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Ashley posed with a spot-on “Grabber” from The Black Phone More info: Days of the Dead 2023 – Indianapolis

He got his cake. More info: Days of the Dead 2023 – Indianapolis

At Screamer’s Costumes in Detroit, MI. More info here.

“It’s gonna take a lot to drag me away from you/there’s nothing that a hundred men or more could ever do” Africa - by Toto So why is the singer not with her now? This is my theory of Toto’s “Africa” In Toto’s “Africa,” why is the speaker in Africa in the first place? Answer: he is “hoping to find some long-forgotten words or ancient melodies.” He is a student of the occult. ...

I finally made use of the front license plate holder on my car.Better is the view from your rearview mirror if I’m behind you. Heeeere’s Johnny!

Today in Batuu, a staff member taught me how to take burst-photos with my phone and then select a single frame that gives the illusion of magic. Unfortunately, Joe has never seen Star Wars and only held his hand out as instructed. Ashley, however knew what to do, and I was able to capture this sweet photo of her being force-choked in front of the Millennium Falcon.

This morning I was plagued by repeated robocalls in the car on the way to work. I just kept rejecting them (they were interrupting my audiobook!) Not until I arrived did I see the voicemails I got. It turns out these calls were not robocalls - they were my old job trying to get a hold of me. There’s a SEV-1 (production outage) at my old office and apparently no one told the help desk that I don’t work there anymore.

Today is the 10th day of walking, and I’m wondering if I’m going to die in my chair. This is the end of my second week of walking everyday. I set a reminder on my calendar to walk at 4pm on weekdays. I walk around the pond behind the building across the street. The whole walk is about .35mi. It takes about 10 minutes (or two songs on my phone). By the time I get back to my desk I feel a little bit like I’m dying. Just a little. My hips hurt, my thighs ache and I’m winded. ...

I attended my first Ohio Linuxfest this year (2017) and had a great time. I found the lightning talks especially inspirational. One of the talks I especially like were the lightning talks. Lightning talks are a series of short (5 minute), impromptu talks that anyone can do. They hand you a microphone, and you say what you want to say. There were a lot of Linux advocacy speeches (as you’d expect) and “How Linux has affected me” type talks. One of the talks that hit home with me was a gentleman who talked about how when he attended his first Linuxfest, Linux was not his career. Fast-forward a few years, and he is back to say that he now has a Linux job that he secured by being active in the community and meeting people and learning on the job. ...