Upkeep Can Be Key

My old external hard drive kicked the bucket on me this summer. I did all that I could to save it, got nothing. So, I'm taking all the stuff that I backed up on DVDs over the years, and copying it back onto a new external hard drive.

Looks like I should have been more meticulous about the care and upkeep of the discs. Most of them are fine, but this is what the last two look like.

Literally crumbling. It's all old photos of my parents when they were kids, so I'm pretty sure a lot of others have them to share with me, so in the end I should be fine.

Just know this: if you burn a disc in 2002, you should probably replace it before 2017.

Lego Chicken Walker

My kids gave me this Lego scout walker for my birthday.

For some reason, it comes with a rebel trooper who likes to fight Donald Duck style...NO PANTS!

I worked on it for a while, and here it is, finally finished.

Best Birthday Ever

Pretty cool of my work to do all this for my birthday. A huge party, pizza, snacks, cookies, cake.

They could have at least waited until I got here to start, but, hey, my old job never did anything like this for me...wait, what's that you say? This stuff was for the Assistant News Director who has the same birthday as me? Well, shit...I guess I should have known. I don't care I'm going to claim it as mine anyway.

Cool thing about it is I can look forward to it happening again year after year...

TGMG 201: Stephen King Stubble Feature

A new That Gets My Goat in which Rish and I talk about the recent pair of Steven King movies.

Click here to head over to the TGMG blog post, or simply right-click here to download the episode. Then again, you could just hit the play button below and start enjoying now!

Pumpkin Oppression!

Am I the only bastard in the country who doesn't love pumpkin spice stuff? I swear everything is pumpkin spice right now, and none of it is good. Cheerios? Popcorn?

I ate a pumpkin flavored cupcake that came into work today, and wasn't impressed, and my co-worker seemed nigh on incensed that I didn't LOVE it. I heard him talking to someone else, badmouthing me for not liking the damn pumpkins. Is there a law I don't know about?

Dunesteef Episode 196: We Eat The Hearts That Come For You by Jason Sanford

New Dunesteef episode up! We bring a wonderful story by Jason Sanford called "We Eat The Hearts That Come For You"

Alright, if you want to check out this episode, go listen to it on the main Dunesteef podcast feed—(EDIT: Now that the feed is gone, the only way to hear the show is over on the Dunesteef Podcast YouTube page, which I am embedding below).

Me Fail English? That's Un-possible!

This will probably come up in the next Anklecast, but my kids' high school flooded out when Harvey hit. They are attending a different high school all year long. Because of the change of venue, a lot of things are different than usual. They do a thing called College Room, where you go and get info about colleges, applications, scholarships and so forth. They sent out a flyer about the new location of the College Room, and here is what it says:

Fall hours and locations: Tuesday's from 6:30-8:30 at First Presbyterian Church.
Wednesday's from 9-10:30am at Second Baptist Church.

Now, I don't know if it was a student of the school that made the flyer or a teacher or a parent, but it seems pretty sad that the flyer about college is made by someone who doesn't even know how to pluralize a word. I hope it was made by a student that will be taking advantage of these services to get themselves a better education. Then again, college isn't the place to be learning basic English elements. I think you're supposed to show up there already knowing those things, but college does seem to have regressed quite a bit since I went there almost 20 years ago. Good luck class of 2018.