Happy Pi Day, y’all!!

Did you get your pączki this year for Fat Tuesday? I know I’m asking this a little late but I was just wondering.

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…

We are officially de-Christmas’d!

From all of us to all of you, Merry Christmas!

My company decided to try something new this year. Instead of giving us Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, and New Year’s Day off, the office is gonna close completely from Christmas Day through New Year’s Day.

Oh how I love bad holiday memes and puns. I hope you do, too, or I’m gonna have to ask you to skip this post and move on to the next.

Imagine seeing this walk into your middle school…

Dammit! I was just sitting here innocently watching the Seahawks v Packers joke of a Sunday Night Football game while my wife was scrolling through her Instagram Reels and… WHAMAGEDDON!

Awwww yeah! Chicago linebacker era!

I swore for some reason I mentioned that Nate was going to be a co-emcee at his school’s Veteran’s Day assembly this past Monday. Alas, I did not.

How do we celebrate 23 years of marriage?

How is it that 12 years have passed since Nathan came bounding into our lives? A happy little kid turned precocious toddler turned inquisitive child and now a confident and involved tween.

Happy Friday the 13th, folks! I mentioned on Sunday that I’d be hosting my Jason Voorhees photo collab again all week long and I did. So here are my photos and the accompanying poetry I wrote for each…

One of my favorite holidays is coming up this week… Friday the 13th!!! And, of course, being me, I have to celebrate with my annual toy photography challenge… A Week of Victims!!!

How about a simple post of photos from our road trip to Indiana and southwestern Michigan that ended today just to put a little bow on the weekend?

You’re broken, bruised, battered, and you’ve been discarded on the side of the road.

And here are some random photos from in and around Vancouver this past week.

Here’s a load of photos from the various stops we made in and around Seattle this past week.

I guess there really wasn’t anything to worry about. Crossing the border into Canada at Blaine, Washington, was a breeze.

On Slack earlier today, we were discussing the weather in the Pacific Northwest and, more specifically, Vancouver given that our annual conference is there in a day or so.

Why do I feel so much more anxious about this trip we’re leaving for today than any of them in the past three years?

Happy Mother’s Day to all the moms, stepmoms, mothers-in-law, guardians, and all the others I’m unintentionally leaving off the list. You’ll never understand how important you are to all of us.

Star Wars Day yesterday… Cinco de Mayo today… it’s a good weekend!

May the Fourth be with You!

That is all.

Yaaayyyyyyyy!!!! Tonight, Katie and I booked our flights to and from Vancouver in May.

I’ve been listening to Did I Ever Tell You This?, a memoir by Sam Neill, the actor behind Dr. Alan Grant from Jurassic Park and Cpt. Borodin from The Hunt for Red October, two of my all-time favorite movies.

I’m dedicating this post to the love of my life, Katie, as today is her birthday. Not gonna say which as I enjoy breathing. We’ll call it a random anniversary of her 25th birthday. That should do just fine.

Happy Mardi Gras, y’all! With today comes two things (if you’re not in New Orleans proper)… pączki and the fact that tomorrow is the first day of Lent.

Okay, so we were a few days late to the game with going to see the holiday lights at Brookfield Zoo this year. But we went and we clearly were not the only ones going after Christmas was over. It was jammed!

Merry Christmas, y’all!

This is not wrong…

We’ve almost always put up at least a decorated tree every Christmas. The day after Thanksgiving, we break out the fake one and all the ornaments and set it up.