Year-to-Date

My personal journal on a year-long delay.[These] are people, {These} are places.

[year-to-date]

12/8/17

Gonna cook lunch for my parents tomorrow when they bring my new bookshelves down; green chili and mac n' cheese. I'll need to stop off and get groceries after work.

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12/7/17

Nothing quite like another existential crisis to get ready for Christmas. I really do need to get my shit together in a big way if I'm actually going to make it back out to Denver in the near future. [A] asked me about that very thing last night and I dunno. I guess I need to get back on the job hunt or figure out some other way to leg it out there.

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12/6/17

I'm shocked at how little typing it takes nowadays to set [K]&[R] off. The slow season must have ruined their tolerance. It's gonna get good when the calls start coming in again.

Responses to their comments: * It's certainly being done on purpose now. Deal with it. * Address it then. * Keep talking and I'll keep typing. No problem.

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12/5/17

OF COURSE I get pulled into more shitty side-projects at work; more meaningless outreach. At least I've only got to make a few calls, but I have no idea why this is being put in my lap. I won't be doing any more after this. I outright refuse.

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12/4/17

I played The Beginner's Guide this weekend and WOW. I'm still (relatively?) fresh out of it, so I'm still working through a lot of my feelings on it, but it's made me think a lot on the imbalance between how I know I don't crave meaning from substance like this fictionalized Wreden and yet, like this version of him, I do pretty much exclusively base my self-image on external validation and have engaged in similarly toxic, manic behaviors in the past.

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12/1/17

One of my favorite music-based YouTube channels took down a whole bunch of their videos this week; said they were facing a copyright strike, but they're pretty sure its false. Hoping they move all those videos back to public soon; some of my favorite music of late was on their channel.

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11/30/17

The headset is fantastic! The bass is a little ridiculous with the bass boost on, but it fits well and sounds great. I was torn between this one and the Astro A10, but I think I made the right choice.

I wanna work on my various Pathfinder campaigns today but I don't know what I want to add. Really, I just want to flesh them out some more. We'll see if I get anything done.

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11/29/17

I forgot to mention it, but obviously I cashed in on the Black Friday/Cyber Monday discounts online. Got all my holiday shopping done -and- picked up some things for myself. Got my parents an HD Roku stick, [W] some official University of Alabama shirts, [C] some of her favorite candles, and [A] both Grim Dawn and Slime Rancher. As for myself, I got Subsurface Circular, Dropsy, Hollow Knight, and the Beginner's Guide. Only really got my claws into Subsurface Circular, which is pretty darn neat, if short as heck.

[A] also finally pressured me into buying Overwatch since it was wildly discounted down to $20. The lootboxes are still gross but the gameplay is solid, as expected. We've been playing quite a bit.

Also picked up a new headset for myself--a Hyper X Cloud. Less because I wanted it and more because my garbage Logitech G430 is already dead.

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11/28/17

Falling down the Feminist rabbit hole on YouTube today; I'll probably wind up unsubbing from the people I've found; no doubt they're painfully liberal.

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11/27/17

I'm gonna reiterate something I posted on Facebook here: I just realized that once this repeal of net neutrality goes through (and obviously it will), there are many individuals I'll never speak to again because they can't afford the cynically priced entry fee into our mutual internet spaces as well as entire beloved online communities that will immediately cease to exist as they're walled off and scrubbed away by corporations who have no one stopping them from doing so.

As an addendum: I think that once this does go through, I might go full Luddite and disconnect entirely. I don't know that I'd want to use the throttled, bastardized version of the internet as it will exist after this corporatizing of a once free resource.

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11/22/17

I'm embarking on a quest to find one specific fail video; a guy, offroad biking, tries to go in between two trees. However, at the last minute, he turns his front wheel, which catches on both trunks, and sends himself flying over the handlebars. No clue where it is, but I NEED IT.

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11/21/17

Jesus this week is trickling by as slow as possible. Not a lot to report on, but I am working on a categorized and prioritized list of what elements make up the 'soulslike' genre. A similar list was done for the roguelikes, so I figured why not.

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11/20/17

Long, boring day. Of note, though, I got a free food processor from [L]! That was pretty neat. Now maybe I can get to making some jerk chicken.

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11/17/17

Transferred my license back to AL for a while--mainly so I could register to vote. While I don't give a shit about the Alabama Dems, I'd rather some generic, do-nothing Democrat get elected than Roy fucking Moore.

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11/16/17

I'm getting in that manic state where I want to be working on something and I don't have anything to dig my claws into. I think this is the worst part of these ruts. I've even tried picking up older projects and tinkering with them, but nothing's coming of it, as per usual.

On a completely different note, I don't know if I can support the Liberal Redneck crew too much longer. I've been trying to catch up with their podcast of late and they've cozied up with a few too many pro-Capitalist fence-riders for my liking. Every now and then they take potshots at communism/socialism too. Not a fan.

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11/15/17

{C} did their annual Thanksgiving lunch today and it was about the same as I remember it. Nothing special, not too bad.

Watched a LOT of SJW-type videos today--specifically ones about right-wing tactics, vocabulary, and the history of the online right.

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11/14/17

Apparently [A] needs surgery. He's gone in for it already. Here's hoping he's done with it after this.

I'm getting into a creative rut again. I've been tinkering with a few things lately, but I haven't made anything new in months. I hate getting into these states and there's no reliable way for me to get out of it.