Fascination Place

The other big development – other than all the cat news from my last entry – is that the time arrived this spring for me to take over my Dad’s finances, much as I did for my Mom 14 years ago.

Well, it’s been a while since I’ve written much here, hasn’t it?

My sister Katy and her son Ivan came out to visit for the last half a week.

Last weekend we went to see the new Superman film, and, well, it’s the Superman I’ve been waiting my whole life to see.

I haven’t played Magic the Gathering since last year, and I haven’t played my favorite form of Magic, booster draft, since December 2023, during Lost Caverns of Ixalan.

Debbi and I are back from a trip to Florida for her father’s interment and memorial.

A day late posting this.

When I first moved here in 1999, one of the restaurants everyone loved was Frankie Johnny and Luigi Too!

I haven’t been writing much here lately.

Being Generation X, I’ve owned music and video on a lot of media formats, and owned a lot of playback equipment.

We’re back from a short trip down to Newport Beach – a little south of Los Angeles – to visit with some friends of Debbi’s who were visiting from the east coast.

Woo, a month and a half since my last post here!

A little over a year ago I reviewed the first arc of Steven Brust’s Vlad Taltos series.

A ‘double-digit birthday’, as a friend of mine called it in his birthday wishes today.

Marvel Snap is on online “collectible” “card” game which was publicly released in late 2022.

I have an on-again, off-again relationship with The New Yorker, and two years after I resubscribed to it, I’m letting it lapse again.

This year feels like it’s been a big maintenance year, which isn’t a bad thing, and I feel like we got a lot of stuff done in that space this year.

Hobee’s is a NorCal breakfast institution.

I don’t think I can provide a more succinct review of The Marvels than what I posted on Mastodon after we came out of the theater yesterday: #TheMarvels was 1000% better than I’d expected.

Aaron’s Mahnke’s Grim & Mild is either a true cottage industry or one of the biggest names in independent podcasting, depending on who you ask – maybe they’re both!