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I am tired.
I've felt pretty lethargic for most of this week, and my sleep hasn't been particularly good or consistent this week.
These definitely look like signs of depression, but I swear I'm not in a funk or anything... no, I just keep making bad decisions, staying up super late with my friends. Also, it's been getting warmer, and the heat always slows things down.
Also, I'm annoyed that the special Atari ST video cable hasn't arrived yet. I don't have a tracking number, but it's not worth bothering the seller on eBay about it because eBay has estimated it will arrive sometime before next Wednesday. Meaning: I don't have anything to complain about until after next Wednesday. It can't come soon enough, though. I wanna take it for an honest spin!
My break in a couple of weeks is going to be super welcome. I'll be busy for a bunch of it (it's the Popular Culture Association annual conference) but it should mostly be relaxing.
Maybe another nap is really all that I need right now.
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I know that I wasn't feeling too great on Friday, but thankfully, this weekend was actually very, very good. I feel that I've patched up, for lack of a better term -- even though I wasn't super broken to begin with.
Er, I don't think so, at least.
Some highlights:
Tomorrow is Monday, which begins my last week before my little vacation. I can make it through!
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Yesterday was pretty intense, haha. *OF COURSE* the day I had to walk all over the neighborhood was, like, literally the hottest day of the year.
I walk to the cafe, I walk back. My boss (of sorts) tells me that I have to ship a package, like, today. He'll generate a shipping label for me and I have to FedEx it off. Trouble is, I don't have a printer. So I decide to take this opportunity to buy one (I was planning on waiting on that for a YouTube-related thing, but, oh well, when push comes to shove and all that). So I walk to Best Buy, got a Lyft back (I wasn't carrying the heavy box all the way back).
I walk to Walgreens to pick up some packing supplies, I walk back. I finish packing up the box, then I walk back to Walgreens (with the box!) -- all of this in 85+ F weather. I go to the park around the corner from Walgreens and I just lie down in the shadow of a tree and zone out for a bit. Damn.
I know this post is kinda rambling, but, like, that was a *fucking* day. High stress and time pressure and the heat was literally cranked up, too.
Glad it's over.
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Honestly not too much to write about. I've been having a blast at the Popular Culture Association conference!
Now that I have finally given my presentation, I am at long last going to give myself permission to share the paper online. I'll upload it here and I do plan on making a video essay version and sharing that on YouTube.
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Easter was fun, I got to see my family and my cousin's new house, very cool.
Went back to work today, thus concluding my break. As always, I wish I got more work done in the day.
I've been studying Uxn in detail -- that little virtual CPU made by the 100 Rabbits gang -- with the intention of porting it to the Atari ST. I think I can get it to work very well. That would be a really fun thing to demonstrate once it's finished!
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The main thing to report today is that I'm reading _Hollow Kingdom_ by Kira Jane Buxton and I'm *totally* into it.
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Definitely the coolest thing I did today was porting Overgrowth to NetBSD!
Somehow I didn't catch the announcement from Wolfire Games the moment it happened (I'm even in their Discord server) but when I learned about it this morning, I *knew* I had to do it. I figured it was *doable* at the very least, because the game is already for Mac-Windows-Linux, and it doesn't have any strange or exotic dependencies. And Wolfire had already set a precedent with releasing Lugaru as open source, so I kinda-sorta knew what to expect.
The end result is fairly hacky -- lots and LOTS of #ifdefs -- but it does work and I am able to do some nontrivial things in-game. It's a bit unstable at runtime, though -- not sure if it's because of the code, or my hacks, or the fact my NetBSD/amd64 machine is not the newest machine ever.
Looking forward to getting my efforts upstreamed!