Fueled by Ramen and cheap beer

Seattle Seahawks 41 SFO 49ers 6

A good night to be a Seahawks fan. A really, really good night!!

Erica grew up in Hyde Park, New York. That’s also the home of Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt. She is a big fan of Eleanor and has read up extensively on her life and her influence. I was bouncing through eBay the other day and I saw that the US Mint had issued a memorial coin in honor of Miss Roosevelt a couple years ago. Being the magnanimous soul I am I ponied up the $1.17 for the quarter and shipping to surprise her.

There are two buildings that make up Capital Towers. We live in CT1 and found ourselves in the other building yesterday to drop something at the office. We walked over to check out their laundry facility. Erica has this amazing gift of finding money everywhere she goes. As she walked past a bank of washing machines she saw a quarter in the change slot. She quickly picked it up and deposited it in her pocket.

We got back to CT1 and got the mail. We walked upstairs and I was delighted to see my order had come in. I excitedly ripped it open and said to her “I got this for you“. She saw the coin with Eleanor‘s head and jovially said “cool thanks”. She reached in to her pocket to pull out the coin she had found. She looked at me and said “it’s the same coin.” Of course it is. Why would it not be?

That laundromat visit cost me $1.17 that I will probably never get back.

Huzzah!! my catheter tube was successfully removed yesterday. I no longer have any accoutrements hanging off of my body. The only things wrinkled and dangling are things that are supposed to be wrinkled and dangling. It’s been two years 51 weeks and a day since having the catheter installed. This is yet another major achievement in my recovery. I am so thankful to continue moving forward.

Erica and I were walking to the groceria when we were passed by a dude on a 10 speed bike. He had on a backpack. Sticking out of that backpack was a cute little corgi dog. It was quite a sight. I wish my life were as joyful as the dogs.

The Seattle Seahawks won the NFC title yesterday. They won 14 while only losing three. The Seattle Mariners made it very close to heading to the World Series this year. It’s been a long, long time since any of the teams I root for were even close to successful. I don’t really know how to behave right now. It’s such a new feeling to be supporting a winner. What makes it even better is both Eddie The Painting Guy’s and Tony Beers teams did not make the playoffs this year. Ha. Losers.

We had a beer with Reggie Value
on Friday. He had flown up from Florida to meet up with Jason J. They were recording a special episode of their podcast in Raleigh. I miss hanging with Reggie. He’s a good, interesting fellow.

I brought my computer into a repair shop. It is brilliantly named ubreakit-Ifixit. I love that. It’s costing me $69 to run diagnostics to see what the problem is. With luck they can figure it out and get it going. They told me it may be as bad as having to reinstall the OS. If that’s the case, it will cost $100 to back up the data. $100 to reinstall the operating system. $100 to reinstall the data. So with the diagnostics this whole mantilla could be as much as $369 plus tax. I only paid $409 for the computer. Worst part is they said it could take as long as two weeks. Thankfully, I figured out how to both do my Recordo’ Sto’ and eBay stuff on my phone. The bitch was trying to figure out how to print eBay shipping labels from the phone but being the tech savvy genius, I am, I figured it out. Imagine that… Being so tech savvy I can figure out how to print documents from my phone, but couldn’t figure out how in the piss to turn my laptop back on. I am a tortured geniu

Wishing you all endless love, abundant joy and unexpected riches in 2026. I hope your lives are as great as you deserve. Be safe, warm and happy all the year through.

Traditionally the HalloGivingsMas season ends at midnight December 25. A few years ago during the bleak days of Covid the official committee decided to add a four day extension. The official closing ceremonies are still the 25th but the soft closing of the season is the 29th. It was extended these four days to include one final holiday, International Chip Appreciation Day. A day for all people, regardless of color, creed or religious beliefs, to celebrate all things ME. I hate the end of the season because all the joy and love vanishes and the humans go back to their usual revolting and despicable behavior. Not all of the humans are awful, but enough of them are to stain the entire collective. This doesn’t apply to any of your good people, but if you ever have to leave your comfort zone and mingle with the humans you will see I am right. So enjoy the last hours of Eatin’ Season. Hoist a glass of your favorite beverage up high and toast me. I will raise mine in honor of all of you fine people. Thank you all for your continued support of this stupid little journal.

🤘 Rock on with yo bad selves🤘

With today being Boxing Day, Erica and I decided to tempt fate and go out looking for some bargains. Our first stop was Walgreens. We got there just after noon. By then every sign of Chritmit had been removed and replaced with Valentine’s Day shit. What s disappointment. We ambled over to Target where I was hoping to score some clearance items to slap up on my eBay page. We went to the toy department where they had a 'clearance' sale. All the toys were 15% off. Are you effing joking? 15% is not a clearance it’s a regular sale. Another disappointment. We got home just in time to play bingo in the other building. There were only 10 people there so surely I would win. I did not, but Erica won twice. She won a bottle of hand soap and on the last game, a cover all, a six pack of Sprite while I walked away empty-handed. Yet another disappointment. When we got back to our building, we checked the mail and there was a pink slip indicating we had a box delivered to the other building. I headed back to the office hoping the box was the new pair of Adidas I ordered from eBay. I got there, Douglas dug up my package and it was diabetes supplies. Another disappointment. I am eventually made it home and turned on CNN only to find the “president” had not died yet. The final disappointment of my day. Screw all this I’m going back to bed .

We had a nice visit on Thursday from my niece J-Nic and her mother, Da Younga Sista. We were finally introduced to J‘s lovely 12 week old spawn Lucy Ann (named after MeMum) Lucy was born on Earth, Wind & Fire day. Unfortunately, Mom passed exactly one month prior to Lucy‘s birth. It’s a pity she never got to meet Little Lucy as she is quite a cute little munchkin. I held her a few times and eventually she fell asleep in my arms. It’s things like that that sometimes makes me regret not having children. Later in the day we went to the groceria and there was an obnoxiously loud little shit turd wailing at the top of his lungs for several minutes. My regret of not having children quickly vanished.

Happy Gotcha Day to Maxwell Juniper, Your Favorite Mustached Black Cat !!