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The Witcher 3 is the best video game I have ever played. Hands down. 

And I’ve played a lot.

My wife is tired of me talking about The Witcher 3. In fact if I even bring it up, she huffs and rolls her eyes. “Not this again…”

I tried explaining how awesome it was to her. And when that didn’t work, I tried to have her play it with me, from the beginning. But she wasn’t into that.

I’m a little sad that my wife may never gain the experience of what it is to immerse yourself in the world of The Witcher 3.

And it’s not just about the incredible graphics, huge open world, beautiful scenery, and sword and magic yielding fights with monsters.

Continue reading The Top 10 Things I Learned About Life And Parenting From Playing The Witcher 3

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Jackson-No

Sticks and stones can break your bones but words will stress you the heck out.

You can’t avoid it. Words impact your brain. Your brain impacts your stress levels, and your stress levels again effect your brain.

The cycle continues.

Particularly, the word “no” has been shown to have very real impacts on your brain. Specifically in the Orbitofrontal cortex (the OFC).

Both hearing and saying words has an impact on your brain, and body.

In addition, seeing negative emotions on other’s faces has an effect on its own and can amplify the power of the words that are being said or heard. Specifically the word “no”.

So, a simple “no” would have an effect on you.

A “NO!” shouted, would have a stronger effect.

And a “NO!” shouted, with the addition of a frown and negative body language would be very strong.

Continue reading Why Words Can Cause Parents to be “Out of Shape”.

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As of this post, we’re back. Back home, back on land. But not back to “reality” yet.

I feel like I learned a lot on this trip. About myself, about life, and about family. I’ll save that for another post.

But for now, let’s get up to speed on the last part of our trip.

I stopped taking as many pictures and videos (with the exception of the prolonged whale encounter we came across). So I’ll just be brief, and post the stuff I have with not a ton of context. Because, for the most part, what happened at the end of the trip, stays at the end of the trip… or something.

So here’s a map of our last official stop (not counting Seattle where we ended), Port Townsend.

Rocky Bay to Port Townsend

When we last left off we were eating “Shrimp on the Barbie”.

After that we went to bed, and woke up.

In the morning we hung out, and decided to go check out “Seal Rock” in Rocky Bay on San Juan Island.

All the seals were gone when we got there, but I decided to check out the rock anyhow, cause I normally don’t go close to it. Once we were super close to the rock, I noticed a baby seal almost camouflaged on the rock.

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I was trying not to disturb it, but once Jackson noticed, he started (understandably) yelling, “Baby seal! Seal, seal, seal!” That startled the little seal and it rolled off the rock into the water.

Baby Seal

I felt a little bad, and at the same time, it was a fun experience, and it seems imprinted on Jackson’s memory days later, as evidenced by his “Baby, seal!” outbursts.

Continue reading San Juan Adventure Post 7

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