 Well hello, I don't usually go live at this time of day, but why not? Why don't I? Because usually I'm busy but yeah, I just sent off my weekly newsletter and Got a half hour before the five o'clock whistle blows So figured Let's chat. What are you doing? How you been? Okay, you look great Yeah, usually I'm like in the middle of prepping for DTNS and everything so my energy is probably a way low Should I just show pictures of Sawyer the dog? Do that here? In a blatant play to win over the hearts and minds of millions of people pictures of my dog Hey technical much This is the one I put up on Instagram Where along with a picture of my neighbor sign that says dear dogs, please don't water our lawn And so I put him next to a watering can get it That one he was looking away That's a that's a buckwheat noodles with hot was delicious bulldox sauce. I lean mate so good There's Sawyer. Oh, this is when he was staring at me and I was eating my apple This is and I did this as an Instagram thing. I showed him some apple and I gave him the apple and then he ate the apple Had face oh I guess it was I guess it was a it was too Yeah, it was too It was it was two Versions of that because I did it on Instagram. So it saved it again Here he is in his secret special agent vest People in puts close up. Have you seen these? Dunkin Donuts pumpkin spice This is like you have to diagram a sentence to figure out what this actually means. So it's not just pumpkin spice It's the Dunkin Donuts pumpkin spice Graham cracker flavored Goldfish Cell by February 4th What do I use for photo storage and management iCloud Google photos dropbox a local nas Yes, I use all of those that way if one of them fails. I got plenty of their backups Squish mellows. I was asking rich in and Molly if these are a thing and they Reminded me we kind of talked about them already. I just didn't recognize the name But yeah, these are these are all over the stores. Oh, I took a picture of this. This is a commercial What was this on was this on the like Baseball playoffs I think because I thought they were saying analog X and there used to be a hacker that would come on the screensavers named analog X And I thought it was hilarious But then when they when I act when they actually put the name up. I'm like, oh It's analog X Never mind. Oh Here's another picture of Sawyer That's it I Should make an Instagram post. Do you mind? I think tecton venture. Are you the only one in here? I have I have so much spam Do you have a lot of spam? I need to Download this instagram post stories Substack gives you uh Substack gives you some really good assets to promote your newsletter and I want to promote my My substack newsletter this time Because I've got a new novel in it save to photos. I should probably save the photos All the spam has cut tecton venture never have spam get through Also, a lot of mine is really bacon what we used to call bacon back in the day, which is Things where it's not actually spam Because I registered for ces and so they get to give my name out or its press pitches or Stuff like that So I actually don't get that much like raw spam spam either Because yeah gmail is pretty good at filtering stuff out. Isn't that awesome? Hey zoey brings bacon What are you doing awake tom merit? It's substack.com. That's right, isn't it tom merit? That's free tom newsletter free Oh my god, that didn't that didn't oh, I put it in the wrong place. Oops Isn't it showing this week's yet? I can still do that. Oh, it's only 12 40. That's not that YouTube has a channel streaming all the classic TMNT I never watched TMNT. Does that make me a bad geek? This week's Needs an apostrophe I drink my coffee After midnight Wait, did I publish it to the wrong one? Oh my gosh That's why I didn't see it. Oops Now I see it Uh, I can't believe I did that. Is it fun to watch me panic? Oh, it plays daily ticket lens. That's great. Ay, yai, yai, yai So embarrassing All right, make sure that's gone. Okay Now type it out again of a new novella This was supposed to be just me hanging out not me panicking over publishing the wrong newsletter see it at freetomnewsletter.com Hey, lucky. Are you feeling yourself? Okay, this week's newsletter is the first one Okay, there you go Yeah, so I you know, I have a tech newsletter called tech tom and then I have a free newsletter called this week in tom merit and I published this week in tom merit to the wrong one Oops Yeah, I that was my plan is just to uh stream Virtually whatever came into my head till five pacific And then uh and then go off into the weekend Ooh pixelate pro tomorrow Very fun Yes, clinton It's bonus content until somebody complains what's going to happen is somebody is going to be like Oh, so you're forcing this content on us to try to trick us into going to the news that I'll be like, no, I'm just embarrassed. That's all Too many hats too many too many hats too many hats. That's my song techno mention. I'm sticking to it So yeah, there's a new novella It is called the moment It is about time being broken and People's attempt to fix it by sending messages into the past And the first chapter takes place in 1978 So that's exciting about the pixelate. They're lucky I've got my uh my pixel fold I've been rocking lately This week. I don't have a lot of plans just just like a lunch plan. I don't know if you know bill meeks Bill meeks. I'll be lunching with bill meeks and then It's lamar wilson's birthday. So we're doing a little birthday dinner He's 21 again Doesn't look a day over Yeah, you're hanging with the pixel seven clinton I On the iphone side. I'm sticking with the 14 I feel like these things are so Evolutionary these days. I mean I went from the microsoft duo Which I've had for years and it was finally time. So I went to the fold for that That's my android slash foldable now apparently because I think I had the essential. No, not the essential What did I have before? anyway It was not a foldable before Yeah, six pro Those are they're good phones and they they last these days You don't need to upgrade. You don't need to upgrade. You may want to upgrade You may feel the urge to upgrade but then when like lucky you do get the new one It's pretty fun. I'm not gonna lie Yeah, just take photos of whatever you see Try it out. Oh, you got good trade in clinton. That helps a lot Yeah, I traded in uh the duo one. No, I didn't trade in the duo. What did I trade in? I traded in an old iPhone is that what I do? Because I sent the duo to somebody else But yeah, I traded it in I traded in a phone and I got a google fi discount So it really brought the price way down Ah screen died. Yeah, that's never good. And then um, I'm Possibly going to a conference although with the world Being in the situation that it's in I'm also prepared for anything and everything to get canceled these days, but uh No indication that's gonna happen. So uh beginning of november might be in europe I kind of mentioned that in my newsletter last week, I think So if if that all goes to plan, uh, that'll be fun and then Uh, I'm going to blizzcon Um, because lacerophim is performing very much looking forward to to seeing them and Seeing what blizzcon is like now that it's back although Nobody's going all the usual suspects when I ask is anybody going Nobody nobody's going. So I feel like I know I won't but I feel like am I going to be the only one there? Eileen's going with me Just be the two of us like yeah, the seraphim Yay diablo But yeah, should be fun. Uh, so yeah, if you hear of anybody that's going Let me know Yeah, mike. I thought they did Yeah, I don't know. I don't know what that's about Yeah, zoey, uh Last time I was in continental europe would have been paris in 2019 I think summer of 2019 because we went it was when we went to ireland for um for uh world con um after after world con we we went to paris No, it's men. I'm been a couple of years not that long really only four years But so I guess I can remember the last time I visited europe It's in brussels home of sprouts Oh at eclipse in france soccer blue Oh, he was on a stream and the twitchy. I was on a stream and someone told him and then he left because he didn't want to be in the stream That's funny I too clinton I was supposed to go to the uk in summer of 2020 And yes that got cancelled Well, I haven't been yet lucky But I do plan to enjoy Uh beer when I do go Mine wouldn't have been for work clinton. I was going to the uk uh To see the baseball game which ended up happening this summer with cardinals cubs and I didn't go I didn't end up going this summer Because we had other plans and other things to do take care of um, oh, yeah I would have seen nate will harris zoe you went to ireland four years ago right Am I imagining things you were there, right? Okay, good. I'm glad that was fun. I really enjoyed that trip It was great going to world con and we we got to squeeze in a couple of uh tours to see parts of the other parts of ireland It's eileen's first time going to ireland Oh, uh, yeah tecno mentioned, uh, there is there there there's a youtube and a twitch chat So if you're like wait, where how is he responding to these? That's why People in multiple places. Oh man clinton. I'm sorry Although Maybe i'm not best thing he says best thing that could have happened Nice exit passage early retirement haven't looked back. Well, then good. I'm not sorry at all That's great. Good for you Zoe's in all the places at once Because she's a time lord Yeah, i'm just gonna go until the five o'clock whistle blows and by five o'clock whistle blows I mean my amazon echo is set at five o'clock on fridays To play a little like it's five o'clock on friday Here's everything you need to know about friday I don't know. I don't know if I should do a shelf tour So I feel like I should I should save this shelf tour for the normal morning crowd. What do you what do you think? And there's only one shelf left to go I mean, I guess they could see it on demand later You can't see that shelf over there that shelf has all the really interesting stuff on This is not a shelf tour because it's not behind me Things are falling. I've only got two minutes These are all uh cd roms word perfect sweet seven I used to use this this this used to be my my go-to Sim city 2000. Yeah So so glare much glare. Yeah Uh monty python quest for the holy grail cd rom activisions info comm mystery collection That's cd in there it is I might have to install that see if it still works Deadline which I played on the Commodore 64 and loved lurking horror moon mist sherlock suspect witness bonuses of planet fall and zork zero Uh a cd rw that is empty. There's nothing in it apple pro training for final cut studio Drivers and utilities for a del dimension Microsoft works sweet Ah star trek starship creator Oh my gosh my hp pavilion first aid recovery kit Our wedding video One of many coffees in case you're like why is that stuck in there with all that stuff? uh logitech harmony remote cd An unopened 74 minute music cdr w Yeah, I do need to throw some of this stuff out, especially like the blank dv This is a blank dvdr w. I don't think there's I don't think anything's been burned on to that This is a tdk cdr. No idea if there's anything on that ibm think pad Uh ac dc combo adapters and drivers for a thing old think pad and uh Laceraphim's fearless japanese edition with kazuha And uh likewise with inche and the other ones are down there too Oh there it is I don't know if you can hear it though, but alexa Thank you Just said you're so welcome. It's five o'clock on friday All right, uh, well i'm gonna go enjoy my weekend I hope you will too. Thanks for spending a small part of it with me. That was really fun I'll see you all on monday Bye everybody