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Level 15 Dad of 4. Christian. Leftist. Xennial. Enginerd. He/Him. 2006 TIME POTY. Enviromancer. Opinions 🗑. ACNH Island: Moduland.

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mdmrn, to Parenting
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Is it still considered bloomscrolling when the flowers I post are, in fact, fake flowers from an art project I posted up at work made by my youngest kid?

I think so.

I'll allow it.

Have a great one.

#Parenting #KidsArt #Bloomscrolling #Flowers #Photo #Photography #ParentsOfInstagram #Kids #KidArt

mdmrn, to Life
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They say today is Figure Friday. So, let's go to a tiny figure I have on my desk.

When I graduated kindergarten, this little puppy was sitting on the top of the cake. All through my childhood and into college, it followed me on my dresser the entire time.

Since I entered the workforce after graduating with my Masters, it has been on my desk since. It's a good reminder, I totally was a "Super Grad" from kindergarten. I could tie my shoes and everything.

Hope you have a great Friday and weekend.

#FigureFriday #Toy #Life #Graduation #Cute #SuperGrad #ToyPuppy #80s #80sToy #80sToys #CakeTopper

mdmrn, to Parenting
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Throwback Thursday to when I only had 2 kids (2013) and decided to climb on my kids' rocking horse with my cowboy hat.

Ye haw.

#TBT #ThrowbackThursday #Parenting #Silly #RockingHorse #Toys #Mess

mdmrn, to soda
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It's springtime again and we've got two new Mountain Dew Baja variants for our drinking pleasure.

I mean, I had to try them both. I love me some Mountain Dew.

First, we tried Mountain Dew Baja Point Break Punch. Think of what would happen if you took Kool Aid Tropical Punch and transformed it into a Mountain Dew variant. That's what this tastes like. It's slightly bubble Tropical Punch. Personally, I liked it. So did all of my kids, which is good cause my wife also got us a case of the cans later.

The second is Baja Laguna Lemonade. It's a Dew infused mango lemonade flavor. You can definitely taste some of the mango with a classic Dew aftertaste. Personally, this was the one I liked better, but that's just me.

So, overall - I liked BOTH Baja variants this year, which is great!

How about you? Have you tried the two new Mountain Dew Baja variants?

Let me know your thoughts!

#BajaBlast #Soda #Pop #Coke #MoutainDew #MountainDewBajaBlast #BajaLagunaLemonade #BajaPointBreakPunch #SodaPop #MtnDew #MtnDewBajaBlast

mdmrn, to Candy
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75% off

Uh oh

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Flower: Pink Magnolia Tree

Location: Edgewater, Maryland

#Bloomscrolling #Flowers #Trees #Maryland #HistoricLondonTown #GoPublicGardens #Magnolia #MagnoliaTree #MagnoliaTrees #PinkMagnolia

mdmrn, to VideoGames
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This past weekend, we stopped at a tiny arcade at the hotel I stayed at with the family. They have one of the two greatest arcade games of all time - Ms. Pac-Man and Mortal Kombat II.

Don't argue with me...that's totally a fact.

Regardless, as the main screens cycled through I took this picture. There was a screen that showed up with details on how to order the soundtrack as well as two different Mortal Kombat comic books back when this dropped in 1993.

I wonder...do you think that's still valid? And if not, do you think there's folks out there who still have copies of these comics / the CD? Cause...I kind of want them.

Also, who stood around in an arcade in 1993 with a pen and paper to write down all this information? Cause I want to meet those people too...

...And borrow the soundtrack from them.

#VideoGames #MortalKombatII #MortalKombat2 #Arcade #ArcadeCabinet #Music #VGM #VideoGameMusic #ComicBooks #MortalKombat #FightingGames #ArcadeGame #ArcadeGames #Photo

mdmrn, to SonicTheHedgehog
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Weekend vibes.

I rolled out my new Sonic the Hedgehog shirt this weekend that I had gotten from Box Lunch. I love how the new very beachy shirt looks over my older Sonic shirt.

But yea, got home yesterday from a weekend out with the family. It was fun!

Hope you have a great Monday!

#Selfie #SonicTheHedgehog #WeekendVibes #Beard #Beards #BeardUp #Sonic #BoxLunch #VideoGames #OOTD #Outfit #TShirt #HawaiianShirt #CasualButtonDown #ButtonDownShirt

mdmrn, to manga
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New Read - My Lovesick Life as a '90s Otaku, Volume 2

Okay, internet, I'm caught up!

I finally read Volume 2 of My Lovesick Life as a 90's Otaku and my goodness - the emotions. The feeling of being a nerd in the 90s and trying to be...normal around others. It's too real.

Volume 2 finally sees Meggers embrace her otaku-ness publicly, kind of, but also not. It advances the slow burn romantic tension between the class President and Megumi in such an adorable way. You see Masamune, his anime / manga obsessed Mom, and you see that he's basically solo parenting his siblings. It brings in some sad, but also sweet moments.

Also, Megumi makes an unexpected livelong friend this volume too by defending another girl who has a hard time making female friends. It's adorable and I love every second of it.

I am so glad I jumped into this series and looking forward to Volume 3.

Photograph of a white person's hand holding open Volume 2 of My Lovesick Life as a '90s Otaku. The black and white pages that are open show a dark haired girl smiling and blushing in various panels where she is relishing the fact that someone is reading her self-published manga. In the lower left-hand corner is a light-haired boy who is also blushing a lot while looking at the same girl. In the lower panels, the girl is saying, "This book. I drew it! It's mine!"

mdmrn, to Parenting
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Field trip mode.

Heading out shortly to join my 9 year olds' classes for a field trip.

Wish me luck.

#Parenting #Selfie #TShirt #FallOutBoy

mdmrn, to Meme
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Decisions were made in the soda aisle at Sam's Club.

#Meme #Silly #Soda #Fish #DecisionsWereMade #Pop #RootBeer #OrangeSoda #SodaPop #Coke #SamsClub

mdmrn, to Cats
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Happy Caturday.

That is all.

Feel free to carry on.

#Caturday #Cats #CatsOfInstagram #Meow #Photography #Photograph #Photo #Kitty #CatsOfPixelfed #CatsOfMastodon #CatsOfFediverse

mdmrn, to manga
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New Read - Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon, Volume 6 (Naoko Takeuchi Collection)

Flying solo today with the kids and Mrs out after I got home from work.

So, decided to get myself some sushi for dinner and catch up on some Sailor Moon. I'm on Volume 7 of the Naoko Takeuchi Collection re-releases of Sailor Moon.

This volume is all plot, no side stories, with a new enemy arriving - the Dead Moon. They set up a circus in town and there's an eclipse; no stars show up in the sky. Throughout the volume, each of the Sailor Scouts loses their power and digs down to find a new, more potent power.

This includes our trio who ran off to raise Sailor Jupiter as a throuple in the woods. They regain their powers, all four of them, and are on their way to rejoin everyone to eventually take on the Dead Moon Circus and their leaders.

It's a solid volume and there's some concerning magical sicknesses hitting Mamo and, by the end, maybe Usagi too. We also meet a powerful new character who can project as an alicorn.

Can't wait to see what happens next!

mdmrn, to baltimore
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This is just too surreal.

The Key Bridge has collapsed.

I drove over this bridge every single day for over a decade and overnight it's just gone. It was a fixture in our community and it served thousands of people daily including myself, my coworkers, and my family.

The impact to Baltimore Harbor is going to be huge.

I took this photo yesterday from landside.

I just have...no words.

Prayers and thoughts for those whose lives were lost and harmed by this massive event.

#Baltimore #Photo #FrancisScottKeyBridge #FrancisScottKeyBridge #Maryland #Photograph #Bridge

mdmrn, to manga
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New Read - One Piece Ace's Story The Manga

This weekend I sat down and read through the manga adaptation of the One Piece side story "Ace's Story." Originally released as a novel entitled, "One Piece Novel A," this manga adaptation was setup by Ryo Ishiyama with art by Boichi of Dr. Stone fame.

The volume is gorgeous and stylish, as is all art from Boichi. The story is well done, telling about how Ace first got his Devil Fruit powers, but also the formation of his original pirate crew, the Spade Pirates.

It follows Ace's initial adventures in piracy, his second in command Masked Deuce, and his plan to take on the powerful pirate, Whitebeard.

Along the way, we meet some familiar faces and it's a great journey focusing in on Ace.

If you like Ace as a character, check this manga adaptation out.

The volume ends with Boichi's adaptation of One Piece chapter 51, "Roronoa Zoro Falls Into the Sea," where Mihawk and Zoro battle for the first time. It's a great chapter, and Boicihi's art just makes it look so cool.

Can't wait to dive into Volume 2, which concludes this side story, when it drops.

Zoom in on a single black and white panel from One Piece Ace's Story The Manga, Volume 1. The panel has Ace (muscular, shirtless man with ha

mdmrn, to random
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So, I got myself a Fall Out Boy t-shirt at the concert.

Biggest they had was a large. I normally wear an XL. But, it fits and I think I look pretty good in it.

Also, love this design. Glad I picked this one up. I also got one for my 12 year old, who loved it too.

#FallOutBoy #Concert #Selfie #TShirt #BandTShirt #FallOutBoyShirt #SoMuchForStardust #Beard #Beards #BeardUp

mdmrn, to Canon
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It's Figure Friday and I'm at work.

So, here's a Mr. Potato Head figure from the 1970s. It looks so very different than the current Mr. Potato head.

Oh, and that canon next to it I made when I was in college. Where I went to undergrad, all freshman engineering majors had to take a metal shop class and their final project was to make either a canon or a catapult. I thought the canon looked cooler.

Anyway. Happy Friday!

#FigureFriday #Toys #Toy #ToyPhotography #Model #MrPotatoHead #PotatoHead #OldToys #RetroToys #Canon #ModelCanon #CanonModel

mdmrn, to random
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Last night I went to see Fall Out Boy at CFG Arena in Baltimore with my lovely wife. This was the first time we have ever been to a concert together and we've been married for nearly 17 years. So, that's wild that we still have firsts.

But yea, the concert was fantastic. I spent most of it jamming out to the opening acts and, of course, Fall Out Boy. They put on a fantastic show.

No pics from the show or stage cause...why take a blurry picture of a stage when I can give you a single selfie of two smiling folks excited for the show.

Hope you have a great one!

#FallOutBoy #Concert #Selfie

mdmrn, to manga
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New Read - My Lovesick Life as a '90s Otaku, Volume 1

Mangagram had been talking about this nonstop it felt like, so I decided to pick up Volume 1.

Now, before I get much further into anything review-esque, let me tell you a bit about myself. I have always been a big nerd. In the mid to late 90s, I was a teenager who loved comic books, Dungeons and Dragons, and video games. Me and a friend created our own card game called "Tragic: The Saddening," a spoof on Magic the Gathering. I tried to be as normal as possible at school, but I was a socially awkward teenager who said the weirdest things sometimes which led to awkward moments of my peers just looking at me.

By the time I was a senior, I had learned to fake being more average and sociable, a skill which I have honed to this day.

I did not discover anime or manga until college cause, I'm an American and where I grew up it wasn't really accessible.

However, all of this is to say that this series was relatable. Socially awkward teenager who has crushes and is trying not to gush about their geeky hobbies. Check and check.

I plowed through this first volume so fast and already pre-ordered the remaining 3 volumes.

Suffice it to say, I enjoyed it and am looking forward to reading more.

Collage of two photographs of the interior of Volume 1 of My Lovesick Life as a '90s Otaku. The upper black and white manga panel with an extremely nervous teenage girl with dark hair giving a peace sign and yelling with her mouth open widely saying, "Call Me Meggers!" The lower black and white manga panel showing a long, light haired female character's face with overly detailed lips wearing glasses that hide her eyes as she says, "Why is it bad to be an otaku?"

mdmrn, to Cats
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Happy Caturday folks!

Here's two pics of our cats, Lion-O (orange tabby) and his sister Jelly Bean (calico). Here they are just chilling on one of my 9 year olds' beds.

As is tradition of laying about.

Have a great Caturday!

#Caturday #Cats #CatsOfPixelfed #CatsOfInstagram #Meow #Photography #Photograph #Photo #Kitty #CatsOfMastodon #CatsOfFedirverse #CatsOfActivityPub

Photograph of a single cat laying on a twin bed with ombre sheets that shift in color in view from a reddish to blue and stopping at an orange / yellow shade in between. The photo is pointed toward the cat, which is a pretty calico cat with reddish orange around their left eye and black around their white eye with the bottom of their face having white fur.

mdmrn, to VideoGames
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No thoughts, just this Mighty the Armadillo figure.

What?

mdmrn, to manga
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Re-Read - Sand Land (Single Volume)

Sand Land is interesting. This was a single volume, self contained story from the late Akira Toriyama. It tells the tale of the titular "Sand Land," where after a major apocalyptic event, there is limited water and the King hoards what remains, selling it to the people at high rates. There are also demons walking the world for reasons.

Enter our heroes - Thief, a sneaky and balding demon; Beelzebub, the son of the King of the Demons; and Rao, a human on the mission to find a secret water supply to the south to free the people from the King's tyrannical rule.

The story follows this trio as they travel south, run into various fights, and eventually save the day. In the process, the story rails against those who hoard resources and has some social commentary about how governments / militaries lie to their people. There is also sub-textual commentary about climate change and how certain governments treat indigenous populations and (sometimes purposefully) disregard their existing knowledge of the world after crushing them.

Overall, it's a fun story and I'm glad I had a chance to re-read this great, physical edition before the new anime / video games drop. Toriyama gave us a bunch of stories before he passed and I hope you get a chance to check out some of his stories outside of Dragon Ball.

Black and white manga photo from Sand Land. Image shows Beelzebub (spiky haired demon character in shorts, with sunglasses on his forehead, and wearing what looks like a cape) rummaging through a box with video game components in it. Other demons are around him. He says, "I can't believe it, a Playstation 6."
Black and white manga photo from Sand Land. Image shows Beelzebub (spiky haired demon character in shorts, with sunglasses on his forehead, and wearing what looks like a cape) standing on a rock with his arms folded saying, "I hate this."

mdmrn, to dragonball
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I didn't grow up with Dragon Ball or Dragon Ball Z. I stopped having cable at home in the early 90s. So, my first real experience with Dragon Ball Z was in college. I had a roommate who would watch subtitled episodes late at night really loud, which annoyed me. I avoided the franchise for that reason for a long while.

In 2019, I picked up a copy of Dragon Ball FighterZ because of how highly it was rated. I fell in love with it immediately. Such an amazing fighting game. In December, Viz's Shonen Jump service dropped and allowed you access to their full archive of manga for certain series. Dragon Ball was among them. I decided to read the manga to get the backstory of these characters. I became enthralled and within three months had read all of Dragon Ball, Dragon Ball Z, and Dragon Ball Super.

Since then, I have plowed through so much manga from Akira Toriyama. From Cowa to Sandland to a ton of stuff in between. His influence on the anime and manga industry will be felt for generations to come.

Here's a picture of a few of the Bandai model kits I have of Goku and Vegeta in their Super Saiyan God Super Saiyan forms.

Rest in Peace, Toriyama. Thank you for all you have given us over the years. May your family and fans be comforted following your passing.

mdmrn, to manga
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New Read - Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon, Volume 6 (Naoko Takeuchi Collection)

Last night I sat down and finished reading Volume 6 of Kodansha's reprint of Sailor Moon. This volume had three components. First, it finished the story arc of the Outer Sailor Scouts (Pluto, Neptune, and Uranus) and Sailor Saturn / Hotaru Tomoe. The story's conclusion was well done, with the world saved once again with Saturn giving the final blow to Pharaoh 90. Hotaru is then reborn as an infant to be raised by a trio of Sailor Scout Moms. It was an unexpected (to me, who is learning about all this for the first time now) plot point, but I appreciated how it was handled.

The remaining chapters of this edition include a side story with Sailor Chibi Moon for her birthday followed by a special story entitled "Kaguya Hime's Beloved." This story was adapted as "Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon S: The Movie," too. It also has Luna falling in love with a human. The story was cute and well done...and absolutely brought some tears. While I loved the main story plot conclusion, this side story was just so well done; it makes me want to watch the movie - even if parts of it have been adapted and changed.

Overall, looking forward to the next edition so I can keep reading about these Sailor Scouts.

Collage of two photographs from Volume 6 of the Naoko Takeuchi Edition of Sailor Moon. The upper image shows Super Sailor Moon's face looking downward with a gem on her forehead glowing and her hands held up. The lower image shows a dark haired woman with a crescent on her forehead looking surprised, it's Luna in human form!

mdmrn, to GYM
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So, I haven't done this in a while, but here's a gym selfie.

Going to the gym early in the morning before the kids get up is annoying, but it's helpful. I am getting healthier.

This morning, I did the stairmill / stairstepper machine. I've been doing this a few times a week when we do cardio. When I first went to the gym I was so intimidated by this. Still am and still sweat like no one's business when I do it. However, I did 30 minutes on it and climbed the equivalent to 136 stories. That means I climbed more than the Empire State Building (103 stories) and the Willis/Sears Tower (108 stories).

I could not have done this when I started.

I want to get stronger to be around a long while for my kids...and I am.

...Related, but the shirt I am wearing is a crossover shirt with Sanrio characters dressed as My Hero Academia characters. It's cute!

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