sad sometimes when i realize what a lonely life i lead due to choices i have made and understand and circumstances that have unfolded.

Wearing my boardgame designer hat to say my latest solo game in the Pulp Series has arrived at the publisher's warehouse and they'll be in the mail soon to KS backers. A limited number will be for sale at Games Unlimited in Pittsburgh next month.

hmm thanksgiving stuffing made with diced english muffins, maple breakfast sausage links and everything bagel season shookened on top.

today’s dollar store muffin mix into mini tea cake loaves - strawberry chocolate cardamom

sadly Roisin Murphy seems to be tarnishing her legacy and is saying a lot of things not to be admired anymore.

waiting for the day when those stupid puerile idiotic Liberty Mutual commercials are no longer broadcast anywhere and everyone involved in that campaign has to spend 20 years in a dark hole in the ground. those ads fail on every conceivable level.

interesting in that it uses a Durutti Column sample for the main guitar line youtu.be/yTaz0TB9Zco?...

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and dollar store apple cider muffin mix (usually makes 4-5 muffins) add a layer of thin sliced apple and cinnamon sugar and make two mini loaves.

still things in bloom here

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With holiday season soon upon us, it is a good time to remind you of our catalog of books with our classic holiday sales pitch gif. We'll ship anywhere! aanpress.com/aanorder.html

Candy slide test run

Trying to finish up paperwork for my mother. The PCP "Oh just fax it to us for our signature". Lady I don't have a time machine to 25 years ago.

common visual theme in Ghostly Kisses videos

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In other news I've not been invited to any parties, shindigs, hullabaloos or get togethers in 8 years and now I have 2 next month to go to. I am very bad being social at parties, or I have been. Maybe 8 years changes a person.

The Draugr by Todd Sanders is the Game of the Week! As one of the entries in the short-lived BGG micro game line, The Draugr has you defend Stjørdal from the reanimated dead. This plague can spread across the citizensry, but is your supply of iron and holy water enough to stop the contagion?

Disabled my Twitter account today.

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not saying where i am but i am here supporting.

Been a real Shaka when the walls fell kinda weeks lately with my mother in the hospital. Hoping her, and her health and the doctors and all of it will be bit more Darmok and Jalad on the ocean henceforth. Wearing me pretty thin lately but it is my responsibility.

No Kings Event chosen for Saturday.

ha i started a meme today which is taking off, and made someone happy in doing so. good deed for the day done.

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This closing shot from the Ghostly Kisses video to "Touch" is just gorgeous

finicky bits needing tweezers

little known fact: i have a minor in poetry from Carnegie Mellon University. And my major was architecture.

little known fact: i have never been to a casino

little known fact: and i think peanut butter and jelly sandwiches sounds gross for some reason. always been peanut butter and honey for me

little known fact: i have never eaten a Twinkie.

little known fact: i have never set foot in a WalMart

little known fact: i can’t stand Bob Dylan’s whiny way of singing.

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Might have a new boardgame of mine being picked up by a publisher. Cross those fingers.

listening to a podcast last night. the author was talking about having a mid life crisis. i seem somehow to never had had one of those and now that i am quite past that middle i guess i never will.

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continuing… still the best scene by far from Ghost in the Shell youtu.be/-56mT6durto?...

still the absolute pinnacle of mashups. and i like none of these songs individually. youtu.be/3JKKl95Ttrc?...

had to take a little detour while i wait for a battery to arrive for the lights. so i built this which was a bit of a thing.

smooth assembly so far. nothing broken or snapped.

4:28 and the first chance i have had to sit and rest and do something just for me.

happy birthday to me. rather a lonely tired life right now.

with my mother still in the hospital and a thousand things to do today - what the heck should i have for dinner? letting you and others decide.

the heart stone step at the cemetery

don’t know why these two are oddly captivating to watch youtube.com/shorts/bskQ1...

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