I invited a couple of real life friends into my imagination today, and so far they seemed to survive it ok. I figured if I’m helping beta test a book that I could get some feedback on my nightmare fuel, and it earned a few laughs! I should be wrapping up the 2nd video in a week or so, then I can begin on the 3rd and final installment (at least until I pick up playing it again in the future, that’ll require a barrel of guinness and a gallon drum of hash oil, fo-sho).
Don’t mind me… just a tired Overlord that had a nice day, even at work somehow.
Open Thread!
Went on a digital shopping spree today! I have a new chair coming in the mail, among plenty of other purchases that it will feel like Christmas for days. While I’m waiting for the chair I did get my chair pad in the mail the other day. So far that seems to help alleviate pressure in my tailbone. I’m still making sure to get up and stretch though, if anything this whole thing has taught me the wonders of stretching.
Another item I’ve been enjoying is an articulating arm for my Linux Surface Pro. I liked it so much that I decided to buy another one for the bed for easy reading at night. I’d say all in all it has been a productive weekend; a complete 180 from last weekend… and may I have many more. 🙂
I made up for last weekend in spades. I had a small breakfast sandwich, cleaned up my digs a bit, patched up a shirt, and last but not least I put some scented fucking candles on and played a bit of AER: Memories Of Old. It took me awhile to remember what I was doing, but I did eventually find Eventide Sanctuary — and even got an achievement! There really isn’t very much to this game, but at the same time it has a lot going on. Lots of land to traverse on foot and as the crow flies, and there’s quite a bit of story to read and piece together throughout your travels. This will most likely get a recommendation from me once I finish the game, when I’m able to pick it up again. 😛
Compared to last week this was the perfect day.
Took some of my aggression out in DOOM Eternal tonight. It seemed like a good way to enjoy myself, even if I was getting my ass handed to me about every five minutes. I’m playing on Hurt Me Plenty mode, and it’s actually hard compared to DOOM 2016. But I am making it through different sections, slowly but surely. The last time I played Eternal it was back in November; I wonder how long before I play it again? 😛 It’s time to move onto a different game. I’m not sure which one yet, but I have a few ideas. That’s the nice thing about having a big library, you’ll never go bored. 😛
I’m hoping this upcoming weekend will go better for me. There was so much I wanted to get done last weekend that I was in too much pain to do. I’m beta testing a friend’s novel, and I haven’t had time to get back to them on it. I still need to go through my closet to tidy, and clear some older stuff out, among all the other things to ensure that I’ll never be bored — picking the starting point is always the hardest.
Of course… it might also be a rainy pajama weekend too. After two weeks of hell work, plus a week of regular hell work, and my back being a living hell it is possible that I might not move very quickly once I finally settle down. I could probably make some withdrawals from the bank of sleep.
I’m officially free from Jury Duty! I only had to go once, and it was for about an hour before we were all excused. Now I won’t have to worry about doing it again for who knows how long. 😛 I’ve been summoned and excused a few times before, but this was my first time serving. The funniest part was that it all didn’t happen because Karen couldn’t be bothered to fucking show up. The judge and attorneys for both sides were piiiiissssssseeeeeedddddd.
Oh well… at least I can say that I went to court stoned, and I wasn’t even the one on trial! 😛
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIvCF0L2hEM&ab_channel=Rodrogo
I’ve slowly been introducing Omega Mart to my co-workers, and now I think I have enough of us to load into a bus to Vegas to visit! 😛 I doubt that would ever happen, but I can dream dammit.
I had to exile myself from my desk, in fact I didn’t really do anything. My back was bad enough that I basically spent the entire weekend in bed getting really shitty sleep. I did get up once in awhile to stretch, eat, do the few chores I needed to do, and they reeeaalllly felt like chores. I’m feeling better today, although I still feel like I’m getting jabbed in the back. I’m just happy that I can put pants on in under 20 minutes again. There was a lot of heat, massage and painkillers and other shit involved to make give me some functionality.
I haven’t felt well enough to work on anything these last few days – although I made up for it tonight by posing/animating another scene. So far, it’s much smaller of a production, but it will have enough acid trip at the end for those who torture themselves with full gameplay for a good few minutes. Unfortunately I don’t have any pictures to share, but if you’ve seem any of my previous publications you’ll know beyond the shadow of a doubt that it’s probably going to be really fucked up.
During my downtime – I’ve been watching Monty Python’s Flying Circus (including the German version, yes… there is a German version). I’ve always liked the shows, but what always stood out to me was the animation.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hdhyrPq3Jxc&ab_channel=SketchiT
I’ve always admired the imagination behind all of these shorts, and the show overall.
My back has been continuing to give me hell – this time in my lumbar area. I tweaked it a couple of weeks ago, and I’ve been slowly trying to take care of it… but between work making that difficult, and sitting on a hard wooden bench for fucking jury duty I basically spent today mostly in bed, only getting out to eat or do a couple of chores. There was so much I wanted to do now that I’m back on a more normal schedule. Instead I laid in bed with plenty of heat, massage, and online chair shopping.
Last year when my back was giving me issues I found out the problem mainly resided in my old furniture — mainly the office chair and mattress. Well, the mattress has held up one year later, but my gaming chair has lost it’s padding. I’ve already got a couple of candidates I’m looking at. With the amount of time I spend at my computer doing animation, server work, website maintenance, and gaming (of course) I need a chair that can take a beating, and not make me feel like I’ve been thrown through a couple of mountains.