Words On Wednesday

This cocktail idea is more of a riff on the same showy theme, rather than a specific recipe for a particular drink. Even still, sharks are cool, pizazz is fun, and everybody loves drinking during the summer. Hence, the Shark Attack. Back last summer, we went on vacation with some of my wife’s friends. One girl kept talking about a drink she had at some bar near some beach called the "shark attack.” She didn’t know what was in it, but the bartender would mix a very blue drink, yell “SHARK ATTACK,” and then dunk a toy shark filled with grenadine in it. One of those overpriced tourist trap things that gets blasted on TikTok and Instagram. Admittedly, it sounded kinda fun and I’d be interested in getting the drink at least once for the experience. That vacation came and went, and we didn’t find any bars serving any variation of the shark attack. I promptly forgot about that conversation and went on about my life. Earlier this year, I started seeing that same theme advertised again on

There, I said it. I hate Souls, Souls-like, and pretty much everything FromSoftware has made. That includes Armored Core (I played Armored Core V. It was garbage.). It’s a genre that I don’t get, I don’t enjoy, and I really wish the industry would move on from. My exposure to Souls goes way back. Waaaaaay back. Back to when “Souls two” sparked a hot debate that Demon’s Souls was the first “Souls” game, and Dark Souls II was technically “Souls three” thank you very much. I played Demon’s Souls on my roommate’s PS3 when our friend from down the hall picked it up. It was… fine. We spent maybe a week or two going back and forth with bosses and who could make it further. I made it a few bosses in and never finished. I didn’t care to. Dark Souls came and went. I remember it coming out, but I didn’t really care to get more of the same experience I had with Demon’s Souls. Dark Souls seemed to be more popular, but I couldn’t really place why. My next chance to play around with Souls was Dark So

“The Coworker” looks like a promising murder mystery on the surface, but I hope we’ve all learned not to judge a book by its cover. Unfortunately, it’s more of a poorly written love triangle drama with a backdrop of murder and mystery. This one was a struggle for me to finish. Admittedly, I didn’t exactly pursue it initially on its own merit. I was looking for something to listen to while I waited for the audiobook that I ACTUALLY wanted to hear (the next “Dresden Files” book). I sorted by popularity descending and filtered to available audiobooks. The first few were either random entries in a longer series or autobiographies. Sorry, Britney, I’m not really looking for another autobiography right now. The first book that wasn’t part of a longer series and wasn’t an autobiography was “The Coworker.” Interestingly, my wife had recently purchased another Freida McFadden book as a birthday gift for one of her friends. “The Teacher” wasn’t available, but I figured this might give me some in

Wearable technology has been a thing for a while now, but is it still relevant? Is the Galaxy Watch by Samsung worth your money and your attention? I’d say yes. After skimming through some old posts, I realized that I discussed my old  Moto 360 watch, but I never got around to writing about the Galaxy Watch 4. You see, the Moto 360 was a fine watch. I really liked it. Problem is, I am absurdly clumsy and I dropped it. In the shower. Yes, I realize that wearing a watch in the shower is stupid, whether it is waterproof or not, but I was curious to see if the waterproofing actually worked. Physical shock is known to gradually reduce water resistance, and dropping it from eye-level into an actively running shower is probably the worst thing I could’ve done to it. It sorta kinda worked for a few days after that and died altogether soon after. RIP. Looking back through messages to establish a timeline, I didn’t realize how quickly I broke the 360. The guy I bought it from first mentioned se