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Christmas break | |
December 23rd, 2018 | |
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I was leaning against the counter in my kitchen while typing in | |
IRC and then started a coughingn fit. Why am I coughing, | |
I wondered as I rubbed at the bruise forming on my solar plexus. | |
Derp. | |
I'm now sitting comfortably in the stool that was right beside me. | |
I am very smart. :/ | |
Anywho, I'm on break for Christmas this week and I hope to get | |
a few fun side-things accomplished. For one, I'd like to write at | |
least one substantial update for each of my ships in cosmic [0]. | |
My original ship, Melchizedek, is in trouble with their botany | |
systems, while Starbloom may be going to war. My two newest ships | |
are Oleander, which is the story of a suicide mission sending | |
their final messages before activation, and Melvin P Feltersnatch, | |
a silly story with bad physics and quite a bit of nonsense. | |
[0] Cosmic Voyage | |
I also dusted off a project idea I had called Ways. It's intended | |
to be an open-source text-adventure engine and expandable world. | |
Right now it's very much in "dream up the stuff" phase. I'm not | |
bothering to even choose a programming language yet. I want to get | |
all the concepts down in a README so I can go at it later for | |
execution. This week should give me a decent start on that. | |
In other news, Christmas is nearly upon us! I've been teaching my | |
son about the Icelandic Yule Lads and Yule Cat and he's loving it. | |
We've been leaving his shoe in the window each night and reading | |
up on each of the lads. It's so cute. | |
OMG, I haven't written since we sold the house! Um, yeah. We sold | |
our house on the 10th of December. I'm renting a 2br apartment | |
about a mile away from the house until the end of June when we | |
intend to make the move to Iceland. I've given myself a break from | |
any planning on that front until the new year, too. Self care? | |
We had a 5 bedroom house with a massive basement and detached | |
garage. Needless to say, we downsized quite a bit and are | |
continuing to do so. My wife found an awesome charity that takes | |
home goods and furniture for kids aging out of the foster system | |
and moving out on their own. Most of the house goods went to them. | |
My son gave up 2/3rds of his toys to Goodwill. I downsized my | |
computers to a single laptop (which I'm replacing next Friday with | |
a new one from System 76). We have a storage unit that is 10x20 | |
and needs to get reduced down to 5x10 before June. The stuff | |
remaining will go into long-term storage in Charlotte near my | |
wife's family. The stuff in the apartment will get packed up and | |
shipped to Iceland. Somehow we'll make it all work. | |
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There's been so many awesome discussions kicking around in | |
gopherspace that I haven't been engaging with. Ugh, now I want to | |
go back and write you all individual responses here. Instead, just | |
know that I'm reading everything in great detail, from the stuff | |
on the growing Zaibatsu adventure to the music generation scripts | |
to the OTHER burrow to home-grown RPGs. You are all amazing people | |
who keep me entertained and inspired. Especially you, Melton. Your | |
life is incredible. Never stop writing. |