Saturday, December 3, 2011

Let's blow off the dust... maybe transform this blog into something else...

Well, I got all nostalgic and decided to begin again with the writing on my blog...

It is the feast day of Saint Xavier, and at my house (a house filled with good Catholic men, titled Xavier house) we have celebrated. We had a feast and some basketball, then today we go play some football, and we finish it off with more food (but no feast.) I pray that Saint Xavier watches over all men who have lived in this house and gives us the courage to be the evangelists God wants us to be.

Nerf has fallen to the wayside in my life, I'm afraid. It has fallen away to airsoft (with no small part from concerned members of my church, whose gym we use as an arena.) What is airsoft? It is like nerf, but more realistic, more spaced out and it hurts worse. I'll put up some helpful links if you are curious. In essence, airsoft allows for one to experience all the fun parts of combat (shooting at people, tactics, cool military gear) without tacking all the other, less fun parts of combat (severe injury, death, PTSD, etc.)
   Kind of in the same topic: Airsoft is now being suggested by military psychologists to help those who come home adapt to the civilian life, and also to help those with PTSD to heal their scars. I cannot tell you how many men (I'm sorry, I have seen few women who do airsoft) I have seen who do airsoft.

airsoftpacific.com 6 part series of airsofters