Not much to talk about Saturday, so I'll just talk about Sunday.
I basically spent all Sunday with my parents, doing fun things. They came down to my place around 8:50 and we went to church at my church. After church we played Monopoly Empire. It's a really fun take on monopoly. After monopoly we went to lunch at big boy. Dad and I each had big boy burgers and my mom had chicken tenders. After lunch we decorated a gingerbread house I got on sale months ago. It didn't come with candy, so we raided my stash of expired candy, and it turned out really well. After the gingerbread house we played ms pac man on my arcade machine. It was a really fun day. Later.
Tuesday, March 3, 2020
Sunday, January 12, 2020
1/12/20
Ahhh a relaxing day. I woke up after a long and restful night of sleep. I went to church like normal, though I had to brave the elements since there was a major ice storm before and everything was frozen over. I still managed, and I played DDR as my exercise later in the day. I finished binging 10 Things I Hate About You, and it was a good series. I also watched The Fate of the Furious before it expired. It's a good movie. I resumed my penny sorting, and it's fun. I made beef and vegetable soup, which was good. I might do a little bit of cleaning of my nerd cave later, but we'll see what next. Later.
Saturday, January 11, 2020
1/11/20
Today was productive. I mopped my garage, because I haven't done it in half a year and it needed the cleaning. I also got into my nerd cave and the main thing I did was go through my college "things" bag. What did I find? Half a dozen or so plastic twist ties, HDMI caps, an eraser, 3 pairs of sun glasses, an aluminum bar, a brass bar, loser lottery tickets, Toys R Us rewards card (RIP buddy), GameStop rewards card, cards from care packages, candy tins, eye glass cleaning cloths, my impromptu Halloween costume of a normal distribution, a dozen or so safety glasses cleaning wipes, a pair of safety glasses, the screws from the light switch panel I replaced, the pendent for my honors fraternity, and $91. I'm a regular sitcom character. I also baked a pound of bacon. I also started rewatching 10 Things I Hate About You on ABC Family/FreeForm. I remember watching this 10 years ago as it was airing and loving it so much because it was Moze from Ned's Declassified, and the principal from Max Kebles Big Move, and teenage challenges that, while not directly relatable because I didn't partake in those kinds of shenanigans, I still found the situations understandable and myself in some of the characters seeing that I was the same age as the characters. I also never really finished the series for some reason I don't remember. I think it had something to do with changing the time slots and lack of reruns. I also watched Fant4stick. It's a terrible Fantastic 4 movie, and a terrible super hero movie...but I don't think it's an all out terrible movie. I think it's a passable sci-fi movie that has some super hero elements. There was also some really heavy rain that I used to clean my car (free car wash), and flooded the road trapping me in my condo all day. Later in the evening I was able to go to the bank and deposit the $91. Later.
Thursday, December 26, 2019
12/26/19
Today was a simple, crash back to reality type day. After a mostly restful night sleep, my one smoke detector started chirping at 5:30. Luckily it was one of my "low ceiling" smoke detectors, so I only needed my step stool to reach it. I was able to change it, and then went back to bed for another hour and a half. When I woke up for real I had my breakfast and watched some hulu. I changed the rest of my low ceiling batteries with the batteries I had, then later in the day I bought some more 9 volt batteries and filled a prescription. I was able to pay for it with one of my Christmas gift cards, and so I told the people that gave me it "I used your gift to buy my health and safety," which they enjoyed. I processed my food gifts from Christmas so they are in their proper spots pantry organization wise. I also started charging my new cordless handheld vacuum and cleaned my stairs. It is the ONLY way I can get them clean, and for that reason I have never cleaned them in the time I've had this place. The dust bin was really full by the time I finished. I played some super monkey ball (new game) and Days Gone. I also watched 2 fast 2 furious, fast and furious Tokyo drift, and furious 7. The weird thing about furious 7 is I watched a DVR recording from FX and they rated it TV-MA, even though the movie is rated PG-13. I guess because it's pretty violent it's on the edge of PG-13 and R, and TV is a little more strict than movies, but it was still weird. I also needed to check my TV stands for the one my grandpa can use for his new TV, and I thought I would need to somehow get one of my nerd cave stands out with the help of my brother or someone, but then I remembered I have my DDR TV in my garage and that is the largest stand I have, and I can handle it myself, and it's a little too big for my garage, so it's perfect. I also wrote most of my Christmas 2019 blog, which won't come out until all my Christmas festivities are over. Later
Monday, December 23, 2019
12/23/19
Today kind of sucked. I set-out to get some chores done, mainly clean my cast iron pan and prepare and prepackage the vegetables for my beef and vegetable soup recipe while I watch Durarara. First the cast iron pan. Since I cooked bacon in it there was some pretty stuck-on grease, and since you can't use soap on cast iron I decided to loosen it with boiling. Well it got out of hand and started boiling over. I rush it to the sink but still spilled a lot of water. That was a mess I didn't want to clean up, but I did. Well then to dry it good I decided to use heat, aka put it on the burner and boil off any water. Well something was still on it because it started to smoke, REALLY bad to the point that it set off the smoke detector. When this happens I get the pan out on my deck where it can cool and smoke go off into the sky. To get rid of the smoke I turned on my air filter and set-up my window fan and turned on my furnace fan (just to suck-up the smoke and send it to the filter. Well the window fan kept falling out of my window and making a BIG noise on the table it kept hitting (it also dented the wood of the table, which sucks).
Now for the vegetable prep. Chopping up the vegetables wasn't a problem, but I put a lot of the onion and garlic skin and carrot and celery tailings down my garbage disposal. Well that ended up clogging my disposal, to the point where water wouldn't go down. Trying to work the disposal did something to it where it started leaking out the bottom, so now I have a leak under my sink. I put one of my 2 gallon buckets under it to catch all the water, but it was really annoying. I bought a pipe snake and tried snaking out the drain, but I couldn't find the part that went to the piping and where the clog was. I tried using a plunger on it, but the clog was SOOO tight I wasn't able to get any pressure down it. I poured drain cleaner in the backed up water, and fished out what I could with the snake, but it wasn't doing any good. I would turn it on intermittently but all it seemed to do was spin water around. Eventually the clog loosened up and drained, and now it seems to be working, but it was touch and go for a little bit, like I thought I was going to need to call a plumber over on emergency. At this point I'm just not going to use that side of the sink until after the holidays and I can get a plumber to fix it.
Now what of Durarara? Well something happened with the hulu app on my TV and the episode got caught in a loop, resulting in me watching the same episode like 4 times. Since I was a bit preoccupied I didn't really notice, and I thought it was one of those "we're stuck in a time loop" things, but no, I watched episode 19 like 4 times, and on the 4th time I said "OK, I know I've seen this episode before," and when I went to the show page it took me to episode 20. I'm tired. Later.
Now for the vegetable prep. Chopping up the vegetables wasn't a problem, but I put a lot of the onion and garlic skin and carrot and celery tailings down my garbage disposal. Well that ended up clogging my disposal, to the point where water wouldn't go down. Trying to work the disposal did something to it where it started leaking out the bottom, so now I have a leak under my sink. I put one of my 2 gallon buckets under it to catch all the water, but it was really annoying. I bought a pipe snake and tried snaking out the drain, but I couldn't find the part that went to the piping and where the clog was. I tried using a plunger on it, but the clog was SOOO tight I wasn't able to get any pressure down it. I poured drain cleaner in the backed up water, and fished out what I could with the snake, but it wasn't doing any good. I would turn it on intermittently but all it seemed to do was spin water around. Eventually the clog loosened up and drained, and now it seems to be working, but it was touch and go for a little bit, like I thought I was going to need to call a plumber over on emergency. At this point I'm just not going to use that side of the sink until after the holidays and I can get a plumber to fix it.
Now what of Durarara? Well something happened with the hulu app on my TV and the episode got caught in a loop, resulting in me watching the same episode like 4 times. Since I was a bit preoccupied I didn't really notice, and I thought it was one of those "we're stuck in a time loop" things, but no, I watched episode 19 like 4 times, and on the 4th time I said "OK, I know I've seen this episode before," and when I went to the show page it took me to episode 20. I'm tired. Later.
Monday, November 11, 2019
11/9-11/19
This weekend was really eventful.
Saturday was really fun. I went to pick-up a thing from mskate's parent's because I was going to see her on Sunday. It was fun seeing her family. After that I went to my parents house before the next activity, picking up my grandparents to see my friend play pro-hockey. Picking up my grandparents was an ordeal. We were supposed to just pick them up, but my mom was in a rush to get them out the door and that lead to her locking the keys in the house. She told my grandpa not to bring his keys "because I have a key," but then she left her purse in the house. After closing the door "where's my purse?" Thankfully since they rent we were able to call the association and get them to open the door, after 30 minutes in the cold. I picked up my mom's purse AND my grandpa's keys, because "we're being safe now." I had to sit in the 3rd row of my parent's journey because I'm the smallest and youngest, and it was not a comfortable car ride. We picked up my mom's friend along the way.
The game was fun. I'm not a big hockey fan, but I enjoy stadium concessions (cheese fries and mozzarella sticks) and seeing my oldest friend achieve his dream goal of playing for the pros. He's not on like a top team, but it's not highschool or college level; their name is on the stadium and they have real sponsors and season ticket holders. It was really cool watching it, and since my grandparents serious problems walking we got front row handicap seating. Since I was in a semi-obstructed view I stood most of the game. For this reason I was almost hit in the head with a stray puck in the last 5 minutes of the game. It was like 5 feet away from me. This was the second time I was almost hit by a stray sports object and one of their family member's games. The last time was at his brother's highschool baseball game where I was almost hit by a stray foul ball, so now I'm a little scared to go to their games. After the game he came out and said hi to everyone, and he was asked for an autograph. He took pictures with the family and close friends, and when he took a picture with me I mentioned how it's been 21 years (we're 26). Drive home was uneventful. I slept most of the way to my grandparents and parents house, which I needed because I had an hour drive home.
Now for Sunday. I went to church like I normally do, and then I deposited a check which while not ordinary was a pretty normal activity. However immediately after church and check I headed down to meet mskate halfway for a day trip. It's about an hour trip for me, and while I was going down I stopped at McDonald's for a happy meal to get one of the 40th anniversary toys. I primarily wanted one as a cubicle decoration, because I enjoy decorating my cubicle. I unfortunately missed out on the promotion so I got an Incredibles 2 toy. Oh well, it'll still make a good cubicle decoration. Mskate and I went to Panera Bread for lunch, and I realized after the fact that I could have gotten extra points if I activated the promotion. Oh well. Since she was feeling a little under the weather we just went to see Maleficent Mistress of Evil. It was a pretty good movie, I just wished I had my gift card. After Maleficent we went to a Tim Hortons-Cold Stone location. She got an iced coffee and I got vanilla with an Oreo and Butterfinger mix-in. As a bit of a "food connoisseur," I knew I needed to not only pick flavors I liked (like, I wouldn't get banana ice cream or almonds because I don't like them), I needed flavors that would complement each other (chocolate ice cream would overpower most of the mix-ins), and that's how I knew I needed to use a vanilla base (a simple flavor that would complement whatever I put in it), and then picked Oreo and Butterfinger (2 flavors that would contrast well with the vanilla without being too strong).
Monday was pretty calm, if not mildly disappointing. Since it was the last official day of the Happy Meal Anniversary promotion I decided I would walk down to my local McDonalds and see if they had any. I put on my shoes and lite jacket because that's all I really needed for the last month, but then I opened the door and saw an inch of snow. It took like a minute to process that I was really under dressed for it, so I just stood their in my doorway thinking "it's snowing, I was not expecting this, what should I do now?" I decided to put on my winter gear and still make the trek. Unfortunately for me my McDonalds didn't have any more of those toys. I remembered I needed to do some grocery shopping, and so I went shopping. I picked-up bread and lettuce, and then did some impulse shopping. I'm running low on ketchup so I picked some up, and since Heinze 57 sauce was in the same aisle I picked that up. I knew I wanted to do some cooking with ground beef for things like spaghetti and meat sauce, taco, and sloppy joe, maybe meat chili, so I picked up 3 pounds of ground beef. Since chuck roasts were buy 1 get 1 free I picked up 2. Having just ran out of bacon, I picked up a pound. I also ran out of string cheese, so I picked up that as well. Now for a problem, I get to self check-out and realize I didn't have my wallet. I ask the attendant to cancel my order while I run home to get my wallet. I got my wallet and finished checking out.
After grocery shopping I decided to try some other McDonalds around me to see if they had the toys. Unfortunately they didn't, so I went home defeated. I had bacon lettuce and egg on toast for lunch. It's really good. I filmed some "Art Analysis with Dr. Pokematic" meme videos, and I was going to do all 3 for memevember, but after 2 doing the Dr. Pokematic voice was causing my throat to get sore, so I'll have to film the 3rd one on Tuesday. I got caught up on Dragon Ball Super on toonami, which was great, and now I'm caught up on toonami series. I also did some chores; dishes, laundry, and cooking and processing the ground beef. I was going to make a batch of gluten free brownies, but then I just said "not enough time left." Bio and I were going to record an episode of the peanut butter podcast on Monday, because he was unavailable Friday and I was unavailable Saturday and Sunday, but then he became unavailable Monday as well. Lucky for me our friend Ultranatic was available and we had a good time talking about the topics I wanted to cover (Seasame Street Lost and Found event, my dollar movie theater closing down, playstation vue ending, and a vidme 2 electric boogaloo story), and other fun reality show and content creator things. Different friend, different areas of interest, different flavor of podcast topics. Plus, right before we started recording he gave me an idea for what the intro gag should be, which I ended up using.
All in all really good weekend. Sure there were some disappointments, and a near serious injury experience, but overall I still had fun. Later.
Saturday was really fun. I went to pick-up a thing from mskate's parent's because I was going to see her on Sunday. It was fun seeing her family. After that I went to my parents house before the next activity, picking up my grandparents to see my friend play pro-hockey. Picking up my grandparents was an ordeal. We were supposed to just pick them up, but my mom was in a rush to get them out the door and that lead to her locking the keys in the house. She told my grandpa not to bring his keys "because I have a key," but then she left her purse in the house. After closing the door "where's my purse?" Thankfully since they rent we were able to call the association and get them to open the door, after 30 minutes in the cold. I picked up my mom's purse AND my grandpa's keys, because "we're being safe now." I had to sit in the 3rd row of my parent's journey because I'm the smallest and youngest, and it was not a comfortable car ride. We picked up my mom's friend along the way.
The game was fun. I'm not a big hockey fan, but I enjoy stadium concessions (cheese fries and mozzarella sticks) and seeing my oldest friend achieve his dream goal of playing for the pros. He's not on like a top team, but it's not highschool or college level; their name is on the stadium and they have real sponsors and season ticket holders. It was really cool watching it, and since my grandparents serious problems walking we got front row handicap seating. Since I was in a semi-obstructed view I stood most of the game. For this reason I was almost hit in the head with a stray puck in the last 5 minutes of the game. It was like 5 feet away from me. This was the second time I was almost hit by a stray sports object and one of their family member's games. The last time was at his brother's highschool baseball game where I was almost hit by a stray foul ball, so now I'm a little scared to go to their games. After the game he came out and said hi to everyone, and he was asked for an autograph. He took pictures with the family and close friends, and when he took a picture with me I mentioned how it's been 21 years (we're 26). Drive home was uneventful. I slept most of the way to my grandparents and parents house, which I needed because I had an hour drive home.
Now for Sunday. I went to church like I normally do, and then I deposited a check which while not ordinary was a pretty normal activity. However immediately after church and check I headed down to meet mskate halfway for a day trip. It's about an hour trip for me, and while I was going down I stopped at McDonald's for a happy meal to get one of the 40th anniversary toys. I primarily wanted one as a cubicle decoration, because I enjoy decorating my cubicle. I unfortunately missed out on the promotion so I got an Incredibles 2 toy. Oh well, it'll still make a good cubicle decoration. Mskate and I went to Panera Bread for lunch, and I realized after the fact that I could have gotten extra points if I activated the promotion. Oh well. Since she was feeling a little under the weather we just went to see Maleficent Mistress of Evil. It was a pretty good movie, I just wished I had my gift card. After Maleficent we went to a Tim Hortons-Cold Stone location. She got an iced coffee and I got vanilla with an Oreo and Butterfinger mix-in. As a bit of a "food connoisseur," I knew I needed to not only pick flavors I liked (like, I wouldn't get banana ice cream or almonds because I don't like them), I needed flavors that would complement each other (chocolate ice cream would overpower most of the mix-ins), and that's how I knew I needed to use a vanilla base (a simple flavor that would complement whatever I put in it), and then picked Oreo and Butterfinger (2 flavors that would contrast well with the vanilla without being too strong).
Monday was pretty calm, if not mildly disappointing. Since it was the last official day of the Happy Meal Anniversary promotion I decided I would walk down to my local McDonalds and see if they had any. I put on my shoes and lite jacket because that's all I really needed for the last month, but then I opened the door and saw an inch of snow. It took like a minute to process that I was really under dressed for it, so I just stood their in my doorway thinking "it's snowing, I was not expecting this, what should I do now?" I decided to put on my winter gear and still make the trek. Unfortunately for me my McDonalds didn't have any more of those toys. I remembered I needed to do some grocery shopping, and so I went shopping. I picked-up bread and lettuce, and then did some impulse shopping. I'm running low on ketchup so I picked some up, and since Heinze 57 sauce was in the same aisle I picked that up. I knew I wanted to do some cooking with ground beef for things like spaghetti and meat sauce, taco, and sloppy joe, maybe meat chili, so I picked up 3 pounds of ground beef. Since chuck roasts were buy 1 get 1 free I picked up 2. Having just ran out of bacon, I picked up a pound. I also ran out of string cheese, so I picked up that as well. Now for a problem, I get to self check-out and realize I didn't have my wallet. I ask the attendant to cancel my order while I run home to get my wallet. I got my wallet and finished checking out.
After grocery shopping I decided to try some other McDonalds around me to see if they had the toys. Unfortunately they didn't, so I went home defeated. I had bacon lettuce and egg on toast for lunch. It's really good. I filmed some "Art Analysis with Dr. Pokematic" meme videos, and I was going to do all 3 for memevember, but after 2 doing the Dr. Pokematic voice was causing my throat to get sore, so I'll have to film the 3rd one on Tuesday. I got caught up on Dragon Ball Super on toonami, which was great, and now I'm caught up on toonami series. I also did some chores; dishes, laundry, and cooking and processing the ground beef. I was going to make a batch of gluten free brownies, but then I just said "not enough time left." Bio and I were going to record an episode of the peanut butter podcast on Monday, because he was unavailable Friday and I was unavailable Saturday and Sunday, but then he became unavailable Monday as well. Lucky for me our friend Ultranatic was available and we had a good time talking about the topics I wanted to cover (Seasame Street Lost and Found event, my dollar movie theater closing down, playstation vue ending, and a vidme 2 electric boogaloo story), and other fun reality show and content creator things. Different friend, different areas of interest, different flavor of podcast topics. Plus, right before we started recording he gave me an idea for what the intro gag should be, which I ended up using.
All in all really good weekend. Sure there were some disappointments, and a near serious injury experience, but overall I still had fun. Later.
Sunday, September 22, 2019
9/21-22/19
Sorry I've been away so long, need to get back to this.
This weekend was very productive. On Saturday I went shopping at the meat market and Ollie's bargain outlet. Mskate heard they sometimes have these special activity/toy books for good prices and I said I would have a look next time I went. I got her a Dora book and Beauty and the Beast book for her clients for a great price, and then I did some shopping of my own stocking up on soap, shampoo, glass cleaner, and snacks. I always seem to buy more than I intended when I go there, but I only buy consumables so it's not like my house is full of nick-nacks. I also had some coupons for the meat market, and stocked up on meat. Once I got home I realized I still have plenty of meat, but I have a deep freeze so it's not like I'm losing anything. I also cleaned my bathrooms, which needed some TLC.
On Sunday I organized my kitchen some (mainly straitening out my pile of bags I use as trash bags) and cooked some of the meat I got at the meat market (bacon and hamburgers, yum). I also went to church like I always do, and after church stopped at the grocery store to get some frosting (and I picked up some perogies, just because I wanted some). Why did I pick-up frosting? Because I was going to try home made donuts again. Last time I tried them they turned out too heavy, too much flour not enough wet ingredients. This time I used a little extra milk and double the egg (basically made a half batch but with the same amount of egg). They turned out much better this time, and the frosting made them even better. I still have some experimenting to do, but I'll be ready to make my gluten free ones for mskate on Thursday. Yay.
Now for "online persona" stuff, because I got a lot done as well. Friday was the scheduled Area 51 raid (look up Area 51 raid if you don't know the meme). I memed it with these 2 images. The first was "I'm here to see aliens and play steam game, and I don't have steam game."
Then I made this one saying "Some Secrets are better left unknown."
I'm always one to join in on the meme trend.
I also got a lot of videos made and uploaded. I got an anime review on Digimon Frontier and a Toonami review on Promised Neverland uploaded. I recorded and uploaded a catholiccontriversy video on EyeOfSol's latest conundrum. I recorded and rendered my Toonami review for Sword Art Online Alicization and Fathom review for Promare. If I don't upload them tonight I'll get them up tomorrow. Felt very productive this weekend. Tomorrow I'll process my meat as well, because I have a lot to process and it'll keep in my fridge. Later.
This weekend was very productive. On Saturday I went shopping at the meat market and Ollie's bargain outlet. Mskate heard they sometimes have these special activity/toy books for good prices and I said I would have a look next time I went. I got her a Dora book and Beauty and the Beast book for her clients for a great price, and then I did some shopping of my own stocking up on soap, shampoo, glass cleaner, and snacks. I always seem to buy more than I intended when I go there, but I only buy consumables so it's not like my house is full of nick-nacks. I also had some coupons for the meat market, and stocked up on meat. Once I got home I realized I still have plenty of meat, but I have a deep freeze so it's not like I'm losing anything. I also cleaned my bathrooms, which needed some TLC.
On Sunday I organized my kitchen some (mainly straitening out my pile of bags I use as trash bags) and cooked some of the meat I got at the meat market (bacon and hamburgers, yum). I also went to church like I always do, and after church stopped at the grocery store to get some frosting (and I picked up some perogies, just because I wanted some). Why did I pick-up frosting? Because I was going to try home made donuts again. Last time I tried them they turned out too heavy, too much flour not enough wet ingredients. This time I used a little extra milk and double the egg (basically made a half batch but with the same amount of egg). They turned out much better this time, and the frosting made them even better. I still have some experimenting to do, but I'll be ready to make my gluten free ones for mskate on Thursday. Yay.
Now for "online persona" stuff, because I got a lot done as well. Friday was the scheduled Area 51 raid (look up Area 51 raid if you don't know the meme). I memed it with these 2 images. The first was "I'm here to see aliens and play steam game, and I don't have steam game."
I also got a lot of videos made and uploaded. I got an anime review on Digimon Frontier and a Toonami review on Promised Neverland uploaded. I recorded and uploaded a catholiccontriversy video on EyeOfSol's latest conundrum. I recorded and rendered my Toonami review for Sword Art Online Alicization and Fathom review for Promare. If I don't upload them tonight I'll get them up tomorrow. Felt very productive this weekend. Tomorrow I'll process my meat as well, because I have a lot to process and it'll keep in my fridge. Later.
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