9/12-14/25

Friday was really fun, I went to Cedar Point with my mom for our annual amusement park trip. I'll be working on getting that out within the week. Saturday was kind of simple, mostly driving home, and then that evening I sold tickets for my church's Octoberfest raffle. Sunday I did coffee and donuts and went to mass. Mskate sold tickets before and after both masses. In light of the recent church shootings and Charlie Kirk assassination, I've started bringing a baseball bat to church in case things go south. According to mskate, there was a crazy woman disrupting the homily and going to the priest at the 11AM mass that one of the off duty cop parishioners got her out of the building, and if she was at the 9AM mass I might have been stepping in instead brandishing my baseball bat and forcing the individual out. After mass I filmed a couple of catholiccontriversy videos that I plan on uploading this week. I fried up 3 pounds of bacon, and went to chuck e cheese, and filled up on gas and bought ground beef to make stuffed peppers. They turned out good. Now I'm watching a new episode of Doc and later will watch The Great North. I've been pretty shaken by the Charlie Kirk assassination; not as much as other commentators, but I've been basically listening to nothing but coverage of the case which is pretty wile. Later.

8/30/25-9/1/25 & 9/6/25-9/7/25

Sorry, got a little busy last weekend and didn't write it. Friday night I went to see Jaws 50th Anniversary rerelease at the drive in, with Blues Brothers as the 2nd feature. Saturday was really fun. We went up to see PepperBC and her family, and meet her boyfriend, who if he stays around will be PepperAD since he is basically "gender swapped PepperBC." It was really fun, mskate and I got to the restaurant first and while we waited I played club kino, and won $2 on a $1 bet, yay. Everyone showed up kind of at the same time, and we had lots of fun getting to know him a little, and not try to scare him off since our family can be a little intense. After the restaurant we walked around the downtown a little, going to the new arcade and playing some games. I played an Elvira pinball game and it kept glitching and giving me free games, so while the buy in was on the expensive side ($1 instead of 50 cents like back in the day), but I played like 3 times and got high scores and put my name on the leader board. I also played Ms. Pacman on a cocktail table; I thought it was a multi-cabinet since the table top had multiple games displayed, but it was just Ms. Pacman. It's not exactly a bad thing, I like Ms. Pacman, but I have a Ms. Pacman cocktail table at home (and I'm not talking 1UP, I have a real coin-op commercial arcade cabinet of Ms. Pacman and Galliga 35th Anniversary). After the arcade we went to the candy store and got some bulk candy, and I didn't realize that the candy was price separated so I had to sort it afterwards. After the candy store we hung out at my aunt and uncle's apartment. Sunday was pretty tame, we sold raffle tickets for our church's Octoberfest celebration. Afterwards we went and saw the accordion friend and helped her with some things around the house, mainly getting her phone set-up since it had some problems.

Now for this weekend. Saturday was pretty fun. We went to a birthday party for our friend's 7 year old daughter. It was pretty good that we went, because I brought my balloon animal stuff and the dad didn't plan party activities, so all the kids made fun with the dogs and swords I made them. I'm pretty good with balloon animals, but not a big balloon artist that can do all sorts of things; I can do dogs, cats, rabbits, giraffes, swords, and giraffe hats, but that's kind of it. One kid asked me for a turtle, and I'm like "uhhhh, OK, let's see, a turtle is an oval, with a little hump in the shell, with a tail, here we go, your imagination can believe this is a turtle, right?" He said yes. Then another kid wanted a polar bear, I couldn't think of how to make a polar bear. I offered all the other things he could have but he wanted a polar bear, and then got sad that I couldn't make him a polar bear. His mom then worked with him and he wanted a turtle too; ok my second ever turtle. The presents were fun, lots of Stitch stuff that we missed the memo on. We got her a paint by stickers book that got her excited, and a water game where you try to get the balls in the buckets. Unfortunately it was leaking so we had to get a replacement. Sunday we went to mass and mskate was selling raffle tickets. Ever since the Minneapolis shooting I've been bringing my self defense bat to church, and the ushers asked me what I was up to (not aggressively, they know me and that I wouldn't cause problems, but just like "hey bro, what crazy thing are you doing now"), and they appreciated my willingness to protect the congregation. After mass mizorlover and I went to chuck e cheese for his birthday celebration. We got a pizza and played the games, and did really well on the Jurassic Park game, and with all the tickets we had I got a hello kitty hot dog stuffed animal for mskate. I also started a little packing for our upcoming Disneyland trip, mostly getting the food packed and some clothing. I also uploaded my video on Carlo Acutis and my own connection to the Eucharist. I also got my vlog of universal studios uploaded. Later.