You do have a point

The more I learn about local flora and fauna the more this hurts

I recently found a berry bush while on a trail of a kind of berry I hadn’t seen in years

It was bitter sweet

More options is always good (they can miss me with that gen AI trash though)

I wonder how easy it is to use compared to GIMP or Krita?

(I still suck with Krita but that’s a me thing lol)

The shaft was only a 7.3?!?

Well we know what they’re into…

My favorite is when I go through this, think I didn’t make it, then open the microwave to see my cup of now cold tea.

Magma is stored in the balls I see

That explains a lot

The first draft is stream of consciousness

Just hammer it out until it is done

Sentence structure? Doesn’t matter.

Punctuation? If you feel like it.

Spelling? Fcuk it, wing it.

Do the editing and later

Think of the first draft as a rough hunk of marble you carve out of a mountain. You bring it back to the shop to do roughing passes until you can find David within.

Literally this last weekend I hammered out 10,000ish words in one of the many story projects I’m working on. I’ll finish one at some point, I just need to stop hammering these things out at 2am when I need to get up at 9am.

After awhile it’s cozy y’know?

The roar of heavy machinery whirring away for 9+ hours a day, pulsing at thousands of RPM, the calm of solving puzzles in the chaos… it’s peaceful.

The news folks always ask me how I keep my sanity in all the noise and chaos, and it always makes me laugh. It takes a special kind of crazy to do my job for as long as I have and it shows.

Every day loading and unloading trucks with 60 other forklifts all blasting around on a dock with only 130 doors while going 8mph. It rains, you get wet. It snows, you plow through it. It’s 100F outside, it’s 110F on the dock and 120F in the trailers. The sun rises, you get to watch it rise over the snowy mountains. The sun sets, you get to watch it over the water.

It’s not for everyone, but damn can it be right for the right kinda of people.

NGL it really is

Plus you get the perks of doing them with other people, which is hella nice

I’m trying, honest!

I just get paralyzed right as I try to start!

It fucking hurts when I finish a day, can’t muster the energy to start on one of my projects, then just sit there hating myself while I waste another day doing shit I don’t enjoy (scrolling memes) rather than doing something I do enjoy (ANY OF MY GOD DAMNED HOBBIES!)

Tomorrow though, tomorrow I’m starting a print job for film holders for my new (to me) 4x5 camera and hell or high water putting at least one brush stroke on my Orc Marauders Battle Truck model (it’s for One Page Rules, an approachable tabletop war game)

And the overwhelming urge to take a nap before the dryer is done rocking.

I eventually got a second bed set just to help me out on that front

But unfortunately they’ve got a different thread count so they have a different skin feel then the old ones so I absolutely can’t mix the sheets with the other ones because the difference is too jarring

Not to mention also hoping that it doesn’t just bounce out of your brain when the next thought pops in

I agree, my source? Every time I try to lift a cat off of my lap or off of a surface they’re not supposed to be on.

NGL though sitting under a tree and watching the clouds drift by in this state is pretty nice

It’s like I shift into a different gear.

The chaos in my head falls silent.

The cool of the shade I’m sitting in, the whisper of the wind in the grass and leaves, the chill of the grass on my skin and the soft caress of the wind in my hair, the soft smells of earth and damp moss, the sight of the clouds twisting upon themselves.

The clouds dancing to the sounds of the wind.

It’s a moment of peace before something pulls me back.

Another good day to live on the West Coast of the US I see.

Damn am I happy to live over here.

But how will I then hang my coat?

My main gaming rig is my last system not running Linux right now, I’ve been migrating my stuff over on my other systems for a couple months now (I keep getting distracted lol)

But not that I’ve got alts for the software I normally use on my main rig it’s finally time, 2 months ahead of schedule.

If the survey hit for me 1 week from now I’d be on Linux, I’m literally setting my system up properly next Saturday

Jokes on you I nest those things too (sometimes sentances need some extra extra (like this one))

I’m sorry but this is the way it has to be

grabs pitchfork and torch

Nothing personal