Chloroform Days - Cammy's journal from the end of the Multiverse

Living here, giving here
June 28, 2024

I've been meaning to write this post for literally a week now! I'm just...really busy at this point. And likely to fall asleep the moment I get out of work. I haven't talked much about my job on here because I think everyone around me is a little sick of the "Cammy doesn't like his job" carousel even though this one probably legitimately deserves the complaints. At my last two jobs, I was at fault, really—a lot of me being a baby for no reason, a lot of issues with customers and other Read more

Library pickups
June 13, 2024

And a small little update to finish out my back catalog of them—the library was having its annual used book and media sale over the weekend, and we went twice to check out what was up. You'd be surprised at the selection, at least at the start of the sale. The CDs and DVDs especially fun to pick through, and the DVDs in particular gave me intense wistfulness for the Cardiff CEX, because the selection and prices were really similar. Among other things (including a copy of Buddha, the first Read more

Thoughts on the Garfield Movie
June 12, 2024

I don't normally talk about movies much at all, mostly because I don't watch a lot of movies. I find it hard to watch them by myself. When I'm around people, it's a social experience, so there's someone to discuss it with during and after. If it's just me though, and I have to park myself in a spot for at least 90 minutes, probably two hours, maybe longer, and not do anything else but pay attention, I just don't do that naturally. As a result, there's lots of times in my life where movies have Read more

The Desolate Depot
June 11, 2024

I turned 25 recently! It was nice. I got to enjoy a game with the Somnolians (more on that in a moment), I had cake with cannoli filling, I got some music autobiographies I'd picked out and my mom paid for (I'm hard to buy gifts for and we were in the bookstore, so we figured that'd be the easier arrangement), and Caby and Savannah drew me some stuff! Click both for full size! Check out the texture and halftoning on Savannah's! And the Setter PC wallpaper in the Cammy one! That's my real one Read more

Last Summer CDs are assembled!
June 07, 2024

Gah, journal stuff gets away from me. I have a big pileup of stuff to write about, and then I go off and play Gran Turismo 2 or live life instead. No worries, you'll be seeing more in the coming days. Here's a quick one before I get to bed, I got work in the morning: After six long months of sitting on my floor, I have finally gone back to Staples and assembled all twenty physical copies of Last Summer! You might remember when I showed off the test copy on the journal in January, and Read more

Last minute May roundup!
May 31, 2024

I'm in one of those dry spells with the journal right now where I'm not particularly into updating it. I should get back into it; lots has been going on. I guess it's the pileup that makes it overwhelming. Let's do a roundup quick with the last two hours of the month. nofi nofi is complete! I just need to draw a bunch more Alexis for it and it'll be finished. As of right now, though, all the pages are in place and they work great on Netscape 3.0. Your favorite retro browser will love it too. Read more

Returning home
May 17, 2024

Lots more work on nofi.mari.somnol has occurred since my last blog post! We're getting fairly close to having everything moved over from the old site—only the modding section really remains. Even better is that, with the stories and, in a bit, music sections implemented, this is actually not just more fully featured than mari@macintosh.garden was, it's actually everything I wanted on mari.somnol implemented. Like, that's it. I was pondering some kind of Web design gallery, showing off some of Read more

Kevin and Theo is now up for reading!
May 13, 2024

So as I move further into getting nofi.mari.somnol filled out, I realize that I've been putting off a story section. Stories used to be a huge part of the mari.somnol stew, but it's been so long since I've written anything now that bringing stuff that old back feels a bit unflattering. I was still growing as a person and also just plain gaining confidence in my work. When you're scared of failing, you don't do things to the greatest extent you could have. You don't sing loud, you don't draw Read more

PHP has won my heart
May 10, 2024

Hello, journal people! I haven't really been updating this because there's kinda been a dearth of coherent Cammy updates. I can say I'm definitely doing better than my low point last month. No buts! Definitely feeling a lot better. It just hasn't resulted in a ton of stuff rolling off the line that I feel the urge to talk about. Now, though, I have some. I return to my kingdom of webshit to discuss the thing that has reinvigorated my interest in making websites, and that's PHP. I fuckin' love Read more

Distant depots
April 28, 2024

Ah, it feels good to be busy again. I said I'd do this journal post two days ago, but then I got working on starting up the ACNES compatibility list project again, I'm streaming again tonight, I've been chatting with people and actually enjoying it again (protip, mute and hide all the channels you're not interested in in any public Discord you're a part of and your life will instantly feel less cluttered) and I've been going on walks again. Every period of being antisocial comes with a burst of Read more
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