I love photography but don't get to it much these days. Luckily, an artist friend of mine asked for some hi-res photos of his work for posting online. It was a good excuse to see him and break out my old equipment.

So, I am increasingly falling down the 80s rabbit hole. Loving the new WSQK station. Considering ditching my wardrobe for 80s styled clothing. #hellfireclub #strangerthings #80s

For my own wellbeing, I am considering removing social apps from my phone. Which means I won't be on here very much.

Please consider following my projects instead at derreckmayer.com. Thank you.

Okay, so in Pixar's Cars... are the cars born with tires? Like, tires are shown to be more or less like our shoes. Even in the first movie, McQueen blows his tires during the Piston Cup race. Tires are easily replaceable, etc. So they must be born tireless, right?

oh, what were my last two purchases?

A VCR and some laserdiscs. Why?

Saw Ballerina. It's a really solid expansion of the Wick universe. Ana's character is completely different from Keanu's; she's even shot differently during action sequences. I enjoyed it a lot and hope to see more.

Jurassic Park is chef's kiss.

TFW you and your wife spend your lunch break browsing vintage style carpet for your new retro space. Good times.

In an effort to continue my spiral back in time, I'm shipping off my old Sony Handycam to get repaired so I can use it again.

I haven't received any emails in the last 10.5 hours and that feels wrong.

One of the funniest things Star Trek ever made canon was the Klingons destroying the Tribble home world and it being a glorious victory for the Empire.

Pricing aside, I think I've finally hit a point in my life where I can't keep up with video game console launches.

I'm over here with such a backlog, that I could not buy a single game for probably 2-3 years and still play nothing but stuff new to me that entire time.

Apparently my Kindle FireTV remote can also work my tower fan. So that's fun.

Look, if we must have ads and commercials, can they at least be the same volume as the main content? I'm sick of ads just blasting my speakers.

Let's talk streaming. All the services want to "stop password sharing". Well, my kiddo stays at my moms almost every week. They watch her stuff. Now I'll have to pay extra for my kid to watch from there which means I'll cut services to offset those costs. To summarize: I will pay for fewer services.

I told my wife that I was good and didn't buy an on sale Lego set AND she didn't even tell me to get it as a reward!

You know, we could just... care about other people and take care of each other. We could.

What's up book people! Just out here to note a small milestone for my first novel. As of today, I have written over 10,000 words!

I just found a worm inside a strawberry I was eating and all I have to say is, Swiss Rolls would never.

So, I'm writing a novel. It's something I've been trying to do for a long time but the story wasn't coming together. Recently, I had a spark of inspiration and now I'm nearing 10k words.