I’ve been laid up in bed and unable to sleep because of the pain, and am a bit too nauseous to write or draw, so I settled in with my stack of sticker books and finally got around to decorating my current diary to make it feel more lived in.
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I finally got my brain in gear and managed to sit down with a Super Nintendo emulator. My son has never played Chrono Trigger, and now, I have a proof of concept for running a SNES game as if it was a native application under Windows 10.
I haven’t tried it on his laptop yet, but still, it’s progress.
Update: Tried it, and it did the trick. The son was excited for awhile but it was late and he couldn’t settle down to play. Time will tell if he’ll take to it.
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Very surprising and happy news. 2 days ago I put in my Blue Badge disabled parking Badge renewal application. I’ve had a Blue Badge since 2001 or so and have to renew it every 3 years. I never assume I will get it again. This time I was told they’d decide in 6-12 weeks. They decided yes in just 2 days! Despite it being discretionary, so not automatic for other reasons. Ginormous thanks to Angus Council where I live. I don’t get out of the house much now, but when I do my Blue Badge is an enormous help. So chuffed tonight.
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Felt well enough to do a little drawing today, and while reading through some fanfiction, I got hit by a really fun idea that I think I’ll be scribbling on for the next while. Still in pain from the leg, and nauseous, but it can bear weight briefly rather than being curled up and not being able to touch the ground at all. Still taking it easy and mostly just have been lounging on the couch or laying in bed with it propped carefully. I slept deeply last night, and had a nightmare- but it ended up not being as scary as it could’ve been, which was a nice change of pace. Also finally got around to upgrading my art program to the latest stable download.
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I really like reading through the comments on music videos sometimes- you find all sorts of sweet moments like people playing songs at their wedding, dedicating them to long lost friends and lovers, and people circling around back to a comment they left years before -The Mountain Goats’ song This Year has the best example of it- and reflecting on how they’ve changed in the time since.
I ran across some on BONAVEGA’s videos, so I thought I’d share!
I will comment on Bonavega… I am 54 and a truly old-school music lover. I listen to original Delta Blues, early scratchy Jazz (I’m from Chicago), and the Led on vinyl. As I graduated high school in '86… I was guilty of the Crue, Poison, and had a guilty please for Slaughter. I abhorred any new music until Winehouse… Mr. Vega, you fly your freak flag and wave it proudly! You have a fan in a particularly gorgeous and likewise (formerly) flamboyant man. […]
Absolutely, this was born about 50 years to late. Everything about his performance screams 80’s rock. The makeup, hair, wardrobe, and his overall style would have made him an 80’s Icon. Also, his music is spectacular. I dont know how to say this without potentially being offensive but his lyrics have that over the top tacky feel to them. Which was indicative of most 80’s hits. I mean all of that in a great way. This guy would have been battling at the top of the billboard with guys like, Bryan Adams, Billy Idol, and Axel Rose. I also dont think it would be a stretch to say he might have won that battle. If he was able to play in that era. I think people would remember Bonavega just like they remember Freddy Mercury. I really enjoy his music. Its both nostalgic and refreshing to hear something different. A revival of an absolute legendary decade of music that is sometimes forgotten.
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My local library has Story Time for kids this week, so there are a lot of cute little toddlers singing and running around (but in a cute way, they all seemed well behaved). There was even a very young baby being cradled in the aisles. ;-; so cute.
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Wrapped the kid’s gift. I love wrapping presents, it’s so satisfying to get a crisp corner scored. Made a little paper poof to go on top and while it came out way bigger than I thought it would, it’s in his favourite colour and he’ll have fun tearing it off.
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I’m back on meds!! 
Also while I’m working on the post-comp version of I Am Prey I have decided what my next game will be, and have starting making plans and a project document for it.
It’s going to be very strange. While I am having an absolute blast with it, I can only hope it’s not one of those things that slowly becomes noticeably-horrible over time. 
I was mostly working on this because I was starting to get really uncomfortable off-meds and needed an outlet. Mostly just wrapping up a few more ideas, and then I’m back to chomping at the bit for finishing I Am Prey again, lol.
Overall, having a lot of fun, which offsets a number of major stressors!
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Tuning in to catchup more from the Cymera festival of fantasy, science fiction and horror writing that I bought a digital weekend pass for. I have to finish watching what I want in the next week and a bit, so getting through as much as possible! Tonight a panel about spooky stories, and an interview with a physicist turned scifi writer about her life as a writer.
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The Let’s Play of Jigsaw is complete! And solved almost entirely without hints!
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Yesterday I finished a pretty intense simulation calculator for my next game, and today I finished making the cover for it.
Why am I making the cover first?
It’s a proof of concept. That simulator figures out some viable designs based on the technologies available, and gives me the measurements and dimensions of the design. I used those to create a 3D model in Blender to see what one of the designs would look like.
It was a lot of fun! 
Both a major numbers/computation/coding challenge, and an art challenge! I was looking for an opportunity to practice my 3D modeling skills again.
Also, I’m very pleased with the result (if I’m allowed to say so), and I feel like I have an excellent starting reference, once this is all truly underway.
EDIT: I’m keeping the cover a secret for now, similar to what I did for I Am Prey. 
I’d rather make sure everything works out in the future first.
EDIT 2: Actually, here’s a cropped fragment of the image I modeled. I feel kinda weird making a big claim and refusing to show anything for it.
But I’m keeping the rest of the image in a vault for the moment!
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Our heat wave in Texas is making the national news. It’s brutal, and the hottest months are yet to come. The good news is that we built two big tall tiered rock fountains around stock tanks (if you’ve never built a fountain, it’s really fun) and they are covered with birds and bees and full of frogs. One of them was buzzing yesterday because there were so many bees on it, and I watched a hummingbird take a bath, which was the nerdiest-looking thing ever.
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My kid brother was showing off to me and proudly said that “I made art, like you!” and that was the cutest thing ever, I could cry. He has his own sketchbook which I’ve mentioned in the thread before after he noticed I had one, and he’s been experimenting with different media lately.
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I think he has talent. It reminds me of “The wave” by Hokusai.
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(inhales)
I WAS JUST INFORMED THAT I CAN BE THE ONLY MEMBER OF A PRIVATE DISCORD SERVER, AND I CAN USE IT FOR ADVANCED NOTE-TAKING. THIS CHANGES EVERYTHING.
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I just went through all my game code and separated stuff out into reusable modules, or at least the really general-purpose stuff. I solved a lot of problems in this game, which I suspect with need the same solutions in future games, so hopefully this will shorten future dev time.
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The hassle of administrative tasks is DONE! Running low on sleep and coffee fumes, but took a sunny walk by a lovely green space also.
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After two days, I finally got everything lined up the way I want on my current web project. (Things being just a little off: so painful.)
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Camp NaNoWriMo is starting up in July, which means daily writing for me. (I have had a game idea that’s been chewing at my ankles for the last while.) The kid doesn’t have homework during the summer, and I’d like to have him practice his handwriting (even if most of their schoolwork is done on the computer these days.) Normally, he has about 40 minutes to 1 hour of homework everyday, and we also do 30 minutes to 1 hour of reading.
Since we’ll have that extra timeslot, and he was curious about my notebook, we’ve decorated his own with some of my stickers, he signed it, and he and his stuffed animals will be drawing and writing little stories in it while we have drinks (iced coffee for me, ice water for him at his request) in the matching mugs I bought for us ages back- (a bunny and a kitten soup mug.) He was very pleased with having “a professional pen like the adults” after rummaging through my stationery stash.
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