Somebody’s sad they don’t get to join the group of kids having a Xmas party in the basement.

Selfie a day for a year, day 123, Dec 19, 2025 edition. 🐶

A person with glasses is cuddling a fluffy white dog.

I was in the penalty box all night. 🥶

Selfie a day for a year, day 122, Dec 18, 2025 edition. #hockey

A person wearing glasses and a cap stands next to an ice hockey rink with benches and gear nearby.

Ah good. The best operating system in the world according to Apple has reverted to not being sure who any of my contacts are in Messages again. “Maybe: Spouse’ name”, “Maybe: Daughter’s name”, “Maybe: Dad’s name” 🤦‍♂️

I don’t know what the term might be for this is, but you know how someone running the powerpoint or keynote for an event can make 99 clicks at the proper time but everyone will notice and remember the one time they don’t?

Like that but for removing uhms from podcast episodes. 😆

Pepsi > Coke if for no other reason than they haven’t put out a dumb AI slop Xmas commercial. (As far as I’m aware.)

All the snow is a lot of fun to drive a 4x4 in, not so fun to shovel.

Selfie a day for a year, day 121, Dec 17, 2025 edition. #skstorm

A person with glasses and a beard is wearing a navy hoodie with a design on the front.

A small (I think?) request from anyone invoicing online: please specify if you’re billing in USD even if you think your customers are only USD based.

Thank you from the rest of the world who have to double check pricing and credit card statements to verify all the time.

Waiting to see if we get up to 20cm of snow tonight. #skstorm

Selfie a day for a year, day 120, Dec 16, 2025 edition.

A person with glasses and a beard is reclining on a textured surface, looking at the camera.

Kids across Saskatchewan uniting in a call to pray for enough snow to cancel school tomorrow. 🙏😆

Here’s this week’s “Life as a Lemon” newsletter #33 - should’ve hit your inboxes this morning as long as you didn’t get too much snow last night. ❄️

I’m reluctant to say I’m going to pause for the holidays becuase the last time I paused, I took 2 years off writing it. 😆

“Holy forehead dad!”

#Selfie a day for a year, day 119, Dec 15, 2025 edition.

A man with glasses and gray hair is looking directly at the camera with a slightly raised eyebrow.

I kind of dig this new Buttondown feature where I can reply to a message from a subscriber right from the Buttondwon dashboard. 💌

If you want to watch the final ShopTalk Show episode together, it starts in about 5 minutes over here on their YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/watch

Xmas tree edition of my selfie a day for a year, day 118, Dec 14, 2025.

(I can claim no decoration credits other than carrying it up the stairs and assembling.)

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Birthday party pickups in what feels like a balmy -25C.

Selfie a day for a year, day 117, Dec 13, 2025 edition. #canada

A person wearing glasses and a red beanie is sitting inside a car, looking up at the car's interior light panel on the ceiling.

Wake Up Dead Man, 2025 - ★★★★½

Watched on Saturday December 13, 2025.

School pickups on -30C days.

Selfie a day for a year, day 116, Dec 12, 2025 edition. #winter

A person wearing a red beanie and glasses is sitting in the driver's seat of a car, looking at the camera.

Die Hard, 1988 - ★★★½

Watched on Friday December 12, 2025.

Does nobody at Descript ever have to stop editing a project and come back to it? There doesn’t seem to ever be any “here’s where you left off” tracking in any of my projects—hence the need for a “HEY CHRIS EDIT HERE” reminder in the script that might get left in the transcript on export.

Wake Up Dead Man is out on Netflix now, but I’d still encourage you to see it in theatres if you can. Not to raise your expectations too high, but it’s literally the best movie ever made in the history of the world I know this sounds like a joke I’m making but I’m 100% for truesies.