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Vacation

Vacation Day 6: Chilling in Billings

Made it into Billings today! I’ll be visiting vaccinated family tomorrow; I only found out today that my uncle, who I’ll be visiting tomorrow, had a heart attack last Tuesday. He sounded really tired when we called him up today to let him know we’re in town. Something tells me we will be taking it very easy with him tomorrow, and given he’s 97 there really is no hurry.

On a brighter note I can cross off eating Chipotle off my bucket list. It isn’t as good as the authentic stuff at home, but it’s waaay better than Taco Bell. They make really good fast mexican food; my only complaint would be the amount of salt they use. I had a taco salad with grilled steak. I crumbled their homemade tortilla chips and poured some of their hot sauce over it, and it was quite nom. As someone who has a PHD in hot sauce I can say it’s one of the best I’ve had, Taco Bell always had suck hot sauce, it was basically hot seasoned vinegar…

But if you’re ever near a Chipotle, you have to try it!

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Vacation Day 5: Yellowstone!

This is my second time back in Yellowstone, and yet it still feels like the first time. There is just so much sight seeing to take in! I went on an absolute hayday taking pictures, and I still haven’t even scratched the surface of its true beauty.

When leaving Yellowstone we were greeted by this piece of ass:

Of course the scenery is all fine and good, but the real reason to visit Wyoming isn’t for the Tetons or even Yellowstone, but rather to pay visitation Wyoming’s Sacred Shrine:

This Big Boy Statue sits alone in a field in Wyoming just outside of the town of Cody, and nobody knows how it fucking got there.

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Vacation Day 3: From Idaho To Wyoming

Traveled through Idaho today. It’s been very warm, summery weather for the entire trip so far.

While traveling, our eyes immediately were drawn to this mountain of numbers. I’m guessing local graduates have a tradition of covering the mountain with their graduation year, and if that’s the case this goes waaaaaaaaay back.

We made it to Wyoming this evening. Tomorrow we’ll be making our way to our next destination: Yellowstone. I didn’t get as many pictures as I liked last time, now I’ll have a couple of days to make up for it.

Vacation

It’s The Final Countdown!

I’m 98% packed and ready to go! I also tested a lot of low demand games to see how they would perform (don’t want anything to crash on launch). I have a little over a hundred in titles to keep me busy, if I feel the need to. I have the tablet ready to tackle other hobbies too, if for some reason I need to quickly edit a photo or a recording I’m prepared for that too. I’m actually kind of interested in how long it would take to render on a Surface Pro 6. I would be plugged into the car, so power wouldn’t be an issue. If it’s as painful as I think it is I will at least have my gaming laptop when we’re in the hotels. I could edit the files on the tablet and then pull them over to the laptop to render.

I suppose I should attempt to do that thing called sleep.

 

Animation / Hobbies

Cutting Off More Than I Can Show

The good news is that I finished putting the video together! The bad news is that in doing so I’ve uncovered a problem during editing; the video is too fucking short. The third Bayonetta video is about two and a half minutes total in length after editing out excess footage. This leaves me with no choice but to shelve the project until some other conditions are met first. That doesn’t mean the video is dead or anything, but it won’t be releasing this year. But hey, there are already the first two next month plus one on November (and hopefully December if I don’t go too insane).

Open Threads3

Evening Open Thread

Just need to get through one more work day and vacation mode can ensue! I’ll be focusing on packing, starting tomorrow. I’ve commandeered a smartphone (nothing fancy) and programmed it for hotspot use in case I want to check into Mumble, or search for some information about where we’re going, or any other stupid task my brain decides to conjure. I don’t see myself having to use it much, if anything I’ll probably be keeping myself busy on the tablet with other things.

Open Thread!

Animation / Hobbies

Project Diary: Sweet Success

Finished rendering in After Effects tonight. Tomorrow I’ll focus on adding it to the main project; and possibly doing some voice recording tomorrow. If I only have just the ending to take care of when I get back I’ll stand a good chance of having it done by or around Halloween.

Don’t worry… next week you won’t have to hear about any of this. 😛