The second-best time, I’ve learned, to plan your Phase 4 shipment production for the Space Elevator in Satisfactory is about 250 hours into your session. The best time to plan your Phase 4 yadda yadda is before you start the game.
(more…)Author: Karel Kerezman
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Changing How I Note The Time
When I started with my current employer, lo the many years ago, I started taking notes in text files. One text file per day, every single day. I have (nearly) all of them, just in case I need to refer back to something I did [mumble] years ago. It happens!
It’s not a bad system, obviously, since it’s served me well. Text files are easy for the computer to index for searching, to name one useful feature.
I manually created a new file every day, and at the end of every month (and every year) I moved the previous month’s/year’s text files into an archive folder. Also, I pressed Ctrl+S a lot to make sure I didn’t lose information as I go. The “ongoing notes” and “to do list” sections I maintained at the bottom of the file needed copying over to each new document every morning.
At home (as it were) I’ve been using Obsidian, the notes tool which saves everything as a discrete Markdown file in its library structure, for all of my personal notes for a few months now. A Markdown file is just a text file with simple formatting markers that reads like plain text in Notepad++ but does fancier things in a product like, well, Obsidian (and others).
So at the start of 2024 I made the change: A new Obsidian vault in my “work” document folder, complete with automatic creation of the new day’s time file every day, already placed into a year-and-month folder structure. The carry-over notes and to-do list are separate documents “outside” the day/month/year structure but still in the vault. And since Obsidian saves changes as you go, I spend a lot less time hitting Ctrl+S. (Or, I will, once I break the habit…)
If you surround some text with a pair of equals signs on each side, you get a “highlight” effect. Handy, since I like to flag which time blocks I’ve entered in the ticketing system. Was this really worth it? Who knows? Who cares! It feels like an improvement, and “a change is as good as a rest.”
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First check-in of 2024
You know the year’s off to a fun start when you startle yourself awake several minutes before the alarm on the 3rd day of the year with the realization that you forgot to pay the rent and the electricity bill two days prior like you were supposed to.
The year’s not bad exactly, so far, but it’s certainly being weird. And that’s before we get into it being an election year. Ugggggh.
I don’t have as much to look forward to this year, entertainment-wise at least, so I’m going to have to make my own reasons to keep going. Like, I have a new Satisfactory (solo) save game to kick off now that “ChooChooingScenery” is wrapped up. The goal is to post more & better material about that as it begins and proceeds, both about what’s happening in game and what I’m doing around the game (planning, etc).
There’s also the ongoing (for now) co-op game with the kids, plus a possible new co-op game with someone from Discord. More on that when/if it happens.
Last year was a lot about music, this year may be a lot about (e)books. I’m ramping up my light novel reading, (not) helped by getting into the Ascendance of a Bookworm series which is a stack of reading all on its own. (They’re quite good, though.) Then there’s Apothecary Diaries to start in on, the Frieren manga to continue, and so on. Ask me about my rec’s! Oh wait, maybe those should become posts. Right. I know how this thing works, honest.
I stopped using what-was-Twitter, started using Mastodon more and Bluesky somewhat, but mostly my intent is to post things here first & foremost. I did much better at it last year! Some months I hit double-digit post counts! Not many, but some. Drifting away from “social media,” I take refuge in the land of RSS and such.
Join me, won’t you?
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Satisfactory: Employee of the Planet
I met my goal. By year’s end 2023, I made it all the way through the Phase 4 parts shipment. Look!
This officially puts the “ChooChooingScenery” savegame sequence to bed at 299 hours 45 minutes accumulated play time. Coming up in mid-January: I… haven’t figured out what I’m calling it yet but it’s a new savegame with a very particular focus, and I also want to sort out how I can turn it into more regularly-scheduled material for this here not-a-blog.
Wait for it! It’s coming! It should be fun!
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2023: A heckin’ good year for music
It started with a spark and it ended with a bang, to (slightly mis-)quote a song from one of the new releases I picked up in 2023. I’m just going to scroll down through the artists list (sorted alphabetically) in MusicBee and point out the ups & downs, plus direct you to some highlight songs you may want to check out via the online service of your choice.
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Merry Christmas – 2023
To those who celebrate, for whatever reason you do so, please have a lovely and pleasant holiday.
I was going to just leave it at the simple line of text, then realized… hey, I can add something seasonal AND silly! So here you go, a gift from me to all of you.