Watched Bruce Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere today and it was great. I’m also a huge fan of his Nebraska album.

Movie poster for Springsteen Deliver Me From Nowhere opening October 24 featuring a guitarist on their knees head thrown back under stage lights

Miscut Perrserker

Tyler and I enjoy collecting Pokémon cards together and one of the cards I collect is Perrserker, the Viking Pokémon. In fact, I’ve collected all the English cards and am well on my way to having all the Japanese cards. Just today I discovered that Perrserker is now in Pokemon Pocket too.

We decided to go to Northfield today as an excuse to get some more driving time for Tyler, and also Tammy loves Content Bookstore there, Tyler and I both like Games n’ Geek, and if I’m in the area it only seems appropriate to stop at Little Joy Coffee for a delicious Flat White.

I had Perrserker on the brain because of this mornings Pocket discovery, and Tyler and I both knew that Games n Geek had a very unique card a few months ago — a miscut Perrserker. They were asking a lot for it back then and I was wondering if they still had it in the case. They did!

I gave the card a close inspection. I’ve never bought a miscut and this one is really cool. These are all 1-of-1 cards so the price is hard to figure out, but I felt good with where they were now. So now in addition to my full collection of Perrserker I have this cool miscut one. I’m debating sending it in to PSA to get it graded — thinking I will.

Galarian Perrserker V holographic Pokemon card 184/196 showing front and back, with miscut edges visible on the front face.

Excited to see that Perrserker has arrived in Pokemon TCG Pocket! The full art featuring a Viking Ship is incredible. Looking forward to collecting these digital ones along with my complete set.

Two Galarian Perrserker Pokemon TCG Pocket cards side by side, one standard holo and one full art showing the cat on a Viking ship deck.

My cousin Quinn @quinntchrest and I taking in our first game at the new St. Thomas Anderson Arena tonight!

St. Thomas Tommies basketball court at Anderson Arena during pregame warmups, with purple seats and the Roll Toms scoreboard overhead.Two men smiling at a basketball game inside Anderson Arena, home of the St. Thomas Tommies, with the purple court visible below.

The print copies of the Yearly Thing arrived from Lulu! I’m very happy with how the formatting worked with Vellum and the production from Lulu is terrific. It is really cool to explore the year of the Weekly Thing like this. You can buy your own on Lulu.

Hand holding a paperback book titled Yearly Thing 2025 Agents Attention Artifacts by Jamie Thingelstad with a cloudy sky cover featuring wind turbines.Hand holding open a paperback book to pages 90-91 of Yearly Thing 2025 by Jamie Thingelstad showing newsletter excerpts about Apple encryption and UK backdoor demands.Table of contents page of Yearly Thing 2025 showing 10 chapters from The AI Revolution to Tools Productivity and Delights

We enjoyed watching Finch tonight. The story was surprisingly touching given that it is just one character, Finch, with a dog and a robot (two robots actually). 🍿

Movie poster for Finch showing a bearded man in worn gear flanked by a dog and a large robot against a stormy sky

We had a great time at the TCG only Minnesota Card Show at Canterbury today.

  • I got the five remaining cards I needed for the illustration set I was collecting.
  • I traded for a great set of Eevee evolution promo cards.
  • Tyler was on a mission and got a Bubble Mew!
Crowded Pokemon TCG convention floor with large Lucario, Espeon, and Umbreon figures displayed above tables of trading cards for sale.

Candlelight vigil in our neighborhood. 🕯️

Outdoor candlelight vigil at night with people in winter coats and hats gathered on snowy ground near a blue-lit Christmas tree

We went to Yum! Kitchen to celebrate twenty years of this being one of our regular restaurants. I noted our first visit on my blog in January 2006. Mazie is still off in Barcelona but we made sure to recognize this milestone.

Three people smiling together inside Yum! Kitchen restaurant, with a deli counter and menu boards visible behind them.

Orka Bar

We were watching Shark Tank one night and Orka Bar was one of the products. I thought it sounded good and the reaction on the show was that these were incredible. I placed an order while the show was on, like many thousands of others did apparently. It took a couple of months for them to work through the backlog of orders but today we got our order!

The product is a high-protein ice cream treat that actually tastes good. I tried it and it really is very tasty. The main ingredients are egg whites and cream with whey protein. It has a thin chocolate shell. It tasted really good. My biggest challenge was the chocolate shell is so thin that it cracks a lot and was a touch messy.

They are expensive and being a frozen item hard to ship. They sent it with dry ice and a styrofoam cooler. If these start appearing in the frozen aisle of our grocery store though I will probably get them on a semi-regular basis.

Two Orka Bar frozen protein bar packages on a white countertop: a 4-pack Cookies and Cream and a single Vanilla Bean bar.