[Current Mood | frustrated ]

[Listening To | Scandals! Shootings! Societal collapse is in the air! ]

Good morning, world. It’s fucking Thursday. We’re up, the coffee is percolating, and we’re yelling at the news. The cats are doing their own things. Scandals are unfolding all around us.

Last night’s stream was a complete shitshow, but it wasn’t entirely my fault. I set everything up, sat down, and launched the stream. I’d actually tweaked my “shelf” a little bit, and figured out an arrangement for the two screens and the desk clamp that holds my cam’s boom. All my cords were plugged into the Dell, the music was on …. and I forgot my mic. I shut down the stream to hunt it down, plug it into the splitter, and sat down to start the show once again.

I set out my “I’m online!” announcement, killed time for the first 15 minutes or so, as usual, while I waited for folks to come in. I felt great, I was having fun and testing out the second version of my new stream game for about 20 minutes, absolutely killing it. But no one was coming into my room, and I’m trying not to focus on numbers so I’m not looking at my live stats. If I had looked at my stats, I’d have noticed that I wasn’t actually streaming. I’d plugged in the mic, sat down, and started the show- but never hit START.

I took a hit from the vape, and hit the fucking button. Within 45 seconds, I heard an unfamiliar noise from the other room, and logged out again to investigate. This time around, I remembered to start the broadcast again. I stuck around for a couple of hours, but Chaturbate was having all sorts of problems. After dealing with about a dozen disconnections, I ended up logging out because I couldn’t access my bots.

We’ve got a day off today. I expect it’ll be nothing but games.

[Current Mood | annoyed ]

[Listening To | politicians whining ]

Good morning, world. We’re up and getting the go-go juice into our bodies. The cats are waiting for the morning visit from the birds.

Yesterday was a sucky work night. I’d added a new game to my streams, and last night was a test run of its graphics. I made a few macros to deal with popping the overlays on screen, cycling through, and clearing them, all using one button on my control deck. It worked, but I wasn’t very happy with it. I also decided to log in late, thinking if business doesn’t start to get busy until about 4pm, why don’t I just log in then?

[Narrator: In the end, however, that was a bad choice.]

My rank was in the absolute toilet, and there it stayed. I had a couple of quick spikes of activity, but other than that, shit was really bad. Trying to look at things positively, a dead shift was a good way to work out the kinks with the new game play, and to learn not to fuck with my established schedule. I logged out, fed the cats, fed me, and played “Cyberpunk” until Shawshank came home and I gave him the controller. To cap off the night, I spent an hour making my new overlays work the way I wanted them to work, remapped my control panel, then ate some pie.

Shawshank‘s working a day shift today. I’m going to assume the human form and get back in The Bean again. The overlays are working, let’s do this.

WP Prompt of the Day: What life lesson did you learn too late?

Hello, good morning, and all that happy crappy. It’s Tuesday, and we’re up. The cats are doing cat things, and we’re putting the coffee in us.

I was back to work last night. While I was very proud of myself for getting my mini speaker to talk to the iPad on my own (I absolutely hate trying to figure out Apple’s bullshit), I’m still working out the kinks in my newest setup. I came up with an absolutely evil little game to play in my stream, which I might put into play this evening if I can re-jig my macros a little. Other than my bright idea, it was slow.

After I logged out, I spent the rest of the night playing falling in love with “Cyberpunk 77”.

I walked around for 2+ hours, skulking around alleys and wiping out gangs. I picked up a sniper rifle at some point, and that was the end of close combat. GET ME TO A ROOFTOP.

Today, I’m going to implement a new game to mess with my stream, and cause havoc.

[Current Mood | blah ]

Hello, world. It’s another morning, and we’re up and doing our things. Sir Podrick the Hefty has been active this morning. He made several early morning visits to demand snuggles, before moving on to loudly playing in the hall, then knocking things around in the bathroom and that’s what got us out of bed.

Yesterday was a comparatively lazy day in the house. The recent winds snapped one of my sunflower stalks this week, so I put on some gloves and popped all the seeds out of their heads and scattered them in our wildflower pit. Shawshank loaded up “Cyberpunk 2077” and started playing before brunch. I got a chance to play it while he cooked, finished the beginning bullshit to get hooked up with better software, and started grinding a bit. Shawshank is playing like he’s CyberKeanu. I haven’t gotten too much into the nitty gritty, but I fully expect to be avoiding battle the same way I always do: a futuristic stealth archer. If I can’t be a stealth archer, then I’ll play like I played “AC: Black Flag”: whatever the hacking version of dart guns with berserk darts is.

We went across the street for dinner with Shawshank‘s mom. Shawshank set up her bedroom Roku so she can watch Netflix and Prime stuff off the TV in there, and hung up a curtain in her front room. We made plans to (maybe) make another long drive this week if/when she picks up her new sewing machine.

I’m back to work today. I worked a little on some overlays for OBS yesterday, and I have grand plans of turning one of the spare Ipads into a big control deck. Who knows what the week has in store for me? Probably a bunch of weirdos.

[Current Mood | drained ]

Hello, Sunday. We’re awake. Podrick jumped on Shawshank‘s stomach and solidly woke up the household. He tried to let me sleep (Shawshank, not Pod), but I wasn’t able to do much more than barely doze. Podrick curled up on my ribs at one point.

I was able to start “Cyberpunk 77” yesterday. After about an hour of character creation, I was in the game, going through another hour of cut scenes and tutorials. Shawshank came home from work, watched me finish up the tutorials and save, then played his own file. I moved on to playing “Balatro” on the iPad, where I’m trying to unlock all the decks and jokers we’ve had on the other devices.

Today is his only day off until Thursday, so we’re doing homebody shit.