Last week I was listen to Adam Curry’s PodFinder podcast. From that episode I learned about a podcast called JediTrainer.com, which is about the ancient Hawaiian practice of Huna. I subscribed to the show and downloaded all the past episodes. Yesterday afternoon, on my train ride home from work, I was listening to the first show where Pohaku explains a little bit about Huna and then gives some homework. The homework was for the listener to create a blue feather with their mind. That being, if you think about a blue feather as often as possilbe for 24 hours, then you will eventually see a blue feather somewhere. Once this happens it proves that you are in control of your own world. Ok, so this is a very simplified explaination, but the point is that your thoughts control what happens to you.

So, after listening to this first show I spent a couple minutes thinking about a blue feather. Then I put on some music and picked up a newspaper that someone had left behind on the train. Now here is the interesting part… This is the very first thing I saw when I opened up that newspaper.

It was the little feather icon that first caught my attention, but the quote next to it was what really got me. Now I have yet to see a blue feather anywhere, but then maybe this is my blue feather or as close as I will get to seeing one. Either way, it freaked me out a little.

This weekend I finished the 6th book in the Harry Potter series, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. I enjoyed this one as much as the others and can’t wait for the 7th book. I do have a theory about something that happened in this latest book and want to put it down in writing now, so I can look back in a couple years to see if I was correct.

WARNING: If you have come across this post and have not read the 6th book, then be warned! I’m about to discuss some spoilers that you will not want to hear.

With that said, I have a thought about the death of Albus Dumbledore. I’m not convinced that Professor Snape really killed Dumbledore. I am thinking that the whole situation was pre-planned by Dumbledore and Snape and here is why.

In the 6th book there was a lot of focus on the six years students learning how to cast spells without speaking. Snape proved that he was able to cast spells silently. So, maybe he is also able to say one spell, but think another and control which one really goes off. I know the spell’s effect was described to be the same as the Avada Kedavra curse, but was it really that spell? We also found out that Snape was the Half-Blood prince and invented a lot of new spells. So, I think Snape created a spell that looks like the Avada Kedavra, but really does something else to fake the death of the victim. Hence, the pre-planned faked death of Dumbledore to make Voldemort think one of this greatest enemies is dead.

Now, I could be totally off and Dumbledore is just dead. We will just have to wait and see.

Nanny, Papa, Erik, and Tamie are currently on vacation in Cancun, Mexico. They are staying in a resort right on the beach. Now, the unfortunate timing of this vacation has to do with hurricane Emily. Sunday night/Monday morning Emily passed over Mexico’s Yucatan peninsula, just a little south of Cancun. In Cancun, she was a class 5 and kicked up winds around 135mph. But that’s not even the crazy part of this experience for them.

They went on vacation through a package with Funjet Vacations. When the hurricane was approaching, all the other vacation companies moved their clients off the beach and relocated them to safer locations inland. But, Funjet decided that their people should stay on the beach. Now I don’t believe much of an explanations was given, so this seemed crazy to the dozens of people left in the mostly empty hotel. Needless to say, my wife was on the phone a lot with her mother trying to help them figure out what they could do about this situation. Well, they ended up finding out, late Sunday morning, that the hotel they were in is a certified hurricane shelter. They still tried to find different accommodations inland, but were unable to find someone willing to take them. So, they rode out the storm in their original hotel.

Everything ended up fine. We heard from them the next morning and they were all safe and sound. I hope they are able to enjoy the rest of their week on the beach. I don’t think the storm ended up doing too much damage, for a hurricane that is.

Boy, it has been awhile since I added any posts. There are a few things I have wanted to add, but have not found the time or creative energy to do so. I guess I’ll just give a quick preview of the things to (hopefully) come.

1. A few sketches from the sketch book I bought for Quincy a couple weekends ago.
2. The continuing coolness of my Smartphone (music, headphones mod, Bluetooth,…).
3. My return to PodCasting via iTunes
4. Bluetooth headphones… I want some!!!
5. And probably something else I’m forgetting.