Good morning, y’all. It’s Tuesday, but the forecast claims we’ll see the first flakes of the season later today. Podrick woke me up to cuddle, stretching out beside me, pressing his head into my jaw, and kneading my pillow.

We had a nice day off yesterday. Shawshank made brunch for us, and I had my favorite: a plain bagel, toasted, sandwiching two slices of cheddar and some bacon. Once everything was cleaned up, he played Tropico. While el Presidente build up a tourist island, I put my hair in curlers and spent much of the afternoon reworking a bunch of my overlays in OBS. I have three main overlay areas, and they were all added at different times and do different things. The watermark came first, with one style graphic. There are two other “status” graphics that I use depending on what’s happening in the stream, which looked similar to each other, but were very different from the watermark. I wanted everything to match.

Most of the overlays are just HTML sources added to the scene in OBS, so it was a matter of making all the CSS match. At that point, my watermark looked very out of place, so I swapped it for one that matched. The old status graphics clashed with everything new, so I changed those as well. The main scene looks great…. but my BRB scene was still in the old style. I remade my BRB screen, and now everything – EVERYTHING – matches. The more I learn about what I can do with OBS, Advanced Scene Switcher, and my little control deck, the more I want a deck with more buttons.

We’ve got another full week ahead of us. I need to make some money, so I’ll be back on The Bean tonight.