There was a time when I might have been bothered by not posting on time on an arbitrary schedule. I don't think I'm like that any more, which i guess is an improvement. To explain, I was doing this on Wednesdays to keep myself doing it, but to be honest this week I just wasn't up to it. You see I've got an infected tooth and most of the week I was either worried about the swelling in my face or tired from fighting the infection with the aid of some antibiotics. Long story short, brush your teeth and when your mouth hurts make a dental appointment, otherwise you lose a tooth.
I've made a little bit of progress is thinking about the visual novel i'd like to write. I've never made one before but i know that there are some engines out there that will allow me to create what i want without having to learn too much programming or starting completely from scratch. I think in the end it may be more of a kinetic novel rather than a true VN because with the story i think i want to tell there isn't much leeway for choices to be made. It will be a fictionalized story, rather than a fictional one, if that makes any sense. I don't want to give too much about it away just in case i end up actually making it. Ruining the story's ending before i actually write it would be sort of a lame start.
My technical projects haven't really gone anywhere, but with the projects I've completed that's not really that bad. There are a couple of machines I need to fix and a tablet that needs a new micro usb port so I can extract some pictures for my grandpa, but other than that I really don't have very many things i'm currently working on. The only other project I have going on is on hold due to funding.
I've been digitizing the pictures my mother has at home in albums and things and uploading them to google photos and sharing them back out so they have digital copies of their old pictures. That part is mostly done so I can sell the scanner i bought for the project, except for the sketchbook i used to have in high school that I'm still working on getting scanned in. The next part is digitizing the old camcorder tapes my dad shot when we were little. He's passed away now and has been for a long time, so seeing him and hearing him again has been a little difficult. He wasn't a bad person, he was a wonderful father, but having not seen nor heard him in 20 years or so affects a person. Anyway the only way i can digitize the camcorder tapes is to buy a camera that can read them. We had a couple of VHS tapes that were easy enough, but the Hi-8 analog tapes can only be played by a camera. Or a 500 dollar Hi-8 player. The cameras on ebay are all a little out my current price range, so I'm just saving to be able to do that. Camcorder plus Composite to HDMI adapter to avermedia capture card makes the process pretty easy, the only hard part is buying the camera i need.
I've thought about streaming. I want to stream playing games and talking, but I'm not very good at just talking. I spend most of my work day talking, but it's in a different light, and on the phone. Other than this space there isn't anywhere for me to just talk, so i generally dont. I dont think what i have to say means anything, or is interesting enough to attract people to watch and listen. I certainly dont think that anything i have to say would teach anyone anything about what i'm doing at all, i mean who am i to try and tell someone tips and tricks?
There has been some thought to using this blog to sort of document some of my projects. I worry a lot that if that's what i ed up doing it would just come off as conceited I think that there is something sort of conceited about trying to tel someone else how to do something, even though i certainly know i'm no expert. But at the same time maybe i do something in a certain way that could help someone else. I know i've bounced around the internet long enough and read enough other blogs to know that i definitely have learned things from people's blogs, especially ones that help me with processes at work. I guess its just more of that feeling that there isn't anything of value that i can contribute that hasnt already been posted somewhere else. That feeling like i'm just not able to share anything special. Same reason i haven't started streaming yet, even though I have a pretty good setup for it now.
Thats all for now I think, hopefully there is some kind of progress to report on the next one on any of the topics above. Good night, and good luck.
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