Disher Family Fodder
Cincinnati Gymnastic Academy’s Annual Coaches Spectacular is this weekend.
The good stuff (Optionals) is mostly on Saturday. Stop in and watch future Olympic hopefuls and Elites from the area and across the country compete.
Admission is reasonable.
Molly competes Sunday at noon.
If you’re into gymnastics this is a meet you surely don’t want to miss.
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| From Gymnastics 2008 |
It started yesterday with the Queen City Classic. CGA faired better than most as usual.
This is Molly’s 2nd year in Level 5. We’re expecting great things. She had a pretty good meet, finishing 7th overall out of 21 in her age bracket. She had a rough go at beam, got robbed on Bars, and floor. Not sure what the judges were looking for. Both of her routines were about as good as they get and would have scored better last year.
On the upside, she hit a personal high on vault.
I didn’t take as many photos as I usually do, but they are posted in the Google/Picasa Gallery. I did grab a few of Allison, our car pool partner.
Some other candids and actions shot of other gymnasts are included as well.
Santa brought us a copy of Call Of Duty 4 Modern Warfare. We’ve played previous call of Duty games and they were all pretty good. Everything you’ve read about this game is pretty accurate.
WWII has been done to death, so Infinity Ward brought Tom Clancy style gaming to the multi-player arena.
Only it’s worse than that.
The graphics are astounding, and the game play is really, really good. I’ve not been a huge fan of platform FPS games mostly because I’ve been platform controller challenged. I’ve just always felt like the controllers were the weak link. I mean come on. Compared to a mouse and keyboard how could you compete? Thank heavens this game isn’t cross-platform multi-player or I’m sure the PC folks would simply crush the platformers.
That being said, this game is addictive enough and the multi-player good enough that it’s pushed me over the edge. I’ve embraced my controller limitations and overcome most of them.
So what’s so addicting? The action. For the most part the games are balanced although you will find yourself in a lopsided battle now and again. If you’re on the winning side it isn’t so bad.
You start out with decent weapons but earn better weapons and mods as you progress through skill challenges. You get a plain Jane MP5 to start, but after a number of kills can add a red-dot sight or silencer. All good things in the scheme of modern warfare.
It’s this apparent never ending quest to have better equipment than the next guy that keeps you going.
There are no vehicles, and I’m OK with that. Get 3 kills in a row without dying and you get to call in or active a UAV, or radar plane that shows your enemies on the map. This is a good thing. Make it to 5 kills and you get to call in an air strike. Done properly, this will kill a few more bad guys and get you to 7 kills and the ability to call in a helicopter for support. Using air strikes and helicopters will get the frags piling up like the pay off of a loose slot machine.
Believe me when I say it’s addictive and I don’t take that lightly. As someone who lost almost 2 years of their off-time playing organized team FPS games, this one could easily put you back in that sored time waste of online gaming.
I admit I’ve probably gone a bit over board in the recent weeks but it’s all in good fun, and it’s a good thing the weather has been completely miserable or I’d really feel bad about the time spent.
It’s just a darn good thing not much else is happening around here.
Little Matthew is doing just fine.
We had a slight scare in the beginning. We were seriously concerned about his hearing. The dogs would bark and he wouldn’t flinch or acknowledge any loud sounds. Though at times we clearly felt like he heard us or something. It was never consistant. Of course the Internet scares the hell out of you when you read that parents of children who did turn out to be deaf when through very similar experiences.
At our first opportunity we took him to Childrens for a hearing test. The tests did confirm that his hearing was in fact impaired but also that it was, or appeared fluid based. The mechanics of his hearing were fine.
We were told to follow up with our ENT Dr. and return in 6-8 weeks and repeat the tests.
We’ve been to our Family Dr. and since then things must have opened up for him.
We’re very blessed.
There are more photos in the gallery, though they are lumped in with the previous photos.
Enjoy
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| From Baby Disher 5.0 |
Chipotle Chips when properly prepared at $.70 a bag, is a bargain. A hands down exceptional value.
Much better than say a small bag of fries from McDonald’s.
But getting a good bag of chips these days seems to be the exception rather than the rule. I realize Chipotle is growing like crazy and for that I’m thankful. But really, how hard is it to cook them ‘just right’, not over done, not under-done and with the right amount of lime and salt?
Lately it seems like that later step is skipped altogether. Without that lime goodness the chips are not worth a nickel, let alone $.70.
I really hope the trend changes, cause consistently getting bum bags of chips is starting to wear on me.
