8/24/25

Today was pretty good. I went to church yesterday so I stayed up a little later than normal and slept longer than normal. I watched some TV and waited for mskate to get home. I cleaned her cpap equipment while she went to mass. I also went through some junk mail and one of the things was a free lottery ticket with the state lottery, so I walked down to a gas station at the corner and they weren't able to do the promotion, so I walked to another gas station where I was able to get my ticket. It was an hourly drawing so I walked to the gas station to see if I won, I didn't. Oh well. After mass and some resting mskate and I went to a local laser tag place since they had a free laser tag promotion today. On our way there we stopped at A&W since we had coupons. Mskate had a root beer float and I had 2 double cheese burgers. At laser tag we got our free laser tag tickets and got a $10 play card for $7. The fun thing with the laser tag is all the vests were given the names of Smash Bros characters. I got what I thought was Isabel but it ended up being Palutena. Oh well. I ended up getting 2nd place best player that match because I'm just really good at laser tag. Afterwards we played some arcade games, mskate played connect 4, I played a skeeball bowling game (where I got 2 strikes and played 2 bonus rounds and got 82 tickets), a piano game, and a centipede game. We didn't get any prizes this time, but do have a little over 1000 tickets so next time we can maybe get something. Afterwards we went to chuck-e-cheese to use our daily 40 points where I played skeeball, dunk the clowns, subway surfer, and this hop game that I'm really good at and got 3 jackpots. I think I got over 300 tickets this time, and that's not exactly easy. Afterwards we got 3 plastic rings for the easter egg fund raiser and a sticker sheet for friends for life. Later in the evening I made a baked potato and a porkchop for me and a sausage for her. I then ended with watching Bobs Burgers on Adult Swim since there wasn't animation domination on FOX tonight. Later.

8/20-22/25

Lots of things happening but also not much. On Wednesday I went to Chuck E Cheese and had Wendy's beforehand. Then I went on a rosary cruise with my church. My mom and aunt joined me, so that was fun. Everyone asked where mskate was since she wasn't there, and I let them know she was at a skating thing. Thursday was pretty good. I went to Chuck E Cheese and then enjoyed a quiet night in watching some TV. Friday was pretty great. Normally now I'm supposed to have a meeting at 3PM until 3:30 PM, but it was canceled and my boss let me go home at 2, which was great. Before it got too late I went skateboarding, and I haven't been able to do that much this summer. I went to Chuck E Cheese and found that I can get over 100 tickets a trip if I play certain games that I can go pretty consistently at 6-10 a game, and at 40 games a day I can get 240-400 a day. Later that night I did some cleaning, going through mskate's expired medical supplies and disposing of it. I also found my Kwik-E-Mart pin and Universal Studios penny book, so that's great. Some time next week I think I'll wear my pin to work since it's a nametag with my name on it. Now I'm just watching TV and trying to clean out my DVR. Later.

8/15-18/25

Decided to cover everything I've been doing last weekend. On Friday the wife and I went to the drive in to watch Freakier Friday after going to mass for the assumption of Mary. It was a pretty good sequel, I'll be uploading that at some point. On Saturday I finished my Disney summer blog and watched TV, I also got all my images from Disney uploaded to my shutter stock, some of which are available for purchase. It's not exactly something I'm trying very seriously, but I enjoy taking photos and it's cool being able to do something with them. I think I also paid off all the credit cards and transferred to my savings. Mskate and I also went to BJs and got ribs, 2 slabs. I made my rib brine, vinegar and apple juice with a little bit of "not made in china" sauce and let them soak. We also checked out a new entertainment center that just opened up, and while it is a pretty cool place it's really loud (like you have to yell in your party's ear so they can hear you) and the prices were outrageous (like $1.50 per game), so we don't think we'll go there very often. That evening we had 1 of the slabs of ribs. Sunday we went to mass and mskate had a catechism open house afterwards. In the afternoon we went to Chuck E Cheese and bought our 2 month pass. This time the 2 month pass was successfully added to our account. Our CEC changed things up, they made a section that is all rides and a play place (no longer trampoline zone), and then all the games were in the other section. They also got rid of the simpsons soccer game, coin pusher (that regularly broke down), and the roller coaster simulator (that's now just a small thing). They also got some other prizes, which is good since we do an easter egg fund raiser and need prizes, and low value chuck e cheese prizes are good egg fillers. Since FOX had some sports thing they didn't have cartoons, so I watched adult swim instead. I also had half a slab of ribs that were brining for a day, which tasted pretty good. Monday we went to Chuck E Cheese again, and made the last of the ribs. An annoying thing though is half of the ribs didn't cook all the way through, so I had to cook them in the oven. Now I'm getting some stuff on TV caught up. Later.

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.