7:30 this morning, practicing for tonight’s preschool holiday concert: “UP ON THE HOUSETOP REINDEER CLAWS! DOWN THROUGH THE CHIMNEY WITH LOTS OF NICK.”

One time a woman from Wisconsin told me “You’re not hideous!” Pretty good for an Ohioan, honestly.

Wisconsin is for the real lovers 😘 (Suck it Ohio)

"Its rules are taken nearly verbatim from an older card game, known as Euchre, made for a subset of a standard deck of playing cards. This revelation was brought forward after Aunt Eileen offered to teach us the original game following Thanksgiving dinner."

Trying to set up a play date for our kid and one of the suggestions was “chilly park adventure,” which I heard in my head as “Chili Park adventure” and was immediately enchanted with that idea for a seasonal event.

I am playing hide and seek.

Really glad Wikipedia has a year end wrap up now.

If anyone sent me a chat, I have not age verified myself to use that feature in Ohio. And I am a small child.

New profile picture courtesy of @cleverpseudonym.bsky.social, commemorating the fun of being a local TO.

Half Life (1998) is now as old as the first ever arcade game, Computer Space (1971) was when Half Life was released.

If you’re bored.

If you’re bored.

Ooh, what spell do you think you’ve cast exactly 399 times?

Arby’s receipt randomly made me wonder. Have you cast 399 Demonic Tutors in your lifetime? What was your 399th DT for? #wotcstaff

Watching our 5yo play NES Mario is great: “Watch this!” … … [stomps goomba]

should’ve charged the mound

I guess he’s an A’s fan.

Anyone else have this book as a kid? I remembered poring over the illustrations when I was young and bought a used copy. Has been a hit with my own kids the past few nights.

Anyone else have this book as a kid? I remembered poring over the illustrations when I was young and bought a used copy. Has been a hit with my own kids the past few nights.

Sneakers is currently free on YouTube. Probably watch that again today.

Also the archive of the old Vintage MTG website The Mana Drain works again! www.archive.themanadrain.com

I’ve been reading archives on The Mana Drain. I like that you can find 19 player local events where multiple people wrote very detailed reports, even if they didn’t T8. What a different time!

From my wife, the novelist: “Writing a novel gives you lots of opportunities to hate yourself.”

Hear, hear!

Eternal Weekend watch party?!

I helped curate another set of Vintage decks for players to try out FOR FREE on Magic Online. Check in next week and try out Vintage, no expensive cards required!

This is a bizarre thing I had never heard of until approximately 12:30 last night. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_...

Just watching a sink drain half a world away.

OK, more context. @kyleccarson.bsky.social suggested I at least get a picture. It is a darling commode. (Will not be requesting an action shot.)

Ad from our small-town paper, with no other context.

This would have been the winning poem. Castmaster is my favorite time of year, for making friends do things.

Posting the #Castmaster Season 2 report on this, the last day of summer vacation (cat is handsome but mostly unrelated): teamserio.us/posts/202507...

Not making it to Gen Con this year and it is already the pits.

"I asked chatgpt" "I asked grok" well I asked Achenar from the best-selling point&click adventure game Myst and he told me to bring him the blue pages and NOT to touch the red ones

That movie is 30 years old (sorry), so no one knew but me (old).

Certainly it was a conscious choice to play music from Apollo 13 for people in line for this ride.

These Luke Cage crossover cookies are delicious!

Ahh, coffee, you’re not supposed to make me feel worse! I hate when you do this to me!

I have been convinced (and been given permission) to investigate further and perhaps acquire.

$15 at our local library. Quick estimate suggests it will hold 32,000 cards.

Conversation with my kid: “Captain America uses the potty!” “That’s right, Captain America uses the potty. He’s probably pretty high on the Avengers who use the potty list.”

Castmaster was so great this weekend. All the teams did amazing at one thing or another, and the poetry slam might become a tradition on its own. Congratulations to “Didgeridoos and Don’ts” (Paul Blakeley and John Poggemeyer) for their deserved victory!

As it turns out, Putrefy is NOT in Middle School.

The Land compound is so large that if you were to walk across it at a rate of 3 miles a day, you would get goose poop all over your shoes. (Cat is unrelated.)

I feel powerful. As powerful as Arthur!

Why do there have to be chores? I just want to read my new books about playing Magic in the '90s.

I fell asleep putting our 2yo to sleep and woke up a few minutes later mid-refrain of “Home on the Range.”

Mail day! Every time I think I have all of Baxter’s books another one appears, and I buy two other books along with it.

The mysteries are mysterious, but the prize is defined.

What do you get when you decorate an IKEA dresser with sweet corn and watermelon? A summer-set Malm. Welcome to 3 a.m.