Meme Monday: Catch-Up Memes

I suppose when I say "Catch-Up", I could go in a ton of different directions. I could be talking about catching up with friends...

From makeameme.org.

Or maybe I should have said "NOT catching up with friends..."

I'm not a fan of the Duck Dynasty show (or the
people), but this meme is pretty much me.
From Pinterest.

I could also have meant catching up to what's going on in an MMO if you've been away for a while...

That's me in pretty much every MMO
these days... From Reddit.

Or when NPCs in game tell you something that
supposedly happened three expacs ago that you weren't
around for and had no idea you'd done.
From Facebook's FFXIV: A Meme Reborn group.

Or worse, things that make your brain freeze.
From swtor-life.

Or maybe, I'm talking about making sure I'm maintaining my health properly and it's been not a very kind winter...

No Cheetos here, honest! But I will admit I haven't
been eating salad as much this past winter as 
I ought to have... From Pleated Jeans.

Meme Monday: Introvert Memes

I am an introvert.

I mean, if you couldn't have figured that out after years of blogging --and enjoying the fact that less than 50 people read the blog regularly-- that I'm an introvert, well, I'm sorry to disappoint you that I'm not an extrovert.

After 30 years of marriage, my wife has figured out that just leaving me to do my thing in the evening, with me occasionally popping into the TV room to see what she's watching, is the way for us to operate. Sure, I play board games with her and I have some occasional RPG games with a game group, but my hobbies tend to not be of the face-to-face variety. 

So, in honor of all of us introverts, here you go...

Yes, this is me at parties. While I can interact with
people well enough, my brain is freaking out the entire
time. From Thisismyrandomlife via The Minds Journal.

This is me to a 'T'. I had an awkward interaction
last week and I simply.cant.stop.thinking.about.it.
From Thunder Dungeon and X.

This is also me. The skills are similar
to that of stalkers, but the result is one
of active avoidance of certain people. It
is not a requirement that we don't get along,
as I also do that so I don't have to interact with
people I do know and like because... reasons.
From X.

Yep. I'm not fond of spontaneity. In my experience,
things get awkward far more often than not. 
The plot of Martin Scorsese's After Hours is
pretty much why I would never go and embrace
spontaneity. From The Minds Journal.

Yes. This. From Sarah Andersen.

Yeah, my introversion is very much on display
when my friends group wants to go and do things,
whether IRL or in WoW. When you dread that
"XXX Invites you to group" pop-up, you might be
an introvert. From The Minds Journal.

Meme Monday: Valentine's Day Memes for 2026

Yep, it's that time of year again. I'll try to provide links if I can find them to the creators' stores, so if you want some of these cards you can order them from them.

From Celestial of the East.

From Goddasaurus on Imgur.

Have to have some Warhammer 40K Valentines.
From Idiot of the East and Sparrows and Lily,
although the link seems to be broken now.

From Someecards.

From ammatice via Pinterest.
They apparently have both a DeviantArt page
and a carrd.co page.

From Sparrows and Lily, which apparently is
yet another broken link. Alas.

Meme Monday: Raspberry Pi Memes

For all of my years puttering around computers and IT, I've never built a Raspberry Pi.

Until now.

I built one to power what's known as a Hamclock* that amateur radio hobbyists use to keep an eye on contact listings, what amateur radio bands are open (it's a shortwave/High Frequency thing, just roll with it) and what solar activity is.

Oh, and it has a nice graphic of the earth showing parts of the earth that are in daylight or night:

This is DL1GKK's Hamclock, which looks much
more detailed that the graphic I have. From DL1GKK.

Geochron makes those as well, but the digital ones cost $500 and the physical machines cost much more than that. My Hamclock is basically the cost of the Raspberry Pi, parts to put it together, and a spare monitor and/or keyboard + mouse.

Anyway, I figured I'd put Raspberry Pi in this week's Meme Monday.

Okay, let's get the low-hanging fruit
out of the way. See what I did there?
From Instagram.

And yes, this is another popular meme type.
From ifunny.co.

When the most current powerful version
of the Raspberry Pi came out, the Raspberry
Pi 5, it was a bit difficult to find one in stock
at first.  From Zuyun Zeng.

Again, unless you're in the know (and
you are now) this would kind of make sense.
From Memedroid.

Apparently Raspberry Pi enthusiasts are a bit
excited about their hobby. From Memedroid.

But just like any other electronics project, you
can go down the multi-week rabbit hole
when you start on a new Raspberry Pi project.
From imgflip via Medium.

*Because of course ham radio would be involved.

Meme Monday: Snowpocalypse 2026 Memes

Before you ask "Hey, haven't you been putting out enough winter and snow related memes lately?" yes, I'm aware of that. And apparently Mother Nature has taken notice and said "Hold my beer!"

Beginning late in the afternoon on Saturday and until Sunday evening, we got about 9-9.5 in/ 22-24 cm  of snow dumped on us.*

I took this pic when I was out shoveling.

Close to the street, the snow totals were over a foot deep (30+ cm). And now that the snow is here, the really cold temperatures have moved in. The Wind Chill for tomorrow night is expected to be -22F/-30C, so this snow isn't going anywhere any time soon.

Hence, more memes, this time of the Snowpocalypse.

The snow storm hit more than just the Midwest.
It came up from Texas and hit a lot of
the South, too. This was from the
St. Louis Reddit page.

Yes, this was Kansas City's reaction to the impending
snow, but I survived my regular trip to the grocers on
Thursday night when most of the store was stripped
bare by people afraid that they'd run out of food.
From Twitter.

Of course, reading isn't a bad thing to do during
the snowstorm. From Instagram and ournerdiestthing.

And not everybody believes the world is ending.
From Reddit.

The storm has reached the Atlantic Coast
and New England, who are more used
to this sort of thing. From WAHUP.

As for me, I'll be fine. I've already shoveled the snow so that we can get out into the street and to the mailbox, so there's that. And whenever somebody complains about the cold, I like to bring up January 10, 1982, when the Cincinnati Bengals defeated the San Diego Chargers in the AFC Championship game commonly known as The Freezer Bowl, because the wind chills were -59F/-51C, making it the coldest NFL game on record. 

This was a screencap from a recording of the NBC
broadcast of the game. From Amazing Blaze Zine.

I remember that game quite well, because we all watched it that day. It was so cold in Cincinnati that day that our heat pump simply couldn't keep up with the cold, and we all wore heavy coats and wrapped ourselves in blankets inside the house while we watched the game on television. We actually had the curtains closed because the cold air seeping through into the house was so bad.

The Augusta Kentucky Historic District
put this collage of photos from news reports
of the game. From Facebook.

So yeah, it could be worse...

*This is just in my backyard; snow totals for the Cincinnati Metro area varied.

Meme Monday: Casual Play Memes

With the notable exception of my time spent on a progression raid team, I try to play video games casually. I often don't succeed, but I do try.

I've found it difficult to control my impulses to simply keep going rather than take a break and do other things, but I do have my tricks. So, this Meme Monday is dedicated to (attempting) to play casually.

Yes, I have backslid on occasion. From imgflip.

Hey now, I definitely know the difference.
Even if I've never played Farmville. From imgflip.

I know this would never have been my parents.
For starters, I was only allowed to get on the TI
Home Computer for an hour at most. Second,
green hair does not run in my family.
From Instagram.

I've discovered that if I play more
hardcore, I'm less accommodating of others.
So yes, this is a casual way of doing things.
From Twitter and ifunny.co via Instagram.

What was I saying about backsliding on occasion?
From Game Rant. (And South Park.)

But this is my nightmare. Not looking like
THIS, per se, but feeling like what he
looks like. From Memedroid.

Meme Monday: Miscellaneous Memes for 2026

 Yes, it's a bit early to dive into some miscellaneous memes, but in my defense I didn't really have a theme picked out. So... Have some memes!

From Facebook's My DnD group.

Ah yes, the Tolkien proviso. From imgflip.

I feel this. Deeply.
From ifunny.co.
And Thomas the Tank Engine.

Yes, this is pretty accurate. At least
after a loooong session.
From Reddit and r/Pengu.

Bonus points for the Mork and Mindy
suspenders that Robin Williams wore.
From Twitter.

And finally, because I play MMOs in such a way
that I remain poor, this tickled my funny bone.
From imgflip.

Meme Monday: "Embracing the New" Memes

Hmm... That title could be read a couple of different ways. I meant to embrace following new paths without saying that tired old word "resolutions".

Still, it is a new year, so let's roll with it.

This is me playing Stardew Valley.
From Thunder Dungeon.

Again, this is me. Oh, this is SO me.
From Memebase.

There's "embracing the new", and there's me,
ready to do TBC Classic again. From Reddit.

Yeah yeah yeah... From Amazy.

And then there's (the late) Grumpy Cat.
Isn't this from a Pink Floyd song?
From Amazy (again).