Man, I couldn't tell you where I've been mentally lately. Art Fight kinda didn't go so well (but enough about half the staff quitting, bazinga), so I've just kinda been making some here-and-there progress on site stuff—Beck catalog review in the works, modding section with rewritten Quake level postmortems in the works. I'm excited to say that mari@macintosh.garden is about halfway towards having all the stuff I want on it, which means then I can turn my attention back to design fully and get mari_v4 going proper. Afterwards, whatever is on mari@macintosh.garden will stay on there, but I'll add a banner to the top telling people to go see the new site instead.
Really, I'm just popping in to say hi and also to announce I am gainfully employed again! I'm not saying where just yet (having a mid-functioning pile of cartilage try to get you fired in an act of revenge will do that to you—enemies of the bulb still lurk these parts, after all), but I'm making slightly more than I did at my old grocery store for the same amount of hours and far, far less work in a more specialized retail environment. It's looking seriously tits. It's not what I wanted to do with booze, but that's alright, this is probably better on my back, my joints, and my happiness anyway.
God, I can't wait to get my savings rebuilt. Pay down some loans, build up a warchest again, buy me a new desk and some retro computer stuff, and get my life back on the road after the good long vacation in Wales. (Trip diary also slowly still coming together, I promise. It's like half done and I have to draw a Bunny and Setter for it.)
Oh yeah, and Pokémon Blue! I've been playing a lot of that lately. 115/151 currently, and I have to play through Red to get the version exclusives and a few that I missed (I knocked out both Snorlaxes like an idiot, not realizing they're missable, because I couldn't manage to catch one for shit). I have a CD of the soundtrack arranged for piano coming in a couple days. Seriously, give this a shot. There's something so lovely and wistful and atmospheric about hearing the "Welcome to Pokémon" song arranged for piano.
