Aaron Rath

If you live anywhere vaguely northish, go outside and check the sky. Friends in unlikely places like Indiana and Colorado are seeing the aurora tonight.

Sarah holds up an eel facts advent calendar in front of blooming flowers on her sidewalk. It says eel facts an advent calendar. It has 24 boxes with orange and yellow zigzags and yellow circles in the middle with numbers one through 24 in the middle of the boxes there are six eels depicted on this calendar, one green Moray, two splendid garden eels, one blue and yellow ribbon eel, and one American eel and one European.

This year we have sold 31% of the advent calendars that we sold last year 😓

The art is so pretty and colorful 🥺
The facts are so good 🥺
Eels are so cool 🥺

Get an eel facts advent calendar at EelFacts.net

Hah! I resemble that remark. If you add "and tried more beer" you've got the book I just published.

The Quirkz Handbook of Drinking Beer and Playing Video Games The Quirkz Handbook of Drinking Beer and Playing Video Games - Kindle edition by Rath, Aaron. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading The Quirkz Handbook of Drinking Beer and Playing Video Games.

My newest book, a funny and nostalgic look at some of my biggest obsessions, beer and video games, is now published. Both print and ebook versions available.

www.amazon.com/dp/B0FY1VMCKT

It's less fun than a poll, but you get a pretty concise answer from the dictionary.

Can we all just agree that commercials do not need to tell you "don't use this product if you're allergic to it?"

Doppelganger?

😀

The Quirkz Handbook of Drinking Beer and Playing Video Games The Quirkz Handbook of Drinking Beer and Playing Video Games - Kindle edition by Rath, Aaron. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading The Quirkz Handbook of Drinking Beer and Playing Video Games.

Publication date is November 6.

Now available for preorder! The Quirkz Handbook of Drinking Beer and Playing Video Games.
www.amazon.com/dp/B0FY1VMCKT

This is awesome. I once wrote down and held on to a memory for 30 years just to see if a statement would come true. (As of 2016 the Tampa airport is NOT as big as Atlanta, so no, it did not).

With a second entry, Quirkz Handbooks are now officially a series. Look out, Complete Idiot's Guides for Dummies, there's a new player in town.

The publication date is set. My next book comes out Nov 6!

The Quirkz Handbook of Drinking Beer and Playing Video Games is the first personal project I've put out since 2019, and the first Quirkz Handbook since 2017.

Do unto the dishes as you would have the dishes done.

One of my fears is I'll meet a podcaster in person and burst out laughing, "You're talking so slow! Are you drunk?" because I'm not used to their normal pace.

Is that the Poppy Z Brite one? Probably read it in '94, so it's all fuzzy. Definitely do not remember that line.

So later this autumn I'm going to be teaching this one-and-done class...

1552 days later, it finally happened Wordle in 1!

I think I'm free now.

Yeah, that's got me rolling.

Orcs in the Hood

Silmarillion Dollar Man

After the long drought since Easter, we are finally back in chocolate-covered marshmallow season. Here until next Easter. About time!

Very weird timeline conjunction:

Dagwoods for democracy?

Huh. I always kind of feel guilty if I've taken something out (even old stuff, not new releases) that I might be keeping it from someone else. Never looked at it that way, that usage is good.

Princess

I mean, I've read a translation. It was required reading in high school, I think. Possibly again in one of my college courses.

Doing that math, it's possible I was conceived on this day. I'll never know, but as far as the personal legend is concerned, I'm claiming it.

Took care of a project today that's been on the to-do list since I moved in 5 years ago. Took me all day, but feels good. Just a little paint touch-up tomorrow to wrap it up.

Ah, palimpsest, one of my top five-dollar vocabulary words. It shows up in a good book now and then. I think it's one of the pet words, like chiaroscuro, that authors enjoy pulling out when they're inclined to be flashy.

day

If I use night mode, after about 30 seconds it starts to look like this:

Farthest I’ve been, up down left and right

N: Reykjavik, Iceland
S: Oaxaca, Mexico
E: Stockholm, Sweden
W: Port Orford, OR (US West coast edge)

Garage doors are up there with toilets as things that are surprisingly simple, and only take learning 2-3 little things to fix most problems.