Health

Alright folks, sorry for the delay had some health issues a rise but I'm back now and trying to get on track. Which brings me to this great item. Holidays and health, something that all people tend to skip over during this time of year. With all the running around getting gifts for family and friends we over look whats going on in our own lives and health. People always talk about the stress of the holidays with out thinking that we our selves make most of the stress. So we need to step back and take a few minutes to rest before we take on the next task, and when we see that person in front of us in line totally stressed out and yelling remember to give him a kind smile. The power of a smile can turn someones day around and remind them that even tho things are going bad and stress full but the next turn they make may be a brighter one.
Sorry again for not making a longer post, I am working on new content and will be getting more up, but with the holidays it will be slow.

Holiday Season Family Gaming

So we are a few days away from Thanks Giving one of my favorite holidays here in the USA. Yep another day where we can eat until we cant feel our legs. Now my wife loves this day because she loves to cook so our house always ends up with a mass amount of people. Just what do we do to keep all those people happy because we don't have cable TV so there is no football in this house, which is fine by me I'm not much of a sports watcher anymore; hockey was always my sport to watch.

Now last week I spoke about using old hardware as a media machine using Plex. So there is always something for people to watch and we have Netflix and Hulu on the Amazon Fire TV. So the parents will have something to watch but what the kids? Well they can join the parents in watching a movie or they can head down to the basement were we have a TV with the Wii/WiiU and the old X-Box setup. Here is where the problem come in, the age difference of the kids. The oldest one will want to play the more graphic games then what the little ones should see. Yes, I know we all did it ourselves when we were younger and we made it. But back then we did not have the powerful gaming machines we do today, the graphics are some time too close to the real thing. So I think its a good idea before this holiday season to stop for a minute and have a quick chat with the kids about what should be played with company around. Tell them to try to stick to the more family friendly multi player games you know, racing, sports, goofy ones; and when the family is done eating the littlest family members are watching a movie then they can break out the heavier games the old kids like to play.

Its also a fun idea to get some of the family that don't think gaming is good for kids to see the more family fun said of games, and get them to play a round with the kids. It's a nice way to break down the ideas that the media paints on games and the people that play them. The holidays are a wondrous time to year, getting the family to sit down and game together is an event I love to see happen around my house, hope it also happens around yours too.