It’s the First of May!

It’s the first of May, and thus I am obligated to remind you all this lovely (and silly) song exists.

That’s it for today! Enjoy. 🙂

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Rattling Off Bullets

A screenshot from XCOM: Enemy Within. The camera's focused on an alien console with a holographic projection above it. Dr. Shen says over the comm "Is this what the aliens do for fun? At least they're not playing... computer games."

Putting me on blast, XCOM! D:

At the moment, the last week feels like it was very long indeed. Late-day energy crashes are fun. As such, quick bullet points: Continue reading

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Job Searching and C&C Noodling

Text printed in a window in gold font that says "No Peddlers or Agents Allowed."

Spotted on an older apartment building. Damn, my chance to live my dream as a peddler to this one building, dashed! (Honestly, I wonder when that sign was originally put up, given the word choice and the text style. It’s neat!)

I missed last week, it’s true! Terrible. Continue reading

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Photo Pile

Just some photos taken over the last couple weeks while I’ve been out and about. Life plans are percolating, but not enough time to write about ’em just now.

An art installation with pieces of gold foil with text punched out of them hanging by string from a structure made of chopsticks.

My friend Jay had an art installation at Mixed Pantry in downtown Seattle! You can check his work out here: https://www.jaystoneking.com/

A sticker attached to a bridge handrail. Jesus is leaning in from the left side of the sticker and the text reads "Damn! I gave you a great ass!"

I’m honestly bracing myself to find out this is some terrible evangelical thing and not just a sassy sticker.

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A Week in Vignettes

An image of Cookie Monster sitting in a chair in front of shelves of books from the Monsterpiece Theater segment for Sesame Street.

A show of class and distinction.

This week was a roller coaster. A roller coaster that mostly went down but managed to also get really close to feeling like the shuttle loop in Rollercoaster Tycoon set so that it just launched the riders off the end of the track.

In order to try and capture it, I present to you A Series of Dramatic Vignettes. Getting all Masterpiece Theater up in here.

Monday: In Which Permissions are Needed to Have Self-Worth

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Median Possum

Three rough pencil sketches of possums.

Not an awesome possum week, but not the worst. Much like these sketches. (They were good casual practice, and were technically done more than a week ago shhhhh)

This last week was a mixed bag, per usual. Continue reading

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Making the Grade: Accountability 2024 Check-In for Jan and Feb

A stuffed dragon holding a pencil, writing on a habit tracker.

It’s finally time to do the habit accountability post! Oh how exciting. What a time to be alive!

*cough*

Anyway.

The last couple months have been a mixed bag, as months within reality tend to be. Continue reading

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Interviews

An image of Stephen Colbert interviewing Jon Stewart on The Colbert Report. Colbert is grinning and Stewart is laughing into his hand.

They were, sadly, not nearly as comedic or loose as this one. Source

This last week was an odd mix of important stuff surrounded by directionlessness. More specifically, interviews with nothing I really had to do outside of them.

I managed to feel better enough by Tuesday I was prepped to do the interviews I had scheduled. I decided to just let the interviews be my one big thing on any given day and tried to make myself rest. I think it worked well enough, though being cooped up inside all day and unproductive wasn’t great for my mental health. Thankfully as of yesterday I’m officially in the clear and no longer have pneumonia!

I’m going to try and talk a little about the interviews, but I’ll have to keep things pretty general. Not because I got to learn awesome trade secrets, but because it’s super easy to find this site when searching online for me and I don’t want to piss anyone off right now. I mean, I’m sure I’m basically unhireable based on something else I’ve said in the past on here, and I hate the idea of an employer looking at a potential employee’s personal out-of-work stuff and making hiring decisions based on that. Alas, for the moment that’s how the game is played, and right now I should probably play my hand a little more carefully than I usually do. Continue reading

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Functional Lungs are for Chumps

A still of Keanu Reeves from Johnny Mnemonic. He's tapping the side of his head with two fingers, and looks roughed up and a little crazed.

This doesn’t have a lot to do with the post. I just saw Johnny Mnemonic for the first time this week. And the vibe seems to match the post’s title. Source.

Pardon the interruption to our regular service. When I first thought about writing a post this week, I was going to say I just tended to leave my week post until too last-minute and didn’t want to do another checking-the-box style one like last time. However, my energy levels have been really unreliable lately. Continue reading

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Checking The Box

A screenshot of the game Valheim. The player character is looking at a baby boar named "Piggy."

Hooray for cute baby creatures in games! One of the few good moments this week!

There’s less than 30 minutes left for this week, so you’re getting a very simple blog post so I can check that box in the habit tracker! This is the high quality content you crave.

This last week was something of a mental health shitshow anyway. Which means not too much to report beyond my brain going “aughblaahoiewhg.” I’m still waiting to get things resolved with the hiring process I’m in the middle of right now. I sent a check-in email on Friday, so I’m hoping I’ll hear back in the next couple days and at least get an idea of what’s going on and/or how much longer things will take before I hear either way.

I also played a good bit of Valheim, and dusted off my solo game/world. Which is how I discovered how to make boar farming work (sort of) and produce adorable baby boar. And that’s not nothing.

See y’all next week. 🙂

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