That old diesel engine made an eerie sound when Papa fired it up and headed into town

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Well hello there. Yep, it’s Saturday and it’s completely dark out. I slept pretty good. I don’t know if it was a dream, or real life, but my body had to prove something in the wee hours of the morning. My eyes opened up, and when I could focus them, I looked at the clock:

4:38 am.

I went, oh look at this. I can get up this early! I congratulated myself, and then I rolled over, and tried to go back to sleep, which succeeded. I am impressed. It felt, in the movement, that I could get up at that time, and I was very impressed, and happy about that fact.

But now it’s a couple of hours later, I get up again, this time 5 minutes before the alarm went off. Chaucer was doing Chaucer things over on top of the box with the in-laws Christmas gifts. He was rubbing his face on it, and that’s what woke me up. I picked up polar bear, and just lightly lobbed it towards the sounds.

The sounds stopped, and I fell back asleep until the alarm went off just a few minutes later. He’s now waiting patiently to climb up and lay on my legs. Pippin, is playing with one of her toys. She was still curled up on the bed when we woke up.

The trip to SlightlyBiggerTown went off without a hitch. There were disappointments though. The second hand store wasn’t open. It looked like it was for drop offs only, and then over at the grocery store – we found turkey! But it was wicked expensive, so Crystal opted not to get it. That’s ok.

After getting mom home, I walked back to the Flat, and we just kinda hung out. I popped over to Reddit while Crystal turned in Skyrim, and TikTok. We had a pretty good afternoon. Then it was off to the restaurant for date night. We were the only people in there. We ate, and left.

It was a really Good Friday for sure. And now, we’re gonna make Saturday pretty awesome too. I have no idea what we’re gonna do, but we’ll do it together, and it’ll be perfect. Happy Saturday everyone! Have a great day 🙂

Well, I’m a gonna raise a fuss, I’m gonna raise a holler

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Ugh, it’s dark out. I think it’ll be like this for the next 4ish months. Winter is coming. Nah son, winter is here. I think when we go out later on this morning, I’ll be wearing my new jacket. Exciting, huh?

I was up a little early – I couldn’t breathe. I’m just stuffed up majorly this morning. I think after today, it starts to warm up a little bit. It’s currently , with the wind, it’s -6° out there. That’s in freedom units, so you can tell that it’s wicked cold out there.

We didn’t do too much yesterday. I started the morning off with watching The Mighty Nein one shot. After that was over, Crystal fired up good ol Skyrim, and streamed for the afternoon. It was pretty fun.

For dinner, I splurged on some pizza from the restaurant up the street. We’ve had pizza from there before, and it’s pretty good. We’ve never ordered on “pizza day”, and yesterday was pizza day, and we got two free appetizers. Fried mushrooms for m’lady, and jalapeño poppers for me. Very yum. We ate our fill, and then I got a text from BossLady asking if I could give Crystal’s number so she could ask a couple of questions.

After that phone conversation, Crystal fixed a couple of things on the website, and we carried on with the evening. I couldn’t even tell you what we did after dinner. I know we watched an episode of Supernatural, then I remember having hot cocoa, and watching TikTok’s. So that was totes fun!

Today we actually have to become humans and leave the house. My mom has a dentist appointment, and we need to do a couple of things, so instead of my dad taking time off work, we’re already off, so I said we’d take her. Everyone wins.

So, time to mainline some coffee, and focus the ol eyes. Happy Friyay everyone! Happy Black Friday for those that celebrate that as well!

The Mighty Nein – live at Wembley

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Well, here we are again. This time about 3 weeks late. I finally got the chance to sit down, and devote 4.5 hours of a bunch of nerdy ass voice actors playing D&D. It. Was. Amazing.

It truly felt like slipping into your most comfortable pair of pants. I don’t want to be one of those stereotypical “critters” that say this campaign helped me through a tough time. But it really did. After I moved out of my parents house … I was pretty much alone. Not pretty much,

Totally alone.

So I started watching campaign one. If anyone watched that. The first 20 or so episodes are plagued with audio problems, and the fact that it starts in the middle of the campaign, didn’t really gel with me, so I did the next best thing – shut off campaign 1, and really dove into campaign 2.

My review of campaign 2 is right here for you.

The thing that I said about these one shots are like slipping into your favorite pair of pants, is exactly true. As soon as the first words of this live (first time since 2020) show were uttered, it was like watching the whole campaign over again.

It was amazing. From the ad read to the call and response to the final standing ovation, I was on the edge of my seat, laughing, tearing up, laughing again. What a ride. I could watch these nerds in these characters over and over again.

I’ll keep watching them until they don’t want to do it again. And I’m pretty sure Travis just pushed Matt to do another one when his character asked his wife’s character to marry him. You could tell Matt, along with the rest of the cast was blown away by it.

Thank you again for these characters. For the fun, the sadness, and for the giant kaiju battle. Long live The Might Nein!

Thank you.

And we decided that one big pile is better than two little piles, and rather than bring that one up we decided to throw our’s down

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Happy Thanksgiving! It’s a massively dark start to turkey day here, and if I’m honest, cold. The coffee tastes good this morning. I’d probably have to say, it’s a damn fine cup of coffee.

When we went out on Tuesday, we looked for a turkey breast and some stove-top. We stopped when we couldn’t find the turkey. So we gave up. When we go out tomorrow, we’ll do a more through search tomorrow at the better grocery store.

Yesterday was a total sloth day, and I may not be a mind reader, but I think today might be more of the same. I asked if I could watch The Mighty Nein live reunion, and Crystal said yes, so after the morning routine is done, I’ll probably put it on. Woot!

So yeah, nothing much planned here. It’s really nice. Next week will be hectic, so this recharging week is fabulous. I feel pretty good, honestly, just freakin tired. I’m always tired.

Get off my lawn, I’m not old.

Go on git.

And why is the carpet all wet, Todd?

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Yep, as you can see, that’s what was stuck in my head this morning, as I snoozed, trying so hard to get comfortable. I again, was very tossy turny this morning. It took a while, but I finally got a little comfortable – where I could breathe, and temperature wise, found the sweet spot.

Yesterday was a really nice day. We slowly got ready in the morning. Coffee, etc and then we were off! We drove to SlightyBiggerTown to visit the second hand store. It’s a cozy little building, while I didn’t find anything of note – other than some highly overpriced (in my mind) Tupperware, and some vintage PYREX. Crystal did find some little pretties. I’ll let her tell y’all about them over on her site.

Other than that, we stopped after for lunch, then drove home and simply relaxed. I played a little bit of the new game – Divinity 2: Original Sin. I like it. The camera angle is the only thing I’m not fond of. You can zoom in a little, but you can’t change the angle.

I got into some fights. I won them all, and I only have to use a scroll of resurrection once, so I think that’s pretty good. I might play it a little more later on today.

I don’t think we have anything planned for today, which is just fine with me. Maybe we’ll play some video games, maybe we’ll watch a movie or two. I don’t know yet. This is a bonus week, so I’ll take it!

Let’s get the day started. Happy Wednesday, my friends.