Category: Family

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Bittersweet Sixteen

Hi, Mom.

It’s been 16 years since I held your hand and felt your last breath leave your body.

All things considered, I’m doing okay right now.

I had a hell month in August with a kidney stone.

I’m currently in the office, working on a couple of laptops and a desktop.

It’s been a crazy year.

There’s a guy that just arrived up there that you may want to say ‘Hi’ to, Chadwick Boseman.  Dad knows who he is.  He can tell you about him.

I just wanted to drop a note and tell you that I love you and miss you.

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Post-Game

I have no memory of this, but when I was really little, maybe even before I was born, my Dad would play chess in the company chess club.  He’d play on Friday nights, and according my Mom, when he’d get home, late, he’d still be down in the living room or dining room, setting up a chess set, and studying it, looking where he made a mistake that cost him a match.  I don’t know how long he would do that, couldn’t be more than an hour.  Or two.

Flash forward to now:

We played Dungeons and Dragons online last night, and the first thing I do when I get up this morning is futz around on Roll20 and DNDBeyond, looking at my newly leveled character and figuring out how to make spells work correctly from the online Roll20 character sheet.

I did that for about 2 hours before I realized what time it was, and took a shower.

Apple doesn’t fall far from the tree, I guess.

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I do like the online tools for D&D, but I miss face to face interaction.

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Update?

What a month, amirite?

Aside from working at the office every Tuesday, I’ve been working from home every weekday.  The Tuesdays feel the most ‘normal’ since I’m at the office, though it’s weird walking the floors wearing a mask, with hardly any employees around.

I’m not quite back to playing my sports replay projects regularly, though I have played a game here and there.

I’m doing my best in utilizing home delivery for necessities instead of going out shopping myself.

I dove into yet another new hobby, 3D printing, and so far I seem to be enjoying it, stumbling my way through frustrations and successes.

I got to see my sister and niece when I dropped off a gift for my sister’s birthday.  I had also seen them when I picked up some cookie dough from the now-defunct Specialties Café.

I really miss baseball.

A crewed commercial spacecraft launched from American soil for the first time, and a first for a crewed spacecraft since the last shuttle mission in 2011.  I cried tears of joy.

June is here.

Everyone stay safe until next time, okay?  Love you all.

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Duh

Got up this morning, showered, dressed, came back downstairs, found my niece playing on her phone.

me: Are you hungry?
Chloe: No.
me: C’mon, you haven’t eaten since last night.  I’ll be right back with something for breakfast.
Chloe: Okay.

I drive off to get pork buns.

Except… it’s Chinese New Year.

And all the Chinese restaurants are closed.

Whoops.

Next stop, Dunkin’ Donuts.

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Appreciation

On the night of the Rise of Skywalker premiere/Fan Event, after the credits stopped and the lights came back on, my niece Chloe suddenly exclaimed,

“OH MY GOD!  THAT WAS SOOOOOOOO GOOD!”

Which for me, capped off two weeks of rediscovery and appreciation. Continue reading “Appreciation”

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Chapter 5

The title of the episode made my jaw drop.

As I though about it later while driving to work, I teared up, because I know Dad would have liked this series, and this episode.

Anyways, The Mandalorian Chapter 5 is everything I’ve ever wanted from a Star Wars TV show.  Familiar locales, a Mando bounty hunter, [redacted], and a plot that was familiar as well, but with a Star Wars flair to it.

Speaking of familiar locales, is it weird that I knew where he was before they confirmed it in the episode?

And as much as I love the little dude, I was glad that there was less Baby Yoda than in all 4 previous episodes.

That other character straight up looked like what I figure I would look like in that universe, right down to his profession.  And fate.

In fact, my head canon now accepts that that WAS me in this episode.  So there.

Thanks, Dave Filoni!

I love this series, probably more than anything else in Star Wars, except Star Wars.

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So little time

I find myself with more things that I want to do with the same amount of time given to do them.

Which has never been enough time.

Gaming stuff, writing/artsy stuff, social stuff, family stuff, and other stuff.

It’ll all work itself out.

I think.

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Binge Watch: Designated Survivor, Season 3

Dear Dad,

I finished up Designated Survivor last night, staying up way past my bedtime.

Overall, I think you would have liked it, they didn’t linger on plots for 4-5 episodes like previous seasons would do.  This was probably because it was a 10-episode season, instead of 20+ episodes where they need to add filler episodes, like they did in 24.

There were some plots that were difficult to watch, like Emily and her mother’s cancer.  The resolution of that was extremely painful.

And they killed off one of your favorite characters, which was a bummer, but I kinda knew it was gonna happen before it did.

But the overall final result was pretty much as expected, except for Aaron’s story, that actually surprised me how the resolved that.

As for season 4, no word yet from Netflix, though to be honest, I kinda feel that this would be a good point to stop the series, but then again I said that after season 2 ended.

I do wish you were watching with me.  Miss you a lot.