A day with new artbooks is a good day 👌

Little Serama family living their best life in our garden.

A year ago today we welcomed Dorothy and her baby filly Geordi to their forever home. They've bonded with their farm family. Their personalities have really come out. Volume up at the 43 second mark to hear Geordi root and toot.

All I wanted for my birthday was a mule hug from Riker and access to valuable senior discounts and I got both.

Personal milestone: After ten years as an Amazon top-seller, my book "Why? 1,111 Answers to Everything" just received its 15,000th review, overwhelmingly positive except for a few gripes about too many references to evolution in a science-facts book published by National Geographic.

It was my partner's birthday so we went to the Hawaii Tropical Botanical Garden, which was so picturesque and serene I feel like it was my birthday, too.

Lawn-care team out in full force today.

Fresh from voice directing Outer Worlds 2, we are THRILLED to welcome back the amazing Katelyn Gault to teach this insightful 3 hour video game workshop! Learn tips from a working voice director and actor, and grab your seat while you can! soundonstudio.com. 🪐🎙️

Riker warp 6 engage.

Love my lunchtime donkey breaks/serenades.

We grew some kind of mutant papaya the size of a bowling ball. Here is a pineapple, goose egg, and human hand for scale. The papaya is not ripe yet, but hopefully its quality is on par with its quantity. If not, the chickens will get quite a feast!

the start menu is a crpg dialogue. this is possibly the funniest joke i've ever seen in a crpg.

Get a load of this guy.

Sunset over Haleakalā.

Donkey hugs for everybody.

Shout out to 19th century English artist John Emms for painting this portrait of our micro-mini donkeys Dorothy and Geordi more than a century ago.

The calm before the next Kona storm.

One passenger filming another.

At the end of every rainbow is a white park Scottish mini longhorn heifer. Prove me wrong.

We got exactly 40,000 inches of rain in the last couple of weeks, which means the herd needs to get back to mowing the yard.

Donkey hugs are a real thing and thank goodness for that.

Our serama hen is broody and her life partner is supportive.

Get along, little donkeys (and little mule bringing up the rear).

Scooching our little d"Anver family home before this weekend's storm.

Stormy, windy, extremely rainy weekend, but all the animals were high and dry in their shelters and we rode out the storm on solar-battery backup. Ready for a nice, normal Monday where I'm not soaked and covered in mud. TGIS, I guess.

It's really blowing out there.

Trying to get these soggy equines to their cozy barn before the storm rolls in and they are NOT cooperating.

How do you balance a game? Robert Donovan (Obsidian) answers this question with a philosophical framework, genre considerations & concrete examples from The Outer Worlds 2. This is a can't miss session, Room 2005, West Hall, 20 minutes. #GDC2026 https://bit.ly/473tq91

The calm before the Kona low.

Seeking happiness in the little things, e.g.:

Data the donkey in her lair.

The real hero of this week of soggy weather has been our shoe dryer.

Also I must make my weekly post saying that The Outer Worlds 2 is one of my favorite games, if not my favorite game ever. I hope everyone who made it is having an amazing day and hope yall are doing good with the DLC! 💖

Whole herd's soaking up some sunbeams after several days of severe weather.

Our dinky donks have achieved maximum floof to withstand this Arctic weather (night temps down to the low 60s!).

Always nice when our donkeys line up in descending order of size, i.e. Russian nesting donkeys.

Hot to trot.

Why would I want this?

Riker with the roll of a lifetime.

Our holiday project was to build an aviary for Jennifer, the racing pigeon we rescued from the middle of the road last year. She/he seems to like the two-story loft on wheels we can roll out of the garage on calm days. Next step is to find her/him a life partner to feather their swanky new pad.

Cattle courtship: Not for the faint of heart or eyeball.

How thoughtful of the cattle to mow our lawn for the holidays. Tis the season for free-rangin'.

Seasonal greetings from Sophia and Data!

if you like games where there are weird funny story beats & bits in unmarked locations & nooks in the map that can only be found by lackadaisy exploration this game is for you it's been some of my favorite moments of the whole game & something a.i. will never be able to fucking do

Outer Worlds 2 good, vvv good so far

Sweet little soggy micro-mini donkey.

Four geese a lying.

Time to walk the mini-donkey to her supper, aka my favorite daily ritual.

Three-stage evolution of a Serama Pokemon:

The Outer Worlds 2 has a radio station where all the music sounds exactly like the stuff from Fallout, but it's all written *FOR THE GAME*. They hired real swing and jazz bands to help create the songs, and the lyrics are all tongue-in-cheek product jingles. It's my favourite thing about the game.