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Safe for work, but I say dumb things in this post. Please take a moment to mentally prepare yourself. On the plus side, we discuss Christmas at the Chinese restaurant, postcards, sourdough, sprouts, and how I take my Sprite at the bar.

Monday December 22nd, 2025

Remember that amazing Virginia state park Machicomoco?

Today I am sending them a thank you postcard.

A Central Park postcard with praises and thank-yous.

Christmas Thursday December 25th, 2025

Let’s stand in line for the Chinese restaurant Bodhi Kosher Vegetarian Restaurant!

It’s cold, and the line is long, but this is a delightful restaurant.

Here is a picture of their floor and a server’s shoes.

Also featured in the photo is the bottom of a chair and the postcard that I wrote to my pal Tony in Michigan.

I know this card looks homemade, but I assure you that I pulled it from a bin of postcards at an antique store and paid for it.

Was this a good idea?

Who can say?

I think it was good for Tony, who now knows more about my Christmas dinner than you.

🧐

Friday December 26th, 2025

Keanu sits weird sometimes.

Let’s celebrate by making some Sourdough!

The following image I took with my phone so that I could send a message to our friend Heather.

I said “Don’t cock block. Also:”

Also the sourdough is progressing.

I think a dinosaur may have stepped in the dough while I was sending dumb jokes in the internet.

Just to be safe, I’ll stab it.

Twice.

All jokes aside, scoring the bread before cooking it in this Dutch oven will allow for control over the split when the break expands during baking.

Don’t believe me?

See for yourself.

Saturday December 27th, 2025

Snow in Queens.

“Don’t let your dog poo and pee everywhere” signs as well, which are more common than snow.

What did they write that with?

It looks like spray paint or lipstick.

Like one day they were so mad about a poo that they grabbed the first they could find to write this message.

Which, I mean, I get it.

Sunday December 28th, 2025

I have recently purchased a small stack of 99 cent comics from a local discount outlet: Midtown Comics Astoria Outlet.

(Currently writing Levi, here. I also have a small stack of discount comic books sitting behind my laptop at Château le Woof while I type this that I grabbed from the mailbox on my way out to work on writing this. So excited to open this and read some old 80s comics that are a bit…. “Shark jumpy.” That good pulp fiction.)

Back to the stack of cheap comics!

While on my road trip I learned about a comic book tracking app in Knoxville. The app/website is called League of Comic Geeks.

And my brain loves to dig through large sets of data and organize it.

So the comics are scanned and tracked.

The comics that I enjoy the most, I look up the others in the series and add them to my wish list within the app to help me spot missing issues the next time I’m at the discount store.

Also because I can’t figure out how Marvel organizes their comics.

DC is like “Batman 1, 2, 3, 4, etc”

Marvel is like “X-Men 1-25, but also a few issues of Cyclopes and two issues of Mr. Sinister’s Childre, and five issues of Planet Bloodpool.” and they’re all part of the same series, but they don’t all need to be read.

I’m still figuring out how American comics work.

I would be so excited if manga were still released in single issues, but until then I’m sticking to the American comic books.

This next photo is of the two books that I have selected that I will attempt to use for daily journaling, but there is also a Babylon 5 book in the background that I have been greatly enjoying.

Monday December 29th, 2025

Lets grow some microgreens with Mung Beans.

Eighteen grams worth.

The tray on the left is for growing and the container on the right is the beans stored in water.

I have had them soaking overnight.

Next they transfer to the tray and I water them every 2 or 3 hours until they’re ready to be eaten.

They’ve poofed up and sprouted a little bit during the overnight soak.

Let’s celebrate with a coffee selfie.

Just ignore the penis on the bottom left.

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Made you look.

I don’t remember why I took this picture.

I’m sure it was some nonsense.

I am often accused of commiting nonsense.

This next postcard is going to my pal Tobi in The Netherlands.

Do you think these penguins are from Antarctica and coming to the US where it’s 30 degrees Fahrenheit (-1 Celsius) and it’s so warm for them that this is why they’re treating it like a warm beach?

That’s my theory.

Or maybe they’re just loaded on champagne and being silly, happy drunks.

This next postcards is a homemade one that I have received from one of our local friends, Marieisabelle. She lives in The Bronx.

Delightful.

Postcards are so much fun.

Get some stickers and some cardboard and send one to someone you care about.

Or don’t.

I’m not your boss.

Back to the beans.

What time is it?

Stop!

Hammer Tray time!

What the hay, let’s send another postcard to Tony.

What a delightful postcard.

I wonder if the folks on the boat knew they’d be on a postcard.

Maybe they were paid models, or maybe an opportunistic photographer just snapped this while out sailing.

Tuesday December 30th, 2025

Tuesday is trivia night at the The Bonnie where I sip on Sprite.

I can tell you who my server was based on this drink having both lemon and lime in it.

Wednesday December 31st, 2025

It’s been about two days and the sprouts are coming along.

Tomorrow starts about a month of negative stories, so let’s end this post here.

Happy new year to you.