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Got a chance to see my website with the new Firefox 3.5 Beta. I got curious since 3.5 is supposedly the first Firefox that will be able to handle web fonts, a way of putting a custom font on a website without fancy tricks. Previously, I used sIFR, but I don’t like hack solutions for changing fonts, no matter how elegant or impressive. The site looks so much better, using Underwood Champion as a font. It looks like Courier, but has a lot more character to the text and gives the entire thing a nice feel.

So, in anticipation of it coming out, and my desire to get rid of sIFR, I decided to clean up the site a bit. I switched the banner to the right and integrated the web fonts a lot more. It goes with that “important” need to have a right banner than a left; it doesn’t really manner which side but I kind of like it on the right at the moment.

Sadly, the Windows version of Firefox 3.5 isn’t as pretty as the Linux version. The Linux renders Underwood Champion beautifully but I can’t get my Windows machine to render that font without it looking like someone write it out on a moving truck. No doubt, it is settings on my computer, but I’m still holding my breath.

Still, it feels good to play around with web design and avoid what I should be doing, like working on my petitions or editing DG. I got into the third chapter of DG when my laptop started acting up last night. For some reason, I couldn’t check in any changes, but I could if I copied them manually over to my desktop. I got around it, but it took me a little bit. Things seem to be working correctly now, so I’m anxious to get started.

I also got distracted with a little short story. Just an idea I want to get out of my head. So, I’m working on that while trying not to think about my inability to eat solid food for the third day in the row.

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Having trouble sleeping tonight. Part of it comes from the drugs flowing through my veins. Drugs for pain and ones to prevent infections. The aftereffects of surgery were not too bad; Fluffy said was I all cute and groggy when I finished up. I managed to sleep better part of fifteen hours today, which also contributes to the lack of sleeping and me making a blog post at two in the morning.

The rest of this is just a list, probably not interesting for most people.

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Doesn’t quite sound as good as “tradition”, one of my favorite songs, but I had a very productive weekend so far. One of the main things is that I finally cut over the new theme to Moonfire Games. The theme is growing on me, though I don’t have the extra flair stuff, I do have all but one thing up and running. I still need to migrate the online Map of Creation but that is going to take a bit more than a few hours to get that running. Apparently, it broke badly in the last year and no one told me until recently.

I’m also changing my formula for petitions. I haven’t sent out any, but if I count the answered questions and the ones I’m looking for supporting documentation, I’m much further than 20% done. So, I just came up with one point for answering the question, one point for evidence, and one point to submit to come up with the new formula. Sadly, at nearly 70%, I really, really need to get off my ass and finish them. I’m going to send one out tomorrow, at least that is the plan.

Mowed the lawn… sort of. It’s a free lawn mower, so you can’t expect much. If I keep up with it, I’ll be able to do it on two charges, but right now it should take me a few more days to finish up. The charge on the mower only lasts about a half hour with the tall grass and an hour and some with the short grass. Obviously, it will inspire me to actually keep up with the lawn work.

Gave up on getting subtitles to work with the movies. Just too hard at this point, but I do have a nice copy of While You Were Sleeping for Fluffy sitting on the MythTV box. I’ll rip a few more movies, like Princess Bride and Juno.

Except for a walk, which I haven’t done in three days due to being sick, I’m pretty much just going to blow the rest of the day on Fluffy, writing, and maybe programming.

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Today is the happiest day of the last week. Not only is it Valentine’s Day (which I don’t really celebrate but it gives me an excuse to get Fluffy stuff), but I also found out World of Goo is out for Linux!

*squee*

Yeah, it is silly for most people, but I love Linux. It fits my personality, and while it isn’t the easiest thing to work with, it just happens to be, well, me. It also is “a path least traveled” which is one of my general guides in life. Along with “may you live in interesting times”.

Not only are they supporting Windows and Wii (apparently from the download center, though I haven’t had a Wii to check it out), they also support Macintosh. Which is something most game companies don’t really do. And, I have to utterly respect that and the complete lack of DRM, knowing that it won’t make that much of a difference.

I also love World of Goo. It’s a great little casual game. And not only do I enjoy playing it, but I also look up to 2D Boy because they succeeded. They did my dream, to go from nothing and blow through all expectations to be brilliant. I have the same dream. Not only for writing but programming.

I don’t see people who succeed at what I really want as a terrible thing. Anyone who can succeed has my best wishes. Interestingly, I don’t really get jealousy either, one of those foreign emotions for me. So, for all those programmers who write the perfect game or all the writers who find themselves staring at their book in the bookstore, I can only feel joy for them.

And maybe a little bit of hope that I’ll be doing the same some day.

Now, time to run off and play obsessively.

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Ended up working late last night on a customer issue. Fortunately, I’m not inclined to ignore the phone in the last three minutes of my work day in the off chance I’ll spend an hour and a half trying to fix things. However, it is highly annoying when I can’t figure out the problem. I’m suppose to be this impressive programmer, damn it.

After a quick trip to the grocery store for healthy food, I brought home the results of my unhealthy (Subway club sandwhich) lunch because I forgot to do groceries the day before. It isn’t that Subway isn’t bad, it is the pawn shop next to it that isn’t (financially) healthy. 3010 DVD’s for $30. “I got me some BAD movies!” including Ultraviolet, an absolutely terrible movie with some neat colors I like.

Since I didn’t get home late, I didn’t try to write. Instead, I just did little things. Like figure out how to get my VPN working from Linux, including a remote desktop to my work machine. Now, I don’t have to use Windows again except for World of Goo and Crayon Physics Deluxe. And the second those turn Linux-friendly, I’ll be ecstatic.

Then I spent an hour moving Glorious Saber to its new home. Not pretty right now, but it uses ComicPress in a shared environment (update one place, update them all) which means it has all those features I spent a week writing before. And, sadly, probably more secure, faster, and better developed.

Going through the strips, I still enjoy read it and looking at how my own graphical style is getting slightly mature. And getting depressed that its been over a year. And almost two years since my Exalted in-character journal has been updated. I always worry about the abstract nature of the Glorious Saber. I get complaints about the lack of arms and legs, but I like it. I also like Absurd comic and the Oblongs probably for the same reason. Though, both of those go with limited mobility where I go with not rendering arms and legs.

And, in the constant need to go to sleep on time, I managed to take almost three hours to get to bed. Apparently, in the middle of my shower, I decided I really wanted to get text-to-speech working on my computer.

…

Why?

What is wrong with me?

So, my computer can do some pretty talking. And I sort of added the programs to do some musical backgrounds. And was reminded that I really, really want an IPA dictionary to correct some of that really bad speaking. And that I liked Running Bomb but it needed help. And a tone of other things.

Guess what, apparently I’m exhausted.

Go figure.

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Apparently, one way of getting over writer’s block is to decide not to write and work on something else. The sheer desire not to do what I’m “suppose” to do is enough to make me want to do anything else. In this case, writing. After deciding to work on the baby squid god for the weekend, I managed to find the energy and desire to write just over five thousand words in a few short hours, finish the first draft a commission, get feedback, and update it. Nice feeling, even if one of the feedback items was “too romantic”. Oh well, easy to fix tomorrow and I’ll send it right back out with a couple hundred more words worth of expansion.

Went to Fluffy’s family reunion. Rather nice, talked a lot, relaxed a bit, enjoyed some good food. Found out I have a uncle-in-law three blocks from my apartment who is into realty. Well, guess I knows who is going to probably help us find a place. Also ended up have a long talk with Fluffy about the future of our home, mainly how to juggle so many parts around in the next few months. Painful, but I think we needed to talk.

Finally, worked on the baby squid god. After three days of work, I came to a realization. I hope too much for things to go well. While I could make it perfect, it is going to take another week. And, if it takes me two weeks to do the squid, what about the eleven levels (seven plus inter-stage areas) and 10-20 opponents (i.e. victims to drive insane). I could do it, but not in a month. So, this morning after sitting up about it, I decided to switch to 2D. I have a better chance of getting it done and I really want to succeed. Not to mention, I might get some help with graphics from TIG Source since they love the pixels.

I know, you are all excited about another game project. Bet you want me to write or something. Well, I still have a short story coming up and I really need to work on Scroll of the Lands this week. But, not tonight, Fluffy is leaving for Illinois tomorrow and I’d like a few more short hours with her.

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I like this idea. I like the idea of someone trying to basically start up another prize to help humanity. I also think that we need a hell of a lot more windmills, solar panel farms, and alternative energies. I also want someone to replace the engine of my car with one of those electric motors with the gas-powered generator for backup. The problem is… I can’t find any of that. I know the science behind most of those, I used to steal the Healthy Living book from my school library for weeks at a time, dreaming of a world where I could live with the least amount of impact on stuff. It was the same type of dreams when I would look through the Bass Fishing catalog up at the cabin most of my childhood. That catalog, ten years old, was probably more heavily read than my dad’s stash of Penthouse. And I’m including the time between 5 and 17 on that.

When I read about hybrid engines the first time, I knew what I wanted. I even looked it up and saw the whys of my decision and what needed to be done. I stared lustfully at hybrids and wailed that the technology I thought was best suited for me (plug-in electric with diesel generator) never happened. Every time I’d find out about a new hybrid, I’d check it out and was just disappointed by the complete and utter lack of progress.

And that was years ago.

When I bought a new car earlier this year, I looked at the hybrids. They sucked for anything besides a modest improvement on mileage. Seat heaters (a Fluffy-required feature), nope. Fit my size, not really. It was like the only hybrid we could find was 10% more for 30% less features and options that we have gotten used to.

And I keep waiting for someone to come up with my dream car.

And someone keeps not doing it.

I know, I could figure it out. I’d have to teach myself engineering, frames, and engines. Well, my brother probably could do the frame for me, but I’d have to pay him. I know that I have the intelligence to replace my engine with what I want, to make it work. Yeah, it would be expensive, but I know I can. The problem is, I didn’t go that route in life. Its one of those closing doors of my chosen path. I’m already a pretty good programmer and writer. But, to add mechanical to that when I’m already trying to be an artist and a musician (at least game music), is just pushing it. I ended up specializing in my life, but there are things that I wish I could do. I could get my dreams of the perfect car, but I would have to give up writing for a while. I can’t do both.

So, $300M for a car battery is the only thing I can hope for. I want someone to come up with a perfect car for me. It isn’t really the money part of things, but obviously I don’t have $300M to come up with it on my own. To do that, I would have to get venture capital and do it via a business, which means I would have to teach myself that business also. Instead, I have to wait for “market forces” to align with what I want. Or at least do the right thing when they had a chance, instead of scrambling because we got sloppy with our greed (I’m including myself).

Either that or do it myself.

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But, first two short breaks.

Have you ever thought about how hard it is to do a selfless act without telling anyone, since the very act of telling someone makes it a selfish one?

And, the word of the day today is defenstrate which is my absolutely favorite word in the English language. My second favorite is “moist”.

So, passwords. In this last week, one of the major things that got tested was my passwords. I know it doesn’t sound very impressive, but remarkably, this was probably the most stressful thing I encountered since I had to abandon my apartment for a week, sans laptop.

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Ah, the two pleasures of life for me: writing and programming. I’ve been writing a short series lately. Just 2-3k words per day, but I’m enjoying it. Not entirely polished and pretty though. I’m trying to work on my writing craft, trying to make my words a bit more interesting to read about. I’m posting it on a random forum where it is on-topic, Like usual, I don’t get a lot of comments on it. So, my goal is to write so people want to comment on it. That and I have this idea that I’m not a good writer. Mainly because people don’t really get excited about most of my work. There are the few pieces that will get 20-30 comments, but most of them average about 0.1 comment, which is not a good trend. And I want to succeed as a writer, it is something I love to do.

On the other side, I’m working on CuteGod still. Mostly with getting things organized and maybe documenting my sprite library. I rushed CuteGod out the first time and it shows. I need to polish up some of the core libraries, like the GUI processing. I also pulled PlanetCute library out from the Sprite3 library and put it into CuteGod. No reason to make that generic when I’m moving away from it.

Yep, I decided that PlanetCute is nice, but there should be a different style, one that is easier to select things. So I think I’m going to create an isometric version of the game and let you pick between the PlanetCute and isometric depending on your preferences. Bit more work, but I think it will create a more entertaining game.

I also realized that the music I picked up from the always excellent Toucan Music, while free isn’t the right “free” for Debian. So, I need to find different music and sound effects for the game. If I can’t find a musican who wants to work for the right type of free, I’m going to have to make music that is the right type of free. Free is such a complicated word, you know. There is Creative Commons by-sa license (byline and share-alike), which is the most common CC license you can find for music, but only CC sa/3.0 is apparently considered “free” in Debian’s eyes. On Toucan, all the files are licenses CC by-sa/2.5. So, free isn’t free enough for Debian.

Why Debian? Because I use it and I want to see my game packaged and shared to others. And, if Debian accept it, chances are, the threshold for being put into other distributions is also lowered.

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Not many interesting things happening right now. Mostly doing these 10-12 hour days for the last week and a half, crashing when I get home. Started changing my ordering from fast food when I’m in a hurry though, that’s good. Instead of a double-quarter pounder meal, I’m getting a fry and salad. Just a few less calories, but you have to start small. Or at least that is what I’m telling myself.

Last night, I got a box of HERO Games books, mostly bestiary and Metamorphs. I saw they had a “damaged” version for sale, so I ordered it. I figured that it would be torn or have a hole in it. But, as long as I could use it for my game, I would be fine.

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This week, I got my first non-Mono package into Debian: Meritous. Its a little arcade game that I found on Play This Thing, noticed it was written with SDL, and sent an email to the author to see if I could package it. Twenty-three days later, it was uploaded and sitting in the NEW queue, waiting for some minor changes. Its kind of nice, doing something small, though it adds to my list of Things I Must Do for the next couple of years.

I saw that Steampunk Magazine has their submission guidelines for issue #5. I didn’t submit anything to #4, two rejections in a row kind of depressed me, but I have a good idea for #5 so I’m probably going to do it.

I’m going to GenCon 2008 this year. Already got my badge and my hotel room reserved. Even if I do get another job (*hope*), I should be able to explain this as a pre-existing commitment, which it is. I’m not going to run a game though, not enough time and I felt… well, I felt that it wasn’t really worth it to run games at the convention. I might run a pick-up game, though, depending on my mood. And probably lust after the Impossibly Cute Twenty-Something Gamers along with Fluffy.

Frustrated with coding, college, and career. Though, I managed to develop this very sweet numerical system for the Complete Clothier that can handle a couple thousand values all being changed in real time and dynamically cascade the changes out to the same thousand values. All while updating the screen. Very cool. This version is also about two orders of magnitude faster than the other one, which is even more of of a bonus.

I’m breaking though. I’ve put in 10-12 hour days this week, on top of college, and my foolish attempts to maintain the various projects I’ve been working on. I’ve bounced through a couple communities to distract me slightly, but I’m feeling like I’m beginning to strip gears a bit. This weekend, I hope to get a bit of coding down, maybe a short story or two, and play some video games. Fluffy is sick and we don’t have gaming, so its going to be a quiet weekend.

Also thinking about stripping out the huge number of tags I use.

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Woke up yesterday thinking about Itrifore, Fedora, both of my unpublished novels, and everything else in the world. Stress is a really crappy thing, you know?

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I found out that code I put into one of the Debian packages about six to eight months ago was broken. It was for cli-common, which is one of those packages that most of the C# and .NET packages require, but it wasn’t used until right before the holidays. I knew there was a problem with it, I just couldn’t figure out how to duplicate it enough to fix it.

I hate that. Even though I know that donating work to open source projects, including Debian, is basically just doing something to help the community, I still treat it as a normal project. And one thing I hate doing is pushing out code that has a flaw. Well, meebey fixed it for me and things are working smoother now, but I’ll need to keep it in mind.

And that reminded me of everything else I feel that I owe Debian. As one of my donated duties, I help maintain some of the packages (xsp, mod-mono, and a bunch of related ones) not to mention I want to get my own libraries up on Debian. Plus, meebey is interested in my MfGames.OpenDocument library, which lets you edit OpenOffice.org documents without needing that program. So, just a few more things to pile up on the heap.

Character Builder (91%)
World Builder (2%)
Kitteh Braik (7%)
Case of the Morning Zombies (Edit #1, 0 of 37 chapters)

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This was just an interesting little thing I saw on Boing Boing: KnitML. Basically an XML markup language for describing knitting patterns in a consistent and generic manner. A long time ago, I used to knit. I also sew, cook, and do home improvements, but I never thought about doing a generic manner. So, I think it is one of those seriously interesting ways that technology and “old world crafts” as a friend used to call it, interact.

Now, I have done a PoetryML at one point, mainly for my poetry and to give me a nice consistent markup of the various poems I have written in the years. That kind of died somewhere in there, maybe I should resurrect it?

Na, too many projects.

Character Builder (10%)
World Builder (2%)
Kittah Break (0%)
Case of the Morning Zombies (Edit #1, 0 of 37 chapters)

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Still sick, imagine that. At least I didn’t wake up at noon like yesterday. Instead, I actually had a rather nice day creating graphics with very little programming. I finished the blocks for CuteGod, including animating the grass and water ones (except the main water, oops). So, that should all be ready for the actually programming bit.

Last night, I worked on the beginnings of MfGames.Updater. It won’t be done by the end of the week, but I can fake it with a zip file and the data structures I have now. I got some really good feedback on #mono, so I might make updater generic enough that others can use it for their own C#/.NET applications. I also spent most of yesterday cleaning up my libraries a bit, splitting Sprite3 from CuteGod (which needs to be done for Ponies) and getting things to stand on their own. I’m also splitting the Debian-specific stuff of my libraries from the main library, just because they aren’t in sync most of the time.

I also redid part of my Moonfire Games website. Mainly to add the tabs on the top of the page, a about page for Glorious Saber, and clean up for the strip #018 that I also got done today. Plus, two people gave me some really nice compliments on the comic, mostly about it being funny which is the entire point.

Oh, and I posted my cheesecake recipe online for those who like it.

So, I’ve had a pretty busy couple of days. Tomorrow, I’m planning on working on Updater and getting CuteGod ready again. My plan is to have 0.2 alpha out on Sunday night or Monday morning (probably Monday morning).

Case of the Morning Zombies (Edit #1, 0 of 37 chapters)

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I got sick this weekend. Seriously sucks, but it was pretty predictable with Fluffy being sick the week before. Always seems to happen around this time of year, but at least I have the week off to properly enjoy it.

So, Case of the Morning Zombies draft is done and I’m on my next round of projects, fixing up CuteGod and working on the stuff for Ponies Among Us. Last night and this morning, I finally tracked down that damn bug with 32/64-bit operating systems on Tao.FreeType. Got it polished up and checked in this morning. That means that CuteGod *should* work on amd64 flawlessly with the next version coming out. Now just to clean up the horrendous code, repackage some files, and get through a 80+ list of things that I think it should include. Heh.

Meebey asked me to work on Debian packages a bit, so I spent a few hours this morning updating XSP and mod-mono to the latest version. Not working on the log4net stuff quite yet, but I’m hoping to get to that later this week. That will get all of my Debian obligations done for a few months (I hope) and let me focus on Ponies.

I guess the next focus is to work on cleaning up my various libraries, getting them broken up properly (Sprite3 and CuteGod are being split), and work on getting the file downloader/updater working. Then… I don’t know, probably just trying to move forward so by Friday, everything is Super Green.

Case of the Morning Zombies (Edit #1, 0 of 37 chapters)

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I’m a sprint writer. I can get a fair amount of words out of a story in a relatively short period of time. However, I can’t maintain a steady rate in my writing. Part of it is my commitements and part of it is that I would get burned out too easily. So, seven days late into NaNoWriMo, I finally got started. Yeah, I had a lot of goals to finish before then, and my deadline wooshed right past me while thumbing its nose. The stories I worked on have a slightly higher chance of getting my name out than the NaNoWriMo and CuteGod had the little work to do, but I finally got started.

The first thing I realized is that while I have been thinking about Case of the Morning Zombies for a few months, I actually never sat down and created notes on it. Things like what chapter goes where and what order of events. Oops. An hour of fast work got out the first ten chapters in outline form and I got to writing.

I had a good night, not a great one, but a good night. Just over six thousand words in three hours. I noticed a few things already. I’m having a very large problem with passive voice. Way too may “was” in my writing and its beginning to get obvious. More so when I’m rushing through the story to get it done instead of editing it. Probably time to work on that part of my craft a bit faster.

The other is the pacing. I aimed for about two thousand words a chapter, but I’m already on chapter five. I don’t have the rest of them planned, but I’m afraid it will end up a short novel (somewhere around 75k words) instead of the full length novel I’m aiming for. Thinking about it, as long as I hid my minimum goal of 75k words, I think I’m pretty happy with it.

So, a great first day. :) Today, however, I need to work out and finish up Glorious Saber, so I suspect no writing. Thursday and Friday I plan on working on Morning Zombies, Saturday I have Exalted and Sunday I’m reinstalling my operating system to fix a bug with CuteGod.

Case of the Morning Zombies (NaNoWriMo, 6,286 of 75,000 words)

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The reason I wasn’t starting NaNoWriMo last night was because I was going to play Exalted in a game run by a friend-who-shall-not-be-named. I didn’t start anything or do anything serious because I only had an hour or so between the time I get home from work and I leave. So, I couldn’t do anything in that hour either since I like to eat or something. When I got there, I found out that she didn’t have anything planned nor did she remember that she had this commitment.

I also found out from her husband why he didn’t show up at the Changeling game that I ran on Sunday. Something serious? Not really. He got a new computer and spent the entire day futzing with it. He didn’t call, he didn’t send an email, he didn’t tell anyone that he wasn’t going to show up, despite spending two entire weeks talking about it.

I have commitments. I have quite a few of them. I run Exalted every other week and Changeling every four weeks. I have my comic, Glorious Saber, due on Thursdays for the last fifteen weeks. I have my commitments to Debian, my open-source projects, and my games. Excluding the ones dealing with development, which is on-going, I make a very clear point of calling and telling people when I can’t show up. I don’t cancel on the same day of gaming, unless I’m seriously sick. Even then, I call every single player to tell them I can’t make it. When I’m in a game, I may be late by 15-30 minutes, but I show up. If I can’t, I tell them.

It is hard when people don’t give you the same respect. When someone runs a game, I want to know before I leave my house that they won’t be there. If they say they’ll be there, I want to know when they aren’t. In my case, I have players that drive 2-3 HOURS to get to my game and I make sure they know before they leave because of the distance they drive. That and one of my prior DM’s would decide 5-10 minutes before gaming that he couldn’t be bothered to run.

I told myself I would do 26 strips of Glorious Saber and I will do at least 26. If I don’t think it is doing as well as I hope, I’ll stop at 26. That is a half year of comics to see if the idea is sound. I’m on 15 (including last week’s filler), but I will do 26 comics. I said I would. I have a commitment and I owe it to the people who may or may not be reading it to finish it.

Case of the Morning Zombies (NaNoWriMo, 0 of 100,000 words)

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Last Friday, me and Fluffy went over to help Evyl to help grab a chest of drawers from her ex-husband’s place. He just got kicked out and left a bunch of crap that he didn’t want and she wanted it, plus I had a big enough car. As a form of thanks, she took us out to yummy IHOP.

Over dinner, we got to talk about future plans. In specific if Fluffy and I were considering our masters. We have both been thinking about it. For me, it makes financial sense since it would be easier to get a job outside of Company X if it ever comes to that. My projects for this year are pretty well packed, with NaNoWriMo next month and working on Ponies Among Us for the four months after that. I was vaguely considering starting next year in January back at Capella. Yeah, it would be tight and a pain in the ass, but I will always find an excuse not to do it if I chose. I really don’t like getting further in debt either.

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It is a good thing I had my tetanus shot when I fell off my bike a few years ago. This morning, as I was rushing to get the dogs into the car, I accidentally stepped on one of the many rusty nails that litter my garage after our home improvement project. Fortunately, it didn’t go all the way through, but it did leave a rather nasty puncture wound that occasionally reminds me that I need to do something about that.

Last night, I noticed that my new MythTV box didn’t have any schedule data. So, I stayed up way too late upgrading it. I had to stop near midnight, but at least I have schedule data, but it just can’t change the channel on the unit or from the remote. Oops. Guess what I’m fixing first thing this evening when I get home? :) That way, Fluffy won’t have to suffer without having her DVR. Interestingly, the Debian Multimedia guy did the right thing and didn’t move the latest version into stable, which means I had to compile it from scratch. No big deal, just time. I also know what is wrong, so that shouldn’t be too hard to fix it up.

The online map editor may become something a tad more… big. Talking to the guy, it sounds like he’d like to put it in a large framework for campaign management. This has some appeal, of course, since I’ve tried to create one of those for some time now. We’ll see how it turns out, of course, there is a big step between talking about something and actually starting it, much less finishing it.

Wind, Bear, and Moon Proposal
Summer Biking: (236.7 / 400.0 km)

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