where i've been

i've been a bit quiet this year, huh?

let's see, first and foremost: i've just had no energy. long covid isn't really something that goes away, y'know? but i've been tinkering with stuff, like my diet, my cpap settings, my 'dog time' (existing outside of the computer), et cetera... and my energy is making at least a modest improvement, though i doube it will be anywhere near what it was before.

second: miss penny has passed, and i'm finding myself holding my friends' hands as i learn to cope with her absence. i miss her a lot, and i see her shadows at night, and hear creaks that i used to affiliate with her night-time patrolling. i look out of our window and think, man, she'd love the view. i've written in my journal regularly about this, and i'm keeping myself occupied with old and new interests as much as i can - as i said, my friends are enriching me and supporting me as i re-acclimate to the hole she left.

i don't know when i will get around to changing the 'miss penny' page. i would like to make it... "more", i guess. i want to talk about her at length while she's still so fresh in my mind. i held her in my arms. et cetera. life goes on.

i'm starting to draw again. i am planning on updating my zine directory, as well as just updating how i display the zines themselves. i just need to allot the time to thumbnail some ideas on how to present pages using the existing site template.

additionally, i want to give my splash page another pass. nothing intense, i imagine, but i have some ideas and i will get to it when i get to it.

lately i've been playing vintage story and soul's remnant. vintage story is like the linux of minecraft, and soul's remnant is like maplestory if it were different. i like them both. i also played big walk with another group of friends and found myself really enjoying it. having another session next sunday with them all - i think having something to look forward to and anticipate helps fix my habit of self-satisfying things immediately. maybe i need to do more weekly things to build up my attention span again?

other things on the backburner include a post about the plushies i made for two of my closest friends and finishing up my eggbug bootleg pattern for people to try making. i've just been out of stuffing, so i haven't made anything new. it's fine, though - i'm creating things in other ways, and i'll come back to it soon.

thanks again for all your kind feedback and your patience. everyone who has told me they appreciate my website: you are the fuel for my fire, and i hope you'll anticipate more from me sometime sooner.