A Mood of...

I've got a fever and the only thing that can cure it is some blog work.

Hello everyone, lately I haven't had much inspiration to write in this blog.  Why you ask?  Well, I have been trying to think of ways to bring traffic to my blog and I am stumped.  I currently post stuff about it on my facebook and my twitter and even sometimes on my wife's facebook.  I try to shamelessly plug the fudge out of it until it can take no more, crying in the corner and begging me to stop plugging it every which way possible.  Well, I think that I finally gave into it's pleading.  Until I can find a better way to get traffic to this blog I will continue to be stumped.  But alas, I will not stop trying.  I will never give up.  I will most likely eat an unhealthy breakfast and I will definetly not stop using profanity(unless I'm around my children and even then it is a little iffy).  Sooooooooooooooo, maybe if you would like to help me out then plug my blog or give it a shout out on your facebook or twitter or any other kind of social outlet that you belong to.  It would help me out very very much.  So lets spread the word that their is a aspiring blogger who wants people to read his words and salivate over those words.  GO!!!!!!!!!!!

On to quick news and updates.

The 49er's lost today, its saddening because I was so hopeful of them going all the way to the Super Bowl this year, its been so long since they have been.  WHY GOD, WHY?!?!?!?!?!?!  Oh well, there is always next year right?  RIGHT????????

I have been playing a ton of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3.  My goal is to at least prestige twice in the game.  I was able to prestige once in Black Op's so I should be able to hit my goal.

My youngest son Caleb who is 7 months old is walking around in his walker and it is the cutest thing int he whole world.  Sometimes he boxes his brother into a corner and then he cant get out, that's pretty funny to watch.  Caleb follows all of us around now, he so curious and adorable.

I finished reading Full Metal Alchemist Brotherhood.  I recommend that you all read or watch it, some of the best story and action around for a Manga/Anime.

That is all.

Manga and Movies

So I have been reading Full Metal Alchemist: Brotherhood lately since I have been devoid of great manga to read other then the weekly one's I read like Naruto, One Piece and Bleach.  I watched most of Full Metal Alchemist: Brotherhood a couple of years back but I decided to start reading it since it was such a great story.  I mean, most times manga with back story kind of bore me but you get a lot of interesting back story in this manga that actually helps the plot and pulls you in, making you like these characters even more then you did before.  Chapters that would be boring to me in other manga's are captivating me in this one and making me want to invest more time into knowing these characters.  Then you get chapters that are all action and its like, "Holy Poop!!!!!!!  This is FREAKING AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!"  That's no exaggeration, well, from me at least.  Anyways, I think that I'm about half way thru and since I never actually finished the anime I'm looking forward to finishing the manga so I can see what happens at the end of the series.  It should be good.  At least that is what I am hoping.

So I have been watching the Hunger Games trailer more and more, I am getting more and more interested in this movie with every new trailer that they release.  Although this movie is a Battle Royal clone, I am still going to go see it.  I like these movies and books where it pits teens against each other in an epic battle to the death and with a one man standing kind of attitude.  It kind of reminds me of The Running Man, oh my lanta that was a great movie.  If you have never seen it then you need to, the only down side to the movie is the unitards that they wear but it is shadowed buy the awesome-ness of the movie.  THAT'S A FACT!!!!!!  Two long story's short.  I am going to see The Hunger Games and the second thing is that you should read Battle Royal.  It is a manga and a great one at that, the only thing I will caution you about is that it is pretty gory and has nudity in it, if you don't like any of those things then don't read it.  But if you want an amazing story followed by great action and a mind fucking kind of plot then by all means find this manga and read it.  Actually you can read it free at m.mangafox.com so go right now.

What is one of your favorite manga's or movies that you have either read or seen.  Also is there a movie that your excited about that is coming out soon?  Let me know in the comments below.

It seems that tonight's blog was more about manga than movies, oh well, later.

Tags

I have been thinking about this for a while now and have been wanting to write a blog post about the "tags" that you are allowed to put at the end of every blog.  These tags are supposed to pertain to your blog, like the topic of it and any related key words.  You are allowed to have 20 words to use as tags so you have to choose those words wisely.  Lately I have been guilty of putting words in this section that do not pertain to my blog at all due to seeing that certain words will bring traffic to the blog.  I try to monitor my stats as much as possible and see where my traffic is coming from, why they are coming and what tags brought them to my site.  I have noticed that the words face and game will usually bring some people to the site since they seem to be popular search words.  But lately I have been thinking of new words to put in that could maximize my traffic.  Now, I know that this in its own way is cheating, but isn't the point of a blog to have people view it.  I mean we are sometimes writing for ourselves but why would we put our thoughts and Ideas on the Internet if we did not want someone to view them, right?

Another reason why I try to maximize my traffic is to get my "Monetize" option open, I would someday like this blog or any other site I own to produce some sort of profit.  If not for all of my everyday bills and life then maybe just a little extra spending money.  It would be nice to say I have a site that produces some sort of profit, extra money is always a good thing.  Actually the dream is to make a site that gets as big as the Penny Arcade site, that is the dream and the goal I am always reaching for.  Someday maybe I will get there, until then, I will just keep trying.

Any thoughts to this topic?  Chime in with a comment at the bottom of this blog or if you have any advice then chime in as well.  Later.

HUNGRY!!!!!!!!!!!

As you can tell from my title I am hungry right now, it was a long and awesome day.  In door soccer was really fun tonight, we ended up winning but the other team only had four players but still wanted to play a legit game so we were cool with that.  Let me tell you something, the only four players that showed up for the other team were all older Mexican gentlemen and they could play, we won by a lot but that still doesn't dismiss the fact that they kicked ass in every aspect to the point where I wished that they were on our team.  Also all four of the guys were super cool, the whole game was just a lot of fun with some dudes who you could learn from just by watching them.  But gash damn, after the game I was super hungry and I have still not eaten anything yet, but I will very soon, like very very soon, JUST WAIT FOR IT!!!!!!!!!!!

In some other semi life changing news.

I met my dad's side of the family, I have never met any of those kind people before and they have virtually been absent from my whole life until today.  Before i go on, I suppose some back story is going to be needed.  My conception was a total accident, I was by no means what so ever a planned baby.  The story i got from my mom is that my dad wanted to get married for whatever reason but my mom did not, so he stayed around for about 2 months after I was born and then just split.  I wouldn't talk to my dad or see him for the rest of my life after this until I turned 18 and I finally got the courage to find his number and call him.  Anyways, I'm veering away from the original story.  About a year ago thanks to Facebook I found my dad's family and some of my cousins who in turn pointed me in the right direction to find my aunt's on his side as well.  I am now friends with all of them on Facebook.  Well, my aunt Lori messaged me about a week ago saying that her, her husband and my grandparents wanted to meet me and asked if we could meet somewhere in Sonora.  I gladly accepted and we chose to meet up at the Perko's in Sonora since my grandparents live in Twain Harte.  The Date was set for January 2nd at 9:30am.

So early yesterday I got the kids and the wife and myself ready and we got in the car and drove on down to Perko's cafe.  Meeting the four of them today was such an awesome experience, they are some of the nicest most well rounded people I know.  We talked about everything from my family and my mom and her family to their side of the family like kids, grand kids and stuff like that.  I learned a lot about my dad and even found out that we have a couple of things in common like how much food we can eat, apparently we both have a bottomless pit for a stomach.  Now, I know some of you might be thinking, "why didn't you ask them why they never wanted to seek you out and meet you until now?"  Well, I did kind of want to ask that but, I really didn't want to dampen the mood, perhaps those kind of questions would be more suited for a personal conversation between just me and them and not at a local Perko's.  That shit would be very very awkward and I really didn't want to make this first meeting an awkward experience.  I really just wanted to get to know them, I literally know nothing about any of these people and we share the same blood, it's sad to me sometimes when I really think about it.  This is my chance to be with people who I've wanted to meet my whole life, people who I have dreamed about and imagined in my head a thousand times.  I couldn't have asked for a better first meeting and I cant wait to get to know these family members even more now.  It's finally time for me to be involved with the family that I really didn't know I had.  So I am greatly looking for to that, it's going to be a great experience, I can feel it.

That's all for today, if you have any questions about this or my experience from yesterday then feel free to ask away.  Until next time.