Eric Haddock

Well, I think that’s Razer products done for me forever. ☹️ I have/had a Naga V2 Pro Wireless MMO mouse—the kind with a ridiculous amount of buttons. It dropped off my footstool and now the scroll wheel is bent and won’t work. From a 12-inch fall, mind you. I’ve had it <1 month. Sad face. ☹️

Do you enjoy wondering whether brutal killings can be a romp? Then may I recommend Nobody 2, which answers that question in the affirmative. If you’ve seen Nobody, you know the drill. If you haven’t, go see Nobody—it’s unexpectedly good. This one is good as well and also has good song choices.

The pergola people are back to fix an error—which involves the heavy use of a concrete saw to re-cut some paving stones.

Incredibly, scaredy cat Ms. Opal Huntress is not only not afraid, she’s downstairs happily sleeping. Meanwhile the two other cats long ago retreated upstairs. 😄

Huzzah! I finally got it after doing approximately 36,000,000 quests in Suramar. This was the only thing I really wanted to accomplish in Remix. Everything else (like leveling classes I don’t have at 80 to 80) is just gravy from here on out (which is the next 58 days). 😊 #Warcraft

I checked my Gmail for the first time in two months. Turns out I only use it for newsletters for things I don’t care super duper much about. I guess Apple’s anti-spam tech has been so good that I’ve trusted it to use as my default even for when I sign up for things—Gmail’s previous role.

🚨Dense fog this morning—risk of zombie leper pirates is high. Be wary setting out your bins if it’s trash day and avoid anyone who looks trashy—it’s a zombie leper pirate. ☁️🧟‍♂️🦠⚓️

Impossible! 😳

That’s a beautiful photo! 🩵

I got my second pair of glasses today! And by that I mean I have joined the club of humanity that has two separate pairs of glasses for different tasks. In my case, it’s everything else and then when I want to play on my gaming PC.
It was nice seeing my World of #Warcraft all crisp. 😄

She recommended three books for a 101 on what’s going on. In no order. I’m still reading These Truths, as it’s the biggest. (Just out of the Civil War.) If these others are even half as good, man, I tell you what.

A completely different person—who recommended These Truths—said on Instagram to the effect: “Everything that’s been happening has already been happening to non-whites for 400 years. You think it’s the end of democracy because now it’s happening to you.”
I actually covered my mouth when I heard that.

Men are just dumb. 👎

Purple is the bestest color! 💜💜

(Also it gives me impure thoughts somehow?) 😊

These Truths, by Jill Lepore, a history of the United States. Super eye-opening. It puts everything that’s going on now into perspective—namely that things have been wildly significantly worse than they are now.

Always! 😊📖

Tonight, on an all-new #DnD, I begin with ONE hit point! 😆

Blargh. Clickbaited twice by two separate entities this morning. 😕 It’s making me want to retreat entirely to just the wire services and Ground News, the only two sources I can trust with anything it seems nowadays.

Speaking of cats (see previous post), over the years the cats damaged our fancy speakers to the point of requiring replacement. So we got new recessed ones with a metal grill, pictured here. Sooo much better—the cats can’t use them to sharpen their claws on the fabric or interior speaker membranes.

Please enjoy this photo of Sir Percival Softpaws looking over his shoulder wondering what the strange noises are upstairs. Is it a ghost or a human? (Spoiler: it was a human.)

Feel better soon!

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Oh! Yes! Came back the next day. Bill took a PTO to help attend to it. Had to make a new network and reconnect all our devices with a new password and everything. 😅

My onboard car computer decides my fate!

(But I also have the running lights on no matter what anyways.) 😄

Aw!! 🤍🤍

Do you enjoy classic 1960s retro-futuristic naïveté and optimism? Then may I recommend Fantastic Four: First Steps, which is _so_ into its own world that you can’t help but to enjoy your suspension of disbelief and delight in the romp of it. Simple plot, dialogue, and ideas—it needs nothing more.

As well you shouldn’t be!

We have no internet! Something is wrong with our modem. Julia had me detour to the Xfinity store on the way home to get a new one and I got there 8 minutes after they closed. So that’s wonderful.

Ages ago, Sir Percival Softpaws knocked a vase with water in it onto our subwoofer, ruining it. ☹️ Today, we got a new one and omg I missed it so much. It’s marvelously able to vibrate the walls apart and I am so in love with it. I didn’t realize how much I missed it until I heard it again. 😃

Tonight, on an all-new #DnD, my character begins with 8 HP in the middle of a fight!

I nom the crust! 🍕