While we fix last second things here and there on the DNF2001 First Slice build, I'm thinking about how I will spend my free time over the holidays.
Tomorrow is the Winter Solstice, and it holds special meaning for me. There's just something about the long darkness that speaks to me. I feel more at home in the wintertime. It's not just that being a nerd, I abhor light. Sometimes I feel like daylight is too long on Earth during the summer, and wintertime has just the right amount of daylight. I feel like life shouldn't be active for that long during a day. I feel like we need days to be shorter so we can all scurry back inside and relax. I know that's not how the world works, and society will work us raw, day or night, but it's something I do long for, and so when winter comes, I'm at my happiest, because that pressure is there for life to return home once the sun goes down.
There's a lot of things I need to catch up on. I haven't been updating @NASA-unofficial, the First Slice trailer took up the bulk of my life over the past week or so. I might sit down later this evening, and line up some posts. Might have to skip some days; I don't like spamming people's timelines, but getting back into the saddle is necessary.
Also, since the whole Musk thing detonated (and I got banned from Twitter), I've been undergoing a "return to the sea" crisis in longing for the Old Web days. In a flurry, I signed up at sites like Neocities intent on making something, but again, Duke happened. I'm not complaining, priorities have to be sorted, and I'm gosh-darned proud of what I and others have put together, but hey, I've got some free time now, and maybe I can invest in something that takes me back to my first efforts of coding web sites using nothing but Notepad (because ewww, Frontpage! Ewww, Microsoft!).
I have a really fascinating idea of writing a web site (or at least a subpage) entirely in Sekir. I already have the Times New Sergal font working on my Neocities page; I just need to actually translate some content over, but I'm at a loss as to what I might put in. I'm sure I'll figure it out. :)
