6/20/25

Kind of weird day at work, a lot of people took a 2nd vacation day after Juneteenth, so it was kind of empty. I finished my cruise blog, so be sure to check it out. Funny thing, I have some clips that I wanted to use but they had copyrighted music, so I uploaded them to the meme site I use and used that as my video host. The quality is a little crunchy due to being compressed to less than 10 mb, but the main thing is the audio. I'm watching King of the Hill getting ready for the revival. Gotta get packed for a big trip. Now I'm just hanging out. Later.

6/19/25 Juneteenth

Today was a kind of basic day off. My work recognizes the day northern Republicans told southern Democrats "no more slaves" as a holiday for time off, which was nice. I spent most of the day putting media in my cruise blog and uploading the stock video. It's not quite ready for public consumption, but if you're reading this you probably know my other blogs, so if you want to find them early you can. Mskate and I went to see Elio, and it was a pretty good movie. I hope to get my blog done by the weekend. I decided I'm going to watch all of King of the Hill before the revival, so I watched some episodes of that today too. Later.

6/13-14/25

So yesterday was pretty calm. Mskate was with her parents because she was helping my side of the family. I had a stuffed pepper for dinner, and did a twitch stream after having not done one in a long time. I think I'll try to do more streams since I always get more twitter follows when do that. The big thing is that at night I went to the drive in theater and saw How To Train Your Dragon 2025 and ET The Extra Terrestrial. I was going to upload the review, but I got distracted and didn't. I got home around 2AM and I basically fell right to sleep, which was OK because I went to the movie in my pajamas like a lot of people who go to the drive in.

On Saturday I intended to do some activities, but I got the day started so late that it just kind of got away from me. I did get some online banking done, reimbursing myself for many different medical expenses from my HSA. I went to church today since it we're going to go to my parents tomorrow for my birthday and father's day. We also went to the grocery store and got some balloons for my dad and father-in-law. Something kind of a sign, I have really tall ceilings and like to release balloons into the ceiling whenever I get them, and we have balloons from my grandma's funeral up there right now. One of them was coming down and was floating around the condo. While we were in church it floated into our bedroom (I release them in the living room), and after it went back out into the living room it came back to the bedroom with the door closed. My grandma wants to be with us tonight. Later.

6/9/25

Today was kind of low key. After work I recorded the end card for my review of Lilo and Stitch 2025 (since I only recorded the review the night of). I also got it posted. Mskate and I had left over pizza from my birthday celebration with her family, and then I processed the remainder of the pizza for freezing. I also processed some of the meats we bought yesterday, the bratwursts and pork chops. Tomorrow I'll process the beef steaks and cook the shrimp. I then did a lot of writing for my cruise blog. I wrote the monkey excursion, the Belize excursion, and the first day where we shipped off. I still have our first day at sea, the evening activities after our port days, our 2 last days at sea, and coming home. In terms of "actual writing," I think I'm about 40%-50% of the way done, and then I don't know how much I have left for inputting pictures and video. I also got some of our packing for Friends for Life done, so there's that. Now I'm just watching Mashable Magic and Muscles, which will be my next toonami review. Later.

4/13/25

Today was a semi-emotional day. It was Palm Sunday and our day to do coffee and donuts. Palm Sunday was my favorite church holiday as a kid because it meant I got a "toy" during mass (the palm). Even as an adult I hold onto the palm the entire mass. Mskate and I got the donuts and set-up things before mass. Our church maintenance guy likes to help out I didn't recognize him at first after he got a major hair cut. After mass when we did the coffee and donuts it was super busy, we went through 2 pitchers of tang (normally we barely make it through 1), 2.5 pots of regular coffee (normally it's 1.5-1.75), and we went through almost all the donuts (normally there's half a dozen to one dozen left), and I had to do a lot of running around. I told our priest about how much I like Palm Sunday and why I like it, and he chuckled. After mass mskate and I went to Meijer to get a baby shirt for our "forever memory" build a bear to send with my grandma in her casket. We got a baby swim shirt and mskate made a cricut design for the shirt shirt like what my grandma would wear when I was a kid (it says "this grandma belongs to" on the front and then her 3 grandsons and the 2 wives on the back). Then I straightened my videogame room/storage room while also looking for some hair clips that mskate wants the bear to wear (which I did find). It's a very nice final gift now. Now I'm watching Animation Domination. Good Sunday. Later.

4/12/25, a special Easter day

Today was a very big day. I've talked about my grandma on hospice a lot, and today was our big Easter party for her. Originally we were going to do a party in one of the party rooms, but she can't leave her bed now, so we did the party in her studio apartment. We had my family, pepperBC's family, her best friends, and some old neighbors. We had pizza and accordion sing alongs. She can't really stay alert much anymore, spending most of her time with her eyes closed and head drifting over to the side, but today she held her head up a lot and/or opened her eyes, and said a couple of things to her best friend. After the party mskate and I went to the mall and we made a build a bear for her to take in her casket. We made a little message that plays when you press the paw, a modification of the same thing I said in the first build a bear I made for her over 20 years ago, but with mskate saying it with me. It's very meaningful for us since she really liked build a bear, always liking to dress it up in different outfits over the years. Making "the final build a bear" was very emotional, but it was a good thing. We also saw the Easter Bunny, and since mskate worked for Santa at Christmas and it's the same people who run Santa we were able to do it for a majorly discounted price (the manager said "this is [mskate], she can donate if she wants but we'll hook her up for free." Afterwards we got a free Rocky Mountain Chocolate cookie or Hagandas ice cream. I got the cookie and mskate got the ice cream. When I got home I saw a community post from yuriofwind (a creator I've followed for 10+ years and got some inspiration from in how I make videos) talking about his health problems and how it is probably the end, and so I made a tribute video to him. I didn't really realize how much influence he had on my videos until I saw that post. I tagged him on twitter and blue sky and hope he sees it. I was going to write a blog about the Easter party today, but it was too emotional and I was tired so I'll do it tomorrow. Later.

4/8-11/25

Things happened and didn't. Mskate stayed with her parents for some days while she watched my grandma and filled Easter eggs for a fundraiser she's doing, which meant that I was home alone. I made my cheapskate chili and had that Monday-Thursday. I went to Chuck E Cheese a couple of times and played the Halo arcade game they have. One night I played through 5 of the 6 levels and had a kid join in as player 2. Unfortunately I didn't get past the scarab in the final level before I ran out of credits on my card, so I had to go home afterwards. On another day I did "level select" and just played the final mission. One of the employees had a Freddy Fazbear pin on her lanyard, and I commented on how it's ironic to be wearing Freddy at Chuck E Cheese. I finally got my October blog done. I also found a new place to post to, subnano. They don't host videos, but the guy who made it set it up so I can embed videos, so I'm going to embed my rumble links. He posted about it on reddit and I found the post, and he said "I added the feature early because you asked for it." It's big thing is that you can do "pay per post," and I plan on using it as a way to tip my videos (video will always be free, but there will be an option to unlock a thank-you for the tip).

Tomorrow is going to be my grandma's last holiday since she's on serious hospice. We got some things packed up and prepared to have a good final celebration. I'll give details tomorrow. I also put smashed pennies in one of my penny books. Now I need to do a little extra cleaning. Later.