Ramblings (Underdog Chamber)

To gamers of all types, hope your holiday season is a great one, and hopefully you get something new to play with (old or new school alike). Don’t forget what the season is about though, not just gifts, but so much more.

Have a good one!

Rather saddened to hear the news of the passing of Steve Jobs late on Wednesday, October 5th, 2011. While I won’t deny that I was not a total fan of Jobs (I did not agree with all his decisions), I am grateful for his vision, and will miss his presence at Apple. Here’s to his insight and mark that he made on the computer industry, and may Apple live on in that light!

I will probably do a small tribute to Steve, when the next MGC show comes around next spring.

Well Summer 2011 is almost over, with school starting up already. This years summer seemed to just fly by, with far too many projects left unfinished, which will be move to next year’s to-do-list.

I’m in the process of possibly moving to another hosting company again, but that is still under debate. The reason is my own, simple as that. I’d also like to revamp the entire site too, but that will take lots of time.

For now, enjoy the rest of the summer, and hopefully I’ll get around to those MGC photos and some updates for the 2012 show.

Thomas Flemming – departed this Earthly domain on July 14th…

The loss of a parent is a difficult time, but I can honestly state that I understand this situation a lot more than I expected too. Part of it is due to my own beliefs, in the fact that death is part of life. You cannot have life without death, and I fully accept that simple fact. For my father, death was a release from the suffering in the last few months of life, and he is free of that now.

This does not diminish the fact that I feel like a part of me is missing, to what capacity I cannot say at this time. I will miss my father’s advise, the countless times he helped me through various issues in life, and most of all how he truly loved his family. He instilled within me the value of doing a good job, in getting it done properly, wether at work or at home. Indirectly he taught me that what I believe in is important, even if others may not see things my way. In this way he was more open to my own unique way of seeing the world, and I’m glad that he accepted that, even if he did not fully follow my vision of life.

Deep down inside, my dad was a very caring person, even if it didn’t always show this on the surface. He cared about a lot of people, even those he barely knew, and in this world that is something special. There is no way to count how many times he has helped various family members and friends, with advise, support, and simple put, love, which he showed in his own special way. Plus he had a special fondness for children. My sister and I when we were younger, and my nieces later in his life, all of which he loved dearly.

I don’t have too many memories of my childhood, but from the pictures I’ve seen recently, you can see that caring look in his eyes. But even without many childhood memories, I always felt safer with dad around, and that is one thing I will miss – at least in an earthly regard. I know his spirit – or energy as I prefer to call it – will still be there, watching over us, of this I have no doubt.

Even in his last year of life, when his health was failing fast, he still would show concern for myself and other family members. In this alone, he still taught that one truth, that family matters most of all. Through bad and good time, I’ve always got my family!

(Too everyone else out there who has lost a father – may you never forget the good memories)

Found this hard to believe myself, since she was only 63, but Elisabeth Sladen passed away on 04/19/11! She was one of my favorite actors on Doctor Who, classic and new shows, and she will be missed.
(And yeah, this kind of doesn’t fit my UC blog, but I know lots of gamers that like Dr. Who – and I do too – thus the post).

You can see the official BBC bulletin on their site.

Just another quickie here, but I went and finally (after too much time), updated the ‘theme’ of Ramblings to have that ‘green and gold [yellow]‘ look (and if you want it to be like WI football colors, that is your choice). That way, it matches (to an extent) the look of the UC area on the MGC site. I choose green a while back, and now it is here too.