3/9-10/19

This weekend was quite fun. On either Monday or Tuesday my garage door opener broke. One of the brackets sheered off and the belt stopped driving the door. I located the part number and bought a replacement on amazon (thank-you prime) and had my dad and brother over to fix it (and rotate my mattress, and move the TV unit I got over the summer up from my garage into my unit). Dad and bro get here Saturday around 10 AM and we begin our work. I grab my tool bag and the part, and we start assessing the situation and how we'll go about this. We take the drive bar off and replace just the part that got broken. Well, that didn't quite work since it also required the thread pin that came with it (it was a slightly different size pin). About 40 minutes after and we get it fixed, so we think. We try it, and the door won't fully open. It kept stopping right as it was going up. At first we thought there was something that was getting caught on the track, and we did locate a portion that was out of alignment. We knocked it back in, but to no avail. Now dad figures there's too much friction on the wheels and tracks, so we go to the auto parts store for lube. We got a can of WD40 and a pound of grease. We were going to get a 5 ounce tube, but it was the same price for a pound (lower quality, but still effective). Now for a funny story. As we were checking out, some guy in a mechanic's outfit and grease covered hands, and asked my dad for help turning over his car. He was like "hey man, I need help turning over my car, can you help me?" and my dad said "uhhh, OK." The guy behind the counter said "I would have helped him, but whatever." My brother and I go out to see them working on this guy's car, and he had some funny thank-you stories about how "this is what happens when you let other people work on your car," as he drives away with exhaust coming out of the side of his truck. We had some laughs about it afterwards, and his logic of "well it's broad daylight and I have my sons with me, this can't turn out really bad." My brother and I cover the tracks in grease while my dad sprays the wheels with WD40. We used half a pound of grease, and we were glad we bought the pound of grease. Well that didn't quite work since it opened twice, but then stopped. Eventually we figured out the opener doesn't like to be opened multiple times in a row, and the job was done.

Between this ordeal, my brother and I rotated my mattress, because I was making a grove in it. We also moved the TV unit I got over the summer at a garage sale for free. It's one of those wood panel things where you put a CRT in the middle, can put a VCR above or below it, and then there are drawers for tapes and other things. I pulled one of my spare CRTs out from behind my VHS wall (I have a "hide in plain sight" thing with my VHS wall), and my brother and I put it in. It's great. After all this we went to a local bar where I bought my brother and dad lunch. It's this bar that has a unique variety of beer, and they like beer. We each had a beer that matches our tastes while talking about life and eating a lighter lunch. After lunch and some more time, we went to mass with my grandparents in honor of my uncle, and afterwards we went out to dinner. It was a good meal, and got to see everyone. Good time.

Now for Sunday. I met my girlfriend halfway between our cities for an afternoon of fun and exploring. We went to the outback steakhouse for lunch, and that was a good meal. I also showed her how to put more windshield wiper fluid in her car (I like being able to be her handyman, I've helped with other handyman chores in the past). After lunch we went to the mall in the city and just walked around holding hands. We went to some stores, and I helped her pick out some new ear rings (because she needed some where the backs wouldn't fall out, and I know my physics properties). It was a pretty empty mall, with a lot of vacant store locations, but there was a little arcade with "quarter in-quarter out" coin pushers. Since I have a coin pusher, I looked at them to see if it was worth playing, but after looking at them I said "no, those are not ready to pay out." We also took some pictures, because we wanted some pictures together. After the mall we went to get ice cream. That was fun. We did a little more exploring of the city, but didn't find anything else, so we just sat in my car listening to music. After 4 or so hours together, we went home. Apparently I didn't fully close the hood of her car, and it was rattling (she has one of those hood locks that keeps it from flying open if not fully closed). I got a concerned call on my drive home, and I explained what happened and how to fix it, and after stopping at the next exit everything was fine. That was my weekend. Later.

3/2-3/19

OK, so this was a semi-eventful weekend. I did laundry, and was expecting to do a little bit of video production. Well, then my toaster oven caught on fire. My coworkers and I went to Wahlburgers for lunch on Friday (because we were by one on a day trip) and I had left over onion rings. Well, they were REALLY greasy, and then I looked away and the grease caught on fire. I had to use my fire extinguisher, and pulled this little vlog out of it.


OK, so with that out of the way, the rest of my Saturday went pretty uneventful.

Now for Sunday. I went shopping. I bought a weight blanket, and kitchen window fan, and some consumables at the outlet store. Then I bought meat at the meat market. I bought more than I expected, planning just some bacon or something, but I bought like 15 pounds of meat. Yay. I got pork stew, and made a nice stew that lasts 3 meals. Also yay. I played a lot of stardew valley as well. I'm remembering why I love this game so much. Not much else to talk about. Later.

2/9-10/19

This weekend I basically cleaned. I needed to sort through my junk mail and other things I piled up on my couch, so I did that. I also cleaned my bathrooms. And I did my dishes. And I did laundry. And I emptied my garbage cans and recycling box. And did some Swiffer sweeping. That was a lot of what I did. I also cooked up the bacon I had, and now I have bacon for some weeks (still need to process it for long term storage, but it's all there). I also did grocery shopping, which was kind of needed (I would have survived, but I wanted some specifics like lettuce). I also rented some movies from redbox while I was there (lego ninjago movie, Jumanji welcome to the jungle, and Tomb Raider 2018 specifically). I also binged all of hulu's new series pen15. It was pretty good. I also figured out a new recipe, beef boiled potatoes; it's chopped potatoes cooked in beef juice for an hour. Super yummy. Later.

1/26-27/19

This weekend was kind of rough. On Tuesday I got what turned into a cold, and it hit me hardest on Saturday. I spent the whole day huddled up in my robe blowing my nose. I did record a peanut butter podcast with my friend ultranatic guesting (because we wanted to talk about Tom Green on celebrity big brother, and neither Bio nor I are well versed in reality shows, but he is). I also watched some movies that are getting ready to expire on hulu and crackle. The big thing I did was play "spot my friends" on the big skating nationals competition on TV. She had like 2nd row seats, and was on TV a lot. I made a game of taking pictures of mskate and her mom when they were on TV (video clips if the skater was doing a spinning thing in front of them). On Sunday my friend's daughter got baptized, and I went to that, even though I was a bit under the weather. I just abstained from hugging everyone. That's basically what my weekend was. Later.

1/12-1/13

OK, been a while since I posted one of these. So what did I do this weekend? On Saturday I recorded a podcast with bioshock infinite WD. I also went to see the Death of Superman and Reign of Superman double feature. I also tried out streaming. At some point I'm going to do more streaming. I also won a steam game from shitposting on a meme site I use, yay. I worked on uploading a backlog of fathom reviews. Wow, that was a lot. I had some trouble uploading to dtube, so I got them uploaded on Monday. Later.

11/16/18-11/18/18

This was a somewhat eventful weekend. Friday night was something. As I was driving home I went buy my local bowling alley, and someone was having a fund raiser that night; $20 for 2 hours of bowling with shoe rental, pizza, and pop included. I didn't realize all that was included, but I like fund raisers, and it's been years since I've been bowling (I think I was in high school last time I went). It was quite fun, and I got a lot of exercise. See, I didn't have anyone to bowl with, so I just kept throwing the ball down the lane for 2 hours. I managed to bowl like 6 strikes in the 8 games I played, and some spares that would have been strikes had I not thrown a gutter ball prior. What was great was I got basically a double in the 10th frame of one game, but I threw a gutter ball prior, so it was just a spare. Oh well. I also threw some "gutter ball glories" (double gutter balls), because I'm not that good. I broke 100 on my 2nd game, yay. The fund raiser was a girl scout project, and I had a little small talk with the parents about how I myself was in boy scouts. They were happy their signs worked since I think everyone else there were either friends or acquaintances. And it's not like it was a "rip-off;" I would happily pay $20 for 2 hours of bowling with shoe rental and pizza included even without helping a cause. I became sore afterwards unfortunately though.

Saturday was pretty good. I filmed an episode of the peanut butter podcast with Bio (watch here). Uploading was kind of crazy, because my power surged in the last 30 minutes so I had to splice them together and after a 1.6 hour render it didn't work, so I had to redo it, and then it didn't upload right the first time. Oh well, I still got it. Sky was also going to join us, but her power was out so it was just Bio and I. Hopefully next time. I also fried up some bacon, so that was good. I also went to church. I normally don't go on Saturday, but I felt like going. Not much else beyond that.

Sunday was good. I had the pareon call with Bio's and my "mutual friend." That was a fun time. I did some editing on my vidme documentary. I finished 2 of the parts (less some stuff I need to record myself) with one part that basically self-edited. I played some spiderman PS4. I went shopping and got some "clearance, at the sell by date" food in addition to what I went in for. Yay. Later.

10/26-10/28/2018 meating an internet friend IRL

First, sorry I've been distant. I've been busy with other things I forgot to do this. Anyway, time for the fun stuff.

First off, Friday night. Oh man, this was great. I met my internet friend Sky/Right. She and her husband were somewhat close to me for a medieval sword fighting thing. It wasn't much of Sky's thing, so we hung out basically all night. I got to the city before them, so I did some exploring. I went to the salvation army and found a SpongeBob game on PlayStation for 21 cents. Wow, that was a great deal. I also found a steal book of Deadpool 2 at best buy. Great finds.

Now for the fun. We basically hung out at her hotel for 5 hours. Like, we thought about maybe exploring the town, but there wasn't much that I found, and it was just fun talking. What was really fun was we discussed politics and religion in a very civilized, calm way. There are many things we agree on, but there are some things we disagree on, and the discussion of those things while using that which we agree on to explain our points of difference. It was REALLY fun, and I got to go back to the roots of catholiccontriversy (discussing religion and what I believe). We also filmed some videos, which you will see at some point. We did a video for my channel, a video for her channel, and just some vlogging fun.

Saturday was also fun. I had my grandpa's 91st birthday. My parents, brother, and I went to my aunt's to see Grandpa. We visited and did some chores for my aunt, but since I was so tired from the night before I took a nap. We went to church and I made sure my grandpa didn't fall. Then for dinner we had beef stew. Here's a good story, my aunt was wondering how much to make since she bought 3 things of beef; Grandpa said "make it all," and at the end of the meal it was all gone. It was a fun little time together.

Sunday was quieter. I basically did some chores around the house. I'm not a complete and total slob, but I have a high tolerance to mess. Just a typical bachelor, just without the empty beer containers (I prefer wine, because I'm classy like that). I also went to McDonalds for lunch, to buy happy meals, because Pokémon toys. I bought 2. They accidentally gave me Hello Kitty toys, so I had to exchange them. I also went through my coupon envelope removing the expired and putting in the new ones. Later.