It’s cold. Damn cold. I need a blanket, a cup of hot coffee, and a book. See you next spring!

Holy balls! Metallica's latest single, "Lux Æterna," rocks my world! You gotta check this out!

There are supposed to be 52 weeks in the year, translating to 52 Macro Monday posts. Here we are in the final week of November and I'm only up to post #40? Yeah, I've missed a few here and there, haven't I? 

While I’ve always been bothered by those sticker families on cars, nothing bothers me more than when those “families” are ill considered before being applied to a cars rear window. 

I've decided that I'm going to start a listing of horror films I've been rewatching over the last few months over on my Rankings page and I'm going to call it Jay-Mike-Fred: A Horror Compendium in honor of the three major movie slashers that got me into the genre and whose series I hope to be able to rank fully within a few months... Jason Voorhees, Michael Myers, and Freddy Krueger.

Nathan was watching a how-to video on drawing on YouTube and decided to hunker down with some paper and markers and create a chibi version of his hero Eddie Munson from Stranger Things 4.

I’m watching Raya and the Last Dragon with Nathan and suddenly I hear him, for whatever reason, start singing Rick Astley’s “Never Gonna Give You Up.”

Everyone keeps saying that photography on Instagram is dead and that videos made using Reels within IG is the only way to get noticed. I’m testing this theory by posting an original photo and a slightly modified version of the same photo as a reel just to see what happens.

Unfortunately, there was no love for Simon last week as no one guessed the challenge photo.

We saw Black Adam. Going in, I wasn’t sure what to make of it. I want to believe that Dwayne Johnson can do no wrong and, for the most part, that is a solid base on which to stand.

That is all.

We have a new family elf for this year’s Christmas celebration! Meet NatELF.

If after all the years of badmouthing by developers and QA…

If after being told for 15 years that it is non-standard compliant…

Instructions are boring. Necessary, but boring. And, more often than not, they’re incredibly poorly written.

I planned to get involved in Movember this year. Just grow out the ‘stache for fun and then clear cut it all at the end of the month.

I know it’s been a couple weeks. Blog issues and all that jazz. So here’s the triumphant re-re-re-re-return of Macro Monday for 2022. Let’s see if I can keep it going thru the end of the year. Think it’ll happen? Nah, me neither.

I just realized I never shared a picture of us in our family Halloween costumes! We decided to play off Nathan’s C2E2 costume and went as DC Comics villains.

After my one billionth rager against the inanity of the political attack ads by Illinois gubernatorial candidate and resident fucknut Darren Bailey, I finally figured out the perfect way to get more people to vote in elections.

Well crap. There goes my world again.

Oh Aldi, you win.

Even October is now over? How does it all fly by in such a blur? 

Aye yi yi.

At first, I just felt a little lazy and lapsed on posting a couple times last week. Then it became an issue where I couldn't post even though I wanted to because my blogging company was switching data centers and the prep and actual move caused all kinds of havoc with posting and access and... blech.