Had my first Impossible burger today. So frickin good. Best veggie burger by far.
Had my first Impossible burger today. So frickin good. Best veggie burger by far.
Maggie Rogers - Light On (La Blogothèque – Live in Paris) →
I like this version better than the recorded. So good.
Jawbox announce 2019 reunion tour →
YES. Please come to Buffalo!
Sadly I needed to bribe Lucy to go see Into the Spider-verse with me today, but also finally going to see it so it’s not all bad.
Operation ‘replace swollen battery and upgrade to SSD in my old 2009 MacBook’ with Stella is complete. She is so psyched.
Outkast’s Aquemini is 20 years old and still amazing. Changed my mood today. Much appreciated.
Today’s New Comic Book Day pickups. And I finally set up a pull list at the LCS three blocks from my house.
Giving Day One another chance for journaling… have a daily gratitude prompt, IFTTT for my blog & photos, and TV/movie log shortcuts set up.
Intermission shoot out for these ladies at the Beauts game today!
One music list to rule them all – The Outline →
An aggregated Album-of-the-Year analysis. Pretty interesting…
Just got Stella excited to help out with a battery and SSD hard drive upgrade to make my 2009 MacBook usable. Parts ordered!
I recently scored some good deals on a few comic investments: Paper Girls #1 (CGC 9.8), Monstress #1 (CGC 9.8), Machine Man vol 2 (first appearance of Iron Man 2020), and the complete run of Infidel. I will be posting more on each this month on my Relic Scout blog.
Some of my favorite moments from 2018.
Some highlights: visiting Hogwarts at Universal Studios, marching in the Pride Parade, Kendrick Lamar, Melisa completing here NY Master Teacher fellowship, Letchworth for Father’s Day, Stella and Zoey’s surprise selfies on my phone, kayaking and hiking in the Adirondacks, Band of Horses, back to school, WNY Llamafest, visiting family in NYC, impromptu dance parties…
So many more that weren’t captured on purpose.
2018 has been challenging in many ways and is ending on a very somber note, so it was helpful to look back and see reminders of all the good times we did have this year.
Best wishes to all in 2019! Here’s to a new year of staying positive in the moment, full of empathy, love, and patience.
Some of my favorite things from 2018 in no order…
And a playlist of some of my favorite songs:
A golden age for TV. By far too much choice, but tons of great series:
I didn’t see many movies this year, but these were my favorite:
My top series from the year…
Possible cool Micro.blog app idea: viewing a post from MB user in browser, hit MB share extension and it auto adds username to send response. Would be easier for MB hosted blogs but maybe others could add meta tag to facilitate?
Dinner and ice cream fun with the girls.
Zoey earned the ‘A’ after today’s 3-2 win. Lots of hard work and effort! So proud.
The tale of girls house hockey.
shame - Full Performance (Live on KEXP) - YouTube →
Love Songs of Praise – it’s one of my faves from 2018. Hope to see them live someday!
My new pickups from the local comic shop.
Dirty Projectors: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert - YouTube →
So good. If I was a talented musician, this is the band I’d want to be a part of… eccentric, R&B influenced indie rock.
Scott’s passing still hits me hard.
Picked up a few books at the LCS today. Loved Firefly. Digging into the others later!
Finally scheduled out my remaining days off. Only 8 full work days left in 2018! Which means I have some serious planning to do.
Such a great group of young ladies.
