Author Archives: AdaptiveCurmudgeon

This is the eight year (I forgot 2015… whoops.) of a my Festivus Christmas tradition where we gather around the warm glow of the laptop and watch A Very Zombie Holiday.

This is a highlight of my Christmas season! All hail Monster Hunter.

[To “throw your hat over the wall” is a mental commitment to do something. By posting this I hope to get my ass motivated. But not yet. All things in due time.] My contribution to modern literature, Attack of the … Continue reading →

There are layers of logins related my hosting service and Patreon and PayPal donations and Amazon and all that stuff. Things have been too hectic for me to go any deeper than check comments and approve them (which allows me … Continue reading →

My last post gave a vague outline of a couple months of going to hell in a handbasket. I worried it would sound lame but my goal was an optimistic “good luck y’all” to everyone else who’s currently going through … Continue reading →

[I spent a while thinking about how to write this post. I never came to a conclusion so I just did it. If it sounds like I’ve gone full snowflake; I haven’t. I’m still the same grumpy self-reliant asshole I’ve … Continue reading →

In a P.S. to my last post I mentioned I’d had an… um… surprise while wring outlets. I’ve since received several comments, all of which which were awesome. To clarify: I was “shocked” not “electrocuted”. Proof of this is that … Continue reading →

First of all, real men start counting at zero. Because computers. Second, math people are not limited to integers. Thus, you’re reading part 1/2 of a story. Third, dictation software is not as awesome as it seems.* More about that … Continue reading →

This morning there was one acorn in my boot. Not 50 acorns. Not 1000 acorns. Just one. Just one!?! Those bastards! The mice are fucking with me! I’m being gaslit by Mus musculus and it’s going to give me a … Continue reading →

Interesting timing. I just hit “post tomorrow” on a 1500 word rant about “don’t use scandal as a political tool unless you don’t have scandal in your circle”. My thesis was that the party of D was ill advised to … Continue reading →