News/Blog
I couldn't decide whether to make this a news page or a blog page, so I figured... Why not a little bit of both?
March 20, 2026
Yesterday was my wife Tara's birthday; we went to Senape's Tavern for her birthday dinner - she picked me up after my shift and we went right there without my even knowing where we were going. Senapse's has been in existence since 1008 - when I was Googling for an appropriate link, i found this Reddit post from two years ago nade by one of their employees; scroll down in the comments and you'll see a link in a mini-documentry about the place.
We get there and the waitress asks us if we had a reservation -- we didn't, but there were tables free so we got one. Before we knew it, about four other parties came in, only one of which had a reservation, which was funny. Even finnier: Yesterday was a Lent day, which is why the place seemed to be ground zero for customers that night. I'd hazard a guess that we were the only party that got sausage and pepperoni on their tray of pizza becaue of Lent -- I haven't followed the no-meat restiction on Fridays since I was living at home and even then, when I was out by myself I'd still eat meat (one notable time being when I was in Toronto for Wrestlemania X9 -- I had checked into my hotel after arriving by car that Friday and ordered in a cheeseburger and fries from room service.)
THose of you that have never been to Northeastern PA: Yes, we deal with a lot of square/rectangular pizza around here as well as the usual round pies. If you're ever in Old Forge, PA, go visit Revello's abd order yourself "a tray of red": Hillary Clinton tends to make a habit of stopping there whenever she's back in the area (Her father was from Scranton, she'd been christened there as well as spent summers in nearby Lake Winola.) Last night's meal ended up being my second pizza meal in two days as yeserday, my work ordered in six different [ies from a pizzeria in nearby Sugarloaf -- part of a celebration of sorts for passing a particular goal at work that also included some cash bonuses for everyone. I'd forgotten all about the cash bonuses being incoming until my boss Chris cameup and handed me an envelope. When I told Tara of the cash bonus I was ordered to spend it only on myself and evenentually, that's what I intend to do... once I decide on what.
March 18, 2026
More of an update than a blog post: I'll probably be tweaking this site, especially the front page, over the next few days, espcially when I can be behind my iMac rather than my Linux-ed MacBook Air (where I'm posting this from..
March 17, 2026
"Climate change should be called climate collapse." -- Jello Biafra
Woke up this morning and got ready for work to find that the car doors were frozen shut. It's a goo thing the car only needs to be unlocked from the outside with a fob. Tara managed to get one of the back doors open and we managed to get the front doors pushed open from the inside. A little scraping of the windows and off we went.
Humorus complication number two came at work when, after enjoying the new Butthole Surfers single, I went to put on some Tangerine Dream only to discover that Apple Music was temporarily not cooperating. I managed with YouTube Music for about an hour and a half until Apple Music was back to full power.
I forgot today was St. Patrick's Day until Tara reminded me of it. I didn't wear anything green. Fortunately, I didn't get pinched. With that in mind...
Today's page updates I did from my 2017 MacBook Air running Linux. Eventually I will get used to how basic copy-and-paste functions happen in Linux. At least I'll be well rounded in all three major operationg systems afterward right (even though Windows anything blows more goats than a beastiality convention in Alabama.)March 14, 2025
Two Friday The 13ths in a row, but I wasn't doing this particular subpage on this website on February 13th (Henry Rollins' birthday!), so today's as good a time as any to share this meme my wife made on her phone with Picsart years ago.
Yesterday after work Tara and I stopped at Genevive's Deli again for potato cakes. What the hell, we have a few weekends left until Easter to enjoy these fried goodies, and then wait for church bazaar season to kick off in a couple of months. My cousin Ashley happened to come up in line when I was waiting and we caught up on things. As I was walking back to the car with the potato cakes, someone coming out of either the Dollar Tree next door (which is a shithole, quite frankly) or the Aldi's asked me if they were having a barbecue outside. If my hands hadn't been full I would have facepalmed right then and there.
March 7, 2026 (entry #2)
I found my new weekend breakfast obsession this morning: Wendy's Maple Bacon Chicken Croissant sandwich. Tara and I had stopped at Wendy's for breakfast and I had some points coming, so I first picked out one of these as a freebie to try... than I decided to also add a meal centered around a second round of this sandwich (upsized)... and I'm glad I did. Sweet baby Jesus, whoever came up with this sandwich needs to be elevated to sainthood. I tried to hype Tara into this sandwich, but she's more of a Breakfast Baconator or Bacon, Egg & Cheese Biscuit person. She says the idea of maple and bacon together doesn't sound appealing.
If only Wendy's did all day breakfast like McDonald's was doing for awhile... **sigh**...
I tried to go through a coding course at freeCodeCamp and for some reason about a few pages in, the site was giving me more shit than a GG Allin concert about a code string I swear I entered correctly. Maybe I should just sit at my iMac with my iPad open to a legnthy Python tutorial on YouTube and VS Code open in this iMac? I'd probably be better off doing that than just reading a bunch of text. What say you?
March 7, 2026
Being a very lapsed Catholic, I don't really do the whole Lent thing anymore and haven't for decades. But my wife
It's almost five in the morning as I'm typing this so I might as well finish downloading the new Morrissey album (check my capsule opinion of it here) and go to bed for a few hours -- my Saturday alarm is going to go off at eight anyway. Mine and my wife's disparate sleep and work schedules have us kind of bonkers in the sleep cycle department.
March 5, 2026
The spring thaw has finally arrived... at least it looks that way for now. The weather app on my new phone (a Google Pixel 10 Pro -- I had an opportunity to try a different kind of smartphone after being with Apple's iPhone for over a decade) is telling me that next week we're going to go from the low fifties on the weekent to 70 degrees on Tuesday and then back to another coating of the useless white shit on Thursday. Anyone for groundhog stew?
Meanwhile, working with HTML and CSS on here seems to have inspired me to look into learning how to code other languages, and I've been fooling with Python a little bit tonight. Adding another skill set to my life (along with music, writing, and cooking) can't hurt, right?
I've also started to get interested in Linux, having recently converted a backdated MacBook Air that was formerly my mother's into a laptop running Ubunto Studio. The reason for this, besides curiosity, is because if God, Lucifer, Buddha and Reina Tanaka forbid, I can't get a new Mac machine anytime in the future and I'm stuck having to get a non-Mac computer, I would take a Windows laptop and put a Linux distro on it. Apparently a lot of people are starting to get disgusted with Windows 11 and its adware and are moving to Linux distros, and others are taking computers that can't run anything past Windows 10 and putting Linux on them -- thus upcycling them. I dig this the most.
Speaking of coding, I've been fixing mistakes here and there on this site. I just haven't been mentioning them here like I have all of the major site updates. There's no need to -- when they get fixed, they get fixed.