On office mornings I always get a Starbucks mocha frappuccino for breakfast. While in line this morning, I saw an advertisement for their new boba lemonade and decided I’d check it out later. I went to get one this afternoon. I felt awkward going to Starbucks twice in the same day, so instead I walk...
who authorized Artfight starting a few days after the release of Dawntrail?? Dawntrail early access opened last Thursday. I’ve been barreling through this expansion by my own standards, playing several hours a day, which is to say that everyone else in the static is ahead of me, even meisnewbie. I c...
One of the reasons I find BB fascinating is that he’s constantly watching and learning and making connections and pushing his own boundaries. Just in the few days I was with him, he had a bunch of tiny milestones and firsts. One of his favorite toys is a set of eight wooden carrots and a wooden bloc...
BB loves looking out the screen door to the balcony. (What does he see out there? Maybe it’s just a nice shade of green. Or maybe he sees a place he hasn’t been and wants to go there.) On Friday he kept pointing at it, and I’d pick him up and let him look outside. On Saturday, Mom opened the screen ...
On the dining table there was a library book about baby-led weaning. I read the intro out of curiosity. It’s pretty wild:Baby eats whatever the family eats. No special meals for baby.Baby is given food in “adult” form (with safety concessions like removing nuts and other possible choking hazards). B...
The trip up was uneventful. Mom’s headphones weren’t working, so she put her Zoom meeting on speakerphone and we got treated to an hour-long discussion of revenue projections for the upcoming fiscal year. Anyway, BB! He had his first birthday a couple weeks ago. He’s a pro at crawling (Mom said he s...
Ninety-one degrees as I got off the train downtown. Big oof. The pigeons outside the station were enjoying a burger and fries. Pretty sure someone feeds them at that spot every day. Too much random food there for it to be coincidence. Usually it's donuts, but one time they had an entire carton of pa...
One month before Dawntrail, it’s the triumphant return of RAID. We’re doing EXs with Tirofog (who we haven’t raided with since attempting Thordan in like 2021). oh geez how do I shoot gun. It turned out okay—muscle memory mostly took over, although it took over a bit too strongly and I was doing my ...
My alarm was set for 7:40 a.m. At 7:33 I was woken up by the sound of the doorbell. This was entirely a product of my dream imagination—I don’t even have a doorbell—but it got me up, and I figured it wasn’t worth going back to sleep for seven more minutes. We live in times of plenty. It’s fine. I ha...
I’m doing the thing where I check Discord on my desktop (there’s no new posts) so I pull my phone out of my pocket and check Discord (of course, there’s no new posts there either). It’s time to get up and step away from the computer for a bit.
There is so much AI witchhunting on twitter these days. I constantly get threads on how to identify AI art. Admittedly I am not helping my feed by clicking on them, but I get curious. The thing is, I commit most of these art foibles myself. Fingers look weird? Structures and accessories have no clea...
My main base is in a hollowed-out hill slightly to the west of my spawn. Everyone likes the hill house. (Well, newbie likes it. HGR was like “you made a dwarf fortress!!” which is close enough in my opinion.) Starting a second playthrough right after the first has been nice because I can arrange eve...
