February Books: 4/4 (The Murder of Mr. Wickham and Steering the Craft) I don’t know if you remember last year, squider, but Steam apparently has a demo event at the end of February each year called Next Fest, where you
Making Progress (But Slowly)
February Books: 2/4 (Six of Crows and Crooked Kingdom) (I read Crooked Kingdom in three days. Been a while since I’ve plowed through a 500 page fantasy novel.) Sorry for the Saturday post, squiders. But I’m sick of talking about
Actually, Let’s Talk About Those Video Games
January Books: 2/4 (Writing Down the Bones) Since my post on Tuesday, I have: It’s a lot of video games, like I noted on Tuesday, and it’s continued to be a lot of video games. So I got to thinking…is
Mid-January Check-In
Little early, but hey, why not. January books: Still 1/4 Reading As we can tell from my usual count, it doesn’t sound like a lot is getting done. But I’m still working through that Weird Parenting Wins book (and I’m
Goals and So Forth for 2026
January Books: 1/5 (Rose/House) Now that we’ve got last year’s reading stats out of the way, we can talk about 2026 and goals and whatnot. As you guys know if you were here over the last year, 2025 was rough,
And Then We Promptly Gave Up on Everything
December books: 2/4 (Rockin’ Around the Chickadee and For Duck’s Sake) By which I mean I got sick and have thus not done any more writing, and, frankly, am unlikely to do anymore between now and tomorrow. (Maybe I will
A Handful of Demos
Howdy howdy, squiders. Still pondering what to work on, and to be honest I haven’t had a lot of time to think about it as I’m staffing a leadership training at the end of the month that’s taking a lot
Game On (Part 3) and Monkey Island
Good morning, squiders! We’ve survived all our summer camps and things can go back to (relatively) normal. Phew! In case you missed it, I’ve set a video game goal for the year to play through and at least categorize my
Game On (Part 2)
Hey ho, everybody! I set a video game goal for the year, to make it through my large catalogue of unplayed Steam games and at least categorize them. As I mentioned last time, this is manifesting as me picking out
Game On
Good evening, squiders! If you recall, I added in a video game goal for the year, which is supposed to be about five hours a week, but life is uneven and nothing can be relied upon, so how it’s really



