We went to that Band/Orchestra Night that was being hosted as a "get to know your instrument" night for upcoming fifth graders. It was split in two with orchestra (string instruments) and band (brass and I think a few woodwinds) holding sessions in different places. We wound up going to both.

With The Flash, the final movie in the soon-to-be defunct DCEU, coming out soon in theaters and given the fact that Nathan and I watched Suicide Squad this weekend, I decided I wanted to counter the negative stigma from Ezra Miller and their portrayal of Barry Allen and Flash by introducing him to the far superior versions played on television from 2014 to the end of this month by Grant Gustin.

I love this scene so much. So powerful. So meaningful.

Next year, Nathan is eligible to start playing an instrument in either orchestra or band at school. And, yes, he's interested. 

As a diehard Gravity Falls fan, I wholly approve of the creativity, time, and money spent creating this musical masterpiece.

I’m plotting out some travel things for an upcoming vacation we’re taking. Mostly trying to figure out what I do and don’t want to take with us.

Why do people just not care anymore? A scarily large number of people were ignorant assholes prior to the COVID-19 pandemic as it was. But they only got worse and empowered and seemed to take another big chunk of humanity down the rabbit hole of civil disobedience using the pandemic as an excuse for their behavior. 

Normally at this point of the year, we’re struggling to get Nathan signed up for park district classes for the summer because with so many two-working-parent families, those classes fill up quick.

Nicolas Cage as Count Dracula? What could possibly go wrong? I can only see it going oh-so-right.

Apparently our washing machine has a leak.

How does a 48-year-old man spend his Saturday?

Good look with the hat or no?

I just received an email from Apple that the cost for an annual subscription to Apple TV+ is going to increase from $49.99 to $69.

This is the back of a T-shirt Nathan received at school to wear in a fun run tomorrow on Star Wars Day.

I work with a bunch of video game junkies. We have an entire interest channel in Slack dedicated to videogaming. I follow the channel and participate a little bit here and there. But I'm not much of a gamer so I don't contribute to it to quite the same degree that some people do.

Another blink-and-you-miss-it month this year. April? We hardly knew ya!

I love those months where, for the first 15-20 days, you only finish one book. And you start to sweat about achieving your goal. Then, bam bam bam bam bam… you hammer out five books in the final 10 days without even batting your eyebrows. Goal achieved. Actually, goal surpassed!

We have our Internet back!!!

It’s amazing these days the level of disarray your life delves to when you lose that oh-so-precious connection to the internet.

Don’t you just hate when you swore that you posted everyday and then you go back just to verify because you’re paranoid and a completist like that only to discover you missed a day on which you’re certain you wrote something but you cannot find it for the life of you?

Whoever created the .webp image format needs to be shot and hung by… whatever they have available to be hung from painfully.

After reading my first Junji Ito horror manga earlier this year and then following it up with two more in subsequent months, I really thought I would keep it up and just read a new book each month.

I guess I shouldn't be surprised that Tucker Carlson "parted ways" with FOX News. His resume of late has been nothing much more than propagating conspiracy theories and bald-faced lies. And, mind you, I'm no Democrat... or Republican. But whatever.

You ever have those moments where you see an announcement of an upcoming film that you had zero awareness of previously, but then, after that announcement, you can’t stop thinking about it and need it to happen?

While I truly wish there was much more detail to this video -- there are way too many effectively pre-fab elements just lowered into place without us being able to see them being made as well -- it's still a ridiculously interesting opportunity to watch a ridiculously large cruise ship being built in stop motion (I also wish there was a timer on it so you can see how many days, weeks, months, years, elapse).

Nathan had a project at school where he had to create a simple circuit board that would trigger an LED bulb when the correct leads, given several choices, were paired up.

Okay, I realize that the explosion of the SpaceX Starship rocket was a good thing overall because it helped them identify issues for future proofing and the like. Supposedly they saw themselves as even further ahead of the game than they were pre-launch.

New song from the Foo Fighters? Don’t mind if I (and Katie) do!

Holy cow! Just about a month until we go on vacation. I can't believe how quickly the time has flown between hearing about the need to start planning this trip and actually freaking out about it happening. 

Adidas has been a brand as long as I can remember. Shoes, clothing, sports equipment, whatever. But it was always a secondary or tertiary brand. Not one that we would think of as top of the line. Certainly not something we sought out or pined over.

Not that anyone asked for it, but I made a video of me solving a Rubik’s Cube anyway.

I totally appreciate attention to detail in life. Doesn’t have to be anything big, either. I just like knowing that someone cared about something… anything… enough to take time to put in a little extra effort.

I saw this on Reddit and thought it was a pretty cool discussion, once you dismiss the troll comments, of course…

Does anyone feel like this third season of Ted Lasso has been rather lackluster? Everything feels forced, overacted, too jokey… I think you get the point.

After giving myself a bit of a mental kick in the arse by blogging about it, I apparently redoubled my efforts and have managed to commit the rest of the Rubik’s Cube algorithms to memory.