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.

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 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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

I listened to a fantastic audiobook this week, I’m one book away from reaching my goal of 50 this year!! I hadn’t seriously taken up reading since high school so before this it was maybe like 2 books a year if lucky. I joined a book club and made new friends. That’s been great.

I’ve also been practicing video editing for the group I organize with so that we can up our social media game. That’s been a huge learning curve but very fun.

Same thing we do every day, Pinky, listen to music, have fun with the kids, snuggle hot wife, and try new coffee beans.