Style: imperial stout

ABV: 10.2

Gabz’s Rating: A+

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Available September – December

I should have grabbed a few more. I live this beer.

I love trips, trips are fun, but trips to the ER, nope.

Luna being Luna, yesterday, she was playing around in the kitchen, on a step stool, rearranging the Christmas decorations on the glass door. Somehow, she managed to trip over and to the floor and hurting her parts in the process. She cried a whined for a bit, but off she went. However, she got hurt enough that she didn’t want to go potty last night.

This morning, just the thought of going potty was enough to freak her out. Well, we call the pediatrician, and we were advices to go to the ER, as they didn’t have the necessary equipment, if needed, for her happenstance.

To the ER!!!!!!

So, they take an X-ray, to make sure it was fine, and it was, then they required her to go potty. Challenge, ugh, accepted. A few apple juices and popsicles later, she still would not want to go potty, she was way too scared. We tried everything. At one point, we gave her some our bracelets with the promise they would make her brave…

It took for Annie, to sort of kick me out saying, “go pick Marley from mom’s”. Which to Luna, being the big-hearted sister she is, expressed her wish to go as well. To which then we said, “well, if you go potty, you can come”.

And that was it, that was the encouragement she needed 😅 She went potty, we collected the sample the doctor needed, turned it and waited.

Luna, was so proud of herself, for going potty, and to her surprise, it did not hurt. Lady doctor comes around, congratulates Luna. Luna tells the doctor, “my parents gave me these bracelets, so I’d be brave”.

Long story short, she’s fine, everything is fine but spending about 4 hours in the ER, not fine.

This post was originally posted last year today, it showed up in my Day One app but not on my Micro.blog hosted site. Which means it was posted during my Ghost time 😉

This morning on my morning commute, like in every one, I was listening to a podcast radio show, Supernatural with Ashley Flowers.

Today’s episode, ALIEN: Ancient Aliens

Fragments of a map from the 1500s sparked a theory that’s been going strong for decades. It holds that extraterrestrials have been visiting Earth for thousands of years, gifting humans with advanced tech far beyond our means. Today, we investigate the mysteries that make aliens seem almost plausible.

I don’t talk about this often, or rather, I don’t blog or have conversations online about this particular topic, perhaps because it has been beaten to death. But I am a sucker for all things aliens or theories on ancient technology and such. So, this episode was very fascinating to me. Then, something was addressed that blew my mind. Something I had never considered before or was brought up to my attention until now.

In the last five minutes;

And speaking of Europe there’s something we need to address with the exception of Stonehenge all of these ancient alien theories revolve around non-European cultures as tons of actual experts have pointed out this reinforces the old imperialist idea that nonwhite cultures are inherently less capable like no one ever questions are the ancient Greeks built the Parthenon or how the Romans perfected aqueducts even hard core ancient alien theorist Hindu accepted yes the evidence is clear they did that themselves cultures in Africa or the Americas accomplish something similar the reaction is somehow there’s no way they could’ve figured that out on their own

Wow! They think so little of us not white people.

(And yes, I used Drafts’s new transcribe feature for this) 😎🎙

With Ellen's retirement, work is becoming increasingly overwhelming by the day. I guess it's finally sinking in. It was yesterday when I realized all the things that will and are becoming my responsibility, or at least what I think they will or taking upon myself because, there's no one else, I think. I am trying to be the person most people relied on, a person with 25-plus years of experience and lots of knowledge in the genetic purity world. I only have 3. So yeah, I am freaking out a little bit. 

I think what makes it a little worse this week is the fact that a lot of people are either on a business trip or vacation, so help is in short supply, plus there is all the other stuff I take care of, the stuff in my plate, which it becomes very overwhelming by the end of the year, like every year.

So here I am starting at my computer screen, trying to figure it out whilst trying to keep it all together, mentally. Typing my feelings away so I can get on with my day. Or at least try.

Dawn of the Monsters on the Nintendo Switch

I had no idea, this game even excised. I am even surprised it didn’t even make it into my radar as someone who’s constantly checking what’s new in the eShop. I believe the game was first released, at least on the Nintendo shop, back in March. It wasn’t until I was watching a resent episode of Happy Console Gamer, my second favorite Canadian, that I made aware of this game.

Side-scrolling, kaiju beat-‘em-up!

When I read that, I was sold! Imagine Streets of Rage meets Pacific Rim! Just like your typical beat-‘em-up, you fight a wave of enemies, all of them monsters, and move to the next area and at the end of it, there will be a boss fight. A simple formula that still works.

You get to pick in between 4 characters, two mecas and two kaijus that’s somehow fight for humanity. You get to select deferent upgrades or enhancements. And off you go.

The story is, so far, simple, save humanity by getting rid of the “nephilim” (the monsters).

The art it’s great, very anime/comic book ish.

The music it’s fine, not mind-blowing like other games of its genre, but it fits.

It has really been a lot of fun playing this game. In fact, I have been playing on local co-op with my oldest daughter, and she’s also been having fun with it. The game isn’t super-difficult, I have probably died once, it can get a little hairy when multiple enemies band together and your daughter is too busy watching YouTube rather than play with you.

Though I have deleted or deactivated my Twitter account a while ago, I kept both Twitterrific and Tweetbot installed. I mean, they are both good-looking apps (or icons, since I can’t actually look the apps interface without logging on to Twitter).

Perhaps for nostalgia, or as part of one of the five stages of grief. Who knows? Today I have finally deleted them from my device.

Bye Ollie, bye angry looking bird 🐦