🎂 When Dump Cake and Discord Collide

March 10, 2025

🎂 When Dump Cake and Discord Collide

Thursday January 30th, 2025

Tony bought a cotton candy machine at Target!

Neat!

Friday January 31st, 2025

Tonight is the big game.

The Detroit Pistons vs the Dallas Mavericks.

Giant foam finger prepared.

LET THE GAME COMMENCE!

It’s always fun to go to a live game, but I must tell you a story from this day.

During half-time the camera went to a couple and the man saw he was on camera and dropped to one knee.

She says “Yes!”

The crowd erupts in cheers!

The man takes off his jacket revealing a Dallas Mavericks jersey!

The crowd erupts in boos!

So much drama.

I wish them luck, and also some “Boos.”

Post-game selfie time!

Getting an Uber back was a whole thing.

Well, so was getting an Uber to the game.

Y’know what? Uber is kind of a whole messy thing most of the time, isn’t it?

We had a good time.

It wasn’t too crazy.

The Pistons won.

The foam finger will return with me to NYC.

For reasons.

Saturday February 1st, 2025

Tonight, we break out those acrylic paints again for some Bob Ross!

Aw yeah!

It’s coming along nicely.

Not sure what went wrong with my rocks at the bottom, but I had a good time.

The bad news is that I am not trying to take this onto an airplane so poor Tony and heather are left with my art.

Sorry Tony and Heather.

Their dog is not sorry.

I got cuddles.

And we watched shows together.

Sunday February 2nd, 2025

Michigan has been fun, but it is time to return home.

Monday February 3rd, 2025

Check out this lovely custom postcard from Germany.

What a great use of Washi tape!

Here is a postcard that I am shipping out to Poland.

^ That’s a good one!

On this postcard I discussed a castle that was built by a baker around Austin.

I meant to visit there, but the sudden move to NYC cancelled that plan.

I wonder what it’s like on the inside.

Do you suppose they kept with the castle theme, or is it a regular house on the inside?

I hope there are hidden rooms.

Here is a lovely postcard that I received from Russia.

It came with some sweet stamps.

Check these bad boys out.

I don’t know why I took a picture of a twenty-five pound bag of flour that I bought, but I might as well share this with you as well.

It’s nice to make my own bread from time to time.

We have a nice Dutch oven and buying flour in bulk helps keep me on the baking.

Check out these sweet Neopets stickers that Lauri bought for me as a surprise when I got home from Michigan.

I had to fight to find the gift code on these stickers and then when I tried to redeem the gift code two things happened at the same time.

I had a random battle event pop up that interrupted figuring out what the gift was and
I got locked out of my account.

I was able to get back in, but that was an awful lot of work for a digital item in a game I haven’t played in years.

Sweet stickers, though.

Wednesday February 5th, 2025

I’ve been playing a lot of All The Mods 10 lately, which is Minecraft with over four-hundred mods installed.

In the picture you can see my honey shield on the left corner of the screen and in the center is my computer storage system.

The yellow pipes above the computer carry items from my Mystic Agriculture farm to my system and the orange pipes carry power from my generators to the various devices lurking around my base.

I should really get rid of those lava cauldrons on the right side of the screen.

Haven’t used those in months.

I took this picture to share in an Online Reality Game (ORG) that I’m playing.

Did you know that you can play virtual versions of shows like Survivor in Discord?

There are servers that host forty-day-long games where you must compete in challenges and avoid being voted out to become the final survivor.

I am currently playing in SurvivORG Season 10: Drive-In Madness.

I tend to make it just past merge and then get voted out.

I’m sure it will happen again.

(And it will be fun).

One of my big goals in the ORG is to see if my toxic traits are improving.

I tend to get frustrated and mouthy in these games, but I’ve been working on myself a lot and learning to step away when I can feel the frustration setting in.

This will be a good test to see if my behavior has improved.

Here’s me and some vegemite.

(There are two players in Australia.)

By the way, if you’ve never tried Vegemite, it’s fantastic, but it must be eaten a certain way.

Don’t eat it straight out of the jar.

That’s a bad idea.

And here is some Grain of Selim aka Hwentea.

This is a delightful African pepper that can be ground and added to coffee when brewing, or ground and sprinkled on top of eggnog.

In coffee it adds a “chai tea” kind of flavor.

When sprinkled on eggnog, it tastes a little bit like nutmeg.

A fantastic spice.

Of course I made sure to also discuss the national park ink-stamp collection.

There are also coins and other fun collectables at the sites as well.

Showing off random things around the apartment and this came up.

Yeah!

Then make your own fucking dinner!

Thursday February 6th, 2025

Today I received this lovely postcard from India.

Want to see a magic trick?

Did you pick the ace of clubs?

(This picture was part of a scavenger hunt challenge in the ORG).

So was this.

Saturday February 8th, 2025

This picture is not part of the scavenger hunt.

This is from a little coffee shop that we stopped by after Lauri got her hair cut.

We had a nice time.

Oh, and I found a Baby Ruth at the dollar store which is part of the scavenger hunt.

There was also a challenge to make a squirrel out of Play-Doh, but for some reason I read “gopher” and made this.

I still submitted it.

As a squirrel.

Tonight we went out to see a movie.

We saw Companion.

I won’t spoil the movie for you, we went out and saw it without watching any trailers, but I was able to sus out what the main plot would be based on the poster that I saw.

It was fun.

I would recommend it.

Speaking of companions, Keanu gets needy sometimes.