A month or so ago, Mike bought a new game called, "Memoir 44"....it's a board game that involves strategy, little army men and tanks, cards, dice and the desire to talk about things like left flanks, recon and air superiority.

I am no discriminator of war related things...I've watched Band of Brothers 73 times and I like shooting guns. What else do ya want? But I have just not had the time nor the desire to set up my infantry units on the Memoir 44 board. However, my precious girly-girl has risen to the occasion...logging in quite a number of wins against her old man. I'll be walking through the house and all the sudden I will hear my 7 year old daughter saying things like, "I'm going to cut the wire and move in for my attack". Or, "I'll move my guys adjacent for an ambush....direct from H.Q.". My favorite: "You are getting routed, Dad!".

So tonight, I sat down with the two of them to see if I could pick up on what's going on in the dining room theater. So Abby starts explaining the game to me. She starts out by explaining something about a certain medic card, blah, blah, blah. And she says, "so Dad wiped out 3 of my men". My response to her, in my most compassionate motherly voice was, "well....that's not very nice".

She looked at me and with just a slight hint of scoffing, she replied: "Mom...it's war, OK?"

Just wanted to share some exciting news with you. Yesterday was the launch of the "new" AFHOnline.com! After 10+ years of operating as a web designer/application developer, I decided it was time to completely re-brand the vision of the business. I would tell you all about what that vision is....but how much fun would that be? Why don't you go take a look at the new AFHOnline.com and read about it for yourself!

While you're there, take a look at my portfolio of work....if you like what you see, please become a Facebook fan and/or follow me on Twitter so you can stay on top of what's going on @ AFH!

Thanks for taking a moment to celebrate the launch with me. One last thing....want to give a big shout out to the weather, which has seen fit to keep me shacked up in the house for 3 days straight, unable to perform any of my Club Amaro duties! And although there are always projects to do around the house (like keeping my bathroom sink clean), I always say, "if you've got 3 days, why not build a website?"

In the awesome words of Gus Portokalos: So there you go...

The conviction: Abby says to me, "You know mom...your bathroom does not have symmetry because your sink is dirty and dads is clean"

I will now be working hard to keep my sink clean, because I like a bathroom with good symmetry.