Sunshine! Punctuated by occasional random bouts of heavy hail, but still 
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A hummingbird pooped in my eye.
This wasn’t positive for me, but it was extremely positive for Tom, who laughed until he cried.
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Brain in gear enough finally at some point this week so I was just able to quickly code most of the final section of my latest interactive fiction game that I will be entering in IFComp 2024. This isn’t all the game coded by any means. I have much to go back and finish / fill in / expand. But hey, it’s playable right through now! And I’m having fun playing - oh no I mean testing! - it 
Written in Inform 7/10.
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Exam season is over for me!
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That’s the best feeling. I wish I shared your feeling of fun testing your own work.
If there’s a better feeling than getting a game playable, it’s finishing exam season.
Congrats to you both!
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Just got back from a trip with my friends! It was awesome, although getting sick and having to miss one of the three days sadly. But I’m back, I had fun, and I’ve got other, weirder symptoms!
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Going back over old project ideas and getting excited about them again 
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The kid’s gotten into making small games with Scratch, and the first project he proudly showed off to me as one of his finest creations was a helicopter made out of the cat block, that when you hit play, all it did was spin and scream.
Fantastic eye for horror!
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I have grown a strange lily! About 2 months ago I planted a bunch of bulbs a friend gave me, and she said they were lily bulbs. But I didn’t know what they’d look like. And after all this time of caring for them…
Behold the blood-spattered lily!
There’s a different kind growing, too, although the buds are still small. I wonder what flavor those will be?
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Arrived safe!
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Really lovely morning out running today.
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Had a really fun time doing blues jam!
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I’m working on an aeroplane simulator for… … reasons that I promise are related to IF-Octane.
Needed to adjust some fine-tuning settings because I’m not doing a super high-detail voxel-based fluid simulation, so I wrote a quick genetic algorithm to narrow down the settings and let it run for some hours while I slept.
Overall accuracy score (by comparing to posted results from real-life experiments) is 97%. Only one experiment got an 80%, while the others where between 94% and 100%.
I am so happy and excited right now. 
Maybe not close enough for building real airplanes, but certainly close enough for creating speculative airplanes with enough detail to make my aerospace special interest bite excitedly!!
Dad: “Surely you can just… make up some stuff, right?”
Me: “I love airplanes. So much. It is not enough to be able to fudge surface-level numbers. I want to mentally run around in this thing.”
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Settled in comfortably to my little writing desk set up, and I’ve got a little new tinted lipbalm that is a sweet pink shade and super cute, smells like vanilla too which is nice. And a tin of Crazy Aaron’s Thinking Putty in a holographic gold called Sunbeam. Nice to fidget with,
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It’s way too cold for late April here today, but that means a day with the fire on playing videogames
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There was a boy I knew in highschool. He was pale, thin, had wispy hair, and was a wizard at mathematics. He also had a note from his father that excused him from taking part in any gymnastics and ball sports, and most forms of athletics. Pretty much the whole physical education except plain running.
You see, he played the cello, and under no circumstance should his fingers be in danger.
Now, as some of you might have imagined (or experienced), a highschool boy with the above description is a target for jerks and bullies. But in this case, that didn’t happen.
Oh, sure, there were the obligatory chuckles when we got out the volleyballs and he got out his note, and everyone pretty much agreed he was “weird”, but there was never any outright harrassment. A bunch of us befriended him in a certain way, as far as that was possible with someone who seemed to be so distant from normal wordly concerns.
He was weird, yes, and he had a single burning passion: his instrument.
His Music.
We lost touch when we graduated from highschool, but I’d hear bits and snippets of news about him over the years. That he had composed his first concerto, that he had gotten this or that award,…
His passion and dedication had indeed crystallised into the musical life he dreamed of.
Yesterday he came to play in our hometown Musical Conservatory. With his girlfriend who plays classical guitar. They perform intimate cello-guitar duets, often written by various composers especially for them.
It was a truly wonderful and moving musical experience. And he was just as moved to see his old schoolfriends when we stepped up to the table where he was signing CDs and books to say hello.
The Edenwood Duo:
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Big positive today: received a UPS delivery containing a newly signed and personalised for me and my husband book from my favourite living author. Long story re how I got it, but over the moon! Hugely grateful to him. He also did a nice doodle.
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That’s a lovely story @rovarsson!
I got a ton of stuff done around the house this morning. I’d been putting it off for months and everything just feels so much better now.
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So beautiful! Thank you for sharing a wonderful story and its outcome. That is what great movies are made from.
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I feel best when I am being creative. Last night, I was experimenting with Eric Eve’s new Adv3Lite library and it’s Web UI. I have been looking for a way to integrate IF and science learning. This may be a good path.
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