A very, very long overdue New Year’s update

*Blows dust off of this WordPress account* Oh boy, it has been a while hasn't it? Guess the best way to start this overdue update is by wishing all of you a happy new year and a happy new decade! There's something overwhelming about the idea that we have a new blank slate to work …

See you Space Cowboy…

Yeah, I know I made this joke when I was leaving Los Angeles last week. https://twitter.com/jdrochlin/status/1155872584338006016?s=20 But in my defense... That was on my social media feeds independently. Not on the blog. Thus I get to reuse the same joke. So there, imaginary detractors. After a week of keeping the world up to date about …

Off to the races!

I'm going to try keeping this brief because I have a new game to return to. Today was racetrack day in Florida. The idea that we would be watching horse races was interesting for me to prepare for. It's been a long time since I've personally gone to any kind of races, and in the …

ART (and pita bread)

Today started with an early morning trip to the Boca Raton Museum of Art, because Grandma and I had a craving. A craving for Editor's Note: This joke is extra funny with context that The Iron Giant is one of my grandparents' favorite movies of all time, and that we often refer to my grandpa …

Rain, rain, go away

Today has been the most low-key day of my Florida vacation yet. So far I've been relatively lucky in the weather department (humidity not included), but I was inevitably going to run into a bit of... Torrential rainfall. Someone really let Kyogre out of its ball this afternoon. Now to be fair, the rain did …

Three bug bites in

Ooh boy, time to write about my day as Democrats yell at each other in the background again. Last night I mentioned going to swim in the pool today. I made good on that promise, because how could I not? It's a beaut. The water was also perfect today. Just cool enough to counteract the …

The Bachelor in Florida

Hey. Been a while, huh? I've been enjoying my "book writing sabbatical" perhaps a little too much. A lot of my novel has gotten done, but there have been plenty of things over the last month I easily could have blogged about. I was almost completely by myself for three weeks as Mom and Aly …

Not at all refreshing

When the last summer banner came out, I was convinced it was the only one we'd see this year. That 50-day period was incredibly deceiving, because here we are staring down a Binding/Blazing Blade summer banner. Featuring our sixth variant of Lyndis. Sigh. Let's break my anti-Summer Initiative for the second time this week and talk …

Sword and Shield news: Exclusive trainers and Gigantamaxing

I can't believe I'm going to break my self-imposed blogging restriction on account of Pokémon today and Fire Emblem tomorrow. Here I was ready to sleep through the morning, but no. Apparently I have a problem. Let's just jump in so that I don't spend a billion years writing this post — as I tend to …

The… Anti-Summer 2018 Initiative?

Greetings and salutations. As you may have noticed, things have been a little different around here recently. A little more barren. Don't worry, it's not a symptom of finally running out of ideas. I did that about a year ago and wrote about my pencil set. Nor is it some delusion that my Naruto-Arena post …