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Thanksgiving day is coming

November 19, 2019 / The Secular Catholic / 0 Comments

Hello Everyone.
It’s just about that time of year again. It’s Thanksgiving time.
One of my favorite holidays because I get the whole family together and have a huge meal and hang out together.
For the first time we have someone coming back home from college and that will be fun.

I hope to have some things done around the Monday after Thanksgiving. I would like to have a review or two done. The new call of duty modern warfare. I have played much of the game but I’m not done with the single player yet but I need to finish it.
I also hope to have a review of the first three episodes of the Mandalorian and some other Disney + shows and movies.

Now for what I am thankful. I am thankful for my family, my health and my friends and fraternity and faith. I am also thankful for this blog and anyone that may read it. I don’t have it to be read but to just brain dump and get things out and try new things. In some point in the future I may try to monetize it, but probably not.

My family is close for the most part and I love them all and cherish any time we have. Especially my niece and nephew. We don’t get to hang out as much anymore. My niece is in college and my nephew is going to high school and job. But luckily I get to talk to him on XBOX and play games with him. We get together every once in awhile.

My health is OK. not great but nothing major going on. I have a few friends but we all are on different shifts at work. I have two friends that work third shift and one that works a lot of weekends so we can’t see each other as much as before. My Franciscan fraternity is going well and they are like a second family to me now. We have a meeting once a month and last meeting we helped bag and organize at a food shelf at the brothers of the peace. It’s one of my favorite meetings of the year, to be with brothers and priests of this group is fulfilling and fun. The Blog helping me express myself even if no one reads it. I have plans on creating another website more about gaming and TV and Movies. I may even go on YouTube or Mixer or create a podcast.

I’m just really thankful for everything because things were not this good a handful of years ago. 4 years ago I was working at Walmart and making no money. Now I am a photographer and designer where I work. Things could be better and things we much worse previously.
I have plans on doing more and trying to make more money but things are going OK and I can’t complain. I am thankful for everything I have.

The Mandalorian

November 15, 2019 / The Secular Catholic / 0 Comments

Hello Friends.
I have watched two episodes of eight of the Mandalorian.
I am a Star wars fan. The Mandalorian scratches my old school Star wars itch. We go back to a more dirty lived in place and a time five years after the Return of the Jedi.

The empire is falling apart and lawlessness is back and bounty hunters are used again. The Mandalorian doesn’t say much but when he talks there’s a reason. He picks up a bounty while fighting of some scum at a bar. He brings him back to his ship and the guy tries to find a way to escape but it doesn’t work. He puts him on ice. The two episodes are really crafted well. I am a fan of John Favreau and Dave Filoni. I really liked the Clone wars that Dave Filoni made. And everyone likes Iron Man. If it was me Dave Filoni would be in charge of Star wars. He knows what the fans want and gives it to us.

I am hoping that the quality doesn’t change but I don’t think it will. It really seems like a western and all the characters are great and really brings the world alive. They have started on season two already so we have that to look forward. Here’s hoping the other Star wars shows are as good.

Disney Plus launch

November 12, 2019 / The Secular Catholic / 0 Comments

Hello Everyone.
Disney Plus launched today, or at least tried to launch.
There have been many problems on many platforms.
They also clearly didn’t have enough servers to get everyone going this morning. I downloaded and logged in to the service early like 4:00 am on my apple tv.
I had a few problems with the service. It seemed slow and not everything was showing. there were some movies I would see then they would be gone or moved. But luckily I it was easy to find the Mandalorian. It was the first thing i saw on the header of the screen.
I watched it twice and it is a really good TV show. I can’t wait for Friday for the next episode.

I have been reading and noticing things wrong with Disney plus.
When I went to my PC to look at things things didn’t work. Like when I clicked on the Mandalorian and it just sat there thinking and doing nothing. The other one was when I looked at a long list of shows it went from A to G and there was no arrow or anything to go to the next page or it didn’t scroll anymore. I am hoping most of the bugs and such are worked out by the weekend so I can watch a ton of shows.

Call of Duty Modern Warfare is coming out soon.

October 22, 2019 / The Secular Catholic / 0 Comments

Hello All.
Call of Duty Modern Warfare is coming out on Friday Oct 25th.
I have been burned by many Cod’s But the last two or three were particularity problems for me.
It started with less maps so they could come in paid dlc map packs. Then they started putting specific weapons in dlc. Eventually they went all out and put all the micro transactions in with loot boxes
They were supposed to be for looks only. But eventually sights and guns and other things became a part of it.
This year they promised that the map packs and loot boxes were not part of the game. I will believe it when i see it. The usual way of doing things is no micro transactions the first few weeks of release so reviewers don’t know and it wont affect reviews.

I played the beta and it was a bit like Tom Clancy siege.
I liked the maps that were available. I was not happy that a horde mode in spec ops was not available on XBOX and PC.
Here’s hoping it will be good.

Pilgrimage to the Shrine of our Lady of Guadalupe.

October 17, 2019 / The Secular Catholic / 0 Comments

Hello Everyone.
I am so lucky that the Bishop leads a group of men to the Shrine of our Lady Guadalupe in Wisconsin.
This is my second time going. It is a great event. We meet together and get a bus there and then once we get there we eat a nice box lunch and the Bishop brings us up to the church which is about a half a mile from the entrance. During that time he leads us in a rosary and once there we tour the area and eventually he says a mass. This is a wonderful area, there is much to see and do. After mass I hope to go to confession, I hope to take many pictures.
It will be an all day thing. and I can’t wait. It is just a over all great day.

Franciscan Anniversary.

October 10, 2019 / The Secular Catholic / 0 Comments

Hello Everyone.
Today is a very special day for me. It is my ten year anniversary of my profession into the Secular Franciscan Order.
Sadly I won’t be doing anything big to celebrate it.
I am at work and just plan to go home after and spend time with family and my two dogs.

Tomorrow is when I will be celebrating my anniversary.
Going to morning mass but going an hour early to do morning prayer and then a rosary, and be with my brother and sister secular Franciscans. I may be going to planned parenthood and do some prayer. It is forty days of life. I hope to do some adoration and more prayers. If I am lucky I will swing to leaflet missal and get a book or something to celebrate. Just remember God loves you and you are worthy of his love. Even if you don’t think you are. God will make you worthy. If you ever think of joining the Secular Franciscan Order go to this website.

Ghost Recon Breakpoint Beta

October 2, 2019 / The Secular Catholic / 0 Comments

Hi All. I played the Ghost Recon Break point beta this weekend.
I was a fan of the previous Ghost Recon and I must have been one of the few. The actual game is due out October 4th. And since the beta is so close to the release date we should get a good idea how this game will launch. I am sure there will be a day one patch. Most games have them now. And I hope it’s huge. This game has a bunch of bugs. I was playing on the Xbox one, There were movement and animation glitches and other time where enemies would just pop in. The worst was when it crashed my Xbox. Now I expect if the game is to crash that it crashes and I can start it back up. This shut off my Xbox and when I restarted my Xbox it went to the green screen when it’s a bad crash. The story doesn’t seem to be as good but the last one wasn’t the best either. But this one is you chopper into an island and some swarm of drones takes out all the choppers and they crash. Luckily some people make it and you are one of them. Shocking right. Your job is to find the rest of the survivors and then help the people of the island get off the island. The actual island is a high tech oasis that was suppose to be peace full then the CEO of the Company that owns the island used it to also make a ton of military things.

Here is the saddest part of the story kids. The micro transactions in this game are terrible. It’s come of the rails. It’s not just cosmetic things. It’s guns, xp and even skill points. You need skill points to be more powerful and buy skills. There are cosmetic things but i don’t like them either. It is something you should be given for playing the game.
I really hope they get rid of most of the micro transactions and patch this game up. The game come out on the October 4th. I hope to buy it and review it and then tell you more about the dreaded micro transactions. I hope the game gets better for launch, This looks like another half baked Ubisoft game that needed another 6+ months and they didn’t learn the lesson of other companies about micro transactions. Here’s hoping it improves.

Last Car Show of the Year

September 27, 2019 / The Secular Catholic / 0 Comments

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Hi All. Last Friday was the last car show of the year in a small town near me. Main street traffic is closed off and only goes one way for street-rods and street machines. It was a fun night. Some of the people didn’t go because there were also Drag races that day. My father and some of his friends were there and having fun. I was walking down main street looking at cars and eating food from my favorite food trucks. My father and I know a guy that makes the best mini doughnuts around. And my favorite restaraunts are an old school pizza place and a old chinese place, both have been around since the 50’s, It’s also the same small town my father grew up in. So all the those place that have been there since the 50’s, he went to when he was young. It’s nice to have one more day when I can see some friends and hang out and watch cool cars and listen to some local bands which play on the sidewalk and just have fun. Ahh well I can’t wait till next summer when it starts all over.

Favorite Car Event

August 27, 2019 / The Secular Catholic / 0 Comments

Hello all. I apologize for not having a blog entry for the last week.
I was getting ready and then going to my favorite car event of the year.
The event was part drag race part car show and party. It is called the super secret fun run. It is at the drag strip. We brought two cars one we drove and one we trailered.
My father has a 1955 pontiac wagon, we drove that car up there. We trailered the silver bullet dragster for my dad to drive. It’s not our car but one of my dads friends that let him drive it.

This is a fun event where I can watch my Dad and his friends drag race and in between drag races we just hang out. Then when the racing ends they feed us and we go to our hotel tired.
As I have said it’s my favorite car event of the year. I love drag racing and tried it back in the late 80’s.

The same people tend to come to these events and many of them I have known for 20 plus years. It’s nice to get together and talk.
The bad part is I am an introvert and talking isn’t my thing. But the ones I know and like I will hang out with. I used to have an old car.
A 1964 chevy nova. It was in good shape and was fun to drive.
But I sold it about ten years ago and I don’t have anything now.

It’s still fun to watch my 70 plus year old dad go drag racing and hang out with friends. I hope to keep going into my 70’s if not just to hang out with my car friends and maybe race if I get another old car.

Overwatch fun

August 20, 2019 / The Secular Catholic / 0 Comments

Hello All.
One of my favorite games is overwatch.
Right when the the game came out a few years ago, it was my favorite game and I played it far to much.The game is in my wheelhouse. Made my Blizzard.One of my favorite developers. I have played every Blizzard game back in the old days. It is a shooter kind of. It has Classes like World of Warcraft. Tank, healer and dps. Me I usually play healer then tank. I’m not fast enough or young enough to play dps well enough for competition or league play. I love to heal because even if I don’t do much damage I can help my team, it’s the same with tank. If I can help my team get a objective or keep someone from it I will. The fun part of overwatch for me is it is objective based. It’s just not about getting highest kill count. That becomes more important the older I get.

The first characters I mained (used mostly) was for Tank it was Reinhardt and for healer Lucio. Reignhardt is a great tank. He has a large shield to protect himself and the team. Where Lucio is a great healer. He can heal or make people faster. I usually heal except for in the race to the objective. He has a small heal radius always and every once in awhile he can do a big burst of healing.
My new favorite tank and healer is Sigma for tank and Moiria and Baptiste for healing. The game if a lot of fun. There are new characters and maps coming out and a semi regular schedule. If possible check it out and see what you think. It’s more fun than you think.