This is probably the nerdiest article I have ever written. Cheers.

Four rounds of heavy legwork in the gym this morning, only to get out to my car, sneeze, and break a damn rib.

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At the gym this morning I realized I may be old and fat, but at least my core is garbage.

One build stage has been holding up this 1:2 scale Darth Vader for MONTHS. Finally arrived last week. Completed 30 stages last night. Birthday well spent.

Gym sessions start at 0500. Need to leave the house at 0430. Have to be awake at 0400. Usually awake at 0300, so I don’t miss the alarm. 0300 might as well be 0230, so I’ve been awake since 0200. And that’s why I don’t answer my phone past 1900. I am asleep at that ungodly hour. Perfectly normal.

Love getting mail from my friends at Abrams Books.

My 13 y.o. tagged along with me for his first con last weekend. After observing my entire weekend, he still has no idea what I actually do for a living. Fair. I don't understand it half the time either.

Hanging with the homies at Pokekon LV.

I really wanted to get one of these to put a junk card in and walk around Pokekon like Logan Paul. They're sixty five bucks, though, and that falls well outside my convention troll budget. pokekonlv.com

I have a left arm! And yes, I am just a very large 12 year old.

Meet me! See me! Get inspired! Sometimes I can’t tell if these PR guys are taking the piss. I will definitely be in Vegas this weekend, hosting Pokekon LV. Come say hi.

I’ve been waiting for one out of stock part on this Darth Vader build since August. It finally arrived today. Now I have 30 stages to build to catch up. It was a dead standstill without that one little baggie.

Y’all, when I say it gets hot in Bakersfield…

The Pilot.

I love how my trainer tells me to take Sundays off to heal and recover or whatever, but my watch is like "Hey, asshole, you're way behind on your day. This is not typical. You okay? Get up already. Move heavy shit from here to over there and back."

I’m about to watch my first ever episode of The Witcher. If I hate this, I’m never taking a recommendation from anyone ever again. Friends, Deadwood, Breaking Bad… forever on loop until I die.

The actors who played Ogre and Lewis both died this year. So many people talking about how great that rapey movie was. It really wasn’t as good as you remember it. I promise.

Youngest was excluded today from a school team event. I went in to ask how they'd handle his medical needs on the field trip today. Cleared my schedule in case I needed to go along to take care of him. Got informed he's not on the team, because HE WAS HOSPITALIZED during a few of their practices.

Apparently, I refused delivery of this thing I really, really needed today, at my home in Default, US. My bad. Thanks for trying, Amazon.

First gym injury. It was bound to happen.

FCBD has always been marketing. Get new customers in the door and get established customers interested in new titles. It was also a day when you could just go to the LCS and get a few free floppies with the kids. Gross to see shops charging for FCDB titles, & also charging secondary market prices.

My youngest is a Wish Kid. Give Kids The World Village is the organization that partners with Make-A-Wish and other groups to make these amazing trips possible. This auction has a bunch of collectibles, rare LEGO, and dope experiences. Proceeds keep the lights on at the village. tinyurl.com/kvp8kerz

Usually they just put ‘have a nice day’ or something. Today, I got a riddle.

It’s Thursday. You know what that means.

Internet was out at the house today, so I had to improvise for the pod. Got the police called on me for talking to myself in the cab of my truck in front of some jerk’s house, so I moved over to the cemetery. The residents at that place were much more accommodating.

Watched Revenge of the Sith last night with my youngest. That CGI did not age well.

I am not a small man, but hanging out with Ray Hurd makes me look like a hairy child. Legit 6’10”. That’s as big as The Undertaker.

Just sneezed and a booger flew out of my eye. My kid now thinks I have superpowers. Gonna go ahead and take the W and not explain this biological wonder. I’m a superhero that shoots snot out his eyes.

UnRivaled LV last weekend. Got to moderate stuntman Bruce Willis' stunt double Stuart F Wilson's very first convention panel. In the course of the conversation, we discovered we both know Fireball Lawrence, & Stu even knows one of my high school friends (she's also a stunt double).

"If you want to know who your real friends are, sink the ship and watch who jumps first." -someone smart, probably. It's been a rough couple of months in this medically complex household, and it's been a revelation. Not a lot of surprises, but a couple of those ship jumpers stung a little bit.

Feels good to flip over an omnibus for one of your favorite stories to find your own pull quote from a 2021 review.

"You can't blockade me! I blockade you!" Or some other 4th grade logic over global relations. nbd.

Home today after a hospital stay for my medically complex youngest. The school admin has already started messing with us regarding his missed work. Mind you, this kid is in 4th, and tests at a 12th grade level for almost everything. But yeah... those two days are gonna make him spiral, I'm sure.

Is The Pizza Movie not just Harold and Kumar, but with the curly haired kid from Stranger Things?

Joe Gatto has decided he likes being paid more than not being paid. He will return to Impractical Jokers for season 13.

Watching the Artemis launch on a 75" flat screen with my kids in my living room. Old enough to remember watching the Challenger disaster in class, on a 12" CRT TV strapped vicariously to a top heavy rolling cart.

Dead certain that NASA scheduled this moon launch for today just to mess with Flat Earthers, and I applaud them for it.

What happened to summer vacation? My kids don’t get out of school until the end of May, and then go back two weeks into August. We used to get three whole months off, didn’t we?

And this exercise reminds me that the fastest way to get correct information on the web is by being confidently wrong. People not only come with the right answer, they come with receipts.

These are from the same manufacturer. The trio is supposedly based on the 1978 film, but so is that solo Bilbo. I don't understand why they didn't use the previous Bilbo mold as reference for the second set. This bugs me way more than it should.

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I've been home from Diecast SuperCon for an entire week, and I'm just now starting to feel like myself again. It's a lot to be "on" for 12+ hours per day for six days running. As much as I love my geeky communities, I'm a cave person. I want my chair, my bed, my routines.

The wildest thing from Diecast SuperCon was the live viewing numbers. I knew that Go Live Vegas was streaming our panels live, but I had no idea how big their reach was. The Mayans panel had over 4k viewers. That’s huge, but Mindy Cohn and Mackenzie Phillips drew 41k. Forty one THOUSAND. Mind blown.

Last weekend I was hosting Mayans and Fast and Furious cast members on panels in Vegas. This weekend, I'll be installing a garage door opener.

I've started watching Fallout. Zombie Baby Billy is my favorite. Is the game worth playing? I'm not usually into open-world stuff.

Wasn’t what I came in for, but the artist I had an appointment with called in sick today. I’ve been sitting on this one for a while, and today’s walk-in artist (Peeps!) does patches, so…

“This is what we signed up for. This is who we are.” Hanging with the homies from Mayans MC on yesterday’s featured panel at Diecast SuperCon. This is my real job.

I forgot that I had strapped Zrek into the front passenger seat for this ride to his new home. Just got the jump scare of my life when his arm moved in my peripheral vision. I wish I could say I learned from this experience, but I promise I will forget again.

One of the other editors sent me some messages last night about today's schedule. It's cute that they think I'm awake past 9 on a week night.