FM23: Chasing Promotions

When I did the last video update for my Promotion Hunter Update on Football Manager 23, I had just left Switzerland where I won the second division with Lugano for Germany where I took over at Holstein Kiel in the 2. Bundesliga. At first, it looked like I had struck gold again. I got QPR […]

FM23: Italian Savior

I decided for the final half of the Football Manager 23 game cycle, I would become a savior of sorts. I started this kind of save in FM22 as rebuilds and decided to continue that philosophy with a slightly new angle. Part of that came after I utterly failed in my rebuild of the San […]

Summer 2023 Book Update

My reading tends to pick up in the summer. I have some obstacles with a busy comedy schedule on my hands, but I made good work of five books recently. I only read two at the beach (I have done twice that some years), but they were the two books I looked forward to the […]

2023 Reading Update #2

This took a while. I am up to nine books for the year and making headway on #10. The summer is my heavy reading time so hopefully there will be more updates soon. Four fiction books and one set of hysterical essays this time around. Honestly We Meant Well by Grant Ginder: I loved the […]

2023 Reading Update #1

Finally getting to Book Review #1 for 2023. It started slow, a combination of leading off with a dense non-fiction book and just ramping up outside activities. But I have cruised through my last few books and look forward to keeping a strong pace. As always, thanks to anyone who recommended these, and I hope […]

Final 2022 Reading Update

I fell off the blogging train for a while, but my reading has continued. This is probably my last reading update for 2022, but who knows with some time off for the holidays. This takes me to 24 books for the year – my lowest number since the pandemic began, but almost twice what I […]

Monday Joy: Bake Off

When I started streaming, I felt like I had been enveloped in a huge hug. The Great British baking show had returned. The wait seemed interminable even though it wasn’t any longer than usual. But as I have gotten into the show since the pandemic began, my interest in the new season starting as soon […]

My First Fan Fiction

THE TIME: 2042 THE PLACE: A writer’s room in a Los Angeles TV studio Archie sits alone in the writer’s room on a couch. He is still processing the news that the show has not been picked up for a second season. He will have to ask his mother to get him a job as […]

ITEOTWAWKI: Missing Concert

I can have two different answers to the question “how many times did you see R.E.M. in concert?” I saw them twice on the Green tour and then once on each tour after that. That makes seven. However, the real answer is eight because I saw them once before any of those shows, but wasn’t […]