A Family of Killers

I saw Disney+ had just put up a live recording of the West End production of Frozen, and I’m a huge sucker for live recordings of stage productions, so we watched it right away as a family. I wasn’t sure of what we would get. It wasn’t exactly up front that it was the actual West End production, so I was initially concerned this might just be something that was done at the theme parks….

Back on May 7th, I posted that I was trying to go to the gym regularly again. That day was my fourth time going, and I was celebrating having made it an entire week with the new goal of going three times a week. Well, it’s a month and a half later, and I thought it would be good to pop in and report how I’m doing. Great! I actually have continued to go three…

I watched the live action Snow White yesterday with the family, and I’m not entirely sure how I want to handle it. Look. I’ve got a goal not to write bad reviews about things. Life’s short enough that I don’t want to waste time telling people what not to watch (though there are some films that it might be considered a crime not to warn people away from, because . . . life is too…

After some frantic researching, Denisa, Tomas, and I went to Augusta on Saturday and bought a 2023 Honda Accord. As I noted last time I went through all of this, buying a car is far from a fun experience for me. Is it a fun experience for anyone? I guess maybe if you’ve just won the lottery or something, it would be a blast? I don’t know. For me, it presents a research question that’s…

Sometimes I forget that movies that I’m familiar with and are old news to me are very much new news to many other people. Today’s reminder? Shaolin Soccer. I was surprised to realize that it came out all the way back in 2001. It’s a Stephen Chow movie, which either means something to you or (more likely these days) doesn’t. Back in the early 2000s, he released a couple of comedy/martial arts movies that were…

Well, Friday didn’t quite go according to plan. Daniela got in an accident. It was big enough that the airbags deployed and EMTs came to the scene, but thankfully no one was injured. We did have Daniela taken to the hospital, as there was a bit of uncertainty about whether or not she blacked out. She had a CT scan and X-rays and they all came back clean, so that’s a huge relief. She woke…

Back when Chernobyl first aired on HBO in 2019, I was hooked right away. It’s a riveting historical look at what went wrong (and continued to go wrong) around the nuclear disaster, and it’s a must watch in my book. Yes, it’s got some language (and a whole lot of very grisly looks at what happens when humans get too much radiation), but it’s so well put together. I started watching it again last night,…

Hey look! I had a chance to actually write another blog post! It’s been a really busy couple of weeks. Usually I try and get my blog written during my lunch breaks, but I’ve had three solid days of work where I was out of the office at all day meetings that weren’t conducive to just stepping aside and churning out a blog post. However, today I’ve got a bit of time, and I definitely…

I revisted Vodník a few months ago–the first times I’ve reread a book of mine after it was published. I was really worried I’d be disappointed or dislike it, but it was actually a ton of fun still. Instead of being let down, I was proud of what I’d done. And I had enough fun with it that I decided to revisit the world in a short story. I was pretty happy with how it…

Can you take a jaunt on an airplane? Probably not, if you consider the delays involved sometimes. Jaunts shouldn’t include unforeseen setbacks. Not that this one was particularly egregious. Just three hours more in Chicago than I’d’ve liked to spend. In any case, Denisa and I went out on Tuesday and were back on Sunday. In between those travel times, we managed to fit a fair bit in: A wedding, ring ceremony, and two receptions….