I tried to keep this short. I failed. I had intentions of coming on here to talk about work-related topics and how my entire life is probably about to change. It just goes to show that I never really have any idea what's going to happen when I got a couple of minutes to write and sit down to actually do so. I feel...

og post: https://spice.bearblog.dev/on-being-talentless/ Keep in mind I am just a random stranger from the Bearoverse who subscribes to her blog, and by all accounts I am someone whose opinion can easily be disregarded. But her words landed hard with me this evening. Reading this felt like looking at something...

This is a typography-first BearBlog theme built around restraint, legibility, and mood. No tricks. No visual noise. Just clean reading space and a soft accent system. QuietType exists for blogs that want to quiet down a little and, have an appreciation for the default theme. What It Is 3-color palette system Clean...

Those people who feared MODE was going to be some sort of AI implementation should breath a sigh of relief to know it's actually a three-day festival in a city that epitomizes everything that is wrong with our country right now. No wonder why the people outside the US were so confused about this. This does seem like...

Echo passed away last night. We gave her the best life we could, and she has been my Grandmother's shadow for the last 16 years. As I type these words my eyes well up in tears. How lucky we all were to have been around the same time as her. Nothing will fill the void you have left in our hearts. Shadow and Pixel are...

We can't seem to catch a break. Grandma is back in hospital again. I was only asleep for about three hours when my Mother came upstairs having a borderline-heart-attack. She was having trouble speaking, telling me that Grandma woke her up and said she needed to have the ambulance called. None of it seems to make any...

Despite all these attempts to start swinging the pendulum in the other direction, I am really struggling with my work environment lately. And by lately I mean the last three or four months. The last two have been especially taxing. When I was working at Meijer, I was there for just over seven and a half years. The...

I got out for the first time today with my camera! 📸 Christina came with me and we trekked a bit thru the Old Falls. It was easily the best weather day of the year so far and we made the most of it. We stopped at Menomonee Park on the way home with hope to hit sunset on the way but I missed it by about twenty...

Working in the grocery industry, you’re forced to think well into the future, whether you like to or not. That means your local grocery store is already focusing on Easter Sunday, now that Valentine’s is out of the way. This sticks out more than normal this year because on the fact of everything that has happened...

Two days ago I'm digging around in Lightroom looking for a good nighttime city photo to use on the main page of my other website. After finding one I went to crop the photo, when I turned to Christina and asked for her input. I told her the tidbit I had heard about stuff being cropped out of photos. "All in our All...

On this day three years ago, I bought my first mirrorless camera and started my journey into digital photography. Perhaps it is better explained as me “getting back on the horse”, because I did own cameras back in the day, but they were point-and-shoot devices. Nothing fancy. But none of that seemed to matter to me...

As I gaze at documents that I sent to Readwise back in 2023, one has to wonder: Does Anybody Actually Read Later? I feel like this idea of “reading later” was a bullshit habit created by business-savvy nerds who wanted to sell something but needed to first create a problem. How do we not know that doing shit like...