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Posted by Tabernacles E. Townsfolk (@billstrudel) on Feb. 7, 2026, 8:52 a.m.

I’ve got good mews and bad mews. BTW you swear too much. It’s distasteful. Profanity is fine in its place nut nothing to excess, except alcohol.

The good news is that whoever gotu buds got home, found a misdirected package, and put it outside my mailbox. So I’m catching up on two weeks of AEW today. That’s eight hours’ worth.

The bad mews is that this opens up a moral dilemma. I’ve already (legitimately) opened a ticket with the postal service for a missing package. I’be also written the company O bought it from.

So I could cancel the ticket when they respond to me in 3-4 business days and call and also write the company again and tell them never mind – taking the extra effort to hurt myself – or I can play dumb, the company gets the shipping insurance, I get the refund and free weed. The only people who knows the delivery was completed are me and the recipient of indeterminate address, who will never be found. I think I’ll just do the fun thing and rationalize it by saying I’m punishing the postal service. Is hypocrisy worse than honest immorality? You asked me if I remember old philosophy courses. I have to say I don’t remember this one.

I got the Ultimate Key towards the end of Dragon Quest 2 and I need to go to all the locations to open the green chests that I couldn’t before. You’d think it’d be fun because you get to revisit all the areas (I did half of them yesterday and actually found an optional subquest in doing so) and, y’know, open cheste, which is always fun unless it’s a Mimic. But it’s such a pain in the ass, going in every building in every town looking for chests and fighting low-level enemies every few steps in old dungeons. You have to because they put the chests in the unlikeliest of places.

So I’m going to finish wihh the chests tomorrow, then tune into the Super Bowl pregame coverage, then listen to the game. I use my computer monitor for video playback – it’s the same size as my TV (32”) – and I’ve meant to find a TV streaming site but I have yet to look for one. So radio it is, and for Caps and Wizards games too. I’ll get McDonald’s for the occasion – my go-to of a double Quarter Pounder with Cheese with bacon, an extra patty, extra cheese, no pickles, no onions, no mustard, with ketchup and mayonnaise; a vanilla shake, and a large fries with four McNugfets, no sauce.

Controversial take: Marina Shafir is hot. I’d love to be between those thighs.