Happy late Spring/early Summer, everybody. Been a long spell since my last update, so I wanted to chime in with what’s new. Anyways, that’s all for now. I hope you’re all doing well and stuff.
So-So Ocho: April 7, 2023
Welcome back to another edition of the SS8. Here’s what’s on my mind. ONE: It’s the start of Spring, finally, but it’s come with a price – a lot of tornadic activity. While I love a good storm, tornadoes are best experienced from afar and once or twice a year. There’s never anything impressive about…
SS8 – 3.7.2023
Another So-So Ocho for you, my friends. ONE: I’m staring down the barrel of 38 years old, and while I’m definitely in the “age is just a number” part of life, there’s certainly a cool and somber placidity to my day to day that reminds me that it could have gone much worse. I’ve got…
Introducing the So-So Ocho
Hey everybody, good lord it’s been awhile since I’ve written. Part of this is due to general post-holiday chilling, and I was taking my first international trip to Mexico, which was cool. I’ll write more about that later. For today’s entry, I’m blatantly stealing format from Derek Godin’s blog (https://blog.derekgodin.com/), going with only a slight…
2022 Review
Hey folks, just wanted to, for my own benefit mostly, summarize some of the things I’ve read, played, watched, and done in 2022 before we cleanse the palate and start anew. These aren’t in any particular order. BOOKS GAMES MOVIES TV MUSIC That’s all I can really think of for now. Ready to start a…
A Christmas Brief
It appears that the order of the day here in Illinois is to brace for a 30-odd degree drop in temperature, with some snow and ice coming in along with tremendous winds. Christmas is a couple days away, and it appears it will be properly (and dangerously) cold. I’ll take it, so long as people…
The Holiday Season
Well folks, we did it. The Fall season, as it so often does in Illinois, has come and gone with the blink of an eye. Autumn is still here, technically, but Old Man Winter is blearily stirring from a long slumber, and the typical November snows have dusted many a doorstep in these parts. Thanksgiving…
Tying knots, raising cups, deep breaths
Autumn is here, finally, and while we’re on the fast road out of October and into November, I’ve been trying to relish every opportunity to enjoy the crisp Fall air, smells, and sights. We’ve gotten teased with some extremely cold weather, which was contrasted strangely against a trip out to Arizona to see my sister…
Andy’s 2022 NFL Uniform Rankings
Washington Commanders There’s no excuse for this look to be this bad. Washington went with a stripped down “Football Team” look for the 2020 and 2021 seasons, which wasn’t too shabby for an ad hoc thing. They spent two years trying to figure out how to rebrand, with no expense spared nor shortage of creative…
Summer Updates & Red Dead Revisited
During peak pandemic times, I played and eventually wrote about my experience with both Red Dead Redemption and its prequel Red Dead Redemption II. I wanted to follow up a couple years later, now that I’ve played through RDR2 again, and expand my thoughts on the experience. Once again, if you’re looking to avoid spoilers…
Bad Times
Has there ever been a less anticipated 4th of July? The last 7-8 years, sans a few days in November 2020, have been such a bleak, soulless, and numb time to be an American. It seems like all that ever happens anymore is an inevitable countdown to some horrid grand finale. Anticipated timeline: ✓ SCOTUS…
The New American Way
I could point out all the numbers, but it wouldn’t make a difference. I can wax poetic about how wrong it is for people to do this to one another, but it won’t make a difference. We could pile up all the dead children and young people in front of the homes of every politician…
1985 Edition 