Wait seriously? We’re d—this is happening? W—I need to talk to somebody’s manager about this, I have a life. Memo #1 I am a lot of people’s belligerent optimist friend; when you toss me a bummer, I crack it open like a Big Mouth Billy Bass and jam the speaker playing Don’t Worry Be Happy…
Febloguary 2024, Day 1: Wishlisztomania
No hell no, I’m kidding, Febloguary is not a thing, I haven’t played a video game after work in a month. BUT THE MUSE IS UPON ME, and when she calls, we answer, because we can’t remember if we cleared out our voicemail so there’ll be room for her to leave a message. For now:…
Bloganuary 2024 Bonus: MEMEMEMEMO
WELL, BUDDIES AND BUGBEARS, Bloganuary has come to its natural and preordained end, like a re-watch of The Golden Girls or a funeral led by a director to whom it matters that some of us are still living and would like to go get a hamburger, please. Here, have some memos. Memo #1 There is…
Bloganuary 2024, Days 28-31: Big Oinge Deal
Good afternoon you scooberts, you soon-to-be-waffles in the hot iron of life, and welcome to my first foray into the DAUNTING DECIMAL DEMESNE KNOWN ONLY AS TOP TEN TUESDAY, famously hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl. FIRST, A BRIEF UPDATE RE: THE LOCAL FELID GENTRY. This oinge guy showed up: Obviously my first instinct was…
Bloganuary 2024, Days 24-27: J.R.R. Wokien
SURPRISE DECEMBER 2023/JANUARY 2024 MONTHLY OTHER PURSUITS LIST! I realize that it is no longer technically what one might call “technically” “December”. But did Scrooge—Ebenezer—Beez Nutz—not say that he would keep Christmas in his heart all the year long following his visitation by those proletarian poltergeists? There was no December 2023 Other Pursuits, largely because…
Bloganuary 2024, Day 24: The NasPect™️
Memo #1 We are not an alcohol family, generally speaking; between our combined family histories of addiction, our various medications, and my status as a mostly-lapsed Baha’i, there’s just not a lot of room in our lives or our life together for the drink. Plus? It very rarely tastes good, or at least good enough…
Bloganuary 2024, Days 20-23: Three Footnotes = One Meternote
The memo-format was well-received (by me, who found it easy and fun to write while watching the new Frasier and eating a pizza), and so it will continue; you have been warned, and today I have four memos. Memo #1 Okay, listen, it—there’s this “pay in four” thing, right? And the—so, what ha—long story short,…
Bloganuary 2024, Day 19: Voyage of the Sea-Slut
I have three (3) memos today. (Also I am definitely not stealing this format from my m8 glecharles and his remarkable blog, and any suggestion to the contrary would be both illegal and mean) Memo #1 TODAY IS MY FATHER’S BIRTH-DAY. He was born on this day in 1947, on a chilly winter’s day in *checks…
Bloganuary 2024, Day 18: The End Of Forever (Feat. Notes)
I GOT MY OWN DANG TOPIC TODAY, HAMBONE. As of this year–twenty and twenty and four, by some reckonings–I’ve been using the note-taking app Evernote for a decade; the first time I ever asked the green elephant to remember something for me was during a game of 4th Edition D&D at me mate Steve’s house,…
Bloganuary 2024, Day 17: A Dense Mystery-Soup
I CAN AND I WILL, MONTRESOR, although but briefly; today saw the release of the first two Golden Sun games on the Switch’s Game Boy Advance service, and I am hype outta my dang gourd to…djinn up some trouble??? I came out of my office today with my depleted Goofatron™️cells trailing behind me like just-married…