We need to exuberant music in our lives.

My 4YO, who has never seen He-Man, has found my brand spanking new Power Sword, and has determined it to be the greatest toy ever.

Grandmother: I bought the boys the Dark Saber from the Mandalorian. 7YO: I bought DARK VADER'S LIGHT SABER! RAAA Me: eh...toy swords...great. [looks at the store shelf, falls into the eddies to time, grips the handle and holds it forth] BY THE POWER OF GREY SKULL... I HAVE...THE POWER!!!

Son got sick, so I got to stay home taking care of him. Naturally, I spent that time cleaning the house and not playing the new Satisfactory 1.2 update and feeling the heady rush of optimizing performance.

Burns 1,000 calories on the treadmill. Sleeps for 5 1/2 hours. Oh man, why is it so hard to concentrate this morning?

"MY FUCKING CABBAGES!"

To set aside all of today's Trump stuff, I went to see He-Man and I thought it was pretty good! -Fight scenes felt like picking up two action figures and beating them together. -Some of the musical scores were transportative. -Jared Leto stole the scenes. His Skeletor was just great. -REFERENCES.

Venture capitalist buys coffee shop. Spends gobs of money rebranding it. Fires the core staff with the loyal customers. Rehires the core staff with the loyal customers. Staff's paychecks start bouncing. [Pending] Coffee shop goes out of business. Damn you VCs!

-Hitting the gym every evening till I'm exhausted. -Dicking around when I get home till I'm getting just less than six hours of sleep. A sure way to do your best at work.

I doubt it made a material difference, but I am quite happy that I campaigned against Chip Roy last summer. Come January, he leaves the public dole for political obscurity.

Saw Mandalorian and Grogu and...yeah. It's an extralong Mandalorian episode. It's ok. The writing and dialog aren't stupid. Truly, the best of the movie is when you realize every character on screen is a puppet and not a CGI creature. And it's adorable.

Lessee... Hewie Lewis and the News George Thoroughgood and the Delaware Destroyers Meatloaf Bad Religion Heart Red Hot Chili Peppers Eagles Boston Iron Maiden Kiss Trans-Siberian Orchestra x2 Joy of being in a major city. The bands come to you.

Saw the Skeletor lightshow and went back in time.

Me: Laptop has limited memory. Need to finish my game so I can uninstall it and install Subnautica 2. Also Me: Just going to start up Crusader Kings III and rule all of Sardinia until the game crashes.

Normal work wear: Blue jeans and polos. Going to campus in a dress shirt, suit jacket, and tie:

Catching up on The Boys, and The Deep driving a Cyber Truck is hilarious.

Artemis II live feed right now. They're coming home! Eeeee!

Started watch Maul and he's steal from a crime boss named Neko Deemis. SIGH. Nicodemus.

Tossed on Don't Look Up...for no particular reason, and it starts pretty strong with the "Oh COOL we found an interstellar object" to "oh shit it's going to hit us and we're all going to die"

Help, off to get the kids from afterschool care. Hoping Trump TACOs out in the mean time.

When Artemis II flies behind the moon, it's going to be an Oceans' 11 situation where they have to perform histories greatest heist in only 40 minutes before contact resumes.

Spending my Saturday cleaning the house, catching up on work, and waiting to see if I managed to land @radiofreetom.bsky.social easter lamb recipe. Lots of garlic POWDER, garlic salt, oregano, and Pam olive oil spray. If it works out, I'll share it with my folks for lunch tomorrow.

My 4YO saw a Nintendo newsletter on the Switch home screen that had a drawing of a bright green alligator terrorizing a city for some sort of promotion and refuses to believe there isn't an alligator game, and I'm the bad guy for not letting him play it.

Anyone watching the Artemis launch of C-SPAN? They seem to be some pretty distracting stuttering on the live stream.

*Urge to play Kerbal Space Program intensifies*

Switched C-SPAN over to the Artemis launch, and I reminded myself that man has not been back to the moon in my lifetime. So, big news. Hopefully, they can implement the eventual plan to establish a space station in lunar orbit.

My work has a group step tracker and after an hour on the tread, I looked and saw I was in first place...but had 1,500 steps to cross 10K. Hit the quick start, and YouTube auto-played a song from times long past as I thundered through my steps.

Doing a Arbites playthrough of Rogue Trader and the thing I need is to have a talent that uses the ballistic skill for fellowship related skills. Call it "Shutgun Diplomacy".

Just bopping around as I consolidate CPE reporting.

Letting the algorithm hand me whatever while work. I only heard the Weird Al version originally and find it a banger.

Dead to world, eyes nearly burned out from staring at a screen for hours. I press "end review". Are you sure? Yes. Really sure? Yes. No takeses backses? Yes. Ok. You passed part 1 of the CIA exam.

Getting into Slay the Spire II and screaming with victory after clearing the Necrobinder. Such a dopamine hit when a deck that just screams FUCK YOU at the monsters comes together. Of course, I also feel like the guy on the third-place spot screaming with victory because it's Ascension zero.

Taxes suck. Taxes suck more when you're operating a business or rental property. Taxes suck even more when you are "separated" but not legally divorced.

Printer: [Tries to drag paper by only one side] Error, Jam, Clear and redue. Me: [fucks around with printer for half an hour] OFFICE SPACE KNEW HOW TO TREAT THESE THINGS! Me also: ...why is there a Skittles wrapper and a poker chip logged in this?

Talking about the subprime lending crises yesterday got my dander up and I put the Big Short audio book on. If you like finance stuff and fantasy, highly recommend "Orcanomics" by Zachery Pike which is essentially the Big Short but with Dungeon Loot futures instead of subprime mortgages.

Teacher: Your child needs to make an invention with two simple machines. Me: Going to make a marble run using an Archimedean Screw and half pipes for the ball return, all made of cardboard and a soda bottle. [plugs in hot glue gun]. Let's get dangerous.

Now that my clocks are accurate again, now would be a good time to end the practice of daylight saving time.

Seeing on Facebook Noem's firing is being called a "promotion" by right wing posters. As Secretary of DHS, a promotion would be...what? Getting Hegseth's job? Going from a Secretary to practically anything else would be a demotion.

Listening to the Noem hearing: -Durbin: Judge says ICE has violated hundreds of court orders. -Durbin: DOJ lawyer in sworn declaration confirms they haven't followed 50 court orders in NJ. -Durbin: Do you have follow court orders? -Noem: We follow all federal court orders. -Durbin: 🤔

Watching more Twin Peaks, and MY GOD, the constant droning synth organ music is just sucking the emotion out of every scene. Two teenagers making out? Droning. Visiting a bordello? DRONING. HAVING PIE!?! DRONING. We have two settings in the show: casual tap tap tap jazz. or DRONING.

Trying to get my 7YO to fly straight and pick up his spelling grades: Me: Open. O-Pe-N. 7YO: U... Me: Wife. W-I-Fe 7YO: W...xyz. Me: Our. As in possessions. O-Ur. 7YO: F... Me: No. Where did you even get F from? 7YO: F...our... Not really thinking he's passing his test today.

Chose to get the first season of twin peaks for five bucks and finally see what it was about (I was six when it came out) These have to be the least sexy romantic subplots in history. Everyone is hooking up in this joyless town and every relationship seems to have dark undertones.

The Declaration of Independence...means...unity and love. King George responded to the love in this fashion:

-Trump illegally taxed us. -Bessent is saying we won't see the money returned. -Trump illegally spent the money he illegally taxed us. #where'sourfuckingmoney?

Rewatching Castlevania and Episode 1 is such a banger. Killing Dracula's wife...turns out was a mistake.

Watching the ICE Senate hearing, and the GOP senators must be twitching that the hearing is being run by Rand Paul, who is skeptical about what ICE is doing.

I don't know the name of the Democratic Congressman, but Bondi is being super aggressive for milk toast questions like "Did your job as AG in Florida prepare you for your current job?"

Bondi is ranting that the DOW is up and Democrats are laughing at her.

Bondi: They tried to impeach Trump twice! Me: Tried nothing, he got impeached. He wasn't removed. But that's in a different body.

Played Fallouts 1,2,3, and 4 to one degree or another, but never did New Vegas. So installed it yesterday. Points in Intelligence to 8 and Perception to 7, Four Eyes and Trigger Discipline traits. Got my first level clearing the tutorial and blasting bugs and gekos. Took a perk to up agility to 6