Ojalá que si.

Nathan and I would like to wish a very happy Mother’s Day to all the one and only mom as well as the grandmas, great grandmas, aunts, and anyone else who helped make us who we are. We can’t do it without you. We love you.

It’s officially my six-month anniversary as an ordained minister! At least insofar as the Universal Life Church recognizes it.

🎵This shit is bananas. B-A-N-A-N-A-S. 🎶

I know bookstore owners would rather you buy new. Higher profit margins and all that. But, I love used books. I just do. They cost less. You can score unique and out-of-print copies. And, sometimes, they have cool stories that accompany their journey to your bookshelf.

Have you ever received a text message notification on your Apple Watch that never showed up in the Messages app on your iPhone?

The first thing you must understand is that Katie is glued to her Amazon Fire reader what seems like 24/7/365. She has to be when she has a reading goal of 175 books this year.

So this may have happened today. And I may have been way too excited about it.

Ming-Na Wen is gonna be at FanExpo Chicago this year??? Oh heck yeah!!

I saw this hiding in a tree by a house down the street when I was out taking a walk. Why is it watching me??

Nate and I were at Target today and left the store to return to our car. Parked right next to us was a pickup truck that was being loaded with purchases by a woman who had a shopping cart with a kid in it.

Yesterday, I took the day off to spend with Nate since he’s on spring break. We had to start with some errand running, but that was done pretty quickly so the rest of the day was ours. We did a little shopping and general running around like we do on our boys days.

I'm not a very good Chicagoan. While I like deep dish pizza, I only eat it once or twice a year. I don't down all kinds of beer, not anymore anyway. When I used to eat hot dogs, I only occasionally ate them "Chicago style" and mostly defaulted to ketchup. And I have never been a fan of Italian beef. 

Holy crap! How did my email get this glutted???

Last year, when we left for our trip to Vancouver, we started a round of 50 States Plates.

I’m not sure when this came to be and, ultimately, it is the smallest of all the small fries out there, but the fact that I can now take orphan apps and folders on the Home Screen of my iPhone and center them relative to my viewport brings me Joy Immeasurable!!!

Happy Pi Day, y’all!!

Have I ever mentioned that I run a quarterly coffee and tea exchange at work? I pick the dates, I promote and recruit, I assign grifters & giftees, and I follow up to make sure everything is fulfilled.

It’s done! It’s finally freaking done!

The work on the bathroom sink continues. The reason why is a consistent dripping from both of the supply lines. I even bought new ones. I’ve bought new everything. Over the course of this project, I’ve been to Home Depot five times, Lowe’s once, and Ace once.

Imagine walking out of your house to take a walk and seeing a bird standing on your walk up. Not some small bird either. Big bird of prey.

Meet my new home destruction partner… the Ryobi 18V Multi Tool!

A happy trip around the sun for my beloved wife, Katie, who is celebrating her xx-5 birthday today.

I may or may not have done this to Katie’s sandwich for lunch today…

I think our Nest thermostat was trying to freeze us out last night.

I woke up this morning with one of those eyeball headaches and decided to wear my glasses. Apparently I don’t do that often because I was on a video call with coworkers and at least three of them expressed abject shock at seeing me in glasses. 

Nate and I saw this outside our local Aldi.

I hate when cookbooks do stupid crap like this.

I threw some strawberry tops I cut off for Nate’s lunch in the backyard. As cold as it is, I wasn’t sure if any animals would be daring enough to venture out of their cozy little hovels. But I like to feed my backyardigans, particularly the squirrels.

He’s talking to me! Coop’s talking to me!

We are officially de-Christmas’d!

Much like last year, we kicked off the New Year with a puzzle. And, as you might expect, it’s one of the Funko puzzles we’ve come to love so much.

The cube collection grew by two this year. In fact, one of them isn’t even a proper cube.

When we first moved into our townhouse, it was part of a five year plan. As in, within that five years, we planned to move into a single family house.

Katie found a new place to hang out Scrub Daddy to let it dry. The kitchen faucet handle. And now it looks like it’s sticking its tongue out at me.