Christmas lights need considered perfectly reasonable any time of year. Maybe it’s a branding or packaging challenge.

My laptop gets angry if I plug it in to an external monitor and unplug it or close the lid or something. The good news is that every once in a while it makes this neato pattern on the screen.

New minor life goal? Have an accent wall with color, texture or wallpaper. Then have a painting that incorporates said feature, like The Comet All-Stars pictured here (or this). Maybe I simply need an empty frame… friends do this with great success in their home.

This phone snapshot of a sketch for a thing will have to suffice as a memento for the day. Truth be told, I took a metric ton of photos using instant film but those are for another thing. I can say there were snowballs involved. Those images will likely surface later, but I’m still remiss. There’s another thing that happened in the span of the weeks since I last posted: I dropped my trusty GF-1 camera and busted it up good. So that’ll go in for repair, but there are still lots of photos to sort through between now and then, it’s just that some of them look entirely messed up. I often say, keep expectations low and everything’s a win!

The last time I went up to Benihana I started really doubt stuff—mostly the wait time and feeling I got afterward. Something in my stomach suggested too much of something not wholesome. Surely there was a way to capture my favorite elements in a healthier manner…

So I gathered the ingredients for this knockoff ginger salad dressing and spent most of my entire lunch hour chopping, measuring and blending. It was just about perfect and totally delicious, but wanting. Next I’m going to learn how to saute shrimp in MSG or something.

Rented Searching for Sugar Man after recommendation from a few trusted friends. Enjoyed it very much. Took this snapshot of the television to remind myself to visit Detroit one day and ride the People Mover.

Sometimes I write a headline in the space provided on these posts and I feel like I can simply drop the microphone and walk off stage. But this day held a few extra nuggets that can’t be contained by a title. First? The dental hygienist said my gums are improving and that I’m doing something correct with my brushing habits. This is frankly amazing at my age, I feel. And speaking of age, my oldest brother had his birthday today and we went and got tacos to celebrate. I flossed before going bed.