Humpday Update 4/8/26: WHAT DAY IS IT?!

LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, PLEASE! Would you bring your attention to me. Remember that Saliva song? I still listen to it because my playlists consist of 90’s era hip-hop, 2000’s rock, and some of today’s pop. ANYWAY, we can all make fun of relish in my amazing music tastes later! How are we doing?! I know, it’s been a while since I’ve given an update on the blog. It’s nice to see that the world hasn’t gone to complete shiiiiiiiiiiiyyyyyooooouuuuu know, maybe let’s focus on us right here, ok?

How you doin’? I hope you’re awesome. You look awesome. Have you been working out? I can tell. I’ve been here going absolute bonkers on the daily. Surprised I find time to tinkle when I have to. It’s been busy but good. Sure there are things to complain about but what’s the point, amirite? It’s always weird when I come back from a long break. Like there’s no great way to start and acknowledge that blatantly obvious elephant in the room that hasn’t updated in months. But… whoa, hey! You know what I just noticed?! What day is it???

Did you know that the voice of the camel was Chris Sullivan of This is Us fame?? That is so crazy to me, seems like the time of the commercial and the show are way too far apart. Ugh, we never finished watching that show. Remember how hot it was? Because it was so real. At that time, I guess we all just wanted to feel something, you know? I think I fell out of it but the wife was still down. Maybe that’s why she’s mad at me and never wants to watch anything anymore?

I swear, This is Us was the last thing we were religiously watching up until like 2 months ago when we started watching Shrinking on AppleTV+. My goodness, I’m loving that show! But it’s been a few weeks, we lost the flow we had going. I blame vacation. And the phone. I have broken my curse, though the wife still would rather scroll away.

OMG, what am I rambling about here?! It’s the Humpday Update! This is supposed to be rapid fire, go go go go go go topics. I don’t know, there’s so many though… I mean, it’s been…. Seven hells, it’s been almost an entire year!! How did this happen?? Again?!?

Ok, I know I’ve posted stuff. But what? Let’s take a look together.  It looks like the Mental Health Awareness Month post where I analyzed the song Hi Ren was the last post I really took the time to work on. I guess it really took a toll on my mental health! Oh, the irony. Coming up on that time again, I should start working on the post now haha. 

After that, it was nothing but blog posts dedicated to show notes for my podcast, The Talking Place. Actually, that’s not all, I lied.

It looks like I also took the time to post about the dbrand Killswitch for the Switch 2, which OMG, that was a post and a half. Eminem would call that a 24/7 special on a cable channel. Sorry, been listening to a lot of hip-hop lately. But yeah, that case was ridonkulous and I stand by everything I said, it has not come off my Switch 2 since I put it on, it’s AMAZING.

The only other non-show notes post was my review of Babel. A book I read in 2023, which, I’m still insanely documenting as if it’s not 2025. Wait, it’s 2026! How long has it been 2026?!? 

Ok, I’m being dumb now. Sorry (not sorry). Here’s a tidbit about me: I am all over the place. Like KRS-One, I could be everywhere and nowhere at once (telling you, my hip has been hoppin’! KRS is a fellow Bronx native too, Rapture’s Delight is a freaking anthem). So this random rambling, stream of consciousness monologuing that I do on here is but a fraction of my full power. And if I’m not releasing it here, I have it locked away in the basement of my mind. So basically, what I’m saying is that I haven’t blogged in over a year and now I’m afraid of where this post is going to go and how long it’s going to take me to get there. But hey! The ride is going to be fun!

Does anyone else’s minds play gifs to react to things in their day to day? Like all day long, no matter what it is, if something triggers a memory of a movie or show or whatever, the gif will play in my head in real time. But usually, I’m talking to a normal person like my wife or a neighbor or my son’s speech therapist, and I can’t explain the scene in my head because I at least know how weird that’ll be. I’m totally listening! But I’m also playing a movie in my head at the same time. But no one would understand that SO, instead, I just hold it in and wait to document it on my blog where it has the potential of the whole world seeing it. That’s not as weird, right?

Anyway, like I was saying, the Mental Health Awareness post, followed by nothing but show notes posts, with only the Killswitch review and Babel review. Which, technically, were only posted because they correlated directly with a podcast that I did. So really, The Talking Place is the reason why my blog has had any life at all for the past year. Which hurts to say because at one point, I also stopped recording shows! Geeze, I’m the best, aren’t I?

Ok, seems like a good time. So what have I been doing? That is the question, isn’t it? No, I don’t need to explain myself. I don’t need to acknowledge it. Should just carry on and don’t look back. But I feel like with this being my blog and all, I like to keep it as a digital diary journal so to speak, so I like to keep things transparent. If I look back at it in 20 years or the AI infused minds of my grandchildren are reading this and see big gaps in the timeline, I want to be able to see why. And I also want to be able to tell them resistance is not futile and they’re HUMAN BEINGS. Be like your gramps and say no to the machines! 

Geeze, I hate putting time in my head. Like I’m good. This is actually my birthday month and I’m not exactly a spring chicken, but I still feel like I’m mentally a teenager. Just ask my wife hahahahaha. But even though I feel young, there are certain things that enter my mental boundaries and make me feel my age. I think that’s why I try to subconsciously block things that would do that. Like thinking too hard about time, or all those cheesy Facebook videos about kids growing up that my wife is FOREVER sending me. It’s like my name is Dorian Gray but instead of a portrait, it can be anything from a dumb social media video or my theoretical AI infused grandchildren. 

The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. Go watch it. Thank me later.

See what I mean about fearing how deep this rabbit hole of my mind will take me?!? Ok, I need to focus. Don’t need another 20 minute post. 

Ugh, I’m almost there, aren’t I? Ok, I’ll reel it in from now on. To the point! 

Here’s what’s up. Life has been a runaway train. While yes, I make time for myself here and there, for the most part, I’m still fairly busy. With 3 kids in the house, 2 dogs, a freaking cat now! Yeah, we’re a cat family now. Believe every word you hear about orange cats. Certifiable, that one is. Not to mention the wife who is always working (two jobs, unfortunately, but from home, thankfully), it is legit a full time job trying to maintain order amongst this chaos.

Between a teenager that doesn’t understand how being a decent human being who helps around the house actually works, and the 6 year old whose toys I’m sure at this point have figured out how to breed and multiply overnight. It’s practically impossible to keep the house clean. Trust me, I’ve tried. But by the time I get to one side, the side I already cleaned is messy again. And do not DARE get me started on the kitchen. That place is a gateway to hell if I’ve ever known one.

Seriously, it’s the toys and the cups. They’ve figured out how to duplicate themselves because there’s no way we bought this many. Jeff was right. 

But aside from failing to keep the house clean, there’s also the cooking. The amount of times everyone in this house eats, I cannot. How many times I just want to put some cheese between two slices of bread and tell everyone to leave me alone, yeesh! But if I’m not cleaning or cooking, I’m spending time with the princess. The two boys are unfortunately on autopilot. They want to be left alone to play games or just sit there on their phones (trust me, both things that I am constantly trying to divert them from).

But the princess still requires that constant attention and play. So I’m there for it. She’s in school half the day, and in that half day, I’m trying to keep up with the house, or keep up with my shop, and next thing I know she’s coming home and everything is on pause till the next day. 

My shop! Omg, I never update in here, I really need to! It was about October or so when something started happening. Not sure what scale tipped in my favor, but the Etsy gods deemed me worthy and my shop blew TF up! It was glorious! So incredibly stressful! But oh so glorious. I was staying up till way past midnight working on orders because they were literally rolling in faster than I could even process.

I made enough money to take care of Christmas and other various things, but if it happens again this year I am definitely going to be hoarding the money so we can go and experience something. Thanks to the shop, I managed to secure us tickets to go watch the Trans-Siberian Orchestra sometime in December when they came around!! That was a show I’ve wanted to go to for yeeeeeears, even before we had kids. I’m still so incredibly happy we were able to go. 

That brings me to what I missed documenting from not blogging. Like I said, there have been plenty of things that we’ve been doing. Plenty of things we’ve experienced. But I just have not taken the time to sit here and write anything. I’ve been living in the moment. I’ve been taking things in and enjoying my free time. Because yes, I have had free time! I’ve had opportunities to sit with my computer and write things up and get the blog up to date with whatever. But at the end of busy days? As much as I love to keep the blog updated, it still felt like work. And I didn’t want work. I didn’t want to feel like I HAD to sit there and write a blog post.

Most days I just wanted to sit and relax with tv, or play a game. I’ve been off socials now for over a year and I have not cared to look back, it’s been aaaaaaamazing. But that also brings the feeling of being disconnected. There is a list somewhere that I started to keep track of the things I wanted to blog about when I jumped back on the horse. And I even started writing it out back in February. It took about 20 minutes of trying to figure out the logistics of catching up a year’s worth of updates in one post before I got overwhelmed. I just couldn’t do it. It still felt like it was too great a task and I really would rather have done something else. And when it comes down to it, I’ve learned to not fight against the stream for that. 

But here I am now! Again. Know that I have plenty I need to talk about. I have books to review and talk about, games to discuss, shows we’ve watched. There’s so much to unpack that I don’t know if I can do it in just one post. And I’m glad I don’t have to! But you know what? I do need to figure out something. Because again, a hangup I have with blogging is all the behind the scenes stuff that has to go on. The metadata, the SEO, the pictures, and all the other underlying details that bring a blog post together. I need to streamline it all a whole lot better because the easier it is, the more posts you’ll get! And the more posts you get, the shorter they’ll be! Haha! 

Until next time!