[Current Mood | unbothered era ]

[Listening To | fluffy morning talk news ]

Hello, my little world. TinyTown is gray. There are puddles, so I know we got some rain overnight. Without looking at the weather forecast, I assume today is just an encore of yesterday: moist. Shawshank left me in the bedroom this morning, so I dozed until around 7:30ish.

Last night’s shift sucked ass. When I stream using my phone’s data, the stream is nice, stable, and smooth, but my room’s ranking is in the gutter. On the other hand, if I stream using the house internet, my quality is ass, but my ranking is better. Make it make sense. Chaturbate seemed to be having issues yesterday, which didn’t help. I was disconnected several times. I don’t know what the fuck is happening with one of my room’s bots, which decided to completely quit working as well. It’s been kicking up errors now and then this week, and yesterday it just shit the bed entirely. I ended up logging out at that point; it didn’t make sense to keep the room going if the tip menu wasn’t working. Personality only goes so far.

So I logged out entirely and fired up a laptop while dinner cooked. I started researching what sort of things I can do with OBS that won’t set the Dell on fire. I found a bunch of very retro effects I can use to make my shit look old. As a result, I have ideas. If my quality is questionable from the get-go, what’s the harm in making it look deliberate?

Shawshank opened the store this morning, and will be home after lunch. The day is ours, I think. I might load up a morning TikTok stream while I assume a human form. I’ll even open the back door for the cats.

[Current Mood | okay ]

Happy Friday, y’all. TinyTown is gray this morning. I was up a little early. Too early, really, but I did that li’l dozy thing for a couple of hours, until it was a more appropriate time to regret waking up so early.

Shawshank went out to the post office when they opened yesterday morning and grabbed my latest Temu package. I popped the new case on my phone, but I still need to put the screen protector. Gave the craft kits a quick look before putting them away, because I can’t start those until I finish the one I’m working on. The sunset lamp’s remote didn’t come with batteries. I expected to wait another week before I could use it, but Shawshank came to the rescue and found some.

I streamed yesterday, sticking it out for two hours before deciding it was going to be a shitty, slow night and logged out. Shawshank and I covered my dresser with a glittery white curtain, so I don’t look like I’m streaming from a corner of our bedroom quite as much. The sunset light is a great little light, and the remote and all the light’s options are hell fun. Being able to put it into psychedelic flash mode while playing Jefferson Airplane’s “White Rabbit” made it worth every penny of that $8 I spent on it. If it wasn’t so incredibly blinding, I’d replace my ring light with one. Hell, I might continue to fuck with thing. Maybe I’ll find some magical angle that soaks me in ultraflattering light without frying my retinas.

[Current Mood | sleepy ]

[Listening To | morning news, cat things ]

Hello, world. It’s almost Friday… but not quite. Although the sun is making a token effort to be seen, there’s really nothing but gray skies out there today. I had an abysmal sleep last night, which isn’t all that unusual, but it was shit right from the start, which is. It took longer than usual to fall asleep, then I was suddenly AWAKE. I reset what I had playing, and managed to go back to sleep. I feel like my body fought me the entire night, and I gave up the fight around 5:30am.

My Wednesday was pretty slow. I logged into Chaturbate and stuck around for a full “shift”. I used my cell data for the first half, took a break, then used the ethernet for the rest of the night. I’m still messing with my OBS settings to give me ok quality, but not blow through the 50-100gb of data we get per cycle. I sucked up about 5gb in a bit over two hours last night. Not the best…. but it was better than my first stream, which used at least double that. The second half of the stream was used the ethernet. Regardless of the connection, it’s still pretty boring until I’ve been sitting there for at least 90 minutes.

Still basking in the nostalgia of my new LiveJournal-based theme, I was juuuuust high enough during last night’s stream to consider making the video feed look exactly like my old webcams did. I’m talking text bars on the top and bottom with timestamps, URLs, and witty bullshit better fit for our AIM away status. I could really lean into the retro-net vibe with the sputtering stream.

I expect today will be another day. Shawshank went out and picked up my Temu package, so I have a new light to mess with on stream, and a screen protector to install on my phone.

[Current Mood | nostalgic ]

[Listening To | something on Winamp ]

Good morning, world, and happy Hump Day to y’all. Shit’s looking mid out there today. The skies are grey, and Podrick has been up to Podrick things this morning.

Yesterday, I was so lazy that I can’t think of a single thing I did. My Temu order didn’t make it in, but we went to the secondhand shop and Shawshank found a small box with a stash of embroidery thread.

Shawshank made himself a new header image for his page. He wanted a dark theme, so I handed him the Chromebook, showed him how to tweak his blog’s theme, and grabbed the Dell to look at the theme respository for my own inspiration. I looked at WordPress themes that I might be able to bend to my will, and decided I hate all of them. Everything is so bloated now. I miss the simple shit, just header, content, footer with a witty copyright notice. A sidebar if you had some webrings to link to. A visitor counter. I fired up the Wayback Machine, and found the earliest version of my blog I could: Livejournal.

Instead of fighting an existing theme, I went back to the basics and did it in a text editor, like the good Lord intended. There’s still some kinks to work out; single post pages are borked for the moment, but I’ll figure that out this morning.

Shawshank suggested taking the vibe past LJ and all the way back to Geocities, and adding an uncontrollable, automatically playing MIDI to it.

“It needs to be Meat Loaf’s I’ll Do Anything For Love“, I replied. “And I also need the page to have an alert pop up that says I AM VERY VERY WEIRD. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED”

I need to take shit FULL LJ and add the current mood/current music for each post.

Good morning, world. Happy Tuesday. You wanna know why it’s happy? It didn’t fucking snow overnight. I was up a little earlier, but dozed for a bit. I mostly laid there semi-awake, eventually checking out Reddit, until I decided Podrick’s good behavior wouldn’t last forever and I should feed him.

We had a nice Monday. We watched some news in the morning, and Shawshank made brunch for us. I made some perfect French toast. I was just starting to get tired of listening to background news when they broke in to talk about yet another mass shooting, so we had new news to watch.

Eventually, we put on some cowboy shit. I grabbed my needlework and worked on that for the rest of the day. I’d put it at about 40% complete right now. I’m trying very hard to keep it with all one “style” of stitching, but my technique improves and my stitches get better. The stuff from the beginning looks bad (to me) in comparison to what I’ve been doing.

Shawshank has today off- a rare, double-barrel day off. I have a Temu order coming in, and we’re going out to the secondhand shop to find treasures. The cats will sit in the window and enjoy the sunshine.