Haven’t posted in over a year so figured I should write something.
I didn’t move funkboxing to self-hosted. My home internet has been garbage since I got my house so I don’t think that’ll work but at some point I’ll probably migrate to wordpress hosting because godaddy is overkill at this point.
I got a bug to be a little more social so I’ve been playing D&D with a group on Mondays since about March. I definitely should have started doing D&D sooner. I semi remember playing with my father and brothers when I was very young but I don’t think D&D makes a lot of sense for children. I also joined an improv group that’s been a lot of fun. This past weekend I pitched an improv show called ‘NerdProv’ focused on ‘nerd culture’ and they liked it so we’re going to be working on producing that. Also been volunteering with BREC and CAA but mostly that involves standing around and chatting with people but they say they appreciate me showing up so I keep doing it and having fun. I especially love doing BREC events at the zoo, peacocks are hilarious.
Project wise I’ve been kind of lazy since I became a home-owner. Or rather my home is my project and I don’t really feel like posting about home-improvement stuff. I have gotten back into some LED display ideas for D&D miniatures but some of that is just an excuse to put my box of LED stuff to use. I got a welder and safety gear but I still haven’t even tested it in because I’m afraid of blowing my entire breaker box but I’ll talk myself into giving it a go at some point.
Somewhere between the D&D stuff and the Improv stuff I got interested in puppets, then got discouraged by how hard it is to sync the mouths, then decided to jam a servo in it so I didn’t have to. This is v1 of a little servo-puppet system I’m working on. I’ll try to be a little better about posting stuff like this to funkboxing.
One of the few people that might have checked this site passed Saturday night. Mark Jeff Murray. He was my neighbor for almost 10 years at Jefferson Oaks and we kept in touch when I moved. We used to talk all the time, he’d be out on his porch reading on weekends and we’d chat about sci-fi and the future of humanity and politics and physics and everything in between. I’d just had coffee with him 3 weeks ago, the day after his last day of work ever. He’d retired from LSU and was looking forward to having lots and lots of time off to do whatever he wanted. Jeff was a very kind and intelligent man and was one of the few people I’ve ever met that could keep up with my imagination without breaking a sweat. I’m proud and privileged to have called Jeff a friend and I’ll miss him a lot. He deserved more time.