Happy birthday to me

Good evening friends. Thank you to everyone who made the effort to wish me a happy birthday today. It's been a really great day despite the fact that I'm in the middle of one of the most hectic ministry weeks I've had in a while. If you remember to, please pray for me as I have 4 distinct services crammed into three days this coming weekend.

I'm going to keep it brief tonight - I have nothing deep or profound to say about God, life or the human condition. I spent my day working, attending meetings, in a choir practice, and for the last couple hours playing video games to veg out. Nothing has come out of that experience that has moved me to write. However I do have a commitment to keep with regards to Transformers - so here are today's entries.

I present to you the twins: Skids and Mudflap. These two deluxe class toys are from the 2009 Revenge of the Fallen (ROTF) movie line. You may remember the characters as the double-dose of Jar Jar Binks-ish ridiculousness in the second live action Transformers movie. As characters I couldn't stand these two - and they (IMHO) are one of the reasons that ROTF was a horrible movie (a horrible movie with Transformers, mind you), but as toys these two were pretty cool.

Modeled after two concept cars, the Chevy Beat and Chevy Trax, they were nearly identical in vehicle mode but through unique transformations and interesting character designs they ended up quite different in robot mode. Interesting fact: neither the Beat nor the Trax made it into production; both becoming victims of GM's bankruptcy and restructuring. However the Beat concept was tweaked and refined and later introduced again as the Chevy Spark which is set to go on sale in North America at some point this year.

I'm listing two Transformers today - one for the 16th and one for the 17th (we'll say the green one is for St. Patrick's Day) because I couldn't just write a blurb about one of them without the other. After all they're twins.

Remember to wear your green tomorrow.
Chris