TheWanderingWeasel is working on an RPG and would like some help with coding stuff. That kinda thing is beyond my abilities, but I figured I'd try to help out by maybe finding peeps smarter than I.
Look here: https://www.furaffinity.net/journal/10389665/

2021 has finally ended it's reign of terror. And now we have begun a happy Newt Year for us all!

A couple little things to brighten your day...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IUeFRJxQ-Y8 for freshness, or if that's not your speed,
how about https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0Md_MlC8Hc for some raw emotion.

Yes I know these are quite popular already, I just wanted to post something.

newt-noot

People wanna make themes for months, but nobody seems to be promoting the most obvious theme for August -- FROGust!

So very recently, like in the past month or so, there has been an explosion of interest in a book called All Tomorrows. Now, I like the book. From what I can remember, it's a bit all over the place and oddly structured from a narrative perspective, but definitely an interesting scifi speculative thing. I suppose if you can read and actually appreciate The Silmarillion, you'd be able to jump from fantasy to scifi and enjoy this one too.

But like.... Why now?

This sudden interest in a 15 year old story seems stranger than the rise of |Among Us which happened like 2 years after it's release.

I find all the interest, as well as many of the comments, essays, and videos to be entertaining and also a bit inspiring, like if I actually bothered to finish any creative thing and put it out there for people, eventually it would be discovered, even years later.

My once-beautiful legs are now maimed, blistered, burned, and blemished. They may never be beautiful again!

A couple weeks ago as I was working and mapping an easement through a forest, I apparently walked through a patch of small Giant Hogweed plants. The oil on the plants got through the material of my pants and made contact with my skin, and I was not fast enough to make it back to my vehicle and disrobe. Obviously I did this anyway, and slathered alcohol gel all over my legs to hopefully stop the reaction, but it had already begun! If I was wearing shorts like I usually do, I would've required hospitalization.The only reason I had long pants on anyway, was because I assumed the bugs were going to be horrible since it rained recently (they were horrible).

So I guess I learned something. Maybe. Probably not.
I still hate pants.

Maybe someday we will need them again. I pray by that time, we will have the technology to rebuild them harder, better, faster, stronger than before!

I'm gonna go listen to the Tron Legacy soundtrack now.

Hmmm.... it would seem I am still alive...
Oh well, I guess I'll continue.

Tonight was the perfect night for trick-or-treating, but the worst year for Halloween. The weather was perfect, nice and cool so I wasn't overheating or sweating as I took my godson and his friend trick-or-treating. No strong winds, no rain or snow, and best part: a big bright full moon. Unfortunately this is 2020, so most homes don't have any decorations up, no jack-o-lanterns, no candy. The effort of dressing up and going out seemed almost wasted. After 2 1/2 hours of mostly wandering, I took the kids to a party and that was that. I got home after 9pm and saw that the candy I left at my front door was all mostly still there. I had a line of small jack-o-lanterns and orange lights up to my front door where I had a pumpkin-shaped bowl filled with Reese's cups.
The lack of participation tonight killed a part of my soul.
And yes, we were all being very safe tonight cuz we all had gloves and masks on.

As anyone that knows me personally would be able to attest, I am what you may call a "bad friend" because I may go for weeks or even months without talking to a person. I have been simultaneously labelled as "uncaring/unreliable/distant" by some, and as "dependable/responsible" by some others. For the past few weeks I have been helping a friend of mine with a large personal project. This seems to fit the idea of the behaviour of a "good friend" except that prior to this project, I actively sought to cut all communication with this guy (and largely succeeded) for the past THREE YEARS. The thing is, I chose to cut them out of my life because I thought they were dragging me down, and now I've learned they've turned practically everything around and become a better person. And now, after working with them for a few weeks and learning about events I missed out on, I realize how much I missed being around them. Worse than that, I feel like I abandoned them. Many of the things I was angry about 3 years ago can now be applied AGAINST me, yet they've made no accusations. They seem genuinely happy that I am in their life when they need help, and yet when I was going through the same situation, I had only resentment and bitterness.

When my life was affected by a parent's death and other responsibilities emerged alongside other bad news, my response was a desire to abandon everything and everyone around me. But for someone else, they reached out and asked for help. Over the past few weeks I learned this guy (whom I thought was garbage) worked hard in my absence and became a more accomplished person than I have been, and he did it all without me there to enable his more self-destructive tendencies.

Now I feel conflicted because a former friend wants me in their life, but I think they're better without me. But hanging around them reminded me of what I missed for the past few years. I guess I need to be a completely different person from HOW I was, while still being the same person WHO I was years ago.

this is a fancy kickstarter thing that has already succeeded in getting funded, but in its final week, I'm hoping it can reach at least one stretch goal.
https://www.furaffinity.net/view/37473597/
I know I'd watch a series of this!

For people that may know me half-decently, they know my memory is terrible.
For the past few years especially, I've made it known to coworkers and neighbours and new friends (?) that I have completely zero sense of time, and that I only know of when things happen by reminding myself of where I was when such things happened. This means most events in my life can be narrowed down to blocks of time spanning roughly 4 years.
Clearly this is not ideal.
I also know I should REALLY pay more attention to the passage of time for quite a few reasons, but that's not how my mind seems to want to work. In fact, I believe my mind is getting worse at retaining information based on dates, as a few birthdays have come up recently, and I've been getting them confused with birthdays of people who have not been alive for quite a few years. This would be worrisome to me, but I have a few other things of greater concern to focus on.
For some people on here, please know that if it seems I have forgotten about you, chances are pretty good I have not, I just can't discern time properly, and a lack of communication for a couple years might only register to me as a few weeks. I'm not even exaggerating.
If I don't write things down and leave them in very obvious places, I am not likely to forget about many important things like appointments and birthdays and the like, but I probably will forget when those things occur in relation to the present date.
Also I'm quite bad at remembering faces AND names, but that's probably an unrelated issue.

Boosty thing for  KaayuNakaKazu who is doing a freebie thing on twitch at some point, so follow and submit SFW refs and watch!
https://www.furaffinity.net/journal...../#cid:57236146

** This is mostly sarcastic, but also ranty **

This coronoavirus thing is seriously the WORST apocalypse ever! Hollywoo promised me zombies or cataclysms that would hit hard and fast! Instead, people are just staying home and hoarding toilet paper! Like seriously! What kinda rapture can be stopped by using soap and NOT LICKING PEOPLE? A PATHETIC ONE. Maybe I'm just bitter because last year, the province downgraded the category of my job, resulting in reduced benefits and probably a tax break for the company's CEO.; Yet a week ago I was deemed an ESSENTIAL worker, so the world is shutting down and I'm still working outside 6 days a week, 10 to 14 hours a day.

WORST.
APOCALYPSE.
EVER.

...when you find an artist on Twitter/DA/FA/Weasyl/etc who has beautiful linework, awesome colours, and a great style overall, but you despise the subject matter.

UGH! Their talents are wasted on things I personally don't like! Now if you'll excuse me, I'll be getting back to not anything artistic.

For the past few weeks I've been staying in a hotel in another city for work during the week, and only return home for the weekends. Everytime I return from being away for a few days, I am greeted by bad news.
3 weeks ago, I arrived home to find out my aunt was in the hospital for some pretty serious problems. She's been released now, but for a few weeks, things were not so promising.
2 weeks ago I got home to the news I'd be working out of town the following week, thereby missing Halloween. My favourite holiday and I'd have to miss it because of work. And that was ontop of the continuing situation concerning my aunt (she was released from hospital the day before Halloween though).
Last Friday when I got home, I found out that my basement flooded and I spent the entirety of the weekend fixing a punp, cleaning out the stagnant water and removing drywall that was damaged.
Today when I got home, I found out my car died. Well, not the whoel car, just the brakes. Brakes are kinda important though, and I've been trying to save up money to get a new car. I don't have enough for that, so it seems I'll have to pay to fix this junker which will delay the purchase of a decent reliable car.
I've got one more week working in another city and staying in a hotel. I am afraid of what will happen next Friday...