September is here.

In Nova Scotia the early blooming plants have already started to turn. Looking out the window I see flecks of red among the paling green of the trees. Nights require a hoodie. Insects have started to enter the house seeking warmth. The local pheasants and deer are almost as large as their parents.

My nose is gummy and I wake up in the morning with more phlegm in my throat than the floor at a punk concert.

While I may be forced to rejoin the workforce in 2025, it also looks like my year long struggle with the deteriorating healthcare system is seeing some forward momentum. It makes sense. Fall and winter. Time for the old life to die off and make way for the new. Old nose replaced with a new one. Old spine..

Well, you can't win them all.

Or can you? I bought new RAM for my Linux computer yesterday. My Intel NUC is aging fast as far as computer hardware goes and putting Linux on it has helped a lot. Hopefully putting more juice under the hood will give it a good number of years left.

What Just Passed: Summer festival in Miyakonojo, Japan in 2011. Canon 550D. I see this and I still feel the humidity and hear the cicadas.

What's to Come: Winter's ice on Fletcher's Lake, Canada, 2014. Pentax MX. I see this and I think I'll need to go buy a new toque soon.

there's a bisexual visibility month?

I painted my first 2 Stormcast Eternals! It took 3 days and it was really fun! Really like these guys!

you see nobody was sending me asks, so here's what I really want in my heart of hearts.

• Strong theme of elemental damage vulnerabilities and resistances. Like a +[D] damage bonus or -[D] penalty based on how the elements match up. Pokemon style
• A necessity to prepare, but an incredibly swift procedure to recover from fucking up preparations. Having the information upfront for what you need to prepare for is great, and being surprised is awesome, but the failure state of having no advantage in a situation is more one of frustration than interesting problem solving. Snapping in and out of a re-try preparation phase like an elastic band has it's closest expression in Blades in the Dark Flashbacks, but what I need is a halfway point between that and just, leaving the dungeon, hiking back to town, and gearing up with the right stuff. That just feels like a wasted evening.
• Principle-based worldbuilding. You know what rocks in anime and manga, when there is a consistent principle to how the world works and the players use it to solve a problem. That shit rules. I love that more than the high-power abilities of Spire (and I love those), because it draws me in this sense of recognizing opportunity and putting shit together. Same stuff that fired my "Outer Wilds Neurons"
• A hexcrawl where we start crawling in 10 minutes of the first session, with minimal town shenanigans. I'm not here for town I'm here for

ADVENTURE