M. McClellan

Also not fun: shoveling two driveways and remembering you have a heart murmur.

I do wonder if people are going to actually switch to that “UpScrolled” or whether is RedNote 2.0.

It seems a lot of the marketing for it is planted.

Things that sound whimsical, but are terrifying: your beard and mustache freeze to your face.

If you don’t have at least one typo on an app a day, have you truly lived?

(No worries, I’ve made more than a few)

Thank you. I love that episode so much.

“These are my STREET clothes!”

(Again, I know more important stuff is happening)

This has been the busiest week in my crockpot’s time with me. We’re making soup, chili, roast, pork loin, you name it.

One final trudge through the snow. Still not quite done, but we’re sitting at 13.5” which a little more to go.

The face 😂

“What are you getting THIS thing out for 🤨?”

I shall! The other “good” thing is this is very light, easily moved, snow. Last year had a snow/sleet combo that nearly sent me to the ER with an ankle injury.

The local station is playing Christmas music just to mess with us.

10 inches and growing.
I went inside and did a Lego set, I promise.
It’s still coming down in buckets and it supposed to continue until 7PM.
Not great, but I’ll take it over freezing rain.

Tomorrow will be a “day” because I’ll go help mom and dad shovel the driveway. 😅🥲. Gonna need hot coco.

Take a small break from the horrors and watch me huff and puff through 10 inches of snow (and growing!)

If I see one more HRR run or whatever that shows 24 inches of snow at my house I am going to crash out in a way previously unseen and unheard of prior to this date.

YouTube video by Les is More Sports Recapping Indiana's National Championship, and the End of the College Football Season!

I don’t talk about this much, but I do a little sports thing with a friend. Today, I talked about what the recent IU football season meant to me. Check it out if you’d like.

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All seriousness, though- please be careful this weekend. Make sure you have charged appliances, dripping faucets, covered spigots, and anything that will keep you warm! It may be rough, it may not be as bad as predicted, but being prepared is better than not. Please. Be. Safe.

An empty series of four freezers for milk at a Walmart. Four doors are totally empty. But even beyond that, pickings are slim.

Many, many, black egg cases that have been completely sold out

Oh, so things are really happening. #Snowmaggedon

Staying up beyond 1AM, going to the ER because the “ick” you got from the toddler birthday parties may be serious, and straining the vocal cords was worth it.

I can’t believe IU actually won in football before basketball. But, I am so incredibly happy. Of course now I have to get a hat… or two

It’s usually in the place you last thought you had it, but in a weird spot there.

(Like the spatula I put in the breadbox once…)

If the Muppets can do A Christmas Carol and Treasure Island, I don’t see why we can’t have a Smurftastic Epic of Gilgamesh.

Friendly Smurf as Gilgamesh, Wild Smurf as Enkidu, and we’ll take care of the rest later.

Breaking an absence to say:

I met Marty Grabstein, the voice actor for Courage the Cowardly Dog, yesterday and he was a total peach. A very kind and genuine human. Even when things overall suck, there are decent humans in the world, in places where you wouldn’t normally consider.

The college sports transfer portal is so much fun because you can ignore the sports and just judge their decisions on face value.

Example(s):

Went from a Sun Devil to a Tiger. Seems like a downgrade.

Oh! From a Longhorn to a Commodore. Big upgrade.

From a Hokie to a Hoosier. Uh???

I know life is supposed to imitate art. But this may be a step too far.

Lost in everything yesterday-

Did they really do the Food Pyramid thing? Did they really rip off South Park? Cause it looks like they did…

I’m really ruminating on this. I know nothing I do is really going to fix the horrors all around us. There’s just no way. But, giving into total cynicism on a personal level would be total misery. I want to believe a small gesture does help others, even if it’s naïve. Naïve isn’t always terrible.

My love of Division II sports must be satiated

I know it’s not very important right now, but I think I’m getting a very cool surprise late Christmas gift involving one of my favorite things- unique college sports mascots and logos.

Sometimes all you can do is make the world 0.0000000000001% less awful by being a good person and it feels very meaningless but it’s also the only thing that really matters

Thanks! I’ve seen more about Russia trying to smuggle a Nuke into Venezuela and Project Stargate being “confirmed” than this so it’s good to know someone is still committed to whole truths.

Thanks for this! I legitimately couldn’t find anything about that. I knew we’d done it, but those articles didn’t say anything about this.

*is now frantically googling what the hell the Brits have done*

Studying niche historical events has cost me more money than I care to ponder, but I’m a better person for it.