I wasn’t actually expecting them before Christmas, but here they are: The Frost Dragon Designs “Yellow Duck RPG” enamel pin set, mounted on the corkboard panel that Vyx gifted me (since she knew the pins were coming at some point).
How could I not have, right? Right. I’m glad we’re on the same page.
Merry Christmas to all who celebrate in whatever way you choose to, and a delightful regular (if potentially off-kilter) day to everyone else.
Say you’re a high-school-aged boy, and for whatever reason you’ve turned out to be a kind of magnet for really weird stuff going on with various people around you. Like, pulling an example purely out of thin air, there’s a girl who wanders around in a bunny-girl outfit to prove that nobody can actually see her… except you, of course, or there’d be no plot to this story.
This is basically the core premise of the Rascal Does Not Dream light novel series that later became an anime series followed by a string of theatrical release movies. Most folks refer to it as the “bunny-girl senpai” show, since that’s the first novel installment from which the anime series takes its name.
Following on from the televised show that covers the events of the first handful of novel installments and an absolute tearjerker of a film dealing with the contents of the paired novel installments after that, Sister Venturing Out is… almost anticlimactic.
It’s still very good, though.
I went on a long, long train ride to SE Portland and back last week to visit Dad, who’s in the hospital on account of… well, I’m not entirely sure what got him there but “just plain getting old” is what it boils down to. He may or may not remember that I was there, that’s how out-of-it he was, but I made the trip and did my best. And yes, I kept my Flo Mask on the entire time.
We’re not a close-knit family, but that doesn’t make it any less gut-wrenching to realize that we’re also all just plain getting older. It’s the way of things, I suppose.
Well, this is moderately embarrassing.
There I was, minding my own business, preparing a new site for a couple of electronics products (Remote Control Units and High Speed Connectors) when I saw something shiny.
We all like shiny things, right?
(more…)With the 1.0 release of Satisfactory comes the first “true” version of the annual FICSMAS event. The inaugural rendition came in December of 2020, right at the time I’d just bought the game… which made for a slightly odd first impression, indeed. The developers tinkered with it a bit once or twice since then but mostly it was just a low-priority side-project amusement for the team.
Now, though, it’s fully fleshed out and polished to a higher sheen. Let’s get into it.
(more…)There comes a point in every major product migration (and let’s not talk about the fact that this is the second of this exact kind of migration we’ve done in six years) when you’re fully in the thick of it and you realize that you’re at that magical, meaningful turning point: There are more of [thing] in the new system than remain in the old system.
We hit that point today in our migration from ConnectWise Automate to NinjaOne. 1200+ agents in the latter, fewer than 1200 remain in the former. (And it’s a safe bet that some of those 1100-or-so are zombie agents which haven’t checked in for a while, and many of those probably won’t before this is all over. Oh well!)
Considering that I’ve been the one doing 99% of the work, I’m glad to see that this project is finally on the downslope. Hopefully by the end of January it’ll be finished. Mind you… we have our several largest and most finicky clients remaining to move. Starting with any of them simply wasn’t an option. So, here comes some real fun.
Still. It feels good to hit this milestone.
