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
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
Do you remember back in 2024 when I wound up back in Wales for an extra few weeks due to being five minutes late for check-in? Well, I'm back in Wales again, despite my departure date being yesterday--and I did everything right this time. This has been the perfect storm of three (and potentially four) unrelated things that caused my flight to be canceled literally as we were all sat on it. Let's see... (potentially) Canadian wildfire (again)
United Airlines having a backend issue that disrupted Read more
I'm about a week late on this, but out of the blue, Devon mailed me some old tech! Devon was in Somnolescent not too long ago, but it became a fairly acrimonious split and it bummed all of us out in the end. She reached out to me about two weeks ago with an offer, though—to send me, while I'm still in Europe and thus while it's still a hell of a lot cheaper, a working Wacom Intuos 1 (from 1998!). A digital camera I'd never heard of with a still working website called the Mustek MDC 3000, which Read more
Been a bit, journal people! Honestly, I suspect this might start going dormant more often going forwards—I'd rather be doing things or relaxing than constantly updating a journal, honestly, especially when I have other places to post updates and I just have less to show off these days. I'm pretty happy with all my projects and I'm really looking forward to going back into the real world and being a productive member of society again. I don't think that's a bad thing, though, if it's only once Read more
Not gotten any better at updating this thing, and it's not looking promising for two months in Wales (though maybe!). It's not that I haven't been in a really great mood, I think I'm just realizing how much infrastructure I've built and sometimes I get tired of maintaining it. You'll live. Only I read this anyway. Leaving for the airport in a few hours! I'm really not concerned, I've done this a few times, but my mom always insists I overpack or take only my nicest stuff. She cares, it's fair. Read more
When I last wrote about my used game sale extravaganza, I was recently left on read by two different game resellers about my big lots of retro games and had realized I was just gonna have to list it all myself. I'm supremely pleased to report that, as of a half hour, they've all gone! There were five lots of games for sale, Genesis, NES, Wii, PS2, and GBA, and they are all either mailed off or will be mailed off tomorrow. The NES games were what I was most wary about being able to move, given Read more
Game selling expedition is still ongoing. At this point, most of the loose stuff has sold, and I'm slowly getting eBay's payouts from it. Hilariously, eBay really wants me to use their expedited payment system so they can skim a little more off the top—no thanks. You can deposit it into my checking in one to three business days like God intended. This leaves, uh, most of it. My DS and 3DS stuff was valuable enough to mostly go individually, but I've still got my GB/GBA games, the rest of the Read more
Update on the game selling expedition I started earlier in the week! Games are already starting to fly out of my house. I've been listing GBA and DS stuff on eBay to great success. I try to be real thorough with my photos, everything someone would be looking for to avoid bootlegs shown clearly, checking sites to see what games are going for and trying to price them accordingly or slightly lower than the going rate, and it works! People think they're getting a good deal on a game in very nice Read more
(Brief aside before we begin: post on the group blog from the 13th! It's an overly-technical, highly obscure ramble about a program for getting better looking 8-bit paletted images, and yet another thing I found interesting from the PageMill CD-ROM. Just figured I'd mention that before we get started. I gotta get better at letting folks everywhere know what I've been up to.) So for well over ten years now, I've been putting off selling my games. The flipside to my dash over the past two years Read more
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