I hope everyone has a safe, cool, and cool 4th.

I don't have any plans, but I figured I might as well take Friday off as I'm sitting on a large pile of vacation days. Anyone have fun plans for the holiday?

I made my first cheesecake last night.

I get a lot of industry related emails from randos all over the world trying to sell me their this or that. I just got one though for premium incense sticks. Nothing I do is in any way related to that. Shoot your shot, I guess.

Well, we officially have a teenager in the house. That was fast.

I felt something crawling up my arm outside, and when I looked I was surprised to see a ladybug that was black with red spots. I don't think I've ever seen that before.

I gotta say, my Naz Reid towel and Minnesota flag look nice hanging up next to each other.

Really love that trade up to the eight spot by the Wolves.

It's always fun when you're watching something and you see the moment of a meme and you go "Ooo!" and point at it just like the Leo/Once Upon A Time In... Hollywood meme. In this case, I was watching the first season of True Detective and noticed the moment of the McConaughey desperately puffing a cigarette meme.

Pete is about to turn 13. Because I wanted to see it again, we watched Die Hard last night. I think this is his first R rated movie.