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12/10/2024 - 11:19 pm CT

today was a chill day. i wrapped up work and spent some time playing no man's sky with a friend; he got me it for christmas to play togetether. i hadn't played it in a while and totally forgot how much i enjoyed playing the game. it has come a long way since i last played it. improved many of the ui elements and added a bunch more stuff to the game. i definitely will be playing it, especially as i have some time off coming up.

i started reading one punch man last night. i got the first two volumes at a local used books store. i watched the animated show a few years ago when it first came out and loved it. i am enjoying the first volume so far. i read about half of it in thirty minutes (which i thought was a little short tbh). i am hoping the second half of the book has more dialogue in it, or maybe the second volume. regardless, i am going to definitely read the first two. thinking about getting into this manga as my first actual manga collection (because i loved the show so much). i will see if anything takes hold here, maybe the second one has better dialogue? or maybe i will get a few more volumes before making up my mind. i know that i want to make this decision on my own, so no reviews or looking anything up for this guy. if i waste another fifteen dollars getting a few more volumes whatever. at least the artwork is awesome.

as i am writing this i noticed my laptop battery has dropped forty percent over the last five minutes. maybe it is time for a new battery? i wonder if i could replace it myself, or if i should take it to a local computer repair shop. my inkling is i could probably do it, but i have never done it before. i will look it up tomorrow and see how hard it is to replace. maybe if its as easy as unplugging and plugging i will do it. otherwise i don't want to fuck anything up since this is my personal laptop. i would love to be able to sit on my couch and work on my website wihout having to have the laptop plugged in. this laptop is six or so years old so maybe it is time...which is stupid now that i think about it. however i have left the laptop plugged in all the time so i probably fried the battery (assuming it is similar to iphones). i will be more conscious of this next time haha.

12/09/2024 - 6:23pm CT

i finally got some sort of running website up. i also spent way too much time on graphics than i should have. definitely going to take it slower now that i have something working. i didn't eat lunch today so i could work on this lol. i know i need to be better about eating, i either forget or get wrapped up in something during the week. regardless, i am very excited to get this website going.

i've been doing better with my mental health recently too. i was fed way too much negative news over the past month or so and have decided to take a break from that crap for a while. i think working on this website is going to be a good way for me to stay busy instead of doomscrolling. i'm trying to find more and more reasons to quit social media. but because of my art and music stuff, i still use it. getting really close to deleting reddit though. i've been good about not going on the news/popular tabs recently which has at least slightly persuaded me i can actually control myself lol.

in other news, i just rereleased my first full length album after spending a few weeks remastering, rerecording, and remixing it. it sounds so much better than it did before. i definitely have learned that getting a good recording is much more beneficial when you hit the stage where you are mastering and mixing. that album was recorded terribly lol. at least now i know, and my newer recordings i am working on sound way better.