At Least We've Got Each Other

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

And the best Coronavirus bubble you could ask for.

This Year Blue

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Celebrating the end of 2020 with a little Italian champagne.

Time Encapsulate

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Instead of things like touring Europe, 2020 gave us the money to do fun stuff like have our moldy crawl space encapsulated. So fun!

That's About Right For 2020

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Some wakadoo blew up an RV on 2nd Avenue in downtown Nashville on Christmas morning. It's 2020 all right.

The Soup Before Christmas

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Mom, Dad, Mari, and I with some salmon soup and a White Christmas playing. It's Christmas Eve.

3K Replay

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Many moons ago I hit 3,000 posts. Now it had become a bit of a tradition for every 1,000 posts to have a special Mari drawing to commemorate it.

Here we are at 1,000.

Here we are at 2,000.

But when it came to 3,000 things got just a little delayed.

Well better late than never, I finally got my 3,000 post drawing and have back dated to it match. Enjoy!

Puzzling Behavior VI

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Just in time for Christmas we finished this very nice Fortnum and Mason puzzle.

Christmas Guardian

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Keeping the house safe from sidewalk people for fourteen years.

A Suprise Hanging

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We got an unexpected package from my boss Lisa and it had this ornament in it. Looks good on the fun tree and a thoughtful gift.

In Control

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I've been waiting quite a while to play Control. It got great reviews and is from the same team that did Alan Wake, which I really enjoyed as well. I had to wait because it was a console exclusive when it first came out. Well worth it though, I thoroughly enjoyed this game. Great plot as expected but they really did a nice job on the game play as well, fun and complex but easy to pick up at the same time which is a rare balancing act. Hopefully there's a sequel!

Christman Time 08

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

And the fun tree's classier sibling, the silver tree.

Christman Time 07

 

 

 Had to save the main event for last of course, the fun tree.

Fugmas Time?

 

 

 Even our genial little fuggler monster is into it. UPDATE: Since in the linked post it said we hadn't named him yet, I felt we should keep everyone informed. Being the classy people we are his name ended up being Farty McFarterson. Because with the teeth and squinted eyes it looks like he's bearing down to...well, you get the picture. Merry Christmas!

Christmas Time 06

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The big man himself.

Christmas Time 05

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

It might be a gas fireplace chimney, but it's still done with care.

Christmas Time 04

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Santa has eyes everywhere.

Christmas Time 03

 

 

 

The St. Nicholas Square Harry Potter combo village.

Christmas Time 02

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Poo and Piglet's trees, the Poo train, Peanuts band, dancing clackers and various other bits and bobs.

Christmas Time 01

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

As with every year we've gone big on the decorations. Since it's otherwise slow thought I'd do a picture a day tour. Starting with this new addition, a Santa Hatch Print.

Storage Time

 

 

 

I helped install this (at the time) huge SAN seven years ago, and as of today it's been completely wiped and ready to be retired. Time or I suppose more accurately memory is sure a funny thing. Hard to believe I've been doing this since 2009.

Out There

 

 

Outer Worlds has gotten a lot of comparison to Fallout and I can see some similarity in the sense of humor but it doesn't feel like just a Fallout knockoff in space. I really enjoyed playing through it, though it won't quite make the top of the list. The combat got repetitive very quickly, a lot of the environments were reused over and over, and there felt like a lot of missed opportunities on small details that could have really made it shine. But again highly entertaining game, well worth the time and money, and I hope there's a sequel.

WOTM

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The last month of 2020. The year that was a blur that also lasted forever. I will not miss 2020.