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.

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.