At the beginning of 2025, I needed to buy new headphones since the pair I had for almost seven years stopped working on one side. I was a bit strapped for cash, so I found a pair on clearance. After about eight months of use, they stopped working on one side, kinda proving why they were on clearance to begin with. I...

Celebrate the New Year with me as I recount the (read: my) wins of 2025, and toast to a hopeful 2026! Well, here we are. It's the end of 2025: a landmark year... for me. Well, not really; if I'm being honest, the year had its ups and downs. A lot of downs (like, a lot), and that's okay. By the way, yes: You're...

Well, this is it. We've come to the final week of 2025. As such, that puts us right at Christmas Day. If you celebrate: MERRY CHRISTMAS! If you don't, then I'm sorry that most things are closed today. At least you got a day off... unless you didn't; if that's the case, I already apologized. If you're actually...

It's Christmas time again. It's time for people to discuss their gadgetry, typically in the context of wanting the hot new gadgetry out, instead of the old, busted and played-out gadgetry that they've been using for the last six months. Through all of that useless noise, I came across something I haven't seen or...

First off, to whoever is reading this: Happy Halloween. I hope you spent it watching the scariest movies you could find. This entry in the ledger is about the scariest thing of all: Goal stagnation, and how it's affecting this site and my life personally. ...That may not sound very scary to you, but to me it's...

A year and a half ago, I had the three beams of security: A well-paying job, an apartment, and a car. I didn't have savings, but I was content; living paycheck to paycheck doesn't seem all that bad when the checks cover your expenses. The car note and apartment rent were overpriced, but I only have to take care of...

This'll be a bit of a controversial take and I may lose some of you, but hear me out: backing into parking spaces is potentially safer than pulling into them, and if you are able, you should opt into the former before the latter. Of course, there are caveats, but we'll get into that. I know what you're thinking:...

When you can do anything, there's always that impulse to do everything. Or, at least, everything you have the means to do, whether it makes sense or not. And yes, this ties into hVmark. One of my favorite video game franchises is Max Payne. In 2012, Max Payne 3 came out, and I thought it was a great final chapter....