13th

  Hello. Merry belated Christmas, happy belated New Year. I hope everyone had as good of a holiday season as they could manage. Oh yea, also my birthday got skipped over. Oops.

  What have I been doing all this time? Well, a lot of Arma 3. Recently I really got into Ostranauts, the space sandbox made by Blue Bottle Games, of NEO Scavenger fame. If you liked the game part of SS13 or the Save Our Ship mod for Rimworld, Ostranauts is your game. It has ruined my sleep schedule and absorbed hours of my life like both of the aforementioned games did. I've had it since the 20th of December and already put 130 hours into it. There was also the Project Zomboid b42 unstable drop, which is cool, though I'll wait for it to get further along. I played some Webfishing in October-November and hosted some lobbies for /vm/, which was pretty fun. Also got back into Halls of Torment for a bit since I hadn't touched the 1.0 update yet. I think I can remember some Vintage Story around July, and Steam is telling me Valheim was played in September, which feels like a very long time ago.

  Non-gaming pursuits have seen me start modding Arma 3, because I found things that were very easy changes that add to variety and flexibility. I'm on hiatus from modding because configs were hard to learn and I don't want to subject myself to them for a while. The Arma 3 tools are so fucked. It got me into using Krita instead of paint.net, just because Krita comes with more Photoshop-like features that I couldn't find good plugins for on paint.net. I also started intermittent fasting, two days a week of 600 calories or less. Otherwise I've been mostly burning time on Youtube or listening to music, also looking for new music. My sister asked for her sewing machine back so I haven't been able to do as much sewing as I'd have liked, just some small repairs.

  I can't really remember what I got for my birthday, which saddens me. I think it was just a pair of slippers and a little cash. However, I finally made time to get some pictures of the Christmas gifts.

  In order, these are 3 US MREs, two MRE trays of sweet things, a Spanish individual combat ration, 3 Magpul TMAGs, a model kit for the Ingram from Patlabor, and a pair of boots from Jim Green, the Barefoot African Troopers. There was also a US MORE(Modular Operational Ration Enhancement) but I already eated it. I love Zapplesauce and the First Strike bars too much for their survival. We had to send the pair of boots I got on Christmas back so I could get a size lower. Walking in a proper pair of tall boots like this is odd, I've only really had boots that are very flexible at the ankle. Also them being barefoot is weird but I haven't had enough walking time in them to form an opinion, even if I think the barefoot concept is cool. They do look slightly clown-shoe-y, but what can you do.

  I have made the decision to move out of my parents house. I'm moving in with a friend in Texas, and I'm not going to be able to bring a lot, mostly furniture though. I'm gonna miss this state, but it's not like I'm never coming back. I'm gonna miss a lot of things. I can't bring any furniture and there's a lot of things I'm going to have to leave, but I have a lot of clothes and other things I have to sort through soon. I feel this is the best thing for me going forward. I'm going stir crazy, especially since my car broke last year and I can't just go out to the trail and walk. That's just one reason, I don't want to get into all of it. My parents are happy for me.

  There's a lot of excuses I could make for not doing any blogs for, shit, almost eight months. In that time I've thought about whether I even want to keep the blog up, with very personal information connected to a handle I use other places. Even now I'm running it through my head on whether it's something I should do. I don't know. All the stuff I'd want to remove is probably already scraped and on Wayback anyways. I'm trying to stop apologizing for things profusely, so I won't apologize for not updating in that time. I won't try to explain or excuse myself either, except to say that the blame does fall directly on me for a lot of the time I wasn't putting words to page.

  I don't know how to end this. The future of the blog is uncertain, but favors normality. Peace be with you and yours.