3/12/25

Time got away from me, like once I got home I was did my lent cleaning and got caught up on memes real quickly during an episode of Doc, and worked on my October blog getting through Cedar Point and starting my grandpa's funeral all before 5:30, and made dinner no problem, but after chuck e cheese time just sped up, so that's why I'm late. Anyway, I had a chili for dinner and made mskate a kielbasa and potatoes. Shortly after dinner we went to chuck e cheese for the fun pass. When I played the tightrope unicycle game a toddler came up and wanted to play too, hitting the start button and trying to spin the unicycle wheel. She was too small to actually throw off my ability to control, but did throw off my concentration at the final obstacle. I did have to remind myself "you're a 31 year old man at a children's arcade, using a great deal promotion that costs you next to nothing in the end, and are just here for fun." Then with the quarterback challenge the game was in a "cycle through everything" mode; the 7-segment displays were going through all numbers, the running back targets were swinging in and out, the lights were going on and off, the football conveyor was indexing and not, and funniest of all every sound clip was playing in succession of probably where they are in the lookup table. Mskate did really well at the wheel of fortune game, winning 4 of the puzzles, and I did really well at the basketball game. When we got home I watched an episode of the Rookie and Night Court, and then I got kind of caught up in making commercial rants on reddit. Here they are, enjoy. Later.

3/11/25

A kind of calm day today. This morning disney plus wouldn't start (sometimes that happens) so instead of an episode of Goof troop I watched an episode of beetlejuice I recorded on my tablo from MeTV Toons. My grandma is doing poorly and so my mom is scheduling last rites for Friday, which is sad but at this point kind of expected. I dug out my balloon animal stuff to make some for her and the other residents at her memory care, and I made a couple test animals. The 15 year old balloons I had popped on first inflation, so I threw them out and opened my new bag from party city to make sure I still had it (which I do). Mskate and I went to chuck e cheese and it wasn't too busy today, and I won the jackpot of the unicycle game. I got to the "scary land" part of my October blog, which is coming along really well. I probably will end up putting a pause on that soon since mskate is getting enough photos scanned in to do the memorial video for my grandpa. I also had a bowl of my chili, not the best of my cheapskate "whatever meats, tomato sauces, and vegetables I have on hand" combinations, but still good enough. Later.

3/10/25

Some fun things today. Today instead of reading the bible I did my online ministry of a catholiccontriversy video about modern day false idols and how early Hebrews may have been confused in worshiping false gods through a modern context. I also uploaded my final "Tom Green on Amazon Prime video" video, a review of I Got a Mule and then put all the videos into a site page. Mskate and I also get buttons from Disney vacations and other things, and buttons won't work well on our pin board so I got one of my lanyards and hung it with our pin board to hang our buttons on. I also made a Jeriah nano block figure while watching Moonshiners and The Rookie. I also made a chili today to try to use up some of my sauces that are my base. Later.

3/9/25

Happy daylight savings time, spring forward was a little rough. This week was the week where mskate and I did coffee and donuts at church, so we basically rolled out of bed and went to get the donuts. We picked them up and went to the social hall, got the donuts all set up and made the coffee and tang. We left some things to set-up for our partner who goes to 11AM mass, but the maintenance guy decided to finish things up for us. Oh well. We went to mass and had a good time with God, and afterwards we served coffee and donuts to parishioners. After all that we went to BJs to get gas and diet coke. After BJs we went to Macy's because we have a gift card that needs to be used and after seeing a store with a going out of business sign we figured we need to use up the gift card soon. We got a cardboard page book for my grandma to read (she has dementia and likes to read things, but can't do too much so toddler books are good for her). After Macy's we went to Chuck E Cheese since we have the 2 month pass. Today I cleaned out my wife's car, folding the blankets and removing all the garbage and vacuuming the crumbs. For my "work on creative works" thing today I uploaded my review of Last One Laughing Canada. Between commercial breaks of Animation Domination I read my bible passages. Later.

3/8/25

OK, time for a very busy day. First thing first, I went to get my allergy shot. I got very far behind but now I'm all caught up, and having stayed over at the in-laws made it very easy to get there. Afterwards I watched some episodes of Cobra Kai with IRA before going to the party with my mom's best friend and her son's family. We drove about an hour and a half through the construction detour. We were the 2nd there. The son has a 6 month old baby, and she was kind of fascinated by me. When she noticed I was around she just fixated on me taking it all in. I don't know if it was my beard, hat with sunglasses on them, or my high viz jacket with a cartoon dinosaur on my shirt underneath, or some combination of all of it, but she always looked at me very inquisitively. Some times she reached out to me but then when I got close she recoiled, so it was like she wanted to see me and didn't. Later on she saw my rings (highschool, college, and grandpa), and I let her grab at them while I kept my fingers curled to make sure they didn't come off. Mskate was concerned they would fall off but I assured her they were on secure. Later on she was reaching for them again and I said "you can play with them when I can be sure you won't choke on them." We had pizza for lunch and I took on the task of figuring out the best topping combinations based on what everyone likes. Once the baby was taking a nap we played a game where we had to fill in the blank and try to match with someone else. Dad and I were neck and neck but then he won the "next point wins." The drive home was pretty tame, but when I got home I was quite tired. I did manage to do some cleaning, get a video out, and read my bible (though I'm getting this blog out the next day). Later.

3/6-7/25

Whoops, got really busy these last 2 days and now I'm writing this on my phone kind of like how I'd write entries on my ds browser and emailed to myself through hotmail. Thursday I did the cleaning of my house and reading the bible for real lent and wrote a lot with the September blog story. The thing that got away is mskate and I went to chuck e cheese and try to figure out what we're doing with my great aunt's passing. We got the chuck e cheese 2 month pass after having a good time with it over the summer. We go an hour or 2 before it closes since they close at 9 or 10 and most parents don't go to chuck e cheese at 7-10 at night, especially on weekdays. It's just less weird to do it at that time, especially since "that's when the weirdos come out" and one can't get too upset when "the weirdos come out." Strangely tonight, there was a 6 year old birthday party at 8:30 PM on a Thursday, not a very big party, but an official party that they got on the loud speaker saying "if you're with the party come get your pizza." Whatever.

Friday was kind of wild. We had to basically leave immediately after work because the funeral home visitation was an hour away without traffic and like 2 hours with traffic. As I was going home from work there was a train at the 2 crossings on my way home. I have 2 normal ways home, 1 through the downtown and 1 through the backroads. I normally take backroads since it tends to be less crowded, but if a train is at the crossing I'll take the downtown. Unfortunately there's also a train crossing at the downtown route, so I had to take the twice as long avoid the train route. Mskate made me a peanut butter sandwich because Friday of Lent. Mskate drove up to the visitation so I spent extra time reading my bible passages since I wouldn't be cleaning the house tonight. Read through 3 chapters of Jeremiah and all our devotions for lent in our little black book from church. The visitation was really nice. The funeral home was really big, and we got to see aunts and uncles we never see. Mskate has been scanning in photos from my grandpa's photo albums and brought some scanned photos of the aunt that passed. The relatives enjoyed seeing the old photos. Afterwards we stayed with the in laws since we were going to be close to a new thing tomorrow. IRA and I watched Cobra Kai since we both enjoy it, and I helped him get a wrestling game. Later.

3/5/25 Ash Wednesday first day of Lent

So with Lent I'm going to do work on my "big projects" every day, not necessarily a "Lenten sacrifice" since I enjoy this and it's just "don't be lazy about your ambitions," but it's like a "new years resolution" if you will since I have lots of projects I need to finish, and in these next 48 days I'm going to work on projects and get some of the big things done, and because I have this daily blog I started in college and kind of stopped using when I got a full time job with NDAs and not a whole lot else happening after that except for things worthy of full blogs, I decided I can talk about the things I doing here. With that out of the way, here's what I did after work.

So last night I watched the Presidential Congressional Address (or whatever the "not state of the union" is called), and I stayed up late to watch it. I slept in today and went right to work. I would have had one of my other paczkis but they're messy so I had toaster waffles with peanut butter since those don't make a mess and could be eaten in the car. When I got home I started my cleaning sacrefice. I don't like cleaning and I'm going to clean at least 15 minutes a day. Today I went through a pile of junk mail for 20 minutes. One chore I had to do was hard wire our printer and scanner; mskate needs to scan in things and our wifi printer is struggling to connect to the network, but it's close enough to the router that it wouldn't be unreasonable to run a cat-6 cable from the router to the printer. I went through my random computer cable box and found 2 6-foot cables that combined would probably reach the printer, and all I had to do was find my cat-6 coupler from my time in college. This wasn't in my random cable box, rather it was in my plastic shoe box container that I keep a roll of electrical tape and duct tape in under my one dresser. That description wasn't "I had to tear apart my house to find, why on earth was it there," I knew exactly where it was because I'm a cartoon character and that's just where I keep them. I was able to hard wire the printer and scan a test image, yay. For dinner mskate and I had our fasting dinner of perogies and broccoli. Later in the evening we went to ash Wednesday mass. Father talked about how he took a flower arrangement class in Japan to fulfil an art requirement or something in his homily, and how he can tell the difference between a bouquets that was assembled and arranged with purpose and a bouquet that was just just thrown in a vase. I'm going to remember that for when we have flowers in the church again at Easter and ask him for his analysis on the arrangements we have. I worked on my "fall blog" that is about my grandparents having problems, a cedar point trip, and family reunion in Evansville. I got 2 paragraphs done, and tomorrow I'll do even more. My great aunt also died, which is kind of wild. I wasn't very close with her but she always liked facebook posts I was tagged in, so there's that. The services are going to be this weekend and we'll figure out what we're doing probably tomorrow. Later.