A cool music dude I’m subscribed to released a cover of a song that has become a big favorite of mine recently on this day in particular. I find that a delightful (and crazy) coincidence.
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I just had extremely kind people do a very kind thing for us today. Doesn’t really seem real. Keep peeking out the window to reassure myself it is.
Very grateful and relieved. It 's been a long couple of months.
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I’m having cake for lunch and for dinner today 
Chocolate obviously. With some ice cream at dinner.
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Happy birthday!!!
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Happy birthday to you Manon!
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Today is a fabulous day because I got through hosting my mother’s memorial yesterday. Everything was lovely, all the feared family drama did not materialize, everyone behaved beautifully (which is a first), and now all our houseguests have gone and we are at home alone on a gorgeous day sighing in relief and eating all the delicious leftover food from the caterers. I haven’t felt this calm in a long time. A truly good day.
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We had a wonderful, sunny day over here. Approximately 15°C, which is cold after the summer, but now at the end of winter it’s great.
I also managed to lower my game development ambitions which hindered me from creating amything; and so I got finally a project started. Sorry, no IF but a little 2D RPG.
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The relief is palpable here.
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Oh, you have no idea. Unless your family is like mine, in which case you probably have an inkling of the way that most family events like weddings and funerals turn into a horror-comedy of vomit, tears, viciously hurled stiletto shoes, and screaming matches in which unforgivable things are said.
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Today ended up being a pretty good day ! Lots of chocolate cake, a parcel full of my favourite candy from home, and another one full of treats (and a jigsaw puzzle!), one of my favourite dinner of all time, and a short trip to the comic book store! And lots of lovely wishes from my favourite people 
Now I just need to finish to fix my French Comp entry 
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I bought myself a new keyboard for my birthday.
At some point I had a keyboard crisis and wanted to pack up the work computer keyboard I’d continued to use with my bought work computer since it came with a BT keyboard and work requires it to be wired. Eventually they’re going to want all the equipment back so I wanted to be using only my own tech. I ended up with my dodgy-old Das Keyboard on my personal Mac. It worked fine for what I needed, but I think at some point I had it stored sideways and part of the keyboard wasn’t responsive…but after a while maybe I hammered it back into operational use.
I forgot how awesome it is to have balanced keys. I usually go for blue-clicky keys; this time I opted for browns which are supposed to be tactile but not make actual click sounds. To me, this feels like there’s no actual keypress tactile bump and they’re silent and smooth, so I may have gotten red keys by accident. But they’re perfectly fine - they still have nice thockity aesthetic feedback when typing firmly and the entire thing is heavy and built solidly. I opted for no number pad which makes it fit the keyboard tray a little better and I can turn it to the weird angle I have my desk set up at.
It’s also Mac/Win changeable with a switch, and also can be USB/BT per switch. It came with a keycap puller and has fun lighting options. My favorite is each key backlights briefly when typed.
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as is usual here in Italy, incl. my enlarged family 
Easter and Pesach is looming, the xtian one in the wrong timeframe re. Spring Thing…
Best regards from Italy,
dott. Piergiorgio.
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Figured out and solved the issue I was having with the blogging thingie I’m using over on my Neocities. (It’s in theory, a developer diary, and more of just idle thoughts kind of related to IF making stuff.) Very satisfied in having addressed that, since I’ve been putting it off for awhile, and I enjoy longform blogging.
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Finally got together with an old friend. Talked a lot about how early decisions in life, which didn’t feel like decisions back then, formed our paths. University choices and ex-girlfriends were involved. And herb. And Neil Gaiman. And Blacksad.
Good talk. Good night.
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Ooh! Actually I’ve got anther one, but it was technically yesterday.
8h00:
My son’s school is not far from the supermarket, so after I dropped him off I purchased some fresh leeks and cod there.
Now the supermarket is not far from the park, so I thought it might be nice to cycle through the park lanes on my way home.
It’s been raining here for the past six weeks.
The park was flooded.
I gauged the height of the lake (which it was) by the bench I saw on the other side, and ignored the fact that several duck couples were right where I was sure the path was.
I was off by two inches. Enough to get my ankles wet each time I powered on . But not enough to deter me from plunging through, even after getting caught in the sideway mud for a bit.
16h00:
Put my son’s rubber boots in my bicycle sidebag, put my own on my feet.
Let him wonder what we were going to do all the while we were taking the detour.
Made him put on the boots before rounding the corner.
WHEEeeeEEE!!!
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For a school competition, everyone has to write a mini saga (max 100 words), around a horror story. I don’t think I’ve ever put in so much effort towards a single piece of writing.
(Okay, okay, I may or may not have basically written something that is certainly a deleted scene from Eat Me… Basically the narrator is telling the child to eat this delicious feast, then starts describing the feast, and as it goes along it ends up with descriptions like “bone candy, marshmallow marrow, and blood-mulled wine that gushes forth toward parched lips”… and then she tells you to “ignore the fire” (you’re being roasted alive basically) and then the child (you) eats the narrator alive. In 100 words.) If you want I can post it here once the competition is done…
Sooooo close to being finished with our band’s first ever song (recording)! I’m so excited.
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Ah, the good old days. I remember when I used to do that, eons ago.
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Which brings me to…
My first hint preview for Welcome to Hellwaters.
There are fourteen different IF authors. Each of them have been kidnapped and turned into… well, something. By someone I’ll only reveal much later. Suffice it to say that there is some World IF Warrior Tournament going on.
Chandler Groover, author of Eat Me, happens to be one of them. He got turned into a tuna. His stage is somewhere in a Canadian glacier. His weapon is the Icicle Arrow. You fire an arrow of ice which splits into three.
This is all I can reveal for now.
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Found a whole bunch of seating and a very cozy seat to hang out in while waiting around for therapy in the radio building, which is a lot of fun. It’s always a win when you can find somewhere somewhat isolated (there are enough people milling around it doesn’t feel desolate, or scarily abandoned, but not much is happening near the equipment acquisitions room), and I even got a lovely little chair with a nice supportive back. Someone else took the squashy sofa chair, but I could do with the back support anyway. Gloomy, rainy, dreary day outside- overcast skies for as far as the eye can see. Very comfortable.
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Not really today but like yesterday but still… Had a blast creating my first Dendry game and submitting it to SeedComp! Many thanks to my beta tester @cchennnn to provide feedback and make it happen! Also many thanks to @smwhr for the cool tutorial! And of course thanks to the organizers of SeedComp to extend the deadline a wee bit… It seriously helped to stop me from panicking and missing yet another deadline.
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