Remember, kids: I am a terrible person, which is immediately apparent by the way I am despised and feared by small animals.

I've finally learned enough to make a proper phonetic transliteration of my name into Ukrainian Cyrillic (Майкл Реней Баррік) and I've been practicing writing it. The Cyrillic cursive is tripping me up. The flow is very different to Latin script.

This has been going on for a couple weeks now. Malenky, with much vociferous fanfare, brings me toys in the night.