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Hey it's been awhile! So much for my resolution to post here every week. (Also so much for my resolution to exercise Shelly every day, she is getting more sedentary by the week, but then now that winter's coming so am I.)
There was some work stress for awhile but I think that has resolved in the direction of less stress for everybody going forward, which is nice, but there's still just enough chance the rug will be pulled out that I'm still kind of glancing over my shoulder a lot.
Other than that, I've been wasting a lot of time with Minecraft and Minecraft fandom; Hermitcraft fandom has gone kind of wild in the last three weeks because one of them has built an extremely elaborate roguelike adventure game *inside* the game using only normal game mechanics and all the streamers are playing that 24-7. I've also joined the MCYT tag wrangling team, which is my first large tag wrangling fandom in awhile, and I've been enjoying having wrangling work again mostly but it's definitely illustrating for me again a lot of the problems with how volunteer work is managed in the org. (Don't get me wrong, my fellow volunteers are great, and so are the supervisors! It's just everything around how the work is structured at scale that isn't.)
In terms of playing I had to sort of quit my two main worlds because the lag was getting really bad (I need a new laptop if I'm going to keep doing this) but then I realized that most of the lag came when I was exploring, so instead I have started a world where my only goal is to dig the spawn chunk down to bedrock using only things I have found in the hole, and that's had no lag issues at all! (I need a new laptop/computer but I don't want one. Anyone want to help me decide what to get?)
I'm also still making zines for FAPA every three months and enjoying the apa experience immensely, and I think doing fandom meta the slow way and for a severely limited audience has been really good for me, I'm back to reading actual books & feeling more connected to SF fandom than I have in awhile. Of course that means that a lot of things I might have posted here are getting saved for FAPA instead, so it's not helping with keeping up with posting on the internet. (Also, though I'm doing pretty good at getting it written slowly over the course of three month production period, I still haven't managed to ever finish the typing up until right before the deadline.)
If anyone is interested in joining the oldest continuous SF-Fantasy fandom social media community in continuous existence, now is a great time to join FAPA! There's even information about how to join on the internet now! If you want to know more about what's involved or what the apazines are like, feel free to hit me up.
Partly because of FAPA, I decided to go to my first post-pandemic meatspace con and will be at Capclave this weekend (masked. And hopefully recruiting for FAPA; I will have my binder of FAPA mailings along to show people.) (It's interesting how at least our local small fan-run cons seem to have self-sorted into "we are still taking Covid seriously" and "we tried to reopen in 2021 and therefore we went broke.")
If work stress stays down, I'm also hoping to actually do NaNo this year, although with nonfiction rather than fiction; we'll see if I get my outline done in time or if I just keep digging holes in Minecraft instead.
And I actually got Yuletide noms in this year! I nommed Mademoiselle de Maupin by Theophile Gautier, and three childhood favorites that I have recently been thinking about how much they shaped me: Goblins the the Castle by Bruce Coville, Baby Island by Carol Ryrie Brink, and the picture book series Sweet Pickles.
Anyway, between FAPA and becoming more active on Discord, I'm afraid I've been hitting my "enough talking about stuff" limits before I get to DW, so I am going to try to work on DW before Discord, and on being more willing to do short silly DW posts (more cat pics!!!) No promises though.
There was some work stress for awhile but I think that has resolved in the direction of less stress for everybody going forward, which is nice, but there's still just enough chance the rug will be pulled out that I'm still kind of glancing over my shoulder a lot.
Other than that, I've been wasting a lot of time with Minecraft and Minecraft fandom; Hermitcraft fandom has gone kind of wild in the last three weeks because one of them has built an extremely elaborate roguelike adventure game *inside* the game using only normal game mechanics and all the streamers are playing that 24-7. I've also joined the MCYT tag wrangling team, which is my first large tag wrangling fandom in awhile, and I've been enjoying having wrangling work again mostly but it's definitely illustrating for me again a lot of the problems with how volunteer work is managed in the org. (Don't get me wrong, my fellow volunteers are great, and so are the supervisors! It's just everything around how the work is structured at scale that isn't.)
In terms of playing I had to sort of quit my two main worlds because the lag was getting really bad (I need a new laptop if I'm going to keep doing this) but then I realized that most of the lag came when I was exploring, so instead I have started a world where my only goal is to dig the spawn chunk down to bedrock using only things I have found in the hole, and that's had no lag issues at all! (I need a new laptop/computer but I don't want one. Anyone want to help me decide what to get?)
I'm also still making zines for FAPA every three months and enjoying the apa experience immensely, and I think doing fandom meta the slow way and for a severely limited audience has been really good for me, I'm back to reading actual books & feeling more connected to SF fandom than I have in awhile. Of course that means that a lot of things I might have posted here are getting saved for FAPA instead, so it's not helping with keeping up with posting on the internet. (Also, though I'm doing pretty good at getting it written slowly over the course of three month production period, I still haven't managed to ever finish the typing up until right before the deadline.)
If anyone is interested in joining the oldest continuous SF-Fantasy fandom social media community in continuous existence, now is a great time to join FAPA! There's even information about how to join on the internet now! If you want to know more about what's involved or what the apazines are like, feel free to hit me up.
Partly because of FAPA, I decided to go to my first post-pandemic meatspace con and will be at Capclave this weekend (masked. And hopefully recruiting for FAPA; I will have my binder of FAPA mailings along to show people.) (It's interesting how at least our local small fan-run cons seem to have self-sorted into "we are still taking Covid seriously" and "we tried to reopen in 2021 and therefore we went broke.")
If work stress stays down, I'm also hoping to actually do NaNo this year, although with nonfiction rather than fiction; we'll see if I get my outline done in time or if I just keep digging holes in Minecraft instead.
And I actually got Yuletide noms in this year! I nommed Mademoiselle de Maupin by Theophile Gautier, and three childhood favorites that I have recently been thinking about how much they shaped me: Goblins the the Castle by Bruce Coville, Baby Island by Carol Ryrie Brink, and the picture book series Sweet Pickles.
Anyway, between FAPA and becoming more active on Discord, I'm afraid I've been hitting my "enough talking about stuff" limits before I get to DW, so I am going to try to work on DW before Discord, and on being more willing to do short silly DW posts (more cat pics!!!) No promises though.
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I was not gaming and not even thinking about gaming when I got my current laptop; it's very underpowered because I didn't think I'd need it for anything more intensive than browsing the web or maybe playing old DOS games, but then Minecraft happened to me. It's really rather impressive that it can run Minecraft at all (and it worked fine until 1.19, and then 1.20 was worse; I don't know if that was the game getting more intensive or the laptop getting worse or my worlds getting more complicated, though. 1.20 was supposed to have performance improvements but I haven't seen them.)
I've been thinking about Framework! My primary goal with laptop buying has always been not having to buy a new one, so fully repairable sounds great, I'm just a bit leery of investing in something based on repairability when it hasn't actually been around long enough to prove out.
It might be time to get a desktop again, I'm just not sure I'd ever use it, because I am very invested in laying on the couch to stare at the screen.
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I am not sure there's a way to avoid not having to buy a new laptop (since they're delicate creatures that get carried around a lot), but Framework might be one of the better bets on that. Mac software upgrades certainly expect you to be replacing your laptop on a regular basis, even if that basis is several years. Side-effect of being the corporate pick, probably. And most windows laptops are... eh.
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