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Sunday, Game Night and Preparations

I am making sure the battery is charged for my Christmas chainsaw. All so I can head on down to MeMum's tomorrow and help her be rid of some overgrowth in the way of other things.

The plus side is that she finally has the other side of her insurance claim finalised. Just one more room to go and all is theoretically well.

just in time for the next flood season

Fingers crossed, all the measures put in so far will prevent a subsequent disaster. Fingers crossed, any remaining funds from the house fix will pay for the landscaping to direct any water away from causing further harm. Fingers crossed, we won't have another flood season like 2012.

That's a lot of crossed fingers. But at least my chainsaw and I can help MeMum get rid of branches and suchlike that she'd otherwise have trouble with. And helping her reconnect all her tech following her computer room fix.

Tomorrow, I'm off to help her with that stuff and nonsense, first thing. So the daily tale will be delayed significantly.

Best to get on with this one.

Saturday, Parkrun and Testing Cycle

I think I have finally made all the stopgap functions for Pseuducku and, if it all works, I will have a HTML version to put up on the development log. Finally, an interactive experience... but not much of one.

Gotta acknowledge my limits, you know.

I have added gel pads to my super foot-friendly shoes, and I think it's made a difference. So too has swapping the side I use my cane on until my other heel stopped whinging about things.

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Friday, Still Unfucking My Feet

I'm getting weird stabbing pains in the back of my right heel when I bend over to pick up things from floor level. My physio recommended extra padding on the relevant shoe and keeping up with the cold soaks. As well as all the stretchies, of course.

...I keep forgetting my wrist stretchies and I should be making myself get back onto that. I just have to catastrophise not doing it like I did for the foot stretchies.

If it's silly and

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Thursday, Forgotten Blog and Shopping

I need to be positive. I need to share the love. With that in mind, I will make some time to talk about my favourite Pratchett book - Nation.

Everything output-related is delayed today because Firefox obliterated my tab hoard. I have the barest necessities back, and that's a start. But damnit, it hurts every time.

And it still firkin crashes my compy when I try to upload a pic using Firefox -_-

Everything I post that wants an image is

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Wednesday, Rant Due and Physio

I will probably get to the rant after my physio appointment, today. Which rescheduled three times yesterday. No word of a lie.

And speaking of alterations to things, I had to remove the brackets from the title of this year's anthology because they want the cover and the words in the title to match. Fucking. Hell.

Also, Smashwords and Draft2Digital are doing affiliate links for profit reasons and they were the LAST non-evil self-publishing venue I had. Powers damn it.

The sooner

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Tuesday, Patreon, Feet, and Shopping

I have enough stability in my feet to actually go out for supplies. Which is a good thing, because we need them. I just need to put on my other knee before I take off, and have ice prepped for the return. We have a stock, so in theory I should be fine.

In theory.

BUT the cats need food and I need a few things here and there and yes, I will probably suffer for it. Needs must be done and

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Monday, Continuing Nonsense

Miss Chaos' first mission was a clusterfuck. She got to the 7-11 all right but had issues bringing the ice back. Someone there offered to help, but she misunderstood, handed him the milk crate, the ice, and the bungee cords and then took off for home.

Sigh.

We're going to have to get that kid a definite basket for her bike.

7-11 doesn't want to get involved, the police won't care. So my last hope is an appeal on Facebook.

I'm honestly

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Sunday, Game Cancelled Because Feet

I did get the branches away from the fenceline. The downside of this is that I ruined my feet in the process. Following parkrun, I could not walk very far, very well. It hurt a LOT. So I had to cancel the international VTTRPG sesh so I could spend some extra hours off those feet in the hopes that rest would help a little.

I plan on using my foot-friendly sandshoes as slippers today, as well as doing everything I can to

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Saturday, Parkrun and Publishing PLNs

I have everything together, I am going to make myself put out last year's anthology today. I have the technology.

I just need to remember everything I need.

I should be fine.

I have to soak my feet in cooled water because swelling issues and I also have to keep off my feet for as long as humanly possible until further notice.

Fun stuff.

Not so much time for handicrafty projects with power tools. OTOH more time for messing around with GameMaker.

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Friday, Physio and PLNs

I need to get Sillicea pills so my knees won't get worse. I also have to see my Physio today. So that gives me a chance to go place and acquire thing all in one trip.

I couldn't find a tutorial on text boxes that I could understand, so I tried to improvise one and I'll be testing that and finding out what the hell I need to do to make it work properly.

I will therefore, eventually, understand text boxes and

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Thursday, I Got This

I have CachyBrowser loaded up and ready for me to do the daily tale. I know where the tutorial is for GameMaker. I've done my foot stretchies and about to start my wrist stretchies.

I also have a cyclone headache and am waiting for the painkillers to kick in.

I've downloaded two fonts for the cover of the anthology, so the newest variant is going to look super cool. At least after I figure out how to add fonts to my system.

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Wednesday, Unfucking Journey

I currently can't upload images from my compy without borking my entire internet connection, my browser, or my compy. Apparently, it's a Firefox bug or its add-ons.

In the meantime, I'll be working on my image posts on CachyBrowser.

I have quite a few appointments upcoming, this week, and PLNs to go shopping today and get some supplies. For which I need to consult the rest of the fam.

It's been a thorough TRIAL trying to unriddle my technical issues that have

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Tuesday, Pitchathon and Patreon

There's an event on Bluesky called #2025Pit in which authors give their elevator pitch to the app in the hopes of picking up representation.

I pitched: Adapting, B'Nar, Clockwork Souls, Beauties and the Beastly, and ADT because why not?

I have found a video tutorial for pop-up text windows for GameMaker, and I will be using that for a default error message first.

Then putting that into each and every function call so that the WIP will not have any errors for

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Monday, Public Holiday and Procrastination

There's only one thing standing in the way of me publishing last year's anthology - and that's getting Lunacy to open the old *.sketch files. Which no other app can open.

So far, I just have the spinny wheel of doom.

I will eventually figure out SOMETHING. Same with my efforts to get things to happen in GameMaker.

I am rapidly oscillating between, "I've got this," and "I am a clueless, talentless blob of glorp."

Today's a 'glorp' day but I'm going

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Sunday, Game Night and Exhaustion Points

Lots of laughs in the game tonight. The adopted Goblin became a level one barbarian with some adjusted statistics because toddler Goblin. All toddlers are barbarians. Fight me.

Despite having a post-game nap, I'm still bloody tired, today. I'll see how I feel by 5PM, when the heat allegedly starts to wane from the day and we'll theoretically be able to do more strategic pruning.

I'm still studying how to make pop-up windows in GameMaker, and I might try a couple of

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