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Don't Invite Troubles
Oct. 26th, 2020 08:01 pmNext year, someone remind me how stressed out Inktober made me this year. Actually I might remember on my own.
So there's obviously no way I'm finishing all my prompts on time, but I came up with a plan this evening. I'm going to time-limit myself to one hour for the remaining prompts, which almost guarantees they're all gonna look like shit. But they'll be done. After that hour's up I can move on with other projects. Honestly I'm not sure what possessed me to do it this year when I had a big project I was working on already and feeling excited about. So I'm going back to that and finishing up a Halloween piece I've had rotting on my hard drive all month.
On a completely unrelated note, Feisal executed an absolutely masterful cat feat of dexterity by running, leaping, AND puking, all at the same time. It was annoying to clean up, but incredible to behold, sort of like watching a car crash.
And another, also unrelated thing, Fox and I switched over to Garmins from Fitbit. I've been in the Fitbit system since 2016 but I was losing my enthusiasm about them. They're a very good general health and wellness device, but they were really starting to fall short in a lot of ways for me. I'm finding the Garmin's sleep tracking is much better, and it's measurement of my running pace on the treadmill lines up much closer to my open road times. I was having a hard time figuring out how I maintained a 10 minute mile on an injured leg, when on the treadmill I was apparently struggling to keep up a 12:30 mile. Once the weather cools off more I'm looking forward to going outdoors for a run, especially since the Garmin I picked has built-in GPS. I have always, for some reason, had awful problems getting my Fitbits to connect to my phones. This is across two different phones and three Fitbits, so obviously the issue is with the end user here.
Tonight's Hollow Knight progress: gave up getting to the end of the Crystallized Mound for now. Set myself up in City of Tears and started on the Watcher Knights boss fight. Fought them a couple of times just for giggles, but I'm at a save point near the fight, so the walk up isn't as annoying as some.
So there's obviously no way I'm finishing all my prompts on time, but I came up with a plan this evening. I'm going to time-limit myself to one hour for the remaining prompts, which almost guarantees they're all gonna look like shit. But they'll be done. After that hour's up I can move on with other projects. Honestly I'm not sure what possessed me to do it this year when I had a big project I was working on already and feeling excited about. So I'm going back to that and finishing up a Halloween piece I've had rotting on my hard drive all month.
On a completely unrelated note, Feisal executed an absolutely masterful cat feat of dexterity by running, leaping, AND puking, all at the same time. It was annoying to clean up, but incredible to behold, sort of like watching a car crash.
And another, also unrelated thing, Fox and I switched over to Garmins from Fitbit. I've been in the Fitbit system since 2016 but I was losing my enthusiasm about them. They're a very good general health and wellness device, but they were really starting to fall short in a lot of ways for me. I'm finding the Garmin's sleep tracking is much better, and it's measurement of my running pace on the treadmill lines up much closer to my open road times. I was having a hard time figuring out how I maintained a 10 minute mile on an injured leg, when on the treadmill I was apparently struggling to keep up a 12:30 mile. Once the weather cools off more I'm looking forward to going outdoors for a run, especially since the Garmin I picked has built-in GPS. I have always, for some reason, had awful problems getting my Fitbits to connect to my phones. This is across two different phones and three Fitbits, so obviously the issue is with the end user here.
Tonight's Hollow Knight progress: gave up getting to the end of the Crystallized Mound for now. Set myself up in City of Tears and started on the Watcher Knights boss fight. Fought them a couple of times just for giggles, but I'm at a save point near the fight, so the walk up isn't as annoying as some.
