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Apr 29, 2024: This is quite the beast of a tome! Really close to, oh, 1300 pages of content. Should be fun. 😂

Apr 23, 2024: I’ve got this weird infatuation with Lisps (clojure, elisp, etc) and enjoy trying to learn more about them. I guess this is the next logical …

Apr 12, 2024: This Elephant Ear plant and I both feel about the same way, currently.

Apr 10, 2024: This is quite possibly my favorite page from any of our Doctor Seuss books.

Apr 7, 2024: Took the youngest to a playground he’d been asking to go to. I hadn’t realized how cool the shadow of the tree looked when taking the …

Apr 4, 2024: If it’s one thing that I do miss on being keto, it’s tasting the fruits of my labor. Now if only I could get the guts to start my bakery.

Apr 1, 2024: Slowly but surely getting a 4K personal digital library ripped to storage. :-)

Mar 29, 2024: Took this during my noon walk, thought it was a really pleasant looking sidewalk. Made things more enjoyable.

Mar 23, 2024: Okay, time to stop buying stuff for a bit. This is one of those things where you kick yourself for not getting it a decade ago.

Mar 21, 2024: I didn’t change things much - the uncropped version of this image has been my phone background through many years.

Mar 20, 2024: The physical media collection continues its growth!

Mar 19, 2024: A bit of sidewalk spray paint art work on the local path. I can tend to agree with the sentiment sometimes

Mar 18, 2024: Got the cat a place to scratch around on. Hopefully he uses this as opposed to our walls and floors.

Mar 14, 2024: With all of this talk of blogrolls, methinks I’m gonna need a blogroll of blogrolls. 🤣

Mar 13, 2024: Family puzzle time! This took us far too long, but then we have very little family time to work on things like this.

Mar 12, 2024: Not sure which cup this is today, but I’m not a fan of this tiny mug. Cameron’s Coffee Highlander Grog, though, is amazing. ☕

Mar 10, 2024: Took quick shot of a poster advertisement for a play of “The Giver” at a local spot. Thought it looked kinda cool.

Mar 9, 2024: Just a basic self portrait of somebody who knows better than to post self portraits.

Mar 8, 2024: I like texture and this is a decent example of such. Just some tree bark.

Mar 7, 2024: This sucker is finicky! Oh, any resemblance to a well known character is totally coincidental.

Mar 6, 2024: Yeah, so I’m a sucker for cool looking model kits. I don’t know when I’ll actually get this built.

Mar 5, 2024: I was pretty stoked to find a decent used hardback copy of this one! Dunno when I’ll get to it though.

Mar 4, 2024: I have always baked cupcakes for my kids to take to school for their bday. These aren’t the prettiest but I hope they’re good.

Mar 3, 2024: Someone had made some sidewalk chalk artwork at the park. I’d call it fleeting art.

Mar 3, 2024: ✅ Dune Part 2 4K UHD Steelbook preorder done! (Even though I haven’t seen it yet. Don’t care, gonna get it either way 😃)

Mar 2, 2024: Took the youngest to one of the many parks in the area yesterday and thought this playhouse was very “Wonderland” and kinda cool.

Mar 2, 2024: It’s been a day. Certainly a long, drawn out one. Almost a whole week, it seems. Ha. Let’s do this again tomorrow!

Mar 1, 2024: The kiddos didn’t have school today, so I thought I’d take them out for a meal..after a dental appointment, of course. 🤣

Feb 29, 2024: Another photo from a local walking trail.

Feb 28, 2024: Continuing the journey through my boxes of youth, this box is a prize! Some of these I still have original receipts for as well.

Feb 27, 2024: A view of a pair of trails. One of which gets more use than the other.

Feb 26, 2024: About the only way it could be more Kansas tomorrow, would be for thunder (snow) storms and the like. Yippee.

Feb 26, 2024: Taken during my noon time walk, just entering the trail. It would be insulting all the good graphitti to refer to this as such.

Feb 25, 2024: While out looking for a possible place to have a day party for a to be 6yo, I got a kick out of the painted doors.

Feb 24, 2024: Decided recently that I need to get back into physical media. Now it’s time to prefer 4K if possible. Eventually I’ll rip them to digital …

Feb 23, 2024: I had seen this kit while I was out and about the other day and decided that it was high time to pick up something cool for myself!

Feb 22, 2024: From the “stuff I’d completely forgotten about buying” department. Back when Transformers were coming back into being cool and not …

Feb 21, 2024: Going through some old boxes and stuff, it’s hard to believe that games used to actually come with manuals! Miss those times.

Feb 21, 2024: Growing up I got to purchase and play a lot of amazing JRPG games for all the consoles. Some of my favorites were the Working Designs SegaCD ports. …

Feb 20, 2024: I’ve got a couple of kiddos who have been into programming and wanting to learn more and I’ve heard good things about this book. I think …

Feb 19, 2024: I saw this at a local toy store, The Toy Store (😀), and immediately fell in love with how adorable and awesome it was!

Feb 18, 2024: Here’s an oldie from the archives! Unknown from this photo is his full food bowl. He’s just staring at me all catlike. Indignant because …

Feb 17, 2024: Not that I really needed to be talked into picking this one up, but I decided to grab a copy of it for the shelf and future reading. I’ve …

Feb 16, 2024: Backed this on Kickstarter last year and I’ve been playing it quite a bit of late. Good stuff, in my humble opinion.

Feb 15, 2024: Evidently I got bored last night. It’s time to delve once again into the world of Guix. This was my Debian 12 system, it may be that again, who …

Feb 14, 2024: My Valentine’s Day gift for my wife. I figured these would last a little longer than the real thing. I’ve actually got another six that …

Feb 13, 2024: Yeah, I didn’t need these. I’ve got older versions of them somewhere. But, come on! When I initially saw this new edition of Dune in a …

Feb 12, 2024: This was my view for a little while yesterday while the youngest kiddo enjoyed a birthday party for a friend.

Feb 11, 2024: I’ve had this book for a number of years, actually purchased it both because I wanted it and because we have kids who love math, but never …

Feb 10, 2024: These were gifts that everybody in our department received over the previous holiday. The blanket was a very nice surprise!

Feb 9, 2024: Something that I definitely don’t do very much - take or post a selfie.

Feb 8, 2024: I, for one, am super happy to know that my new garlic press is FOOD SAFE! 🤣

Feb 7, 2024: I picked up a set of these, figured that they might make an interesting Valentine’s Day gift for somebody. Maybe. I dunno.

Feb 6, 2024: I guess I’ve been on a graphic novel luck lately. Picked this up the other day and have started reading through it. I love Gaiman’s work …

Feb 5, 2024: I picked this up when it was available on sale at Amazon the other day. I’ve wanted a copy of this since playing the original, way, way back …

Feb 4, 2024: Our youngest attended a birthday party here today, these shots don’t even begin to touch on the multi level climbing play area. It’s super …

Feb 3, 2024: I’m sitting here listening to one of my seventh graders practice his double horn, one of the songs is a Jurassic Park theme…. And he …

Feb 3, 2024: I know I’m not the first/only/last person to complain about this, but it’s just moderately infuriating that what we already pay for prime …

Feb 2, 2024: My kids have been interested in playing Dungeons and Dragons for awhile now, so along with getting them the required manuals I figure now is also a …

Feb 1, 2024: It’s either a little early for caturday, or really late. Ha

Jan 31, 2024: Frog and Toad stories are some of my favorites, both growing up and currently. I’ve read this particular book to all my kids, multiple times.

Jan 30, 2024: Well, I’ve got bluesky now…. so I guess I’ll see what that’s about too. It only took a couple of invite emails to get the …

Jan 30, 2024: Taken at the Kansas City Zoo during their Zoo glow - or whatever it was called - celebration. I was unable to see what these all looked like while lit …

Jan 29, 2024: From the “older photos I took that I really like” category, we have this image taken at the Kansas City Zoo last late Summer. They have …

Jan 28, 2024: I had seen this book at the store last week, but didn’t pick it up. Began to have some regrets a couple of days later. Found myself at the store …

Jan 27, 2024: Another of my favorite shots that I took over the last couple of months. This was also at a light display.

Jan 26, 2024: Just a yellow chair in the corner. Not particularly comfortable, but it’s kinda neat looking.

Jan 25, 2024: I should remember to peruse through my Steam library every once in awhile, just to help remember what I do have. 🤣

Jan 24, 2024: I ordered a couple of these the first day of the year, still have not had the time to put one together. Soon, hopefully.

Jan 22, 2024: Currently reading: The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien 📚 I don’t know how many times I’ve read this, but I’ve read it at least three times …

Jan 22, 2024: I had a copy of this when I was a young one, along with what I always thought was an impressive set of magic “stuff”. That was decades …

Jan 21, 2024: It’s a good day to watch Alien. Oh, who am i kidding, it’s always a good day to watch Alien!

Jan 19, 2024: One thing that I find I do really like here, is the ease with which one can modify the hugo theming. Granted, I probably won’t change a whole …

Jan 19, 2024: At this point, I’m attempting to get my reshares set up so hopefully I don’t have any duplication on any end. Microblog should repost out …

Jan 18, 2024: This was me just relaxing in the waiting area reading a book on my Kindle. I think that times like this are some of my favorite periods. This was one …

Jan 17, 2024: Just a semi not so random photo that i took recently at the Holiday Enchant light display and labyrinth in December. This was one of the “lost …

Jan 17, 2024: introduction here on #microblog! I’ve had some form of presence on the #fediverse for about 7 years, i think. My first mastodon account is …