Today is Joe’s birthday.  We celebrated yesterday because, well, generally it’s easier to celebrate on a weekend than a week day. Although yesterday, for us, was still filled with our usual long ‘to do’ list, we did fit in some birthday fun.

Part of my gift to Joe was framing these two photos of him.  I knew he would never do it on his own, because, well, he’s just not the kind of guy who frames poster size photos of himself.  So, I felt it was my duty to preserve them.  They will make for a good story to tell the Grandkids some day.  They were rolled up under his desk and I snuck them away for the week (I knew he wouldn’t notice).

If you are as unfamiliar with video games, as I was, let me explain. These photos are being used as the game cover, posters, billboards and marketing, all over the world, for the latest version (due out in November) of the popular video game ‘Call of Duty‘ including a French magazine cover shot. J’adore cela!  Fun stuff, right?

It’s a shooter video game series with earlier versions taking place during World War II and later versions, such as this ‘Black Ops’, taking place in the cold war era.  If I did play video games, I would definitely play this one.  Yeah, that’s right.  He’s a badass.