Traveling to DC as an Introvert

Washington, D.C. is a massive city with literally too much to do. Even with a 9-day trip we couldn't see it all!

PokemonGo Fest – Chicago 2019 – Day 2

Saturday, Day 2 in Chicago was the actual event. We spent all day - all day - catching Pokémon and wandering around Grant Park. Fortunately, I'd visited Grant Park the year before, so at least things look familiar. There was a tremendous amount of people in attendance. It's an annual event and the tickets were…

PokemonGo Fest – Chicago 2019 – Day 1

I left work at 1am, my flight departed at 5.30am. Plenty of time for showering, grabbing my things, and piling into my lyft. The lyft guy then proceeded to get on my case about how the address was wrong. "Well, I manually entered it, so I don't know what happened." I looked on my phone…

Twitter Props

The truth is, I get super excited when I get the slightest head-nod from minor-league celebrities in the form of 140 character twitter props (or the mili-second "like"). They're real people, they're brilliant people, and they're doing amazing things with their lives, and they... read something I wrote? WHAT!? It feels like a weird lottery,…

Doduo Card

This is my first go at altered card art. I would like to get into this more, but it seriously takes some time to develop that skill. even though Pokemon are easier to mimic than, say, MTC, pairing style and matching colors is difficult. I also learned to thin down my layers as extreme as…