Been a busy bit.

The amount of people I have known who try to pass off extensive and expensive training as raw talent and unguided practice is baffling. There are many ‘feral’ talents who are uniquely privileged in that they could afford and focus on professional training in adjacent fields.

The official “residuum” dice from CR was too expensive for me to justify and not quite what I’d always pictured. So I went on the hunt and found these sharp-edge resin at a convention.

Working with Canadian Privacy Law gives you a lot of understanding when companies actively choose to violate that for no reason other than they want to.

The wonders of competent kickstarters distribution: Eldermancy/Ghostfire Gaming- sends invalid tracking, no movement in over a month. Hitpoint Press- sends tracking, 12 hours later there notice of clearing customs and transit to a Canadian courier. Sure, customs into Canada is the problem.

Still no movement on the Eldermancy kickstarter book after a month of no valid tracking, no movement, no updates. Last contact with @ghostfiregaming.bsky.social was 8 days ago where they were “waiting to hear back” for Canadian shipments. For reference, the invalid tracking was received on July 17

And into the final blocking to straighten the nearly 9ft shoulder edge. 40+ hours of work, approx 1770 yards of yarn. But ready for autumn when it gets here.

Well, live and learn. Never back kickstarters from Eldermancy despite the connection to @ghostfiregaming.bsky.social if there’s hope of getting a physical item set. A month of alleged shipping in Canada and no update, movement, or confirmed tracking. Expensive PDF only at this rate.

Heading headfirst into exhausted goth season.

You know summer’s over when it’s 5am and the sun isn’t up yet.

Happy (belated) International Tiger Day! 🐯🧡 #art #tigers #cats

I have discovered decorating the Hobbit home.

I’m a hobbit!

Joined a book club. Looking for a tai chi group. Looking into other local groups. Possibly a dog.

Making shawls. Next one will be bigger.

Took 20 years and a good therapist to get me accepting that there was nothing wrong with writing down or processing my failing mental health in journals and under otherwise anonymous media. That venting in a manner I best associated with was a normal, healthy, coping strategy I needed at the time.

Obligatory beach vacation pic.

Spent the day moving furniture around only to give up on the plan and reset everything instead. Looks like I might try again but mostly focus on decluttering.

:v

Happy ‘we once overthrew a madman and tyrannical hold on our country’ day to my American friends. Good luck.

There’s something cathartic about spending a morning listening to Linkin Park scream in my ear.

Woke up stuffed up and sneezing? Found a dusting of pollen on my balcony. Well. That explains it.

Tiny Glade has been awesome.

Putting my new system through its paces. Everything in Ultra and no lag.

A happy solstice to everyone who follows those paths!

She’s listening to the robo-vacuum go.

Fun game: trading music recs with friends to find the most niche thing in your library that you think they’d like. Throat singing indigenous techno for the win. And Nordic lullabies about wolves.

Beach, festival, or flea markets. Those are choices this weekend unless transit magic happens. And chilling on the balcony with some work.

My very confused helper on this project.

Summer dress time.

When you never end a message with friends with ‘goodbye’ in ten years, it’s very cathartic to say it when things have ended.

It’s a good day for metal covers of sea shanties. Some of these have a very Maiden feel to them.

Found a new bakery. This may be dangerous.

Me: oh it’s going to be a normal day. I’ll just run some errands. Grocery store: come watch our world record attempt to crack the most parmigiana wheels at the same time! Me: oooooh. This is both weird and fun.

My executive has mostly functioned today.

4am wake-up from the Alarm Cats. One day they’ll let me sleep in.

First game on my new beast of a system is gonna be the cute pixel fishing game.

💔The Heartbreak Prince💔 My tribute to @voiceofobrien.bsky.social and his wonderully sad boys 🙏💙 #criticalrolefanart #criticalrole

Omfg this game. 10/10 GOTY

Chill morning on the balcony season begins.

The alarm cats are confused by my insistence that I have a computer room. They cannot just cuddle during Sunday night D&D? Travesty!

Alarm Cat hairball and zoomies at 2:30 am. On a day I have a commute to the office. I love my fluffballs. Really.

Went out and saw some flowers.

Watching a popular Star Wars show: didn’t know the BBC supplied casting to a galaxy far far away.

Well this is a blast from the past.

Happy discovery on the new commute: if I leave a couple minutes early, I have more than enough time to get a coffee at my transfer point and have the bus to myself for a good leg of it.

Due to easily foreseen circumstances, I am awake before the Alarm Cats and they are not happy about it.

Because I keep getting recommended ‘horror survival games’— the sort with hordes of enemies, interactions, and ‘zombie’ in the description. The Long Dark is a go-to because it’s survival. The story game is fun, and you can have Sutherland activated in Survival mode, but it’s not a fighting game.

Movie you've watched more than six times using gifs. ("hard mode" no Star Wars, Star Trek, or LOTR)