I finally got around to writing down the first sentence of my new work in progress last night before passing out, and while I’m in the TTRPG session now, I got my first page down in the new notebook for it: and the words are coming out smoothly and without much fuss or friction, which is really lovely. I’ve missed it.
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Good news: the spider that crawled up and out of the toilet while I was puking my brains out and face to face with it was probably not a brown recluse.
Bad news: after researching and looking up geographical ranges and comparing pictures, I’m fairly sure it was a long legged sac spider, which while not life threateningly medically significant, has a painful bite, and I need to hunt down and exterminate ASAP.
Lucky break: did not get bit anywhere, though I nearly had a heart attack in the bathroom at the pure shock and fear of it emerging seconds after I stood back up.
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Had a nice catchup chat with a friend for about a hour and a half. It was good to hear their voice.
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Gyoza for lunch. ^u^
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10k PB this morning woop! And now ice cream.
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I split my work in progress into two games. As it developed, it made sense to split it up. One is a purely text adventure and the other is an “educational” science based adventure. I am writing the text version in TADS3 / Adv3Lite. The one with media is best written in Inform 7.10, but I may put it on the back burner until new version of Inform drops. It looks like the new inform might have some features I would like to experiment with.
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Super curious about this. Hit me up to test it when it’s ready.
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Kat is running a Bluebeard gamejam after a late night conversation we had about all of the Bluebeard retellings in interactive fiction.
Been having fun painting.
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Will do. Thank you so much for the offer.
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Watched the music video for Breezeblocks by Alt-J. Then I tried watching it forwards, and got a completely different story. Very interesting. Would recommend watching the original music video with music, then looking at the spoiler and doing what it says in there. It’s so worth it.
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Not a great day but I did just find something within two minutes of starting looking for it, which I’m going to take as a win.
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@dee_cooke is it because you have a chaotic mess, or is it because you have trouble seeing things directly in front of your nose (like we men often have)?
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Had a nosebleed from 6:00AM to 8:22AM.
It thankfully didn’t break open again when I went to sleep finally. Been devouring sweets.
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-----looks up from sifting through the peanut shells----
Huh? Oh…
Here you go:
>L
A sign advertising boiled peanuts points east, into the pavilion.
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I have a new nephew! 
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That is fantastic! Being an auntie has been one of the joys of my life. All the fun, none of the responsibility. Congrats!
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Yay, congrats Jess!
This has largely been my experience – being a parent does mean a significantly higher amount of fun relative to being an uncle, but it’s definitely not proportional to the increased responsibility 
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One of our tomato plants has started to bear fruit! Sadly it’s the one we bought as a young plant rather than one of the ones we grew from seed, all of which have proven to be temperamental at best, but hey, at least we might have a non-zero amount of tomatoes by the end of the summer.
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It’s not (hugely) chaotic, I’m just very good at finding sensible places for things to be put away and then forgetting where those sensible places are!
Today’s positive thing: got to run with my husband as our training plans overlapped.
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A newphew!
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