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Today was a lot better. The guys on my team who usually cause problems for various reasons all got their stuff done today, without hurling insults at one another (or yelling about each other to me). There are some things we cannot 100% know worked until tomorrow morning, but at least we didn't hear of any disasters, so that's progress! The last couple of months have been such a horrible cycle of releasing work, realizing after the fact that someone forget to check something properly, and then having to scramble to deal with the fallout, over and over and over again. So a quiet day is absolutely welcome.
Was kinda bummed out after work, though. It's still pretty cold, and I'd planned to make some chili. Second time in the last three weeks though that I opened a can of kidney beans to find they'd already gone nasty. Obviously whoever is supplying these things to my local supermarket isn't doing a great job. Still make some rice and what amounted to fake meat-and-chili sauce anyway. The fake meat's pretty good, but it doesn't satisfy the way the real thing did, and without the beans, the whole thing lacks that real *meal* feeling, you know? God this is so boring.
Also managed to stay away from screens after work yesterday! Went and had band practice instead. We've been having trouble with our old, third-hand mixer for a while now, and we just bought a new one, so I stayed behind after with one of the others to set it up and test everything out. Really excited to mess around with it more, the software has a ton of effects and cool shit built into it, and it's been so long since I got to do some real audio stuff that I'm already having a blast.
Knocked down another couple bosses in Nioh 3, too. I'm pretty sure I'm about to clear the first map. Still think it's great, and really hoping my gut instinct about it being too easy isn't how the wider community feels. 2026 is shaping up to be such a packed year for games, didn't think I'd have much of a shot at getting this done before Resident Evil comes out, but the week head star might be enough.
Was kinda bummed out after work, though. It's still pretty cold, and I'd planned to make some chili. Second time in the last three weeks though that I opened a can of kidney beans to find they'd already gone nasty. Obviously whoever is supplying these things to my local supermarket isn't doing a great job. Still make some rice and what amounted to fake meat-and-chili sauce anyway. The fake meat's pretty good, but it doesn't satisfy the way the real thing did, and without the beans, the whole thing lacks that real *meal* feeling, you know? God this is so boring.
Also managed to stay away from screens after work yesterday! Went and had band practice instead. We've been having trouble with our old, third-hand mixer for a while now, and we just bought a new one, so I stayed behind after with one of the others to set it up and test everything out. Really excited to mess around with it more, the software has a ton of effects and cool shit built into it, and it's been so long since I got to do some real audio stuff that I'm already having a blast.
Knocked down another couple bosses in Nioh 3, too. I'm pretty sure I'm about to clear the first map. Still think it's great, and really hoping my gut instinct about it being too easy isn't how the wider community feels. 2026 is shaping up to be such a packed year for games, didn't think I'd have much of a shot at getting this done before Resident Evil comes out, but the week head star might be enough.
