This morning, I backed out of my garage to go to work and saw that my neighbors’ garage door was open with no cars present. 

Nathan brought this to me the other day. I had no idea he had it. He wanted me to have it back because he knew it was mine when I was a kid. 

For Christmas this past year, I asked for a Hartford Whalers hat. I've been a Whalers fan for much of my life. They are the very first professional sports team I ever truly loved. I cried when they moved to Carolina and ceased to exist.

I got an email from AT&T asking me to take a customer satisfaction survey on the AT&T TV Now streaming service. 

Several people did get the latest #MiniMusicMonday eye photo correct. I’ll never understand how you all guess eyeballs so easily. I don’t think I ever could. Anyway, it was my buddy Eric who got it first. 

While browsing through Audible yesterday, I noticed something that always bugs me to no end. The changing of book covers to match a movie/TV poster or  marketing campaign. 

Back in December, I told you all that I was trying out some Great Courses lessons via Audible. Well, I did. And I quit. 

Okay, so as a general rule, this week sucked. But we did get at least a little good news...

This morning before I started work, I went for a walk around the neighborhood. I knew it wouldn't be a long walk because it was really cold and it had snowed overnight, but I wanted to get some motion in before I spent the rest of the day sitting in front of my laptop.

Kirk Douglas has died. Bumblebees may soon be extinct. Donald Trump was acquitted.

This is why quality control and training are tantamount in this day and age. 

First negative: Nobody got the challenge photo from last week. I really thought someone would. 

It is a pretty super date, don'cha think? 02/02/2020... a perfect numeric palindrome... 02022020. I like when that sort of thing happens.

How in the name of all that's holy is January 2020 already done? And we don't have flying cars yet? Or HAL? Or the robot apocalypse? WTF??

Katie and I are closing out January watching Knives Out. She saw it in theaters a few days ago. This is my first viewing. It’s an interesting whodunit. 

Ten years ago today, I was in the midst of a Photo365 Challenge. One photo every day for a full year. I’m not sure if I finished it or not. I should really check into that. 

This is the subject line of an email I got from Nest today...

One of the things that I discovered (and continue to discover) as I delve back into the world of cassette tapes is the terminology of the trade. Sure, there are words and phrases that I knew from before. But there is so much more I never knew about.

The winning guess on last week’s #minimusicmonday was my old college chum, Meggan. She nailed it with the only Black Crowes guess. 

As a library junkie, the husband of a library junkie, the father of a budding library junkie, and a former member of my local library's Foundation association, it warms my heart to no end to read this Gallup article about how library visits topped U.S. leisure activities in 2019, even outpacing visits to movie theaters and sporting events.

I work in an office full of diverse people who live a variety of lifestyles. Especially when it comes to diets. 

Remember the good ol’ days of Vine, the six-second looping video service? Those were fun times. I enjoyed the heck out of that app.

So how cool would it be if my planned blog redesign involved this image...

Remember how I said that Pearl Jam was going to be dropping a new single soon? That "soon" happened today with the release of "Dance of the Clairvoyants."

I was listening to some music this morning on the way to work and thought, "Wow! This would be a great band to highlight in My Favorite Song. What's it been? A couple months since I've done one?"

There may have been a tie with #minimusicmonday last week. It might have been Steve B or it could have been Marty M. I’m declaring BOTH!

Much like the previous Draft post, this is one where I apparently wrote the Totally Unrelated Aside (TUA) before the main post without the benefit of knowing whether or not they're truly (un)related. But this is a topic that does bother me to this day. And I still feel the same way as posted below. Oh, and this dates back to 2009. I don't have the original date as I kinda screwed up the posting of this. Oh well.

I need your input on something. I just got back from seeing the WWI movie 1917 and it was singularly amazing. Like so good it might have topped my K7 film list. 

Oh, thank God it’s...

I just recently realized that I'm a bit behind on updating my Rankings lists. In fact, four of them need to be given some updates. And the justification for those updates I thought I'd do in the form of my first Snippets post of 2020!

This past Christmas, a big to-do was made about the Hallmark Channel pulling an ad that featured a gay couple getting married. A hate group called One Million Moms protested the ad as disgusting and threw around their weight (obviously from sitting around on their couches all day espousing hate via the Web) and convinced Hallmark to pull the ad. 

Finally! After nearly seven years since the release of Lightning Bolt, Pearl Jam will be releasing their 11th studio album Gigaton on March 27.

So I didn't exactly start #minimusicmonday on a high note (heh heh). As it turns out, the art I presented last week as a challenge photo has been used on two albums. As a result of this mistake, I'm giving credit to two people for guessing it "correctly."

At this point last year, I posted about upcoming films and had a list of 22 movies I wanted to see... just for the first half of the year! 

I have a complicated history with The Office. I loved the first four seasons of the NBC show; some of the best television ever made. But the final five seasons are a mixed bag; some is borderline good, some decent, but most is absolute crap.