Looks like me not doing any commissions will have to end, I need 2, probably 3 commissions to take care of a bill. I haven’t been taking commissions for a few reasons, but there might get not be much choice.

Well Environment Canada issued a watch (or was it a warning) for freezing rain today, and of course today is the only day I’m scheduled to go into work. Let’s get the day started, I guess.

At least we don’t live in a world of staggering class disparity in which a tech magnate attempts to quash left-wing sentiment using sexualized artificial intelligence!

I also now have two projects, where I need to make or adapt a doom style armour set and one where I need to make a Star Trek uniform, both of these for the darbi otter

I was going to stream tonight, maybe I still might, it’s only 7:15, but going to two grocery stores and getting rent taken care of, has tired me right the frack out. This is one of the times I can say that having leukemia sucks shit

So I had an idea for an animated short using Blender. But now I have to either figure out how to adapt armor to the Darbi Otter model or build my own and I have never felt comfortable making assets like that -_-

daily routine

With 2026 upon us, I cannot believe this February, it will be 4 years since I got Twitch affiliate. Struggling with being chronically sick, I have not gotten as far as I'd want (streaming as much as I want), but I'm happy to have met the people that I have along the way.

But I have gotten some work done, fleshed out the database for a new version of sudokitty and perhaps I can start getting some work done on the routines. I’ve also been looking into a more comprehensive solution for voice synthesis and perhaps even to get sudo to sing.

So I had a colonoscopy on Monday and today, I restarted taking my pill based chemo again. I have felt fine part of the day but now, not so much. I’ve also slept more today than I have in ages, an extra 8 hours and I feel like I am not rested from that extra sleep.

Voicemeter drivers were stopping me from upgrading a computer to 25H2, not that I care for the upgrade but with security breaches being something Windows love having, I like to keep things up to date. I had to use an app to remove them from the driver DB, since they weren't in Device Manager >.<

At 1:30PM, I looked at my office and said "I hate it", knowing I couldn't move my equipment, rearrange furniture and have everything up by 9:00PM, I decided to clean up and rearrange, and to temporarily store stuff in the storage area until I figured out if I needed it or not. At 6:30PM, I finished

So the other laptop came in, it's a X1 Carbon 4th Gen. Which admittedly I kinda wanted an X1 Carbon a few years ago, but it has LPDDR3, which means can never upgrade the RAM. Neither a great for my husband's goals, so I am going to offer him my old trashy Ideapad, which actually would work well.

The HP Elitebook 820 G2 that I got only has a TPM 1.2, so for a modern OS, it’ll be Linux. However, it has an easily replaceable 2.5” SSD and two RAM slots that can do DDR 3, 1600Mhz 1.35V RAM, comes with a cell modem and a GPS module. So while I barely travel, would be a good travel machine

So as a little fun thing, I had purchased two mystery laptops for real cheap, only thing I knew is that they would come with 8GB of RAM and a 120GB or 256GB hard drive. One of them was an HP Elitebook 820 G2 and today we find out what the other one is (when it arrives)

For $0, you can get drawing software and use a mouse, but for less than $100, you can get a drawing tablet. So… What good options for $0 music creation software is there? Music is one area of genAI that I don’t see a lot or any pushback on. We need to, but there also needs to be good options

Okay, found a problem with the rendering farm, every couple hundred frames, the manager has gone and crashed. I haven't seen a crash log, so perhaps I just have to run it full tilt on one computer for now. But I was also running in cycles, but since it didn't look different, gonna try EVEEE.

Welp sent something to the render farm. First time it failed because it wouldn't generate a video. That's file, I changed the settings and have it making a 72000 image sequence now....

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I hope this sets a precedent that transphobic policymakers choke on. www.ctvnews.ca/edmonton/art...

So ages ago I kitbashed a kinda cursed vrchat avatar that was an awtter body with nardoragon arms and legs, called Bevrley. Not that I would do it but I was just wondering how much more cursed would a nardoragon body with awtter legs and arms be?

I do t have to physically be at work until 11am this morning, but I still have to do an at home bit beforehand, and it’s after 8 and I just seem to motivate myself to start moving.

Right on time with this headline LOL

So I installed Pop!_OS on a chromebook, and I had a "terrible" idea of trying Windows on one. I wonder if it'll work...

Don't you dare come for Dolly.

Setup a Blender rendering cluster yesterday, took hours to figure out shared drives without authentication on Windows 11, so I said f-that and just used authentication. Neat thing I found, authentication in a workgroup wants a local account and Microsoft try to get rid of local accounts so >.<

I woke up at 6am this morning and thought “you know if I start moving things soon in the office, I could get this finally done today, then realized that I have a bunch of computer hardware things I should do first. I keep saying that I’ll get this stuff done but there always seems to be other tasks

I did not mean to take a four hour nap tonight. <-- I say stuff like this way too much, but maybe I should just embrace it and call it part of me being a cat...

Also last night went into the VRChat world, Avatar Workshop (I think, the name escapes me right now), and got a VRC reference of the new Ultipaw version of Nukka.

One day I'm not going to be awake at 1:55am, when I have to be "at work" at 9:00am... But today is not that day... Been trying to figure out why I can't fit a hoodie to the Ultipaw for the last couple of hours. Think it's time to give up for the night...

My cat is here, staring at me, clearly expecting breakfast (a can of wet food), but I ran out last night. And I hate going out in snow, but guess it’s time to do so.

Schedule for this week. Going to try out Hollow Knight for the first time. Dont expect me to be good.

The new avatar doesn't have anyone that's done a maid outfit for it, so I felt like I can't use it for Twitch. Well unless my community will allow a waitress dress instead...

Tonight I popped into VRChat with a new revision of my Winterpaw Feline, I wanted to test out the general idea. It worked and looked good imho. So next steps is to finish the base design in Blender, then go ahead and build the VRM stuff, add one more clothing piece and also get ready for VRC.

Well @elgato.com has released a beta version of their Wave Link 3 software, so I decided to see what it's like on my streaming box. Not really that different than Wave Link 2, but I can see possibilities.

Now that Thanksgiving is over it's time to switch my profile picture to my super cute newest commissioned Christmas art piece from @canvaskat.bsky.social

My last Black Friday related task at work was finished yesterday, but I hope that the employees in retail today have at least part of their shift be calm.

Working on another piece for my husbean @articchillin.bsky.social, I had this idea for his avatar. I'm not sure that the mountain comes out that well, I'll probably redo it soon.

cute creature

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(I Need Help) A couple days ago, I fled home. I have been dealing with a very difficult living situation due to my parents being emotionally abusive. This Sunday was a breaking point for me and I couldn’t take it anymore. On Monday, I discretely packed my bags, computer, and left.

Trying to see if I've improved at all in the last few months, so I pulled an old project and tried to update it with some stuff. One thing that's been suggested to me is Subsurface Scattering and yeah, I'll really have to learn/play with that. July 2025 (Left) vs Nov 2025 (Right)

Worked on a render for @articchillin.bsky.social this evening. This was just a random idea I had, love my husbean, but not sure how he's getting out of this fight...

Heads up Animators! I've been seeing reports of studios seeing fake job listings linking to 3rd party recruiting companies. BE CAREFUL and only apply to jobs on the studio sites. AI companies are tricking animators to hand in high quality reels that they are feeding to AI instead of hiring.

You know the antlers of my character was never originally a thing, and lately I’ve been thinking of removing them from all my different avatar versions in VRChat

succubus - female demon that seduces men incubus - male demon that seduces women vengabus - non-binary demon that likes to party