I know that many of you, like me, are deeply touched by the TBAA episode "Til Death Do Us Part."  Of particular note is the part where Andrew tells Jordan that he's glad the man was born.  Well, I'm very glad that Charles Rocket was born.  From the smallest things to significant parts of my life, he has had influence.  So I present...

- Every Halloween I get to spend 90 minutes pretending to be a kid again and kept in thrall by Dadcula, the Sanderson Sisters, and that dratted virgin who lit the black flame candle.  Also a talking cat.  And a zombie.  And Erin from "The Pact."  Not too shabby!

- I know some people thought it was paternalistic and prudish, however... I'm glad for the scene in "Fallen Angela" where Adam is troubled by Monica's strapless dress.  I found my way back to that episode right around the time I was facing pressure to dress a bit more flirty.  It just wasn't my thing.  And Adam gave me the push to stand up for myself and keep wearing my hippie stuff... and straps.

- Whenever something goes wrong in my house, I may still be frustrated and even weepy.  However, I can (and do) comfort myself with the knowledge that (Hallelujah!) I do not have a Steve Moscow-type involved.  It brings a lil moment of gratitude and a laugh to an otherwise whiny time.

- His performance in "An Unexpected Snow" just adds a lil more hilarity to all my turkey sitings.  This was especially so the time turkeys literally crashed my date.  Weirdly, I'd had the thought before that were Adam real, he would not have approved of that particular would-be relationship.  So it just made it all the more amusing when his beloved birds walked right into the date.  It was the last date.

- While John certainly made a massive impact in my life with his portrayal of Andrew, there are occasions when I find myself needing to imagine AODs a bit more like Adam.  Maybe it was the fact that he seemed so tall.  Maybe it was that he was so handsome and dignified looking.  For whatever reason, I found Adam a bit intimidating when I was younger and sometimes that's exactly what ya need to have in mind to keep ya from doing something stupid.

- While we can never be entirely sure how things would have worked out "if only", there is no way to guarantee that I would have been a TBAA fan let alone helped found JABB if not for Charles Rocket.  My earliest memories of TBAA involve the episodes "An Unexpected Snow" and "Fear Not!"  I was highly amused by Mr. Rocket's portrayal of Adam in the first and his gentleness in the latter.  Had those episodes not featured Adam, would I have kept tuning in?  I honestly don't know.  But there's a chance that I wouldn't have and that, as a result, JABB as we know it would not exist.  And because of JABB...

• I have friends all over the world and JABB has given others the chance to connect and befriend, too.
• I've traveled to places I would not have otherwise traveled.
• I know way more about computers than I ever did before... also way more than I ever wanted to know but  that's okay!
• Every two weeks, I get to help spread the messages that God loves us and that Life with Him goes on forever.

So, yes, I'm very glad Charles Rocket was born.  Happy birthday to him!


So as with last year, even though we're commemorating Mr. Rocket's birth, I'd like to give a lil attention to John Dye's work on TBAA, too.  Those of you on the YG got to hear about my misadventures with family members just stopping into my house... sometimes when I was there, sometimes not.  Because of that, I got to wondering just what sort of mischief might happen if the TBAA AODs started to feel comfortable just "borrowing" our homes.  True, they're much too polite to actually do that but supposing they did, here's...