Andrew Coody

Welcome (Back) to My Blog!

Welcome (Back)!

It has been a long time since I’ve written a blog post, and an even longer time since I’ve really wanted to blog. I’m back in college and a particular course I’m taking right now requires weekly journal entries, so that kind-of stirred back up the desire to blog. I’ve had blogs — many as you’ll read below — and I’ve been active and inactive over different seasons in life. I think I’m at a point where blogging is a good hobby to pick (back) up.

What Will I Find?

Similarly to my prior blog posts, you’ll find a varied amount of content — things about work, school, home, and yes, even politics and religion. The whole point of the blog title I’ve kept all these years is that this is about me, who I am, and what’s going on in my life.

A Quick Blog History

I made the decision this morning to reinstate my blog on WordPress. Nothing against Google (I love them, and they my information), but Blogger is one of those many applications Google could have made a shining star, but they’ve neglected to make any significant updates to it. Why am I mentioning Blogger? Well, in the many years I’ve been online I’ve equally had many blogs on WordPress (.com and .org) and Blogger. I got away from WP for a while when I had to cut ties financially with my own web hosting and started using Blogger. Well, all of that is over, I’m back on WordPress and have consolidated all my blogs together — a new, active one and the old posts in a separate, but identical looking archive blog. You’ll notice two categories at the old blog: OB1 and OB2 (meaning old blog 1 and old blog 2). The first category is my very first WP blog (which itself was condensed a long time ago), and the second category is my Blogger blog. This is only to distinguish the historical postings with new posts, which are categorized as NB (for new blog). Plus, this makes it feel much more succinct (even with gap-years) because it’s all me.

The TL;DR version: Go to the my archived blog to read my old posts and subscribe to this blog for all new posts.

Thank you for stopping by. I hope you’ll subscribe and come back!

Andrew

Stan Lee

It is with sadness to write that Stan Lee, the creator of the Marvel Comics universe, has passed away today. This is a quick blog post just to share my condolences to his surviving family. His comics and resulting movies have had an impact on me, and on many past and current generations — future included.

Excelsior!

p.s. I know I’ve not written in a loooong time. I’ll get back to it soon.

Peach Cactus

Check out the new co-blog I’m doing with Danielle!

Peach Cactus

http://blog.peachcactus.com

STAR WARS

On occasionally I’ll go to Hobby Lobby with Danielle when she wants to look around or get some stuff. Within the last month or so I have found these awesome wall art MDF movie poster prints for the STAR WARS movies. Originally, they had only the original three (4, 5, and 6), which I bought, and I think they just started carrying the latest three (1, 2, and 3), which I just got the other day, too. So, now I’ve got all 6 of them and will be hanging them up soon! I’ll post another pic of them hung up later.

I did a search and comparison on all 6 of these prints and #4 and #5 are not identical to the original movie posters, but they do have key visual and focal elements relevant to the originals. No matter all 6 of these are authentic/commissioned by Disney (I still say Lucas Films) via the “official” stickers on the back — that’s good enough for me.

I can’t wait till December for the sequel trilogy to begin! May the Force be with you!