Tiger-Man, Tiger-Man…Does Whatever a Tiger Can? (or: a brief digression about the pursuit of happiness, Steve Ditko, and how memories sometimes resurface without warning)

My personal pursuit of happiness involves several variables, two of the most important being looking forward and looking back. The looking forward component involves the planning for—and anticipation of—future events or activities. This can be special moments, such as birthdays, anniversaries, holidays or vacations. Or, it could be the release of an anticipated movie, book […]

Looking Forward (October 2021 Update): Happiness Through Entertainment

This is the quadmonthly happiness report for October 2021. This is a post about the pursuit of happiness. Long ago, I adopted the philosophy that happiness was best defined by always having something to look forward to. In my world, that has always meant—at least in part—future entertainment choices. I am an inveterate list-maker. What […]

Looking Forward (June 2021 Update): How I Spent My Pandemic Vacation

This is the quadmonthly happiness report for June 2021. For three of the four months, my wife and I were still quarantined, but I returned to work the first Monday in May. Our company motto is “Read. Play. Watch.” And, then, of course: “Write About It.” “Read” Since the February update, the following books were […]

Looking Forward (February 2021 Update): Meet the New Year

This is the quadmonthly happiness report for February 2021. It’s a New Year. But, as always, we define happiness as always looking forward to something. I was looking forward to the end of Donald Trump’s presidency. It has now ended. Hoo-ray! I’m looking forward to the end of this pandemic as well. Vaccinations have begun, […]

Looking Forward (October 2020 Update): The Pursuit of Happiness During the Great Pandemic

This is the quadmonthly happiness report for October 2020. As always, we believe that happiness is looking forward to something. That “something” at FirewaterCorp typically implies forms of entertainment, the things we do to keep from getting bored. This has been of increasing importance for the past six months. Our company motto is “Read. Play. […]

Lies, Trophies, Looking Forward and Star Trek: Lower Decks — not a review (because I haven’t watched it yet)

A while back, I bragged about having watched all of the existing Trek content available in the world. First off, a person should never brag about anything. It’s not very classy or professional, and it makes you look egotistical. Arrogant, even. The word “brag” is the load-bearing portion of the word braggart, which is generally […]

Looking Forward (June 2020 Update): The Pursuit of Happiness

Welcome to FirewaterCorp’s quadmonthly “Looking Forward” happiness report for June 2020. Our abiding philosophy is that happiness is derived from always looking forward to something. And, in our world, where quiet contemplation isn’t really something desired during the waking hours, most of what is looked forward to are our choices in entertainment, pleasurable ways to […]

Looking Forward Update: Cruisin’ 2020

I’ve always maintained that getting back home is always the best part of any vacation to me. It’s not that I don’t have fun travelling, because I do. It’s more that I enjoy getting back to my place, to my stuff, to my dogs. Perhaps you understand. This time that feeling was even stronger, though. […]

An Argument Against Binge-Watching (Happy New Year!)

I’ve always claimed that I don’t really engage in binge-watching. I still say this is true, if the accepted definition of binge-watching is the “now common practice of watching many episodes of a television show in a single sitting” [Macmillan Dictionary Blog]. It’s not that I have never done this. Sharon and I binge-watched […]

Nerd Premiere Twofer: Harley Quinn & The Mandalorian — a review

Sometimes, things that I didn’t intend to happen occur, and, again sometimes, I go with the flow to see where events take me. This is how I got to tour the Jack Daniels distillery in Lynchburg, Tennessee (which is in a dry county, ironically). It’s how I ended up taking the tour of Graceland, in […]

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