A Nod to Nothing

I was going to show some photos from local concerts, and bars, and plays, and other events, but you can see my photos over on Flickr and in...

After all those days of board gaming at Con of the North 2026, I wasn’t quite ready to stop. So I pulled out a game I’d been meaning to lea...

 Yeah. This is a lot of board gaming. But I’m down to the last two. My first Sunday game was Salvage: Deep Space , a 2023 Kickstarter. A...

 I’ll be a little more to the point today. Enough masticating my words like an old man. But believe it when you read it. Consider my habi...

I thought I'd share two photos of games at Con of the North that I didn't play but were fun to see in action.  This is some dedicati...

We usually start a little later on the first day so we can do some breakfast. I was worried OPH (the Original Pancake House) in Edina might...

Am I not talking about politics? I’m not. Is that insane given I live in Minnesota. It is. Is it even crazier to avoid it if I have relat...

Nope, not what I read in 2025, although I'll get that out here maybe tomorrow.  I have it all in Storygraph and an easy way to turn it i...

We Are Legion [We Are Bob] by Dennis E. Taylor is (I think) a three book series that was recommended to me by a co-worker. I was expecting s...

Did a Zwift race yesterday: stage 4 of the “Fresh ‘Outta 25” series. This one was London Uprising and was a two hill climb through the Lond...

Another horror novel recommended by a year end list. Short summary: weird alien (or otherwise) colonies of worms and flies that have senti...

My sister asked for a photo of the strange footprints. I told her there was no accounting for the veracity of a photo in these days of AI s...

Wednesday I finished the book Spread Me by Sarah Gailey. The recommendation came via one of those best horror of the year / 2025 lists tha...

Last night after family fondue and a Christmas eve movie, I was tried and hit the bed around 11:30. I fell asleep right away, but woke up a...

Addendum: I'm practicing some writing on the fly among other things lately, so if some of the language or grammar is messy, I've tri...

Shortest day of the year! Not that I’d really know. I spent most of it, other than a trip to the local coffee shop and back, indoors and a...

I accidentally bought a spaghetti squash. I thought it was your old butternut style squash...don’t get on my case. I know in retrospect wh...