adventuredog I’m either mad or excited or cold or something!

8r4d Revenge of the #snow

8r4d Touring groovy #coffee stops on a Sunday afternoon.

8r4d What a cool #bookstore

#shopping

castironguy The #breakfast tradition continues. #ikea

8r4d The blur of a good #winter run.

#running

8r4dsfeets #improv night on #whyteavenue

8r4d Another #improv night on #whyteavenue while the kids performs.

8r4d #snow day hey

gamerdad You can thank Stranger Things, that iconic Netflix show of a couple years back that sparked a resurgence in 80s horror, and I jumped on that bandwagon fully intending to read one of the spiritual influences of that retro show, IT by Stephen King. [read more...]

gamerdad If I asked an AI to write a paranormal thriller wrapped around a religious allegory and puffed up with so much flowery language that a poet would hold their hands up for a reprieve, there is a good chance the AI would spit out something very close to this book. [read more...]

8r4d In loving memory of that morning I sat in #traffic for 25 minutes looking at the #sunrise.

Now, at the cafe a little later, I’m wondering why my spellcheck is autocorrecting traffic to traffice?

8r4d Same route as last week but the #running conditions couldn’t have been more different. Ice and puddles and slipping and sliding.

8r4d Another year another season of #orchestra

gamerdad It had been a long time since I read 1Q84. And strictly speaking, I never actually read it. I listened to it as a very excellent audiobook shortly after it came out fifteen years ago.

I was a different person then, half my adulthood and forever ago.

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8r4dsfeets Sometimes I feel like I have two left feet out #running

8r4d Our snowy #winter #running adventure was sparsely populated but roundly enjoyed by all who came out. A lot of folks assumed the trails would be a mess but the combination of rain and #snow left them grippy enough to make for a solid 9k loop with decent traction.

8r4dsfeets The traction was under question this morning after a day of freezing rain and an overnight #snow fall. #running #weather

8r4d Got out #running two nights in a row and gotta say it does the heart a solid in more ways than one.

8r4d The weather cooperated for today and so we got the gang back together for what might have been the first good run of 2025. Everyone kinda needed some #running therapy too.

8r4d Oh, doesn’t this seem familiar. Back at the #coffee and #writing routine as we dive into the first post-holiday day of 2025.

8r4d It’s freaking cold out so we went and did an #ikea #shopping adventure to get some steps in.

gamerdad I could easily overwhelm myself here by just writing too much and then not reading enough.

It is the first dayof 2025 as I write this and I have set myself the bold goal of reading more. Scratch that. I have set myself the goal of finishing more books.

As it stands I have a lot of novels and non-fiction tomes with bookmarks protruding from them just sitting around. So, I am going to use this site to inventory the act of finishing as many of those as I can and then eventually starting some more.

Here’s the game plan: A post when I start (or jump back into) a book. A post when I finish a book. Simple. [read more...]

gamerdad The addictively vital nature of this silly game means that I spend almost as much time enthusiastically explaining to fellow gamers why they need to buy this game and play it. Like last night at my NYE party when may have finally I convinced Mr BR to fall off his wallet and get a copy.

Of course I celebrated by spending my first few walking hours of NYD-proper winning a round and unlocking a new deck. Kudos to me, huh?

I find that I lean pretty heavily into to the planet cards. I may need to try a different tactic to progress further as i’m finding this approach pretty single strategy and honestly reaching a bit of a plateau.