Quick little update on the status of Volume 2! We're very close to it being done. I have exactly one more custom to do, and a chart from someone else I was going to port, he got in touch to say he's redoing it. I also have to assemble the bonus video on the making of the shapeshifting final song I wrote for the game, "Umwelt", but I've already got it shot, so that's no big deal. To say I won't be spending December rushing to get shit in order for it like last year is a huge relief. Late last Read more
We took an impromptu trip across the Delaware Water Gap the other day to peek at some of the changing foliage. We're not at peak leaf-changing times just yet, but we're not far off at all. There's a cool pedestrian bridge as part of the Liberty-Water Gap Trail where half lies in Portland, Pennsylvania and half lies in Knowlton Township, New Jersey. They have the split marked on the bridge and everything. These were just taken with my phone—as implied, I didn't bring any of my retro digicams Read more
A bit of real life seasonal fun for you all: I completed a corn maze yesterday! How such a thing could be "completed", you might wonder? There's a really popular local seasonal attraction called Mazezilla where they cut themed maze designs into their cornfields every year, and you get a card and are tasked with going and finding all the stations in it, each having a unique shaped hole punch for your card as proof. I'm happy to report that, for my first time ever doing it, we completed the card Read more
So I went to see Coyote vs. Acme yesterday! This movie has intrigued the everloving fuck out of me since the initial hullabaloo about Warner being completely evil and shelving the thing, openly, for tax purposes, so knowing that it got picked up for distribution (and has since gone on to print money—take that, corpo stooges!) had me making plans to go see it. I wasn't expecting to find it so enjoyable though, on literally every level, nor was I expecting it to be so surprisingly cerebral. I Read more
I held off writing this post honestly more out of laziness than anything else, but also because I wanted to make sure that my replacement setup was going to hold out in the short-medium term, and thankfully, it seems to be. Let's catch you up... The eMachines Box is no stranger to problems. I've already had to replace the hard drive on it twice, going with a (freshly twenty-year-old) 250GB WD Caviar drive at first, and then when that gave up, simply going with a modern SSD plugged into an Read more
With a 42 day legacy behind me, I have, in my own way, managed 100% of Cookie Clicker achievements. Well, 99%. The last one is to click 7,777 Golden Cookies—that's not fucking happening any time soon. I have about 1,300 Golden Cookie clicks. Since I don't expect this to be the end of this save (I'll get to that later), good enough. The progress towards 700 of everything At the moment, the achievements for buildings top out at owning 700 of them. This takes you into the duovigintillions, which Read more
Slightly late, seeing as today marks a week since I arrived home, but I've been sprawling out and decompressing which comes before updating the journal—I'm home again! I got back to the US in the dewey final hours of the 9th and back home around 2AM in all. Slightly late, but I was pretty wired, so I still found time to get a shower and settle down before I ultimately slept not long before the sun came up. Once again, the batshit weather in the US delayed my arrival. I was supposed to fly back Read more
The thing I crave more and more as time goes on is simplicity and familiarity. Getting a job and traveling after the lockdowns spurred on a hyper period of trying everything, going everywhere, building everything (Caby is fond of saying that, for marfGH, in the triangle of "quick, cheap, and well put together", I picked all three). This is great, and I do have lots of great memories and feel my mind has been embiggened by the last three years of going ham, it has left me wondering if I'm Read more
We're a couple days out from Art Fight having ended, and a lot happening in the Caby household (for one thing, preparing to fly back hopefully successfully this time) has kept me from sitting down and recapping it. I'm currently on a Great Western Railway train to Swansea to finish raiding the HMV there, as Caby and I got kicked out when it closed for the night the day we visited together, so let's take some time to chat about how it went. Now, I didn't partake last year, and truth be told, the Read more
I was pretty shaken up after all the flight troubles a week and a half ago. For a few days, I did wonder if coming back to Cardiff for a little while longer was the right move, but it's been good and I'm pretty alright with how it all went down now. Of course, I always enjoy a little more time with my Caby, but more than anything, I'm just happy to have left vacation mode. I've spent enough money and eaten enough fast food—let's just stay in and draw for a bit. To dust off the journal in prep Read more
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