Fellow Micro.bloggers, this is it for me. I’ve switched the retrophisch.net domain and site over to WordPress. Full explanation here.
I’ll be leaving Micro.blog at the end of the month. Thanks, Manton, for this wonderful addition to the blogosphere. Will continue following everyone’s adventures via RSS. :)
“But let’s admit it: it can be hard to stay on a balance point. We go through cycles of feeling anxious, feeling guilty, feeling resentment, feeling rebellious, and then feeling relief when we identify a worse sinner than ourselves. We’re unstable, I think, because it is so hard to grasp how absolute God’s side of the relationship is. He loves us, even while we are sinners, and nothing can halt or deflect the force of his love. He is love, and his love fills the universe. It comes entirely from him, and knows no limits. It takes no notice of whether we are are lovable or not, whether we want him to love us or not. He will love us no matter what, and nothing can stop him.”
—Frederica Mathewes-Green, Welcome to the Orthodox Church
(Bold emphasis added by me.)
Some days my techie brain is working behind the scenes and comes up with revelations such as:
PowerBook M4 Pro looks, sounds, and flows so much better than M4 Pro MacBook Pro.
The ticker symbol for the iShares MSCI Agriculture Producers ETF is VEGI. I applaud you, sirs and madams.
The SPDR Bloomberg High Yield Bond ETF’s ticker symbol is JNK, and that is some high-level dad joking/’80s referencing right there.
If you love reading thrillers, and you haven’t cracked open Jack Stewart’s Battle Born series, you need to correct this ASAP.
I just finished Bogey Spades, coming out mid-November, and it is fantastic. Jack keeps upping the ante and leaving you wanting more. Pre-order it now! 📚 www.amazon.com/dp/164875…
It was an absolute pleasure getting to meet Marc Cameron today, and Jack Stewart was a great host with superb questions that pulled amazing stories from Marc. A good time spent with my best bud Nathan as well. If you get the chance to hear Marc speak, I highly encourage you to!
What a multicultural evening: took my Rwandan, fresh off lacrosse practice, to get South African chicken, at Nando’s Peri-Peri. He left a fan.
“Two drive-thru lanes aren’t enough to handle the volume we have every day!”
“We can’t expand any more, there’s no more room on either side!”
“What if we build up instead?
A little over a third of the way through, Rob Kroese doesn’t so much break the fourth wall in High Plains Grifter as crack it. (It is not narrated in first person.)
Nevertheless, hilarity ensues. 📚🤣
Started a Pathfinder campaign a couple of weeks ago with my buddy Nathan as DM, and the party includes his brother, and an assortment of our respective kids. Had the second meetup tonight, and it was even funnier than the first. Can’t wait to see where this thing goes.
Signum Regis has released a new music video, “Ministry of Truth,” from their album “Undivided,” which came out this past November. The video features a professional cast and was shot on location in Argentina, an entire hemisphere away from the band’s home in Slovakia.
There’s a new episode of The Empowered Parent Podcast, and we’re discussing the new movie Sound of Hope: The Story of Possum Trot, which revolves around a small church in a small east Texas town that decided it was going to take the Biblical command to look after widows and orphans quite seriously.
Twenty-two families adopted 77 children out of the Texas foster care system, and not just any 77 children. They asked for “the ones no one else wants.” Listen as we discuss our thoughts on the film. 🎦
It’s so cute getting the spam email from [MyDomain] IT department about my email password expiring soon.
I am the [MyDomain] IT department.
In today’s episode of “Old Man Yells at Clouds”:
I resent the branding “Cheetos Crunchy.” They’re just Cheetos.
That’s all we had until some ad exec dreamed up pumping air into them and peddling that trash to the masses who they also thought were too dumb to differentiate between “Cheetos” and “Cheetos Puffs.”