Finally got around to building my Super Mario 64 Lego cube and had so much fun doing it. 😃 lostinhaste.com/sc/Lego64…

Well, I finally finished it! 🎉 It only took a year (I bought this back in October of 2021) but I finally finished building the Super Mario 64™ Question Mark Block, aka, the "?" block from various Mario games.

I have a notoriously bad memory for my own personal history but two big things I remember playing with as a child: Legos and Nintendo. Not only was it fun to build, but as I was slowly combining piece after piece, attaching set to set, I was remembering all the fun I had playing Super Mario 64 back in the ’90s. 😁 It was quite the nostalgia train for me.

This was one of the most complicated Lego sets I’ve ever built and I had an absolute blast building this but now comes the hard part: finding somewhere to store / place / show-off. 😅

Lazy Supervisor

Of course, Russell supervised most of the construction…in his slipshod and lazy manner. 😁

I think he’s going to be getting a demotion. 🤣

Note: This post is from my old site and was ported over into Micro.Blog when I consolidated from two sites into one. All of the migrated posts can be found here.

🍿 Enjoying the #holiday season, trying to stay awake while building legos. 😴🎄
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Had such a great time last night at the The Fox last night, the The Piano Guys put on one heck of a show. 😃

Surprised the ball-n-chain with tickets to see The Piano Guys at The Fox; I had no idea he was a fan of them. 😂

Let the #holiday viewing season start with mass-insanity of the family variety. 🤣🎄🎅🏻
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Navigating through four screens to cancel my Amazon Prime membership is rather funny. 🤣 Even once I get a confirmation, I’m told how much I saved on shipping…I wonder if Amazon realizes my buying behavior changes when they give me a free month of Prime…? 🤔

So dang happy it’s Friday, even if I am dealing with crazy java dependency issues. Sometimes…or at lot of the time…I really miss .Net 👨🏼‍💻☕️

After trying and failing to get the Holiday decorations out of the basement, I’ve decided to make an early New Years resolution: between tonight and Christmas, I’m going to throw out at least one item every day. 😤😮‍💨

So sad the owner of the local bakery is finally retiring…where am I going to get my holiday themed cookies?! 🦃🍪 (I’m actually happy for her, she’s in her early 70s and would have retired earlier but she didn’t want to abandon people when Covid first started)

I really need to stop buying physical items from Amazon, based on the last six months of orders, the successful delivery rate is roughly 65% 😮‍💨

It’s been a hot minute since I last said anything here but goodness, it’s been a hot mess on the interwebs, right? Since I last committed anything to pen (or something, you get the idea) here, Twitter was purchased and…well…it’s been an epic disaster ever since (the Verge has been great at covering the drama around Twitter, both before and after the sale). While I’m sure you, dear reader, will likely guess where my political affiliations can be found, I do my best not to talk about that online…so just looking at the epic mess that site has become (not to mention the truly awful way staff was cut from Twitter), it isn’t a surprise Twitter seems to be fragmenting; some users are flocking to Mastodon, some to Instagram (though, with Facebook / Meta controlling and locking that down more and more, is it a viable alternative…?), others to Hive…or some other newfangled social apps / sites…

Even though I jumped on the Twitter bandwagon early (my user ID, back when Twitter showed user IDs, was well within the standard Integer range) back when I was a junior developer at an advertising agency, I’ve always been a bit squeamish about letting some company / organization have sole control over my voice. Granted, I don’t use it that often but it is mine, so I should have ultimate control.

Thus, this fragmentation isn’t new to me, I’ve already done it to myself! I created a more public Twitter account and locked my original one. I created a blog (and then let it lapse…and then started it again), set up a Micro.blog instance (though I rarely used it), and am now on Mastodon (though it’s just a reflection of my micro.blog account). I’m not sure which “social” app / site / service will win out but I think I’m covered for now…at least until the next big thing comes along.

This is where I admit I’m using my Micro.blog account to cross-post to Twitter and Mastodon, it’s one of the lovely features Manton Reece added to his platform.

So, if you’d like a way to find my various profiles, locations, writings, and ramblings online, feel free to take a look at my about page, it will be as up to date as anything…except perhaps the home page. 🤣

Note: This post is from my old site and was ported over into Micro.Blog when I consolidated from two sites into one. All of the migrated posts can be found here.

Screwing around with Java 7, wondering where it all went wrong, while listening to #holiday music. Gotta love working from home on Black Friday. 🤣🎄

My Partner is finally breaking out his gift from last year, we’ve decided to decorate the top of the piano in legos for the Holiday season instead of a Christmas village. 🎄

Getting the crock pot ready for tomorrow; Turkey might be the typical tradition for most in the States but as I don’t eat meat, veggie chili is mine. 🤤

Russell was chasing the sun, poor little muffin. 😹

Random Thought: Rather amazed at how fast things are falling apart on Twitter…it’s rather sad. My first account on there, I created it back when I was a junior dev at an ad agency, fresh out of college and the closet. Kinda crazy to think how I’ve changed, how the world has changed since then.

The cold came in over the weekend and I never saw his head again… 🥱😸

So dang happy to be done with Empower Retirement! There is nothing empowering about them…the fees are crazy, their site is a mess, and they charged me $50 an account to leave them. 😮‍💨

Worst experience ever at the Apple Store…got stuck with someone new…and I knew more about Apple products than them. This should not be taking so long. 😤