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Halo is one of my absolute favorite video game series. I remember getting the original XBOX for Halo: Combat Evolved and having so much fun playing the campaign, and especially hooking it up to my dorm's network and playing some 16 player multiplayer with others in my dorm. I enjoyed the sequels, the expanded story and everything. Even after Bungie passed the baton to 343 Studios for Halo 4 I continued to enjoy the series. But the future of Halo is now in turmoil with Microsoft handing the reins to Activision, the studio behind Call of Duty. I'm not sure what that means for the future of Halo, but it's probably not good.

It was a kind of crazy month with hockey, but I was able to enjoy it. I got a lot of writing done and went deeper down the fountain pen rabbit hole.

Recently I had the desire to re-watch what is probably my favorite TV series, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. Because of David Ellison's takeover of Paramount and Bari Weiss licking Trump's boots, I no longer have a Paramount+ subscription to easily watch the series. Luckily, I have the entire series on DVD. Owning physical media for the win.

It was a gorgeous day outside and now I'm going to finish it out on the porch writing, and maybe reading.

I'm not sure how many years I've been using 1Password as my password manager. However long it's been, it's been a long time. Now, I believe that time is coming to an end, and it sucks because it's not because the product is no longer working great, but because the company has decided to start funding an avowed racist.

My desire to grow my music collection is having an unintended consequence.

August was a mostly quiet month. Had a nice authors event and wedding, but other than that, just took it easy.

This might seem like something that is pretty obvious, but as someone who has primarily developed console application in .NET, I only learned how to do this relatively recently.

Leave it to Randall Munroe to point out the obvious.

To go along with my delve back into live sports, if I were going to start watching college football, who should I watch?

When I build my side projects, I will generally handle them the same way I would at work in my professional career. It might seem like overkill, but I find that it's been working for me pretty well.

So I'm currently working on redesigning my personal site. So far, I think the hardest part is integrating all the little things I've built into my site over the course of the 13 years I've been building and writing on it.