Howdy!

I recently watched the trailer for James Cameron's (who is an AMAZING director!) new film, "Avatar" the plot looks great, the direction looks amazing, the actors are all good choices, and it is in a NEW form of 3D! This movie has Epic Win written all over it. I showed it to Mrs. Regulator and she now wants to see it, so I guess the two of us will have a date night when it arrives in theatres. I suggest to you all that you look it up, this film looks to be extremely good, so I am now very excited.

Gaming wise I have been heavy into Mass Effect as I await the arrival of Mass Effect 2 which looks to be another great game. I got an achievement for using one of the characters throughout most of the game, I am glad I got it...The character, Garrus, has a great attitude but he tends to: get killed a lot, get in the way, and shoot you in the head-with allies like that who needs enemies? I am quickly learning the joy of my characters with biotic (Mass Effect's version of magic) skills, Liara and Kaidan when fully trained with lift can turn a battle into a turkey shoot. Needless to say, I love that. I am also hard at work at Tenchu Z (level 36/50) and eager to get started back up on Dead Space which I played for 1 hour, but loved the hell out of it.

My wife, mom, and people from our church went to a baseball game last night. The Pittsburgh Pirates actually won, I am still in shock over that. We were in the "all you can eat" seats, which pretty much sums it up. You get unlimited nachos, burgers, hotdogs, salad, icecream, and soda. I eat lightly and didn't feel well so I had two things of nachos, a burger, and some ice cream. We had a nice time, the folks at church are nice, I don't get to see mom as much as I used to, and spending time with Mrs. Regulator is always a plus.

In other good news, I am up to running 3.2 miles a day and I feel great doing it. Mind you I will ride 10 miles on my stationary bike first, run 3.2 miles, walk a bit, then ride the bike again as long as it adds up to 60 or more minutes of solid exercise. I highly reccommend it, you feel great, lose weight, and get healthy.

In conclusion, I got to give it up for the American people, we have finally had enough and are telling our elected representatives that we are in charge (after all, in a democracy the PEOPLE are in charge!) The government is trying to ram down our throats a horrible health plan which will in time cost too much money and sacrifice care. The people in my nation are waking up and telling the government to STAY OUT! After all, our Constitution says nothing about the Government being our "nanny." The US Constitution limits government to the following: National Defense, regulation of trade, negotiation of international treaties, and keeping the states together. Needless to say, the US Government is NOT supposed to give aid unless in dire national emergency, provide funding for pet projects, and well...GETTING INVOLVED IN YOUR LIFE! Much respect to the American people for letting the Government know where their place is. So I leave you all with a quote from one of America's greatest heroes, one Benjamin Franklin:

"They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety."