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What I am up to as of… 11 September 2020
COVID-19 āļø
- Since Melbourne has entered Stage 4 quarantine, I am at home every day š”; I have discovered that I am perfectly happy squirrelled away like this. šæļø
- This has led me to do a lot of the following…
Website š
- Finally changed the name and tagline of my site – the previous one was always supposed to be temporary
- I got a logo designed for the website (I discovered Fiverr via YouTuber/Muralist, Ten Hundred). If you're willing to shell out for a domain and a server, a logo isn't that much of a stretch.
- Changed my theme to GuCherry Blog; it's not an officially IndieWeb-supported theme, but it seems to work fine.
- Considering how long this Now entry is, I'm setting a reminder to update this monthly, so I don't have such a huge backlog.
Podcast šļø
- "Trigger Point FM" is on hiatus for much longer than expected as my co-host absolutely refuses to record remotely
I am playing a lot more games š²:
- The original Vampire: The Masquerade game I was playing moved from face-to-face to being played via video chat, to not being played at all. Instead, I've replaced that with a play-by-post VtM game hosted on the Seattle by Night Discord Server. Instead of writing up session summaries, I am now sharing my posts from the Discord game.
- Pathfinder is still happening once a week – we are now facing a world-ending event that requires us to do some tomb-diving, and my character spends 1/3 of the time as Chaotic Evil, and no one notices…
- I spent two weeks playing No Man's Sky again, but that resulted in some serious sleep deprivation, so I decided to shelve that for now.
- I am playing Thousand Year Old Vampire – too early to share my thoughts on this…
- I've rediscovered Nile Online, a browser-based worker/resource management game. I forget how much I enjoy these games – especially when there's no warfare involved – This led to me discovering GreaseMonkey/Tampermonkey
Analogue stuff āļø
- As I'd mentioned, I'm currently trying out some stress-transforming journaling. This is a very recent endeavour, so more updates to come.
- I'm taking Amy Tangerine's "Fresh Takes on Traveler's Notebooks" course to try to use up some of my Traveler's Notebook inserts / scrapbooking supplies I have lying around.
- I've brought out my typewriter again – my other-half is not happy with the noise
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- I've created a Shortcut that keeps track of the web-series I'm reading (webcomics, web novels etc.), and which chapter I'm up to – I just need to write it up
I am watching šŗ
- All fourteen seasons of Supernatural – currently onto season 12
- Recently finished:
- Suits
- Nashville
- Nirvana in Fire (again)
- Mystic Pop-Up Bar
- Lucifer – Season 5
This page is inspired by Derek Sivers.
I did this class on Monday (or at least the Laneway Learning version of it – it’s hosted by the same teacher, just a shorter session) and I have to say, if you ever have trouble working through stress, or want to work on your journaling skills, this class was pretty helpful.
Her online journaling community – where a group of people get together twice a week to journal – is a good way to keep you accountable.
Someone sent me a link to this solo RPG, “Thousand Year Old Vampire” and it looks interesting. Currently, it’s on sale for $9USD. Below are reviews that rave about this game.
One Thousand Years of Solitude – Space Biff
Review video:
Here’s a play-through video:
I am thinking of recording the game journal either here or in my Vampire the Masquerade site (where I’m recording my game sessions for two VtM games I’m playing). We’ll see how I feel when I start playing the game.
Recently discovered this layered paper doll-style avatar maker website. The link is to a particular designer than I like, but there is a large selection of artists to choose from.
Here are some of the others I liked:
https://picrew.me/image_maker/268253
https://picrew.me/image_maker/648
https://picrew.me/image_maker/395807