Let's do a site content update, because it's been a bit. I finished up that Setter and I'm starting to get my photo galleries online! I've got two for you so far, shots from some of my local parks and scenes from the West End Fair, which is a week-long gathering in my area for produce, animals, crafts, history, and lots of fried desserts. You'll wanna see the rabbits especially. I do have more galleries I wanna put together—one for the zoo trip I took back during cammy_v1, one for a batch of truly ancient night/long exposure photography from a summer camp I went to back in 2011, and one for a ton of miscellaneous photos I've taken since 2017 or so. If you're wondering about the trip diary, I still wanna do another BunnySetter illustration or two for it first, but I promise you soon. I've shown the group and that's all I really care about right now.
The galleries are meant to be pretty easy to produce; I've gone with a full-color Setter up top that I can just replace the text and the background on, and then I just have to produce thumbnails and arrange the page. Since I can't escape Windows 10, I've set up a VM on my Mac just to be able to run paint.NET, which I need for its alpha mask plugin (that's how I keep the XP Paint dithering effect on all my drawn assets while still maintaining the transparency—see my behind-the-scenes page for more on how I put all this together). The pages are assembled on the eMachines Box, which is quite comfy to put together site stuff on and can connect to the home server and to DreamHost/Macintosh Garden no problem.
Speaking of mari@macintosh.garden, I have also unearthed, reformatted, and added onto all thirty of my Rediscovering entries from the old Scratchpad. This was started probably back in August, but I wanted to listen through most of the pile one last time to see if my opinions had changed at all—remember, 2020 and 2021 were the dark ages when I was stuck inside, so that fucked with my head something chronic. Post-having a job and especially post-trip, I've been able to think a lot clearer, and on the whole, I like both the winners and the duds more than when I initially did them, or at least, I'm more fair now.
I'm on day three of five between days off at my job. I keep oscillating between thinking I'm about to fit in there and then getting reminded it's still retail, and retail with a group of folks my age not like me, and therefore sucks. At least it's been quieter, and the $400 a week gets me closer to a car and the eventual move to Wales bit by bit.
