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Feb. 27th, 2026 05:33 amOut of steam with the ROMhack, I took yesterday instead of when I complete the remaining changes, to post to YouTube about that supposed bot attack:
https://youtu.be/PnaJfdGCZyg
https://youtu.be/PnaJfdGCZyg
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Feb. 24th, 2026 05:08 amMom took off from work to shovel snow out, also due to less sleep than usual from having to get up every hour in the night to keep the fireplace in the boathouse going and knock snow off from on top of the boathouse itself from inside on the catboat itself.
Yesterday was mostly shoveling, with the apartment staircase coming last once I'd have all the important paths dug out to the boathouse, basement, and the birdfeeder, only a couple of hours before I usually go to bed. No headway on my ROMhack, and I'm glad I had spent the previous afternoon revising my CCscript up through data_24.yml.
Yesterday was mostly shoveling, with the apartment staircase coming last once I'd have all the important paths dug out to the boathouse, basement, and the birdfeeder, only a couple of hours before I usually go to bed. No headway on my ROMhack, and I'm glad I had spent the previous afternoon revising my CCscript up through data_24.yml.
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Feb. 23rd, 2026 07:27 amMom originally baked a square powdered pound cake for our nextdoor neighbor Eddie in advance exchange for plowing our driveway when it would snow. Yesterday, she decided to bake some brownies, and sent me to bring that cake to Nancy down the street. Given how rarely I go down there, and how similar the next two houses look, I wound up going to someone's house named Sean (same person from over two years ago?), and asked him when he answered the door what his relation to Nancy is. He told me I had the wrong address, and pointed those two doors back.
Nancy's youngest son Peter was the one who answered there, and gave me back a copper cookie bin upon taking the cake.
Mom confronted me shortly after I arrived back home, about how I managed to overshoot like that. As it soon turned out, Nancy had texted her, having seen me through a window.
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I delivered half those brownies to Eddie after we came home from a midday workout; Mom had decided beforehand to keep the other half for ourselves.
Nancy's youngest son Peter was the one who answered there, and gave me back a copper cookie bin upon taking the cake.
Mom confronted me shortly after I arrived back home, about how I managed to overshoot like that. As it soon turned out, Nancy had texted her, having seen me through a window.
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I delivered half those brownies to Eddie after we came home from a midday workout; Mom had decided beforehand to keep the other half for ourselves.
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Feb. 22nd, 2026 06:23 amMaris spent most of yesterday morning watching various shows Mom put on for her, and also went with Mom at one point to Giunta's Meat Farms, until Emily came to pick her up midday.
Mom and I watched the rest of Goblin's Crown shortly thereafter, and then spent a few hours out, starting with a walk on the beach. Along the way there, there were a few police cars around the scene of some car stuck in a ditch.
In case the police were still there when we finished that walk, we decided to take a detour to Bellport, and wound up having another walk down to the bay there.
The bay was covered in a thin sheet of ice. We also noticed the piers littered with chicken bones that Mom later inferred to have been used as bait for crabbing and then washed back up from a tide.
On the way home, in preparation for that blizzard that's supposed to begin midday today, we picked up some suet at Stop&Shop, and also paid a quick visit to Savers in the same shopping center. Also stopped at BJ's to return my shirts issued there from before Walmart in a motorcart, and then made one more stop for gas.
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Mom and I have just started watching Frankenstein this morning.
Mom and I watched the rest of Goblin's Crown shortly thereafter, and then spent a few hours out, starting with a walk on the beach. Along the way there, there were a few police cars around the scene of some car stuck in a ditch.
In case the police were still there when we finished that walk, we decided to take a detour to Bellport, and wound up having another walk down to the bay there.
The bay was covered in a thin sheet of ice. We also noticed the piers littered with chicken bones that Mom later inferred to have been used as bait for crabbing and then washed back up from a tide.
On the way home, in preparation for that blizzard that's supposed to begin midday today, we picked up some suet at Stop&Shop, and also paid a quick visit to Savers in the same shopping center. Also stopped at BJ's to return my shirts issued there from before Walmart in a motorcart, and then made one more stop for gas.
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Mom and I have just started watching Frankenstein this morning.
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Feb. 21st, 2026 06:26 amMom brought Maris over herself yesterday, from Karen's house after leaving work. She slept over this time, and Mom has off from work today, both to take care of her and to prepare for a blizzard we're supposed to be getting.
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Feb. 20th, 2026 05:39 amFrom what Mom told me the other day, Emily's brother-in-law Mike has broken his foot, and is unable to look over his two daughters without her sister Maggie. Brian is taking finals of some course he's taking in Harvard, so Emily had to come here on her own to accompany her parents, or something like that, while leaving Maris with us.
Whatever the details are, Emily's mother, Karen, dropped Maris with us yesterday afternoon. Mom put on Thomas the Tank Engine for her after the three of us had dinner, until she fell asleep on the couch.
Emily came to retrieve her after I had gone off to bed. I didn't hear her arrival, but I did overhear Mom speaking to Maris beforehand while they were watching the Winter Olympics.
Whatever the details are, Emily's mother, Karen, dropped Maris with us yesterday afternoon. Mom put on Thomas the Tank Engine for her after the three of us had dinner, until she fell asleep on the couch.
Emily came to retrieve her after I had gone off to bed. I didn't hear her arrival, but I did overhear Mom speaking to Maris beforehand while they were watching the Winter Olympics.
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Feb. 19th, 2026 05:57 amMom and I started watching Goblin Slayer: Goblin's Crown last night.
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That YouTube audit has seemingly ended this morning, and not one subscription or view has been purged as a bot. I have complained to the feedback team about this, and requested a manual review of my metrics.
I also have reason to believe that others may have been view-botting me, when even my brunette-girl video has still been getting plenty of views but not nearly as much actual watch time, comments, or likes to show for them as it got in the beginning. Just sent a complaint about that as well, and requested a manual review of all views I got since January 4.
The fact that it only took four days since I sent my first report, for my channel to get audited, does rekindle some kind of trust in the feedback team.
Good thing as well that my next video is a long way off, when I still have a handful of changes to fully implement and then a test playthrough before I host my main Earthbound hack on ROMhack.ing.
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That YouTube audit has seemingly ended this morning, and not one subscription or view has been purged as a bot. I have complained to the feedback team about this, and requested a manual review of my metrics.
I also have reason to believe that others may have been view-botting me, when even my brunette-girl video has still been getting plenty of views but not nearly as much actual watch time, comments, or likes to show for them as it got in the beginning. Just sent a complaint about that as well, and requested a manual review of all views I got since January 4.
The fact that it only took four days since I sent my first report, for my channel to get audited, does rekindle some kind of trust in the feedback team.
Good thing as well that my next video is a long way off, when I still have a handful of changes to fully implement and then a test playthrough before I host my main Earthbound hack on ROMhack.ing.
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Feb. 17th, 2026 06:17 amHad an interview at Lowe's yesterday afternoon.
Mom was originally gonna make me a burger when she'd be home, but then noticed that a bag of rye bread previously containing four slices was gone, and asked if I had had two tuna sandwiches for lunch. We ended up just having a salad.
Getting ready for my interview, I then trimmed off a bit of hair that wouldn't lie flat from brushing. Mom told me not to do that from now on, pointing out that it looks slightly uneven.
She soon asked if I'd rather just have a main course and dessert at Costco. I brought up a protein shake to refridgerate, to have with a cookie.
Soon as we actually got into the car, I turned the heat off to let my shake chill. She suggested I put it in the trunk instead.
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Having decided between errands to get a slice of pizza this time that a cookie already once went poorly with, instead of a hot dog, and left that shake in the car.
Turns out Costco actually has some new items on its menu. Got myself a calzone and a double-chocolate mint sundae.
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Having kept tabs on my subscriber count, I discovered it this morning to read 0. Google AI states that to be something the site does when freezing my metrics to verify authenticity, so I have made everything public again, even ignoring one more bot that will hopefully be dealt with as well.
Mom was originally gonna make me a burger when she'd be home, but then noticed that a bag of rye bread previously containing four slices was gone, and asked if I had had two tuna sandwiches for lunch. We ended up just having a salad.
Getting ready for my interview, I then trimmed off a bit of hair that wouldn't lie flat from brushing. Mom told me not to do that from now on, pointing out that it looks slightly uneven.
She soon asked if I'd rather just have a main course and dessert at Costco. I brought up a protein shake to refridgerate, to have with a cookie.
Soon as we actually got into the car, I turned the heat off to let my shake chill. She suggested I put it in the trunk instead.
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Having decided between errands to get a slice of pizza this time that a cookie already once went poorly with, instead of a hot dog, and left that shake in the car.
Turns out Costco actually has some new items on its menu. Got myself a calzone and a double-chocolate mint sundae.
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Having kept tabs on my subscriber count, I discovered it this morning to read 0. Google AI states that to be something the site does when freezing my metrics to verify authenticity, so I have made everything public again, even ignoring one more bot that will hopefully be dealt with as well.
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Feb. 16th, 2026 04:40 amMom had a bag of clothes to donate to our own library that we don't visit nearly as often as the one in Bellport. She was originally going to make that a solo errand for after we come home from the gym, but I asked to come with her as soon as she mentioned it, and we wound up tying it in.
The normal route was blocked off by the police due to a collision, and we had to turn around through a shopping center entrance whose exit had gotten busy as a result. We wound up driving through a nearby neighborhood with some mostly intact woods that aren't getting section after section cut down for businesses, before arriving back on Middle Country Road.
Got a whole bunch of anime DVDs while during our visit, although I still made a point back home to finish off K-ON! The Movie.
The normal route was blocked off by the police due to a collision, and we had to turn around through a shopping center entrance whose exit had gotten busy as a result. We wound up driving through a nearby neighborhood with some mostly intact woods that aren't getting section after section cut down for businesses, before arriving back on Middle Country Road.
Got a whole bunch of anime DVDs while during our visit, although I still made a point back home to finish off K-ON! The Movie.
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Feb. 15th, 2026 06:32 amMom and I finished watching season 2 of K-ON! two days ago, and with some time left before my Hidive subscription ends, I decided to put the movie on yesterday. Mom asked while I was setting it up, if I would like some tea (declined), and then some popcorn. Took her up on that, and after she started a pot up, she had me help her straighten a few small things up. We were in the middle of discussing a sock drawer in Marie's room with a lot more space than the one in my dresser, when I suddenly heard it popping out of the pot and ran in. Had to sweep some up, but I had put the lid on she forgot to, in time for there to still be enough to fill a bowl for each of us.
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Feb. 14th, 2026 04:08 amMom brought home a newspaper from work two days ago. From the comics page, here is The Argyle Sweater:
"The Muensters" would have made for another nice entry there.
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Mom took off from work yesterday to take care of some stuff around the house, and also to ease some back pain. I was originally going to go upstairs to start finishing my main Earthbound hack off, but still had a chore in my room from the day prior to finish off, that would involve her help shifting my bed over. Also had some ideas for a future video's script swirling in my head, and took the morning to write that whole thing down.
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Frankly, it seems like too much of a coincidence that so many people would subscribe to my channel within 36 hours without actually watching anything. Google AI and several people on Reddit chalk this kind of thing up to an attempt to get me in trouble or prevent YouTube from promoting any future videos when they fail to take off with my subscribers to start with, in order to eliminate competition for themselves.
Had to hide my channel yesterday afternoon, and only reopened it this morning. The count read one less at first than yesterday, suggesting that the moderation team had begun to remove those bots one at a time, but then that one came back.
Probably gonna have to hide it for a while, and then announce my return with a short when I un-hide it (possibly until Brian, Emily, and Marie all come to visit for my birthday next month). Which short I would put out would depend on how many bots have been removed by that point, before I choose based on whether or not anything important would have much of a chance of being promoted beyond my real subscribers.
"The Muensters" would have made for another nice entry there.
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Mom took off from work yesterday to take care of some stuff around the house, and also to ease some back pain. I was originally going to go upstairs to start finishing my main Earthbound hack off, but still had a chore in my room from the day prior to finish off, that would involve her help shifting my bed over. Also had some ideas for a future video's script swirling in my head, and took the morning to write that whole thing down.
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Frankly, it seems like too much of a coincidence that so many people would subscribe to my channel within 36 hours without actually watching anything. Google AI and several people on Reddit chalk this kind of thing up to an attempt to get me in trouble or prevent YouTube from promoting any future videos when they fail to take off with my subscribers to start with, in order to eliminate competition for themselves.
Had to hide my channel yesterday afternoon, and only reopened it this morning. The count read one less at first than yesterday, suggesting that the moderation team had begun to remove those bots one at a time, but then that one came back.
Probably gonna have to hide it for a while, and then announce my return with a short when I un-hide it (possibly until Brian, Emily, and Marie all come to visit for my birthday next month). Which short I would put out would depend on how many bots have been removed by that point, before I choose based on whether or not anything important would have much of a chance of being promoted beyond my real subscribers.
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Feb. 13th, 2026 03:56 amDirectly following yesterday's viewbombing, I have managed to accumulate a total of 55 new subscribers, raising my sub count to 245, but only nine legitimate views throughout. Not sure whether this is a good thing or a bad thing for my channel, and I reported this a few hours ago for possible bot activity after waking up in the night to use the bathroom.
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Feb. 12th, 2026 06:49 amYesterday's Far Side comic, and Mom's reaction thereto:
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Got around to reading The Week yesterday afternoon, after having already started the crossword the other day. 54-across was "Best player ever", which Mom filled in as "goat", which someone going by Steerider (can't link directly to Reddit comments) recently specified to me to stand for "greatest of all time". (I didn't say anything under the opening post about having moved back to YouTube.)
What another coincidence it is, that I have seen this commercial at the gym for this animal basketball movie called Goat.
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Noticed not too long ago this morning, that someone managed to start raising my view count every few seconds, specifically under my brownie-hack creation video, by more than 230 before I googled what was going on, blocked embedding for that video, and reported the issue to the feedback team. (I can see that they're being subtracted now.)
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Got around to reading The Week yesterday afternoon, after having already started the crossword the other day. 54-across was "Best player ever", which Mom filled in as "goat", which someone going by Steerider (can't link directly to Reddit comments) recently specified to me to stand for "greatest of all time". (I didn't say anything under the opening post about having moved back to YouTube.)
What another coincidence it is, that I have seen this commercial at the gym for this animal basketball movie called Goat.
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Noticed not too long ago this morning, that someone managed to start raising my view count every few seconds, specifically under my brownie-hack creation video, by more than 230 before I googled what was going on, blocked embedding for that video, and reported the issue to the feedback team. (I can see that they're being subtracted now.)
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Feb. 11th, 2026 05:46 amJust bought a new copy each of Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door and its player's guide, for some footage for my next video.
For these past two days, following the failure of my brownie-hack creation video, I have been proofreading an ebook I commissioned a few years ago, hoping to make some side-profits once and for all while I continue seeking out work, and am going to finish up today.
From there, I have already been planning just to play something other than Earthbound, before I come back to that and implement my remaining changes to the main hack. Originally, I was going to default to Xenoblade Chronicles 2, my other Switch-exclusive game after having already played The World Ends With You, but then somehow decided to check the Falcom logo in Trails in the Sky on my laptop (Steam itself flickers on my house desktop), and that glitch from before did not appear. Pulling it up later on my apartment desktop (my parents stopped renting the apartment iself out back in 2018), the issue must have since resolved itself, negating any need for a Steam Deck just to bypass what I assumed would be hardware-related degredation issues with PC games in general.
With Steam back on the table, I went on to list the games I still have (not counting free-to-download ROMs; I wanted to play stuff I've had sitting around for years now), to choose from on a die roll, that are still each awaiting any real work on a walkthrough:
1) BoxxyQuest: The Gathering Storm
2) Fortune Summoners: Secret of the Elemental Stone
3) Jojo's Bizarre Adventure: The 7th Stand User (Not a Steam game, but free to download and not a ROM either.)
4) The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky
5) Ni no Kuni II: Revenant Kingdom
6) Xenoblade Chronicles 2
Landed 5, and while I was going to essentially have a break from YouTube itself, I also looked into promoting my main brunette-girl video through YouTube Studio. Researching that even upon waking up this morning, though, for just $144 (less than the default $200 the preparation window sets your budget at), even any subscribers I obtain towards 1,000 (the actual number required to host ads; 500 unlocks options I'm not interested in) might not actually watch any subsequent videos from there, which would end up hurting future growth.
I then remembered some planned parts of my next video, that are going to involve both TTYD and the Android version of Marenian Tavern Story. Playing those to an extent each essentially is going to provide me the change in pace I want from Earthbound, rendering any one of those other six games just a needless delay towards monetization following the time I already spent on a video that failed me there (a fraction in turn of how long that took to get around to).
For these past two days, following the failure of my brownie-hack creation video, I have been proofreading an ebook I commissioned a few years ago, hoping to make some side-profits once and for all while I continue seeking out work, and am going to finish up today.
From there, I have already been planning just to play something other than Earthbound, before I come back to that and implement my remaining changes to the main hack. Originally, I was going to default to Xenoblade Chronicles 2, my other Switch-exclusive game after having already played The World Ends With You, but then somehow decided to check the Falcom logo in Trails in the Sky on my laptop (Steam itself flickers on my house desktop), and that glitch from before did not appear. Pulling it up later on my apartment desktop (my parents stopped renting the apartment iself out back in 2018), the issue must have since resolved itself, negating any need for a Steam Deck just to bypass what I assumed would be hardware-related degredation issues with PC games in general.
With Steam back on the table, I went on to list the games I still have (not counting free-to-download ROMs; I wanted to play stuff I've had sitting around for years now), to choose from on a die roll, that are still each awaiting any real work on a walkthrough:
1) BoxxyQuest: The Gathering Storm
2) Fortune Summoners: Secret of the Elemental Stone
3) Jojo's Bizarre Adventure: The 7th Stand User (Not a Steam game, but free to download and not a ROM either.)
4) The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky
5) Ni no Kuni II: Revenant Kingdom
6) Xenoblade Chronicles 2
Landed 5, and while I was going to essentially have a break from YouTube itself, I also looked into promoting my main brunette-girl video through YouTube Studio. Researching that even upon waking up this morning, though, for just $144 (less than the default $200 the preparation window sets your budget at), even any subscribers I obtain towards 1,000 (the actual number required to host ads; 500 unlocks options I'm not interested in) might not actually watch any subsequent videos from there, which would end up hurting future growth.
I then remembered some planned parts of my next video, that are going to involve both TTYD and the Android version of Marenian Tavern Story. Playing those to an extent each essentially is going to provide me the change in pace I want from Earthbound, rendering any one of those other six games just a needless delay towards monetization following the time I already spent on a video that failed me there (a fraction in turn of how long that took to get around to).
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Feb. 10th, 2026 07:38 amThe ground around our birdfeeder, where I had shoveled a path through snow to, was all muddy, and also had a few parallel strips of purple ligth running across it, even across this birdbath that stands near it. I showed Mom, and judging from where it was coming from when she went inside to check, she told me that it must've been reflecting from some flowers we currently have in the office.
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Feb. 7th, 2026 05:54 amPosted two new videos simultaneously yesterday, and have so far gained less than an hour's worth of traffic to show for it, despite one of them being 37 minutes long.
Said first one is about how I got the idea to create the brunette-hack, why it took so long to complete the actual test playthrough, how I decided to create a total of twelve shades of brown midway, and how I re-created the hack from scratch while putting my previous main video together.
https://youtu.be/R2Qiz5ZYua0
The other video is an update short on how to run Getter Love!! optimally. Just recently, I tried to patch that game mainly for a screenshot of the translated title screen, to host on a new site called ROMhacks.net, and the game failed to load when I tried to run it. Brought it up with ozidual, who then gave me a tool to patch it more easily, along with permission to actually host it when I ran it past him.
https://youtube.com/shorts/-Cr04AVjR9E?feature=share
Trying to host my Earthbound hack onto ROMhacks.net only blanked the entire form I had to fill out, and I went on to write that site off. However, I did load the whole Getter Love!! package, including an additional Japanese-version patch for an unused sound test (should've also included a translation-only patch, come to think of it), onto ROMhack.ing, attributing to Ozzy, to link back to my videos before setting those to Public.
https://romhack.ing/database/content/entry/TtNv5JQBNs8FWu0CvXpr/getter-love-panda-love-unit-english-translation
Said first one is about how I got the idea to create the brunette-hack, why it took so long to complete the actual test playthrough, how I decided to create a total of twelve shades of brown midway, and how I re-created the hack from scratch while putting my previous main video together.
https://youtu.be/R2Qiz5ZYua0
The other video is an update short on how to run Getter Love!! optimally. Just recently, I tried to patch that game mainly for a screenshot of the translated title screen, to host on a new site called ROMhacks.net, and the game failed to load when I tried to run it. Brought it up with ozidual, who then gave me a tool to patch it more easily, along with permission to actually host it when I ran it past him.
https://youtube.com/shorts/-Cr04AVjR9E?feature=share
Trying to host my Earthbound hack onto ROMhacks.net only blanked the entire form I had to fill out, and I went on to write that site off. However, I did load the whole Getter Love!! package, including an additional Japanese-version patch for an unused sound test (should've also included a translation-only patch, come to think of it), onto ROMhack.ing, attributing to Ozzy, to link back to my videos before setting those to Public.
https://romhack.ing/database/content/entry/TtNv5JQBNs8FWu0CvXpr/getter-love-panda-love-unit-english-translation
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Feb. 2nd, 2026 06:48 amMom told me two days ago that Uncle Robby had sent her some pictures of ice boats and told her that there should be some of those on Bellport Bay. We drove down there before hitting the gym yesterday, and sure enough, the water was frozen, but there weren't any such boats on it. We did see some seagulls sitting on the ice, though, along with some people ice skating on one spot.
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Feb. 1st, 2026 05:15 amYesterday's Far Side comic:
Mom asked me before getting out of bed for the morning, about The Three Little Pigs that that comic was obviously making fun of, and I told her that Sesame Street had also spoofed it when we put that on for Maris when Brian visited those few weeks ago, by having the big bad wolf blow everything away except the straw house over more than a minute:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6TemExNuY2Q
During her own search that I suggested, she first came across another spoof before that one, in which the pigs all gather outside for what turns out to be a game, and the wolf blows Kermit away, who is doing a newsflash in both segments:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=118l2OD57NA
Mom asked me before getting out of bed for the morning, about The Three Little Pigs that that comic was obviously making fun of, and I told her that Sesame Street had also spoofed it when we put that on for Maris when Brian visited those few weeks ago, by having the big bad wolf blow everything away except the straw house over more than a minute:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6TemExNuY2Q
During her own search that I suggested, she first came across another spoof before that one, in which the pigs all gather outside for what turns out to be a game, and the wolf blows Kermit away, who is doing a newsflash in both segments:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=118l2OD57NA
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Jan. 31st, 2026 06:15 amOrdered a new pair of snow shovels the other day, seeing how the ones we've had were warping between the blade and the plastic edge that lines such that snow now winds up in-between them. I was up in the apartment when they arrived yesterday, and asked Mom upon coming down shortly thereafter if she put them somewhere. Turns out she had been asking on both Clan (where Aunts Marie and Tracey both participate but not Emily or Drew) and Uguu Blue who sent them; she actually went to speak "Mystery solved." into the latter group, before pointing out where she put them and saying that we could've just bought some locally if it was such a big deal to me.
They turned out to have a bent corner on one and slight separation on the other, but they're still in better shape than the other two. We brought them into the basement with our other shovels, where I then discovered one that's still in perfect shape, that I must've forgotten all about.
They turned out to have a bent corner on one and slight separation on the other, but they're still in better shape than the other two. We brought them into the basement with our other shovels, where I then discovered one that's still in perfect shape, that I must've forgotten all about.
