I also live alone. My apartment is pretty nice, though. I’ve never felt cramped in here, and I try to keep it pretty clean. I don’t feel like it’s air-tight, though? I don’t mean that it gets drafty or that my heat or A/C leaks out. It’s just that things always find a way in here.

My complex is right on a creek, and…

One of the nicer things about working from home is the freedom to do chores any day of the week. Normally I wind up doing a whirlwind of cleaning and laundry all on a given Sunday, but now I can kinda spread it out throughout the week.

I can feel my resistance breaking down. I am probably going to buy Animal Crossing soon. It has reached critical mass across multiple friend groups, and I am starting to convince myself that maybe it will be fun. Maybe, having never played a proper AC, there is something beneath the surface I have missed. Maybe the…

I’m staying in touch through text and Discord mostly. Twitter to a lesser extent. I’m not on Facebook or Instagram anymore. At some point it will probably serve me well to start calling people just to hear voices. I have a few friends that I’m in a party chat with regularly while we play games, but the rest has all…

This looks like an easy pickup. Reminds me of Burnout’s crash mode but in an office setting. I’m curious if there are any extras or challenges after you complete all the main levels.

Feeling extremely fortunate to still have a job. That’s kind of it for me? Finally got a county-level SIP order. I had the realization the other day that there’s really not a lot to look forward to at this point. In fact, things are probably going to get worse.

Haven’t really cooked anything new, but I did have to use a different kind of tomato sauce for spaghetti than what I’m used to, and let me tell you, that was harrowing. I also made egg salad for the first time in a while, and I forgot how easy that is. Definitely should do it more often.

I go running a few times a week, and every time I see so many people out walking around the neighborhood. Whole families walking together, parents watching their kids play in the creek. Someone had set up a soccer field with mini-goals in the nearby park and seemed to be playing just with their young child. I try to…

My mom texted me on Saturday to say our family’s Airedale had been acting mopey and not eating well, which is definitely concerning. She’s 11, so pretty old for a bigger dog. Mom gave her a pain pill after that, though, and updated to say she was better on Sunday back to having a spring in her step. Sounds like she…

That’s a good lookin’ rancho you got there, Mike.

That’s a good lookin’ rancho you got there, Mike.

Beyond keeping in touch with my closer friends, I’ve also been trying to reach out to other friends that I don’t talk to as much, a different one each day. Feels good to check in on folks.

As for keeping worries away, I’ve tried to have Twitch up more than Twitter. It helps, mostly. Even the streamers can’t help but…

please tell me you’re joking

I’ve been putting Twitch on while I work. Maybe not as productive as music, but it’s fun and my work isn’t terribly taxing at the moment.

Is Spotify worth it? I’ve always just looked up music and songs on YouTube when I’m not on my home PC. I listen to a lot of podcasts on my commute and just use the podcast app for…

I started re-reading the His Dark Materials trilogy back in October. I’d just started watching the show and I had a suspicion that it wasn’t doing as good of a job with the story as it seemed. Those books reminded me what a page-turner is. By comparison, I stopped watching the show after 6 episodes (Episode 7 had the…

Having done the quest, this post is correct. I don’t know if it’s because guns like this are advertised to season pass holders, but this is like the fifth exotic quest in a row that has been some combination of doing public events and other patrol errands, followed by completing a slightly tweaked version of an…

If you jump on the shelf to the right of the book case first, you can mantle up into a crouch on the top shelf.

It’s been a good time to drop back into Destiny, right at the start of a new season. It’s kind of a lot like the old season, though, so I don’t know how long I’ll stick with it.

There are other games that I have on the burner, too, like Kentucky Route Zero. I’ve played the first two acts and love how dense it is. And…

It’s been a good time to drop back into Destiny, right at the start of a new season. It’s kind of a lot like the old season, though, so I don’t know how long I’ll stick with it.

There are other games that I have on the burner, too, like Kentucky Route Zero. I’ve played the first two acts and love how dense it is. And…

Oh this looks good. Very glad to see new powers. Guess it figures that the Founder would show up at the Foundation, too.