Okay, so I’m botching the lyrics a bit here intentionally but… there’s a blood moon in the right.

Perspective is a funny thing sometimes. Funny in how it can be used to make a point. Funny how aspects can be left out to make a different point.

Sometimes life makes no sense.

Growing up, I loved nearly every movie Arnold Schwarzenegger starred in. He could do no wrong.

I gotta admit that I’m kinda in love with my new Fitbit watch face.

Well, that sucked.

Yesterday, the U.S. Senate unanimously approved making Daylight Saving Time a 24/7/365 affair.

So the U.S. Senate has unanimously passed a bill to make Daylight Savings Time (DST) the de facto time in the United States.

Dammit. 

To the overly vocal minority, a big piss off.

I’m not sure if any of you are familiar with Penzey’s Spices but they are a spice maker and distributor out of Wauwatosa, Wisconsin, and have a store near where I used to work a couple jobs ago.

I’ve been taking some time to process all that is being reported about the Chicago Blackhawks covering up a sexual assault of a rookie player by a video coach back during the 2010 Stanley Cup championship run. Heck, just writing this post has taken me four or five days.

I love getting alerts like these… in the middle of my day… interrupting more important shit.

This screen grab was shared by a coworker of mine from the Forbes Influential CMO (Chief Marketing Officer) list of the year. I'm just gonna leave this out there for you...

After catching my nearly 100th viewing of Hidden Figures last night on TV (that's a movie I can watch from any point at any time in any mood and love it), I had a hankering to listen to some tunes today from Ms. Janelle Monáe (Mary Jackson in Hidden Figures). I've always loved her music and knew her as a musician for many years before she made her first foray into acting.

It's been 20 years since the terrorist attacks on New York City, the Pentagon, and Pennsylvania. Acts so deplorable that they should have steeled our resolve, brought us together, united us as one nation.

Man, Mother Nature did not want to cut us a break these last three days. 

Anthony Rizzo has been traded from the Cubs to the Yankees? I know the Cubs have been talking about the need for a shake up lately but dayamn!

Oh phew! Just when I thought I missed taking Nathan the 7-Eleven today for 7/11 and free Slurpees, I found out that, for the second consecutive year, there was no event held. 

For years -- heck, decades -- Hollywood has sought to reboot the venerated Fletch film franchise that starred Chevy Chase in what I maintain was his best role ever. He was perfectly cast as investigative reporter Irwin M. "Fletch" Fletcher. You'd swear author Gregory MacDonald wrote the books with Chase in mind. 

I got a pop-up on my phone about an hour ago of a like on an Instagram photo I took from a name I didn't recognize. About 15 minutes ago, I received another notification of a comment on a photo from another name I didn't recognize. Both were attached to the same image in my account.

And how do we celebrate Father’s Day? Hunkered down in our lower level bathroom hiding from a tornado warning caused by a storm hitting us now that may or may not have produced a twister one town south of us and rotation due west of us that is heading east. 

The news came down the pipeline today that the victim of a recent cyberattack paid more than US$10M to liberate their computer network from the ransomware attack they experienced last week. 

This kid beat leukemia at age six and was able to return to school. Once there, he was greeted with a standing ovation of class and schoolmates. If you can't see the embed below, check it out on Reddit.

Y’know what? I don’t care what the CDC says, I’m still wearing a mask in public for the foreseeable future. I know Katie and Nathan agree as well.

Hey, I've got a couple questions for you all that I'm seeking insight on. While they are parenting related, it's kinda tangential and, honestly, they can be answered by anyone. So take a look and leave a reply in the comments.

While I don't shop at 7-Eleven all that often, I do have their app and I receive emails from being part of their "members club." Why? Because Nathan and I would occasionally go for walks or bike rides during the summer when we needed a break and go there for a Slurpee.

For a while, I used the Apple News app on my iPhone to get my daily news fix.

Yeah, so I went ahead and created my own contribution to the #BernieMittensMeme. What of it??

I was having a spirited debate with some friends regarding a quote in an article about Garth Brooks and his performance at President Biden's inauguration yesterday. The article said, "Brooks has played almost every inauguration since Jimmy Carter’s presidency, save for Ronald Reagan’s and [45]’s." 

“He’s small. He just looks small.” 
—Dana Bash, CNN, describing Cheeto Pres as he boarded Marine 1 to leave the White House for the last time. 

The closer we get to Inauguration 2021, the more nervous I get about the fact that the Democratic Party is going to have full control over both the Senate and the House of Representatives as well as the Presidency.

I am proud to be an American. But, right now, I’m just not proud of some of the people who call themselves my “fellow Americans.”

...Junction, what's your function?
Hooking up phrases and clauses that balance, like.

Okay, sorry, no more Schoolhouse Rock. Though the temptation be mighty! This is about the great Conjunction in the sky... the alignment of Jupiter, Saturn, and Earth that happens every 400ish years and is theorized by Johannes Kepler as being the celestial event that guided the wisemen to Jesus' birth manger in Bethlehem.

I knew it was coming. We all knew it was coming. That didn’t make it any easier, though, when this popped up on my phone earlier this afternoon...