whew that was close

7. I love Professional wrestling, and yes I know its fake...wel mostly :P I watch raw every monday and I watch TNA every thursday. I won't buy the PPV's. I also watch UFC and yes I know that real :)

8. Last but not least. The best thing that ever happened in my life was my family. I wish that we could all be together all the time but I know they have to live their lives and make their own way. I am so proud of everyone of my Daughters and son in laws. Everyone of them make my life complete and all the Grandkids well thats just icing on the cake (oh man remember #6)

I am supposed to have 8 other people blog 8 things but I don't know 8 bloggers so... I gues thats it

Thanks For

Thanksgiving, a time of the year to reflect on the things that really matter. What am I thankful for? What did the last year bring me? What can I do to make the next year better?

We have a tradition we started a couple of years ago. We cover our Thanksgiving table with a plain white sheet. After dinner everyone takes a turn with the marker and writes down what they are thankful for. It really is kinda cool to go around and read what people wrote and then drag it out the next year and compare.

I am so thankful for the 3 years I have had in this house (we are losing it) it served our needs at the time and now I guess its time for something new.

I am thankful for a good job, even if I do think it bites at times :)

I am thankful for every member of my family that God has put into my life. My Daughter made me a card on Fathers day that said all the things I had brought into their lives, truth is I have gained way more from them than I have given, at least I think so.

I am thankful for an awesome Church family.

Most of all I am thankful for a Saviour that loved me enough to look down at all my uglyness and go to the cross anyway.

Whatever you are thankful for I hope you have a very happy and blessed Thanksgiving.

PS EAT WAY TO MUCH TURKEY

Time Shifts

Another week of follow the bouncing shifts. Boy I will be glad when this month is over so I can get back to straight day shift. My body doesn't know if its supposed to be awake or sleep. I didn't wake up till almost 10 this morning thats like half the stinkin day wasted.

I gotta start moving some more stuff into storage but yuck, have I mentioned before I hate moving? I HATE MOVING! just in case you didn't hear it before.

Nothing really to exciting this week, to many hours of work and then playing guitar hero 3. I need to go ride my quad somewhere and relax.

I don't know I will figure out something to do though. The one constant I have to look forward to every week is Sunday morning. I go down open the Church make coffee and greet Pastor when he gets there. We have a great Sunday school class I attend and the WORSHIP. I love our worship time, clears my head and the week just seems to peel off of me. I think that you get out of worship what you put into it, and I try to go full force even when I don't feel like it. Then after worship of course is the message, which our Pastor has been bring strong for the last year or so. Yeah church is deffinately good.

Hmmmm today though is either quad riding or shopping, hey maybe both :) Have a great day readers, bloggers and just plain bored.

Name Change

Decided to change the name of this blog today. Never really liked the other one, who knows may change it again we shall see.

Work has been crazy I am working almost straight PM shift this month (ack) I hate PM shift but they needed the help. I did tell them that I would not do this next month. I have worked to hard to move backwards.

Gonna hopefully go see the new house today so we can figure out what we are going to put in storage and what goes to the house. I HATE MOVING!!!!!! There I feel better now.

Hey I got Guitar Hero 3 man that game is fun, the only thing is I was looking forward to the online play but it seems only the xbox 360 has online bahhhhh thats just not right. I think all of adult game players should have the right to go online and get the snot kicked out of us by a twelve year old no matter what game system we own :). The game is really fun much better than playing air guitar. The controller also works on my PC with an adapter so I can play frets on fire, which is cool cause you can make your own songs on frets, so a buddy of mine and myself are working on some good christian songs to play. Old school Tourniquet, Vengeance, Deliverance and such. Should be fun.

Christmas is coming!!!!! Holy crap, CHRISTMAS IS COMING!!!!!!!!!! Did you know that?? Not only is it coming but I think time has sped up. Remember when we were young (well at least I was) and it seemed like time slowed down. What happened? Ah well we are gonna try the day after thanksgiving sales this year. I have never gone, heard it can be an experience, we shall see.

I should post more

Wow I really let this place go. I guess I am just not a faithful blogger I will have to get better at that. I have learned over the last month or so how people fall into depression and don't even know it. We are going through some trying times, mainly losing our house because of an adjustable rate. I thought I was ok but realized 2 weeks ago after church that all I had done for the last 5 weeks or so was lay around and do nothing. I would go to work but that was about it. Our Pastor spoke on Love 2 weeks ago and it was like a fog lifted off my brain, I kinda shook my head and just went wow where did that come from.

So now last week a big storage unit became available, and they are hard to come by here. That happened on Mon and then last friday the house we had applied for to rent, well we got it. Praise God he is so faithful. My wife said she knew I was depressed but didn't know how to tell me, I guess God did :) anyways now I gotta move all our stuff ughhhhh I hate moving . At least now with the big unit and the house will be available on 11-15 I can move stuff slowly and not have to pack the storage tight and will be able to find things. We are moving from 2500sf to 1600sf so we are gonna have to keep a storage unit but after we get all moved and settled we can get a smaller unit.

I also found out some interesting things about losing your house. If you leave before they completely forclose they will say you abandoned the house, also when they do sell the house you have to pay federal and state taxes on whatever money they lose??????? huh??? I don't get it but thems the rules. I did try to contact our loan company way back in Aug before we where behind and get something worked out and the guy looked up our account and said "you're not behind on your payments" when I explained to him that our rate had adjusted and we were not going to be able to make the new payment this guy actually said "well we won't work with you until you are in default" okey dokey I can arrange that, I just don't answer 800 numbers now.

But through all of this I have seen God work and work and work. I also now can have some empathy for people who fall into depression, I always wondered why don't they just get some help, talk to someone something, can't they see they are depressed? nope they can't.

I will try to post more often now, actually looked at this blog multiple times during all this and said "man I should post something" instead just didn't fell like it and went back to laying on the couch.

Friday!!!!!!!!

Ah yes Friday is finally here, but oh wait... dang it I am on call this weekend. Oh well hope no one calls in. Finally got to order the tires and rims for my quad so I should be up and flying soon. Slid a corner on a mountain road while at family camp in July hit a washout and slapped a boulder with my rear tire killing the rim and puttin a slit in the sidewall, as if thats not bad enough we were about 12 miles up the mountain. Out came the trusty plug kit and three plugs later and a buch of glue... hey it holds air. So do I go back to camp? No on to the top we go another three miles. The plugs held all the way to the top and just as I pulled back into camp the tire went flat, ride was fun though. Anyways now I get to go riding again, my family wants me to take it easy but thats no fun, ah well we will see.

Been reading Isaiah every morning before work this week, man what the Lord promises is so awesome. Some days I can hardly wait for the Lord to come but I also know there are so many people who need salvation before that day. So it is with mixed feelings that I also hope the Lord tarries. Hmmmm does that make me schizo??? Anyway the word has encouraged me so much at work. I was going through some really tough times and getting caught up in the gossip and politics there and have the last two weeks just prayed hard every morning that I could be an example at work and work as if I was working for the Lord and not man. Wow what a difference, the Lord is so faithful in answering prayer my days have been so much easier and my attitude so much better now I am praying for my coworkers (like I should have all along) instead of worrying about what they are not doing. The Life lessons that the Lord can teach us through his word are so cool if we wil just take a moment each day to listen.

Well anyway thats about enough for one evening. OH OH OH OH wait I thought of something to look for ward to UFC this weekend, yup thats right fight fans 3 hours of fun filled MMA pay per view action right in your home. Looks to be a good card, and if you don't like MMA I think basket weaving is on DIY lol. Church on Sunday!!!!!

HMMMM... another random thought... Can a one legged man enter a but kickin contest????

Welcome

Welcome to the mind of Sneaky Greg or just plain ole Greg will do :) . I don't know where this blog will lead but I am sure the trip will be fun. Man 2 Man is a place that I hope will grow into a spot where Christian men can come and fellowship and share in a safe enviroment, while all along watching me rant and rave about what the Lord is doing in my and my families lives. Now I know I live in California and the name of the blog will attract some other characters and you are welcome also, as the Gosple of Jesus is freely given and shared.

I was reading my daughters blog the otherday and something there caught my eye. She made the statement that she said something on her blog that should maybe not be said in a public blog... hmmmm, how do you talk on this thing?

I don't know maybe I'm just getting old but typing err...blogging that is, everyday well... did we raise an OCD child???? Then again I remember spending hours chatting on IRC with people everywhere, for hours, day after day, had our own room (anyone on the undernet remember #Bighouse?) ah yes good times.

Lets see about me Married, 45 years old, weight over, bald yes I shave some of it but I truely belive God makes us bald men with perfectly shaped heads and they are meant to shine.. so there. I have 4 daughters and 8 grandchildren. I am a nurse and manage a 50 bed Alzheimer's unit in a Longterm Care Facility. I am a Born again Spirit filled Christian and attend Christian Life Assembly in Gridley, Ca. I love Disc Golf, Paintball, riding my quad, spending time with my family but most of all I enjoy fellowship with other Christians and the Lord.

There enough about me for now, if you want to know more ask me and if I want to I will tell you :) I will prolly not post new each day as my job keeps me busy but several times a week I will let you into my mind and the you maybe out of my mind or maybe I'm out of my mind, oh well who knows but it should be fun anyways. If you see something you like let me know and if you see something you don't like tell someone else lol no you can tell me I can take it *sniff* no really its ok just be gentle ok :P~

Random thoughts: If a man blogs his thoughts and a women reads them is he still wrong?