Well I'll admit not sure if what I want to say Really falls into the topic of Issues or not, but since this post is more for me than to let others know stuff then I guess Issues isn't a bad place for it to be, since I may speak on religion and faith some. So today I went to a wake and service for my friends mother. It is of course to bad that she is gone, but the other view is that she is onto a better place. Of course if you aren't religious that doesn't help deal with it. But if you know that they had faith then you can think that maybe they are. I'm not saying that I don't have faith, but some people don't (I do have some issues with some faiths or maybe it is some churches and things that they do). I had a friend from work who used to say the Baptists are going to hell, of course he was joking around (but I'm sure he believed it at least some) . That is one thing that bothers me about some faiths they think that if you read "the word" in a way you do that, that means you are going to hell. I'm not saying that is true of everyone. I think often people look at how they think differently instead of the same. The basic ideas are the same why fight over how the bible causes you to worship or live The reason I say this is that the Service was at a Baptist Church on High St. To me it was all very stressful, that being said the Preacher (sorry forget his name) was very good. I didn't know ahead of time but I was a Paul Barer. I felt very welcome there like I wasn't being judged but at a Funeral it is about the person moving on to the afterlife so maybe that is why. Leaving the church wasn't bad as a Paul Barer but doing it at Forest lawn was a little tougher with uneven ground. It was sad but a good send off.

It isn't weird to have a second family really. But what is weird is how you see them about as often as your 1st family. But what is crazier to think about is that you see people at work more and they are like (even if you hate them all) a 2nd family also. You most of the time don't bond with them like a family, your there to work after all. The reason they are like a 2nd family is there are some people who drive you crazy who you can't escape just like family. But it is more about the fact that you are there with them for 40hrs a week and maybe more if you count a lunch or Overtime. Not to mention some times someone might come in before work to drink coffee and talk politics as they read the paper. If you can't start till 7 and the bus gets you there at 6:15 as an example that is another 45 minutes (not true where I work but true some places). Maybe it is because I'm Irish (Irish vs. Irish American is a debate for a later time) or maybe not, but it seems that most of my family (and in this case my 2nd family) we only see at wakes and Funerals. The part that is kinda scary is I'm going on a little vacation to a wedding in Carolina this month so that will be like a family reunion. In the both today and in June then it shows that families often don't see each other enough. The thing is that is how it is. For example it was great to see a lot of people I haven't seen In a long time. But it is to bad this is what it took for me to see them and vise versa. I'm not saying all families are like this I see my mother about everyday (computer is at her house, not mine) and my sis (as annoying as she can sometimes be, but that is one family dynamic I really can't get into here) sometimes and we will do things and go places together.

I lost my train of thought above. It was weird to take pictures but I did take some. I'm used to taking pictures of fun things and not funerals (they won't be posted on line, or at least not by me). It is good for the people to have pictures, I don't think pictures should just be of the good times. That being said when you are concentrating on the camera and taking a picture it takes away a little bit from what ever you are doing. Hey someplace you are having fun not a big deal cause taking the pictures can be part of the fun (an (e:strip) party is a good example of that) , but with things that are Sacred or Personal taking pictures feels odd or like a privacy violation a little bit. That being said I'm glad I took pictures but wish I took a few more. But at the same time you don't want it to be about just taking the pictures either. I don't know if what I wrote makes any sense to anyone else or not but maybe it does, well I feel a little bit better.

Well Based on what that Number up there says I have 999 posts so that makes this one my .....................................
1000th Post

Well I was hoping it would be about some huge event like being on a white sand beach or Mountain or something along those lines. Then I meet a couple people and they have a bunch of girls and there is some event like a bonfire or being pushed over a waterfall and swimming in the Lagune (the thing at the bottom of the falls that is some how deep and calm and the water doesn't move.) Then of course every one would do some type of drug that bonds us all together and there is some kind of group or multi partner sex. After wards everyone gets the same tattoo that binds us all to that moment for life and to each other so we never forget it.

But nothing like that ever happens to me and even if it where to the timing isn't right so I'll just write about today and the movie I saw.
But before I do that I do want to add that I have been slowing down on how much a post, and not sure why that is. Who knows maybe it is because I don't do so much during the winter other then wake up early and trek out to work trek home go on line and watch TV. then there are also sports events but no Taste of Buffalo or anything like that. It is odd to think of that many posts I guess I'm a big mouth sometimes the fact that I have 2,853 comments currently that I've posted would agree with that, but other times I'm very keep to my self type of person. I did have the idea to video myself typing a blog then down load it then upload it to youtube but I don't really know how to video on my camera and I have no idea how to do you tube here. I also thought about putting links to other journals I had written on here but kinda forgot how to do that plus that would mean a lot of re reading. It is to bad I couldn't find 1000 hot ladies or neat Tattoo pictures that was another idea for a 1000th post. I didn't want to get into an issue on my about 100th post. So onto indy.

I can't compare the new Indiana Jones to the old ones because I don't remember much about them. Yeah I know I liked them and that at some theme park they had an Indiana Jones show that was pretty cool with huge flames and tricks, my guess is Epcott Center but not sure. One thing I have heard from a few places is Harrison Ford is old and then they break on the movie. Well I got some bad news for the people I have heard say this he is in Better shape then you are, and I'm guessing he is in better shape now then your where 5 years ago and maybe 10 years ago, if that is true then you need to shut up.

Some people say that they did this as a way to just make money. I do see there point because there are a lot of product tie ins, ceral multiple ones, and Burger King come to mind quickly. I tried the indy burger I think it is a new kind of Whopper and it was pretty tasty. I don't think it is all about the money. I could be wrong here But I think with the success of Movies like National Treasure and Tomb Raider it shows that people still like this kind of movie. I think this will not be the only new Indiana Jones Movie. I could Ford doing one more and there is another thing they could do and I think they might but to say it here would give away a part of the movie.

Ok onto the movie itself. How can you not like a movie that starts out with music by Elvis, It is background music and doesn't really have anything to do with the story. Story wise I liked it, again that is all I will say don't want to give anything away. Even though she was evil it was nice to see a strong women as being the evil lead charachter, I wonder if they will do a Sci-Fi spinoff (again if you saw how it ended you know where I'm going) that would be funny. Of course there is a lot of action including fighting and that is all ways good. I like that Indy wasn't perfect. I'm sure if you anyone has seen the previews the show the scene where he swings and doesn't make his target there is another scene kinda like that. It was a lot of fun and think anyone would like it. It is also good family viewing. You don't have to know about the cold war and that the (not nazi's here) nazi supposidly tried to find occult powers to take over the world. You don't have to worry about cursing or sex scenes or all kinds of blood. Yes that is good stuff but it doesn't fit in this movie and it wouldn't have seemed right if it would have been I don't do the star system but I'll say 3 out of 4 or 4 out of 5 and two thumbs up.

One thing I do need to mention before the movie though, and I don't mean the preview for the new Hell Boy movie that really looks amazing. I mean the coke ads. The most recent is two people debating on some show they say the same thing one buys one a coke and they tour washington, great ad it really is. I admit I'm a Perpsi Guy myself. That being said Coke has way better ads. There is one with santa who gives out coke bottles to this little girl over the ages untill she is old and then gives it to her graduaghter or something like that. There have been a bunch of great ones But here is the part where I need Help in all there ads (maybe they are all made in other countries) they always have tall glass coke bottles, hey maybe it is just me but where I live they don't even sell those anymore. Do they sell them in America anymore? Also it got me thinking is glass or plastic better for the enviroment. Granted I know glass breaks and is heavy but if you droped a bottle of (owned by pepsi) Sobe they land on there bottom and bounce into your shin or at least when I have done that, that is what happens.

Hope everyone gets to have a great long Holiday weekend, even if that means you have to do more at work on tuesday.

First of all there are a few pictures to post from on my way to meet at the Chinese Buffet.







The Chinese food was pretty good. I think I had like two plates but it was worth it. The food and company was good The people who went where (e:Imk2) and Faben (sorry if I misspelled that), (e:Jenks) and Dan, (e:Tiburon), (e:Paul) and myself. It was nice to meet (e:Tiburon) I hope you liked everyone you meet and had a good time it seemed like you did. I have to thank (e:Imk2) that was a great idea. When I first heard about it I wanted to go the movie but got the date wrong and thought it was next month. To Dan and Paul thanks for getting me home. I really did have a good time and I hope everyone else did also here are pictures from the Buffet.










From inside the Theartre here is one original pictures of (e:imk2) and then two that where updated on my Camera. So I hope you enjoy them.





So now onto the movie at last. I have never read any of the Manga but I watch or record DeathNote on Adult Swim after Bleach on Cartoon Network. It isn't my favorite show that they have had on but it is still pretty good. The Shirgami was so cool looking and the voice was spot on that was really cool. I thought they got L perfect. That would include all the little movements like the feet and how he holds the phone. I'm not sure if it was all the same Voice Talent from the cartoon but if not it sure sounded just like them. You might not think it but those little touches make a movie so much better. I didn't really know how they where going to tell the story or how far they would go into it. I thought the story was told pretty well. I guess the ended the movie at a pretty good point in the story. I don't really do the stars or thumbs up but it has 2 thumbs up and enough stars to be good. Oh yeah the special features where pretty good also. The only thing that I thought could have made the movie better is that there was stuff in Japanese that they could have translated on screen but I think not doing that is kinda a common thing, but other then that it was pretty cool. There where people who dressed up and screamed when there favorites where introduced. That I wasn't used to but you gotta like the passion that people have. Part 2 looks like it will be very good, not sure if they will have another screening for that anytime soon or if it is better to see if it is on DVD anywhere. I think it would be cool to see it in the large screen. They did have an ad for a Bleach Movie they will be showing in June, but that is animated not live action. Bleach is a pretty good Show also, I should go see that also.

I will be the 1st to admit that I'm not a sports writer so if you want some nice articles Check out the Buffalo News there are 3 of them on the Bandits and about their win. It was a very tight game and Thompson made some amazing saves he really did. Towards the end of the game everyone was going crazy as they stood and tried to get the Bandits to win the LumberJax where close to tying it up with a few seconds left but the bandits held and one the game. Here are some pictures from after the win.



























































Pictures can be nice as a reflection but the thing is there is so much they can't show like the atmopshere or energy and things like that. the game was so much fun and the place was sold out. It was for the championship and there was that something that I don't know how to say that is like excite where you kinda prey you team can hold on to win, when you score a big goal you jump in the air. Well here are a few more pictures from the game.










































I'm sure NLL.com and Bandits.com have news on the game also. I look foreward to taping the game and listening to what the people say about it, that will be a way to maybe relive it a little bit. Before the game I watched Pan's Labyrnth and thought it was pretty good, I like that it was dark and had an ending of things being righted but not being happy. I thought it was pretty interesting.

First of all I wanted to say this is my second post if you care about the Bandits or copperfield you might want to read it.

One thing that I don't like about the Abortion debate is how you have to be Abortion is murder and wrong or It is great and I love abortion. It seems like people have it set up to be devicisive. The first thing is that the two terms are wrong. Pro-choice means that you think women should have a choice if they want an abortion but often this term is used to mean that you like abortions and that isn't really true. The term Pro-Life is also wrong also. The reason is that if you out law abortion then some people will go and still get them like how they used to in the old days and People would bleed to death sometimes so if you are pro-life you really are not. Some Pro-life people have also killed or taken life by blowing up abortion clinics or killing doctors so that doesn't mean they are really pro life then.

I think that Abortion should be legal. I don't think the state has a right to say what a women or anyone can do to their own body. That doesn't only apply to abortion, there was a time when Tattoos were illegal. Even if I thought that the State had a right to stop a women from getting an abortion. I would still want them to be legal. The reason for that is that some people won't get them any more but a lot of people will go do the "Back Ally thing" those are very (or where) dangerous and then the mother is in danger.

In terms of the if it is a taking a life or not I'm not sure. It really depends on how far along the lady/girl is. When you call it a kid or baby then I say that it is alive and it is wrong to abort it then, that is unless it is a danger to the mother. I do think that 3rd trimester abortions are wrong. I do think that ladies should be given all the facts and one option shouldn't be pushed over others or the facts shouldn't be bias. I think that for anyone who can they should go for adoption instead but I know that isn't all ways an option. There is a 3rd cause but I don't know if it has a name that tries to cut down on the number of abortions there are a year and I would like to see more of that, it seems more senseable as opposed to the war and crazyness that goes into both movements.

SO: Abortion should be legal and safe and in some cases it is killing but in most cases it isn't, I think it is ok today but wish more people would choose adoption instead, hope I covered all my thoughts on it.

So On Saturday I will be at the NLL Championship where the Bandits take on the LumberJax. I was going to give the lowdown but there was an article on NLL.com that does a better job then I could. I will just add that there is pregame stuff that starts at 6pm. After the " " a little bit about Copperfield.

EDGE CHAMPIONSHIP GAME: BANDITS VS 'JAX

Buffalo hosts Portland on Saturday at HSBC Arena

05/15/2008
Final preperations are being made for the 2008 Edge Championship Game, which will be held on Saturday when the Buffalo Bandits host the Portland LumberJax at HSBC Arena.
The Buffalo Bandits will host the Portland LumberJax on Saturday at 7:30 PM ET in the Edge 2008 National Lacrosse League Championship Game at HSBC Arena.

The Bandits, who are the top overall seed in the playoffs, have defeated the New York Titans and Philadelphia Wings on their home turf in East Division playoff games, while the LumberJax, who were seeded eighth overall in the post-season, have been road-warriors, upsetting the Calgary Roughnecks and San Jose Stealth in their respective buildings on their road to the Champion's Cup.

Mark Steenhuis scored seven goals last week in Buffalo's 19-12 thrashing of New York in the East Division Final. His MVP performance included four consecutive goals in the fourth quarter to put comeback hopes out of reach for New York.

"I think we're playing very well right now," said Bandits head coach Darris Kilgour. "There's a lot of anticipation going on. We're ready for a very tough battle."

Ken Montour, who leads the league in save percentage (80.8%) and is second in goals against average (10.23), made 41 saves in the win, but Mike Thompson (11.81 GAA, 76.2% save pct) will get the start in goal for Buffalo. Thompson stopped 46 shots and allowed just 12 goals in Buffalo's first-round playoff win against Philadelphia.

Portland's Dan Dawson and Ryan Powell lead all post-season scorers with 12 and eight goals, respectively. Dawson also has 10 assists for 22 points, seven better than the next points-getter, John Tavares at 15.

"Guys are playing with a lot of confidence," said LumberJax bench boss Derek Keenan. "We're playing well certainly at the right time."

Starting goaltender Matt Disher went down with an MCL strain early in the game, but Veteran goaltender Dallas Eliuk, who has served primarily as a backup in 2008, answered the call with 35 saves for the win.

"There is a chance [Disher might play Saturday]," added Keenan. "We probably won't make that decision until Saturday. He's been rehabbing all week and it's sort of a gametime thing."

The Championship Game will be a rematch of the final weekend of the regular season. The two teams met on April 26th at HSBC Arena, with Portland falling 14-10. 18-year-old Peter Jacobs was the only Portland player to score multiple goals, while John Tavares chipped in four goals and four assists for the Bandits in the victory.

The Bandits, who including the post-season are 9-2 at home, can win their first championship since 1996 with a victory on Saturday, while the LumberJax look to make history and win their franchise's first Champion's Cup.

ESPN2 will air the game on Tuesday, May 20th at 2 PM ET. The game will air LIVE on ESPN360, The Score Television Network, Eurosport2 and online at NLL.com. SIRIUS Satellite Radio will also air the game live on channel 119.

--Tom Soler/NLL.com

Two Points to clarify ESPN 360 is a website so it is epsn360.com . Also the goalie Disher used to play for the Bandits but not sure how long ago it was.


David Copperfield yesterday was very good. I went to the early show. There was this neat part where there where clips of him or about him in pop culture. His big trick was to get people out of the audience and then they got up on this platform with chairs and covered them he gave them flashlights and then he made them vanish. I guess the people who know them found them in the lobby after the show. The people where selected by passing balls through the crowd. He did this trick that had a story about his father and grandfather and he made a car appear and that lead to him sending flying discs into the watchers and some people went up on stage and then some people called out number and answered questions. At the end of the trick he has all these people unlock this glass container with the metal locked box inside of it. When he pulls out the paper and a audio tape the numbers matched what was picked and it matched the answers of the questions. At the very end he he picked up his fathers licensee plates and put one in front of the others and it was the numbers that where picked. I think he has demonic powers how could he know what people where going to say, HA! My boss saw the later show and said the answers where different then the show I was at, so that takes away one way he did it. He did some other cool tricks to. He has a talent at finding sexy ladies to come on stage. It was a fun time and it really flew by quickly. I would think it would be worth it to go see him if he was someplace close.

So recently I have been thinking about starting a blog topic of Issues. Some of them might be race, homosexuality, the internet, abortion, adoption of kids not like you, gun rights, and maybe a few other things. I don't know what all the topics would be. What the blog will be is (hopefully) just a paragraph or maybe two that gives my view on that topic. Often when someone blogs and you leave a comment you are reacting to what they said and what you believe is reflected in that but it doesn't really say how you feel about a certain Topic. Some of our beliefs come from what we are taught, grow up, and see how things work in the real world. Because of that how we feel or think about something can change. For example you might be all for abortions and think they should be legal and then find out that your best friend when they where born almost got aborted, that could change your view drasticly.

I know the love of star wars isn't really an Issue but it fits into being a fanatic. A lot of people think that there where 6 Star Wars movies but depending on how you count that isn't true. By my count there are 7 because of that all Ewoke movie and I heard there was another spin off some place. Not to mention the original 3 came out in those versions with all the added effects and scenes so you could get the count up to ten. Then you have the clone wars but they so far are only animated cartoons. They make comic books and movies and all kinds of stories that I never got into. But I'm still a fan. I have posters and some merch like figures on my wall and M&Ms and things like that. But It is very easy to go from I'll get this cool thing to I have to spend my entire paycheck on it and go overboard like dressing up as a stromtrooper and having your girlfriend dress up as lia and stuff like that, and putting it on line as a video with ewoks in the background.

I think the reason for being a fanatic though makes sense in this case. There are so many great ideas and themes in the movie like good vs bad, tryreny, abuse of power, fighting for freedom, love, companion ship, being rebelous, the entire Jedi thing. So there really are if you examine it a lot of reasons why Star Wars appeals to people. That doesn't even get into all the characters, action, special effects, cool costumes and great music.

Here is an example of someones dedication to star wars going to far that I saw on Yahoo today. Maybe it is more then just one person going to far. But maybe for the people at the church it isn't maybe the Jedi Beliefs kinda line up some with theirs so they kinda line up some so they aren't that nuts or maybe it is just fun.

'Darth Vader' spared jail in Jedi church attacks

Wed May 14, 7:36 AM ET

HOLYHEAD, Wales - A man who dressed up as Darth Vader, wearing a garbage bag for a cape, and assaulted the founders of a group calling itself the Jedi church was given a suspended sentence Tuesday.
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Arwel Wynne Hughes, 27, attacked Jedi church founder Barney Jones - aka Master Jonba Hehol - with a metal crutch, hitting him on the head, prosecutors told Holyhead Magistrates' Court.

He also whacked Jones' 18-year-old cousin, Michael Jones - known as Master Mormi Hehol - bruising his thigh in the March 25 incident, prosecutors said.

The two cousins and Barney Jones' brother, Daniel, set up the Church of Jediism, Anglesey order, last year. Jedi is the faith followed by some of the central characters in the "Star Wars" films.

The group, which claims about 30 members, says on its Web site that it uses "insight and knowledge" from the films as "a guide to living a better and more worthwhile life."

"We all love the films and what they stand for. Obviously some people are going to laugh about it," the Wales on Sunday newspaper quoted Barney Jones as saying last month. "But a lot of people do take it seriously."

Unfortunately for Hughes, his March attack was recorded on a video camera that the cousins had set up to film themselves in a light saber battle.

"Darth Vader! Jedis!" Hughes shouted as he approached.

Hughes claimed he couldn't remember the incident, having drunk the better part of a 2 1/2-gallon (10-liter) box of wine beforehand.

"He knows his behavior was wrong and didn't want it to happen but he has no recollection of it," said Hughes' lawyer, Frances Jones.

District Judge Andrew Shaw sentenced Hughes to two months in jail but suspended the sentence for one year. He also ordered Hughes to pay $195 to each of his victims and $117 in court costs.

In the 2001 United Kingdom census, 390,000 - 0.7 percent of the population - listed Jedi as their religion.

Hey if anyone feels like chiming in go ahead, maybe there are more details I should know that shows these guys just love star wars like me an are not fanatics or maybe I'm one also but not expressing that I am here.

So for mothers day we went to Old Man rivers then walked around the park. I know some of it is called Niawanda but I don't know if the name changes at other spots. Here are a few photos I took.

Missing Image ;(

I wish we had a little bit more time and that it was a bit warmer I would have liked to have seen what was at the end of all those houses.

First of all I was going to post bandits pictures from the last game I went to but ran out of time so

That should also take you to a page where you can see all my pictures from the tall ship beer fest thing. I'm really looking forward to the championship game on Saturday. It has been 12 years since they won one. Yes they have been to two championship games in the past few years but they lost one at home that was depressing cause they where the better team I don't care what anyone says but they didn't play like it and they lost away, might have been on TV so I really hope they can win. I decided screw it I'm poor anyways I might as well get David Cooperfield tickets for Thursday. Should be a good time, it has been along time since I've seen him. Hopefully I'll put up some Tonawanda pictures up on Tuesday and then maybe some bonus Bandettes pictures.

So as I updated my last journal I mentioned that On saturday I went down to the Marina to see The tall ship and to try some beer. There are pictures in the Buffalo News and there is some video on the TV news and I have to admit one of the pictures on the picture page is really good. I got there late so there wasn't all the bag pipers at the ship but I still saw it. From my understand Alexander Keith's is beer from Canada and you can only get it in bars. I don't really like beer but I thought it was good or maybe it being free helped with the taste it was a nice day out. That being said there where also a lot of hot ladies out and about that day. Here are the Pictures.



























































































































I wind up going to a different waterfront today down my Niawanda park. It could have been warmer but those photos will get put up soon I just don't have enough time right now to post them. Hope everyone had a great mothers day and a great weekend oh yeah then I have Bandits pictures to post also sounds like I still have more internet stuff to do. Ok here comes the working week again, argh.


So I forgot this one up there Hey you gotta love those outfits. Oh yeah and the Gordon Highlanders where pretty cool also. I just wanted to add that sometimes it is tough to know what pictures to put up and what ones not to hope if anyone is still reading this that they enjoyed them.