Long Weekend, Under The Weather, Sad Dad Blues

Decided at the beginning of last week that I was going to treat myself to a four-day weekend. Work hasn’t been very busy, so it seemed like an opportune time to take a Thursday and Friday off and give my brain a break from the 9 to 5. I’d been itching to dig into some […]

Monday Check-In, 2/17/25 : “Lazy Weekend”

Man, it was a lazy weekend. It’s not like I usually have jam-packed weekends anyways, but this past Valentine’s Day weekend was especially sloth-like. Besides running to town Friday afternoon for a few things, I never left the homestead. Friday night I had a couple beers and started the Stephen King miniseries Rose Red. It’s […]

Monday Check-IN(1/27/25)

What’s happening, folks? Yes, it is indeed another Monday morning. Another work week has begun and we’re standing slack-jawed wondering what the hell happened to the weekend. This has been an ongoing trend for the as long as I can remember. At least as far back as the early 80s when I truly started to […]

Things Seen And Read in 2024 : Movies and Books Edition

Going to close out my 2024 coverage on this Friday, January 3rd with just a list of movies seen and books read. We really dig into 2025 next week, but for now I’m rounding out all the movies and books I’ve enjoyed this past year. Nothing fancy, just lists. More lists and lists and Liszts […]

Collins : VHS

We are less than a week away from Halloween. The best stuff always goes by way too fast, doesn’t it? We wait and anticipate the spooky season for most of the year that when October 1st arrives, November 1st shoves its way to the front of the line. I’ve been working on a little music […]

Weekend Wrap-Up : Still Moving Things, Work Brunch, Movies, Two Weeks Till Santa

It’s 3:50 am on a Monday morning and I’m writing to you all. Why? It’s not because I can’t or don’t want to sleep, believe me. Ever since my 20-year old who’s living on her own was late getting to work last week I’ve been paranoid about making sure she’s up on time. She’s what […]

Kids and Adults and Itchy Dogs, Oh My!

It’s been an interesting couple weeks. Interesting as in sometimes not so great and sometimes just it is what it is. A couple weekends ago my good friend and nearly quarter century work pal had a get-together at his place. It was a celebration of the fact that he is officially cancer-free. He spent January […]

Intermittently Awful…Marginally Terrible

The signs were there earlier in the week. I had a low-grade fever of 99.3 last Sunday and felt pretty run down, but the fever went away by late afternoon. Then on Wednesday I started having body aches, chills, and my head felt like it was on fire. I took some pain reliever, laid on […]

El Supremo

The week has been oddly long for some reason. Came home yesterday, took the dog for a very windy walk, cleaned the kitchen and dining room, finished up the laundry, then proceeded to melt into the chair. I was tired all day(ironic then, that I come home and do like 3 hours of housework.) I […]

At The Movies

The first movie I ever saw in North Pointe Cinemas was Mars Attacks! in December of 1996. It was also opening night of North Pointe Cinemas, which was a 6-screen theater. Prior to that, we’d had the Lake Theater in downtown Warsaw, as well as the two-screen Center Cinema. The Lake Theater and Center Cinema […]