Dumb Things I Have Done Lately

Halloween 2025 is just over a month away, so I'd better finish last year's post. For Halloween 2024, I made a porcupine costume: Th...

Saturday: Passed by the in-the-process-of-opening   Simply Social Coffee Shop (they were setting up for a private event). Went to the  H St...

Once again, it is my birthday. 53 , for those counting. And once again, I accumulated 53 bits of trivia, knowledge, and random occurrences i...

Last week's edition of satire site The Onion featured an article with a Reston, VA dateline, " Report: Every Place On Earth Has Wr...

Getting back to the raison d'être of this blog, I tried firing up my Xbox 360. (The older Pixel I was using for mobile gaming isn't ...

As is my wont, here are the 52 pieces of trivia that I used to respond to Facebook birthday well wishers (granted, mostly from wikipedia and...

I was originally going to post this to an aviation forum as a story identification question, since I only remembered some details from when ...

This weekend, I needed an extra N95 mask from my car and couldn't find one. So I decided to go through the COVID supplies in my car (tru...

Since I broke the seal with my blog entry yesterday, I figured I might as well pare down the blog backlog (backblog?) and keep the streak go...

I was deep down a Wikipedia rabbit hole when, whimmed , I popped over to the Mullet (haircut) article to see which photos were being used t...

I don't bake much (though I do roast a fair bit), but I had a few bananas on the edge so I decided to make banana bread. The recipe I us...

Today's my 51st birthday. (Which doesn't seem right, but the math checks out.) A few years ago, I started responding to Facebook bir...

I've been wanting to make a DC Metro station name pylon costume for a while, and figured that this was my last Halloween to do one as a ...

My birthday is tomorrow, and thanks to coronavirus, it's going to be damn uneventful. I doubt I'll even do birthday trivia responses...