Emma and the broken arm...

It's funny in life, I have been waiting for my daughter Emma to break her arm for years but she has been lucky. But not anymore........

It seems that she has been sporting a small stress fracture for some time. I guess she had been complaining as far back as January. But this is the first I have heard of it. She must be like her old man and have a high tolerance for pain. So they put a cast on her arm and then she went back to school.
     I don't know what she is going to do about Dance. Dance is the one thing in her life that she loves and she does quite well at it. She has a Duo with Miss Katie, I hope that the cast will only be on for a couple of weeks and will be off by the dance recital.
Update: After speaking to Emma her follow up is in two weeks, hopefully she get a good report and have the cast removed before the dance recital. I think this is the last year that Miss Katie is dancing because of High School Basketball and Track. So this duo will be her Swan Song hopefully Emma will be ready.

Ultimate Nerdfest Weekend for Emma and Me!

     This past weekend was the Ultimate Nerdfest for Emma and I. First it started out with a stop at New England Comics in Malden, MA. to pick up our pull list for the past three weeks. It was .......

The place was packed. In the back they had a couple of local comic book writes that wrote the books Healed. This book explained what would happen if every disease was cured in one day. There are 5 issues in the series and they are eye opening. They were also pushing their new book called Baby, what would happen is a kind of baby Godzilla came to town. We each picked out our two free books and got in line.
     After finishing there we went to Quincy to another NE Comic Store that was having a Signing by the Gentleman who did the FCBD book of The Tick. While I was there I noticed in the back a Moonstone Comic of Kolchak, but what intrigued me was that Barnabas Collins was also on the cover. What a cover, Kolchak , The Night Stalker and Dark Shadow's Barnabas Collins. I had to have it and it was mine. My daughter picked up some Dr. Who buttons and Lego Figures. I think we will be making another trip to that store again when its not so busy.
     It was getting close to the time that we had to be at the Thomas Crane Library. The Library was hosting

Hosted by the Nerd Fighter group of Boston. Have I missed something? What the hell is a Nerd Fighter? According to Emma they are a group of young people who bask in the glory of being a nerd. Back in my day we called ourselves "The Nerd Herd". Just a bunch of kids who liked comics, sci/fi movies and Dungeons and Dragons. I was shocked when my daughter asked me to sit in the Library Cafe while the movie was playing. I was kick out of a Nerdfest. Me, Roger Trujillo, The O.G. (Original Geek). Hell, I should have been worshiped for paving the way for Nerddom!  I don't think I have ever seen Emma so happy after this meeting of the minds. She wasn't so different for other kids, there are other who read like she does, there are others who like Doctor Who and there are other who write Fan-Fiction.
     We left there and proceeded home to feed my parents. We quickly fed my parents, grabbed Luke from The Meadows Basketball Court and went to The Movies! We went to see Iron Man 3.

Let's just say that the movie was AWESOME! But the best part of the movie came when .....SPOILER ALERT............ Tony popped out a one shot repulsor ray to zap a evil villian. Both Emma and I shouted at the same time OOOOHHHH! in unison. Not one other person said anything but we got a huge laugh afterwards. It was really a unique feeling to know my daughter was thinking the exact same thing.
     Those two kids are the greatest thing that came out of my failed marriage. I would go through that miserable existence I had again so that I would have my two kids. I don't know what the future holds for me and the kids but I can not wait to see whats going to happen.