All my anticipation is linked to food or drink, imagine that! I am trying this whiskey I had not had until recently, High West double rye, and it is very good and drinkable. Whenever I decide at some point during the day I deserve a glass in the evening, my general mood skyrockets. I also saw someone mention making…

I’ve settled into a weekday routine: the furry alarms wake me up before my actual alarm, so I feed them and then play video games or check the news for about an hour before I start work. Then I go wake up my partner (not because she needs to get up, but more on her request so that she has a semblance of a schedule…

I have been re-watching Brooklyn 99, making my way to the new episodes in the 2nd half of Season 7. I feel like I have been binging puzzles more than TV recently. I got gifted a couple dozen 500 piece puzzles, not depicting anything particularly interesting, but they are just difficult enough to take up about 3 hours…

A mix of Control and Death Stranding. I am currently preparing myself to trek out to the wild white yonder in Death Stranding, so I am delivering my last pizzas and collecting the golden boots and whatnot necessary for that journey. In Control I just finished the first part of the first mission in the Research…

A friend and I once tried baking an apple pie together but forgot to add the water to the cinnamon sauce(?) mix that goes over the apples, so it was more like a drizzle and we ended up with a bunch of baked apples in a crust. It wasn’t bad per se, but it certainly wasn’t good either so we had enough of it after…

I had 5 weddings and 2 music festivals I was planning on attending this summer and fall, all of which I think will be postponed/cancelled. The only long term plan I have been thinking of is my long dreamed of trip to Germany and Austria. I am not setting dates or anything on that one, but I am doing things like…

7 was the first Resident Evil game I ever played and also the only time I stayed up until almost 3am playing a game and scaring myself. Definitely a blast and made me want to play the remastered RE games that have been coming out.

I did not have a console growing up, so my old favorites would be PC games like Heroes of Might & Magic series and hours spent in the Civilization series. I got the Spyro Reignited Trilogy as something my partner and I could play through, as we both had fond memories of it, only to realize we had only really ever…

Now that I have my music studio more or less set up, I just need to fiddle around Cubase so I learn more about it’s functions and have a smoother work flow when I finally do settle on a project other than just noodling around. I got new Sonos speakers the other day, which are way nicer than my TV soundbar, so those…

Since Death Stranding’s main area is much larger than I first imagined, I will be continuing to work on that game. I am currently hiking around MKC in Episode 7 trying to raise my affinity there before moving on to the next large city area. If I get bored of that, I will play some Control where I just finished the…

I similarly live in a small-ish apartment, so the only physical additions I have made recently are adding some high up shelves and ceiling hooks to put the house plants out of reach from the cats. We are redecorating our spare room, which was mostly just an extra bed and my home office crammed in one corner. We are…

My partner is/was a yoga instructor, so she often has zen wisdom to share. I have been taking the occasional virtual yoga class with her which I suppose sometimes allows me to approach a zen state. However, I find it works better when I just listen to her class and nap in the sun with the cats instead of doing the…

I would say the biggest life lesson I have taken from this is to stop waiting on and putting off things, which is ironic as sometimes I feel like all I am doing in a given day is waiting for this situation to be over. I have taken my extra time and funneled it into some creative projects I have put on the back burner…

Regarding Parasite, I had wanted to see it since it won Cannes last October (I really liked Bong Joon-Ho’s direction from seeing The Host and Snowpiercer), and finally convinced my partner to see it when it won several Oscars. It is a great movie and I immediately understood why it deserved to win over 1917 (which I…

My buddies and I had the most successful online poker session yet on Friday! (Successful in that a lot of people joined, and the app and Zoom all worked for us. I definitely lost all my money - but one of my friends on unemployment won the pot, so I feel better about that.) Then for Easter morning a good number of our…

Still working at Death Stranding, usually playing for an hour and listening to music during my lunch breaks during WFH 2020. It’s extremely relaxing therapy now that I have almost all the roads built, coupled with the nostalgia from listening to my old playlists.  It’s been a highly satisfying payoff to a game that…

All my outdoor activity comes from my pre- and post- home work hours walks. Most hiking trails in near me are still too snowed in for me to want to try hiking them. But with all the nice weather recently, maybe the snow melt will be accelerated this year and the trails will be accessible early on.

Distractions: I did a…

My weekly burrito from my favorite food truck is definitely a highlight and makes me feel like I am doing my part to help them stay open.  

Coffee is probably the top of my list these days. While my partner is currently unemployed, she is an industry worker with some lines on the best (and free) whole bean coffee ever, and can still get it from local shops that don’t know what to do with their inventory. She also has been getting nice bottles of wine for…

I want to try out the new Doom game, but also I don’t know if it can ever top the high of feeling like I am Risky Business sliding all around with periodic mutilation breaks that I got in Doom 2016. It’s just a clean game with simple pleasures.