John

A dog wearing headphones with a cassette tape sitting next to him

Bumpin the new Landstrykar

everyone's always "super excited" to talk about things on zoom

My reading progress is slow because my 4 yo loves to pull my bookmarks out and lose my place 😞

Erika has started saying "listen" when responding to certain things.

She doesn't understand, as a Zelda fan, how triggering that is. 🧚

whenever I setup a new linux machine, one of the first things I install is schismtracker.

today is a 3 coffees, no lunch kinda day

Cake pop demon hunter

awesome! been wanting to check it out. might get into it tonight.

Watched the Xbox dev direct and I'm so hyped about Beast of Reincarnation and Fable. Both look really good and it looks like they'll be released this year!

Picture of the shadow of what was lost book and a coffee

Just picked up a copy of The Shadow of What Was Lost by James Islington. Folks compare it to the Wheel of Time series. We shall see!

Castle rat tshirt and cassette tape. Picture of a lady on a horse holding a sword

Got this sweet Castle Rat shirt and cassette today ❤️⚔️🏰🐀

I was just thinking about The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess, and I remember loving that game...

But when started watching videos of the game play, I have no memory of it at all other than Midna and turning into a wolf.

a man with a beard and a hat is saying `` i have no memory of this place . '' Alt: Gandalf aying `` i have no memory of this place . ''

Being in my 40s, I find myself relating to Gandalf more and more with

Feels like a good night to play Skyrim

I think I just ate my weight in mango sticky rice 🌝

I don't think I've played AOE2 since high school in the 90s...and it shows! Boy I'm out of practice.

Finally got AOE2 installed with the help of Crossover. The easiest route is just to install Steam first, and then install it through Steam directly. Don't use the bottle in Crossover.

picture of download status on aoe2

I was just trying to install it with Crossover and now it's stuck trying to install the comic sans font lol 😭

well, you certainly weren't wrong!

Screenshot of last.fm scrobble plays for 2025, with Data Rebel, Miami Nights 1984, Mega Drive, Mitch Murder as some of the top artists.

Looks like my work music has skewed my end of the year scrobbles, but I'm not mad. Data Rebel, Miami Nights 1984, Mitch Murder, and Mega Drive are definitely some of my top artists on the electronic side of things.

Getting into some Elden Ring Nightreign today

I haven't been fast enough to catch it, but the lil guy will make a chirping noise after I steam my milk. It's very similar!

Grey tree frog sitting on a perch next to an espresso machine

My little coffee frog, chilling on its perch 🐸

We missed out on books 1-5, though, so maybe they'll re-re-print those at some point

Pretty excited about Steve Jackson games re-releasing this old solo RPG series!

Skyrim is my favorite cozy game of choice

..something something download and play Skyrim before the time it takes Max and Holly to go through their gates...😩

Feeling the urge to fire up a new run of Skyrim ⚔️

what is it about being on vacation where my brain is like, "fu sleep" and then I wake up at 4:30am 😩

makes my life so much easier now!