Yesterday we went to what is arguably my favorite store in town. The only bad thing about this store is that I never go intending to buy anything and the next thing I know, I have spent about 50 dollars or more (😅).

Re-Pop Gifts

They even had this enterprise command chair. Luna had no idea what was going on but the guy from the store and I were nerding out about it.

The girls walked out with some cool stuff.

And so did I.

I got the coolest shirt!

Another week down. Here’s this week music rotation.

🎵 It’s The End Of The World But It’s A Beautiful Day - Thirty Seconds to Mars

🎵 ONE MORE TIME… - blink-182

🎵 Starcatcher - Greta Van Fleet

🎵 Brothers (Deluxe Remastered Anniversary Edition) - The Black Keys

🎵 Don’t Wake The Riot - Black Pistol Fire

🎵 Huntdown (Original Soundtrack) - Tommy Gustafsson

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Good morning fellow readers and et al! In case you haven’t noticed, it is Friday! We have made it, and you have made it. I just had black coffee, puya, as we say back home, which is rare. If you knew me, you would know I am all about my beloved café con leche or a vanilla latte. I’m basic.

Today I am aiming for the bare minimum and stress-free. That said, it is not even 8:00AM, so anything can happen [😅]. Part of me just wants to take the day off and do some photography or gaming, either would do.

Last night was Trunk or Treat and MArley’s school and that was a lot of fun, it was cold as balls but regardless. Today we are having a freeze warning, I should probably stay home and work from it, where warm and cozy.

I am trying my best to keep it together, but lately, there have been many times that I feel like I’m at a breaking point. I love my job and I enjoy what I do and let’s face it, I am the best at what I do [🙃]. However, in what we do, a team of two, it’s not enough, expectations are high and we are spread thin.

Maybe this is part of why I’m having trouble sleeping, I think. I don’t know, I got new sleeping pills prescribed today, and l hope they’ll help.

Also, we have a new intern, maybe I should start delegating and take some stuff off of my plate. That’s a conversation that my boss and I need to have.

Do you like music?

Do you like podcast-radio-shows?

Do you like Dave Grohl and Norah Jones?

Then you need to lend your ears to this radio-show episode of Norah Jones is Playing Along.

Dave Grohl and Norah hang out in Foo Fighters' studio to play through some choice songs from his epic career. Dave talks about why he decided to take the hard road after Nirvana, getting lost in the White House, and asks Norah to take him to music school. Norah and Dave duet on a song that he hasn’t played in 20 years, and he makes her day by lending his powerful drumming to one of her songs. This warm and wide-ranging episode gives an intimate peek into the mind of one of modern rock’s most beloved legends. Recorded 4/26/23.

I only discovered this because I follow Dave on the instagrams there. But now that I have, I’ll probably go back and listen to other episodes.

Also, I would love to hang out with Dave one day!

I love a good fantasy story, like Lord of The Rings, The Wheel Of Time, etc. As long as is on visual media, like TV shows, movies, graphic novels, and even video games. But whenever I try to read (or listen to books on tape), I can’t get into them as much as I try or would love to. Not sure is maybe to a lack of imagination or attention span or just the fact that I am very visual. Or perhaps is the fact that many times these stories start slow? Compared to a thriller like The Terminal List series.

Currently, I am listening to The Sword of Kaigen: A Theonite War Story by M. L. Wang I am about 3 hours or so in and the first two were, well I felt like I was forcing myself to stick to it, until it finally got more interesting, to me. Apart from anything from Neil Gaiman’s, every fantasy book (or book on tape) that I start, I end up dropping or forgetting about.

Now, any of those fantasy books that I’ve ever tried and dropped, make them a motion picture show adaptation, and I’ll be all over them!

That being said, it is also a shame, because there are so many good stories out there that will never make it to any visual media.

Ever since HEY came out, I was very intrigued by it and it became this new thing that all the cool kids were raving about, for better or for worse, and of course, the FOMO. But because of the price tag, I resisted as much as I could, until I caved and fell in love with it. And it was the simple “gimmicks” that made it different and made email a lot more funner, as my kids would say. And by gimmicks, I mean features like Imbox, the Paper Trail, The Feed, Set Aside, and Bubble Up, all of the things that made my email much cleaner, and easier to manage. Just see what I wanted to see.

Before it renewed the first time around, I canceled my membership just to find myself missing it a few months after, missing its gimmicks. At that point, I tried using Fastmail, as I read that you could basically recreate the same “gimmicks” on it. However, for whatever reason, Fastmail did not click for me, as Marley would say, I wasn’t feeling it. I endured just regular email for a while until a few months ago, and I signed up for it again.

Now in the past few days, I have been debating again. Do I really need it, for the way I do email? I could probably just go by without it and delete things I don’t want as they come in, and manage it all manually.

Manage it all manually…

That sounds like another thing to stress about, don’t it?

Guess I’ve just blogged myself into keeping it [😅].