The Frigatebird And The Partial Eclipse may be even cooler though!

The Frigatebird And The Diamond Ring may be even cooler though!

I'm sitting on the train. Listening to Jocko Podcast #249. About Face. Eight hours to Stockholm from Åre. Five to go. Sipping my second cup of coffee currently. Had sandwiches and fruit for lunch, and some somewhat sweet but also notably nutritious no-bake RAW food Raspberry crumble.

Figured I'd blog a bit in transit, cause as soon as I'm back home it's game time again.

The Flash Forward Jam's in eight days. I have a flight to Boden in four. I'll be working at least two of the four remaining days before then, and before I leave I'd best be done with my part of that game!

I'll be back the afternoon of deadline day, if there's anything that still needs adjusting then, but I'm hopeful - hopefully after I've done some of these animation dues tomorrow I'll also be confident - that I'll be done with my part before the next trip awaits.

I managed almost everything I wanted to manage before I was off on this current one, hopefully the code's all done by now, and what remains for me now is simply to animate in walk and jump animations, tweak the interface a little more, and if time allows maybe redo a kick.

Maybe no kick. I'm not confident there'll be time over for that bit - but for essential MCs and other final interface edits and adjustments...

Needless to say I won't be doing a lot of blogging next week, the week after I should be back to the usual grind, and the next project, a little something for Pico Day! Calmer days, no gauze or haze... for a while. Before summer come and I up and run!!! This season really does get kinda stressful...

Åre was great y'all. I'll post pictures sometime. Maybe right below this text right here when I'm back and at it again, and there's time to spare...

Read on...

It's been two Fridays already huh? Time passeth all too quickly...

I've been pondering:

1. Posting a lot more code-related tidbits on the blog, that amounted during recent code-related endevours.
2. Reviewing the cars I've been driving the past few months, in relation to work/these code-related endeavors (so far a Volvo X40, X60, Polestar 2, the newest Ford Focus, Toyota RAV 4...)
3. Starting up a dev blog of sorts, and going through code I'm currently working on in detail, as to also better commit it to memory.
4. Start blogging more about travel, and post some pics from these trips and journeys. Like a Motala recap, cause that was pretty cool.
5. Blog more about food, and review some of the restaurants I've been to during the past few months due to all these recent work and code-related endevours...
6. Polish up a few hundred regular movie reviews and get those posted too, but that currently seems somewhat unrealistic.
7. Just stop blogging. Focus on other things.

I don't really want to stop though, I want more time, I want to be more productive, I want to live free and spontaneous again and feel like days are long and never end, and that I can do what I want with them, and manage more with them than I ever thought was possible, yet instead I keep currently coming back to the common and recently developed 'no time' catchphrase when someone calls for collaboration or other conversational effort...

I have jumped on a couple of concurrent collabs, though.

I'm working on a game for the Flash Jam on NG currently - with a mystery coder - and learning a bit more about ActionScript while I'm at it. Though my focus be graphics/verse.

I'll be throwing together something for Pico Day with another mystery musician, though that's currently far into the future. Like next month. Gah.

I want to jump on more! I want to do more! I want to go so hard I have to crawl through these doors on all fours when I go out on my walks, and live life like a (productivity) monster till they line me down in chalk! Not just sit here rhyme and gawk! Go haywire! Say fire! Fire up those thoughts! Lightning-type these fingers! Don't linger here distraught! Be bringer of the rain when they singeth of the drought!

So yeah, I wanna get more done. I'm working on it. Bout to take a brisk walk in a minute so that I may then make the most of this current day, and here's a pretty cool picture of a mountain and a moon in Turin, Italy, last year. Props Valerio Minato.

I did not forget to post this year! But I am late posting... I was planning to have this up yesterday, when suddenly contact forms on my sister's business site stopped working, and I realized the service I use for both hers and my own was down, and probably wouldn't be back up for some time - it's been badly maintained for a long time now - so I started looking for new alternatives, and the night grew late, and I was in the middle of a movie so after that...

Anyway, I baked my own semlor this year. Mom contributed the paste. They turned out great.

Even better than last year... I think? Not sure. Last year was good too. Definitely better than the year prior... I think? The first one there was pretty good too, recent years have been pretty on point really, when did I last have a bad semla...

On with traditions anyhow! And did you know Mardi Gras is actually French for Fat Tuesday?! We're celebrating the same thing! In very different ways. With very different cakes. And very different levels of... existence spiff and craze.

Anyways, Happy (slightly belated only in posting) Fat Tuesday y'all.

Good day. Had a leftover one today too.

Even got some sunshine today! :D Never mind the chips. Better pictures.