Onward to 2025!

 Let's leave 2024 behind. Starting with History's Greatest Monster, Jimmy Carter.

He really came in under the wire, didn't he? He might not have been the best president, but he was probably the best person to BE president. And that bar is so ungodly low, especially before AND after him.

December was very...trying. Beginning of the month, I got rear ended. Two weeks later, the alternator decided to crap out on me. And when my dad took my car to His Guy, they decided to replace the battery while they were at it. So it was kind of an Imagination Christmas for me.

I mostly got gift cards, and most of them have already been spent.

That Amazon gift card went towards two things: that Jurassic Park Transformers 2-pack, and the bottle of Underwood Ranch Sriracha sauce. It's the farm that Huy Fong used to get their peppers from, so it's the closest thing to the original sauce. My verdict: it's GOOD. Huy Fong has better consistency, but this one blows it out of the water in every other aspect. Huy Fong might as well be red sauce compared to this.

And my other gifts. New portfolio books! New bbq sauce and deodorant! The highlight was this:

Peanuts-branded hot sauces. From "wishy washy" to "AUUGH!" Or from Good to Grief. I haven't tried these out yet, but I don't have a lot of trust in novelty hot sauces from Big Lots.

But I also started wearing my Simpson socks I got LAST Christmas.

They're comfy. Why hadn't I been wearing them before?! Well, they're finally getting used, that's the most important thing.

And let's have a look at this year's tree.

And a closer look at some of the ornaments.

This year I got to decorate the tree, and all the ornaments I bought over the past few years made it on this time. I bought quite a few this year, like the Boo, the Magikarp, the Pokeball, and the ketchup bottle. They made an ornament of the Weinermobile, I'm not made of stone!

And finally, the McRib came back!

It looked and tasted just as good as it used to be. But if I want to make it to 2026, one is all I'm gonna eat this time.

And for the third New Year's in a row, I went out for sushi.

Not pictured: all the other stuff I ate.

There's not a lot of options for this New Year's Eve programming. I'm staying in, Times Square is getting rained out, and The Honeymooners doesn't come on until 12:30. But at least Anderson Cooper and Andy Cohen get to drink again.

I hope your 2024 went better than mine, let's at least look forward to 2025!

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Museum Fun!

 It's the end of June once again!

A few weeks back, I managed to go back to the American Museum of Natural History in NYC for the first time since 2013!

I actually remembered to get off at this station this time. I remember overshooting by a stop the last time I was there.

Got to see this guy in person again.

Had to go see the dinosaurs!

Then went to see the cool exhibit on elephants. The highlight being this lifelike wooly mammoth model.

And it taught the difference between mammoths and mastodons. It's mostly in the shape of the tusks and the skull.

Even got to the exhibits I wasn't able to see last time, like the famous big blue whale model.

The night mode on my phone camera is unreal.  That diorama is completely dark (and it's why it's the only one in the museum not behind glass). This is the famous Squid & The Whale that inspired the movie of the same name.

I love this shot. There are a LOT of dioramas at this museum, and all of the animals are real taxidermy. They're posed in such a way that you're sure that they'll come to life the moment you're not looking at them.

And speaking of which, here's good ol Teddy Roosevelt, waiting for Ben Stiller to have some fun after closing.

I almost forgot about this display that added disclaimers about the horrible racist inaccuracies that made headlines with the "everything is woke" brigade a few years back.

And since the last time I was here, they opened the Gilder Center, this really weird looking atrium that has neat exhibits on every floor.

On the bottom floor was an Insectarium. There were lots of neat models and displays of mounted insects, but there were...plenty of live ones.

Gonna admit, bugs creep me out. Not all of them, mind you. If they're tiny. I'm fine with them. But if they're like, the size of my finger, that's when the anxiety goes into overdrive.

And when you're at the Natural History Museum, you have the get the dino nuggets. And they give a good amount for how much they have the audacity the charge you for...

But this is what I went there to see! They renovated the Halls of Gems & Minerals a few years ago and I finally got to see it!

The thing about that day was, for whatever reason, the museum closed two hours early and I was NOT aware of it. I didn't check out the entire hall on my first pass, so I ran back to it as quickly as I could to see the rest of it before they kicked everyone out.

Here's some pictures of it.

There was also an exhibit of hip-hop jewelery that I snapped a few pics of.

And then after I was shown the door, I took a few shots around the museum.

You don't get those shots every day.

And since it was right across the street, I took in a little of Central Park before it got too hot to stay outside.

And before I left, I managed to catch the giant dragon they put on the Empire State Building to promote House of The Dragon.

And now I realize I had a completely different plan for this month's entry. Guess I'll wait until next time?

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