Reading purely for pleasure again—found a book club of sorts sometime in March, around when it started, in a chatroom and decided to follow along, mostly lurking. Took me a bit to actually and regularly read when I first started, despite having the first couple of books in my possession for weeks; I had actually decided to purchase at least the first few so I wouldn’t have to worry about holding on to the books for so long—keeping ready availability—even if not the most economical option. Not having to pick a book for myself helps.

I hope to branch out into other things—perhaps writing or other forms of art.

Ocarina of time on PC. Haven’t played it in 20+ years, on N64

I’m enjoying WoW Forever a lot more than I thought I would.

Started an intro to improv course last week, which was actually pretty fun! Going to have to sit tonight’s session out due to recovering from illness the past couple of days 👎

Beyond that, slowly making my way through a series of poker-card sized collages (trying this thing where, instead of just letting my dumb ideas float around unattempted, I actually commit to some of them and try to see them to completion. Outside of the collages, progress is meh). Next thing is to sit down and write more poems to read at open mics for shits and giggles (was on a bit of a roll for a bit, then slowed down significantly).

Going to swimming pool with my kids is the highlight of the week.

Honestly there’s a lot I’ve had fun with lately in a lot of realms from gardening to running and teaching my kids! Been going to more local concerts with family and friends, finding community. My family has a band and we’re getting pretty decent for amateurs, maybe ready to do a show later next year. At least it’s fun anyway! Back to playing guitar, learning vocals by necessity, and laying tracks in Cubase again after not messing with it in almost 2 decades. Very helpful therapy.

With great election news brings a big sigh of relief (will savor this through the holidays and back to offline activism next year). Now if only I had more time and energy to do all the things I want to accomplish lol

I’ve started making a new game. Yes I know I have 3 unfinished games in the works. Yes I know that AI slop is drowning the indie game market. Yes I know there’s a very good chance that nobody in the world will ever play my game but me. Yet, I persist. This one’s going to be fun.

I recently got a Game Boy cartridge reader. I’ve been playing around with using it to put together full color photos with the Game Boy camera. It’s really finicky, but fun when it comes out well.

I bought a shit ton of RAM and installed LLM onnmy computer. Now I torture it with questions “What happens if USS Enterprise mets Warhammer 40k”

I realized I was manually maintaining too many packages in the AUR, so I built an autoupdate pipe. Decided to read the Shangri-La Frontier ranobe because the manga is at a pretty interesting point right now. But I got disappointed quite quickly. Was building another censorship bypass so that I could watch YouTube and use Telegram. Ordered a broken Mix Fold 4 from a local flea market to debug a LineageOS build before installing it on my main device. Can’t wait. I think it’s going to be the best weekend.

Just played HOMESICKNESS. Made me cry. Really good. Recommend.

Ao3 is down so my usual option of reading niche fanfiction is suspended. Either I am dancing/hyperactively pacing to 2010s Childhood fandoms playlists or trying to write random thoughts in Latin (with effort). I sometimes watch the stuff in my Watch Later but they keep on piling up…

Touring Japan. Just got back from Kusatsu after a 2 night stay at an onsen ryokan. Currently taking the bullet train from Little Edo to Tokyo Station because the insanely expensive JR Pass would go to waste if I didn’t go for an overkill ticket for a roughly 40 mile trip.

Wildlife photography; lizards and birds mostly.

Check my profile for the ones I’ve been happy to post so far.

Got into Magic the Gathering (MtG) a few months ago because I have no other social hobbies lol. Surprisingly fun! Not the cheapest hobby… but good way to spend disposable income I guess. Had I known I’d enjoy it (should have figured from my Slay the Spire game hours…) I should have gotten into it quite a bit earlier, cards used to be cheaper back then. There’s a local game store which has weekly events so there’s that

Recently there was a new set (Star Trek) where I played the prerelease, and there was a guy at the prerelease who is a massive Trekkie and wanted to collect highly thematic cards (which I traded quite a few with him), so I was happy