New Website!

Hey all! I will be updating this blogspot more often, I promise. In the meantime check out

http://thesportsfathers.com/

Also, follow me on twitter @travismyrheim

The Patriarch of the Ukraninan Catholic Church came to PA! It was amazing! This is a pic of St. George's Church

Peace!

Star Wars addiction

My Star Wars addiction is coming to a head; affecting my life, my homilies, etc. take a look at these cool toys I got for my birthday!

The dark side may have cookies, but they will make you fat!

Padre Yoda

Homily from 16th Sunday Ordinary Time

July 22nd, 2012. Jesus cares for us! Here is my homily. Enjoy :)

Fasting from the internet

This is the story of my Lent :D

Emotional Icons

Emoticons



:)



It has been a long while since I have passed a day without using an emoticon in a text message. I don't know if you realize this, but the majority of issues, gossip, fights, drug-selling, etc., among teenagers today is done via SMS (Short meesage service or "texting"). In fact, as I'm sure you have noticed, the means of communication these days, while becoming increasingly more global is also becoming increasingly more impersonal. More and more I hear of a boy or girl who was dumped by their significant other by an "I think we're over" text. No kidding :0



My conclusion is that this leads to people knowing much more (global communication) about how many terrible things are happening. :'(



The answer to our problems is not to burn cell phones. Farhenheit 452? Anyone? :P Rather, the answer is in teaching people, of any age, how to text properly. Which brings me back to my word of the day. Emoticons. These are absolutely essential in texting for a plethora of reasons. Only a few of which shall I cover here.



1. They are fun. Ok, so not much of an argument.



2. Unlike a novel, a text must convey much in few short words. Consider the difference:
Wanna go for coffee
OR
Wanna go for coffee :)

The emoticon in example #2 adds a definite emphasis to the brief sms that example #1 fails to convey. Here is the difference in novel form.

Disgruntled and tired, Joe arrives at his home, eager for some rest. He opens up his door, only to find his wife wearing clothes that suggest she does not feel like staying in. He knows that her favourite coffee shop is just down the road and that this is her coffee day, only, today, he does not want to accompany her. However, obligingly he asks, "Wanna go for coffee?"
Or
Joe has just had the best day of his life! He got off work early because everything seemed to fall in place. As he approaches his driveway he is thinking, a coffee with the most lovely lady in my life would be well deserved right now! As he opens the door he greets his wife, stunning as always, but more so today as she appears ready to leave her place of work where she works tirelessly to care for their children. "Wanna go for coffee?" Joe asks as he looks eagerly into his best friends eyes.

Trust me, a simple :) is the difference between these two scenarios!

Texting without emoticons can destroy lives!

People will forget what you say, people will forget what you do, but people will never forget the way you make them feel.

Bible Online MMORPG

For those of you who don't know, MMORPG means "Massive Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game" and is a video game genre which encompases such titles as WoW or World of Warcraft - that which I am currently addicted to and should be playing right now.





If the Bible were online, this is what it would look like:





This quest is entitled "Remove Sandals"

Quest progress- 0/2

Well, last night I downed 4/12 bosses in the Ice Crown Citadel! This is a very difficult thing by the way, which has taken me over a year to progress to!

Oh, and yes this is ministry because four of my parishioners are WoW players...

The New Zune

As some of you may or may not know (or care...), I am a huge anti-supporter of Mac products. This has especially come to head with the abhorrent synonomy between the pop-lingo "MP3 player" and "I-Pod". To counter this, I bought a Microsoft Zune last summer (or need I say a Bill Gates I-Pod unlearned) and I am fairly satisfied with it. That being said, when I use sentences such as, "I listened to my Zune on the way home in my car", it is always countered with "your what?" I am getting slightly tired of peoples techno-ignorance.

The only problem I have had with my Zune is that it is extremely difficult to purchase songs from the Zune Marketplace (think: I Tunes Store). I guess I will just have to continue to steal music the old fashioned way.

Anyway, there is a new, HD version coming soon which I am definetely going to aquire as I have been wanting to upgrade my 4GB anyway. Unfortunately, in grand Microsoft style, the new Zune is more of just a money grab rather than a significant update, apparently. Fortunately, in true Travis-over-the-top-fan-Bill-Gates-awesome style, I like the fact that they are going to charge me money for a product that is essentially the same because hey, I'm comfortable with it and know how to use it so why change it. Makes sense, right...

Thanks again to Penny Arcade for comic'ing all of my favourite things!

One too many mornings...

Stumbled across this...





need sleeped

My Halloween

This, sadly, is what my Halloween would have looked like, had I children. Thanks be to God for my celibacy!

Funny Stuff

So basically you have got to see these.


Here first

And then here