Life Has Been Weird

This summer has been extremely hot. Seems like it’s that way everywhere in the US, and I’m hearing elsewhere as well? Ontario is on fire??? It’s not good! As a bonus work has been having me do physical labor outside in the heat and direct sunlight. Thankfully we’re not out there for long, no more than 10 minutes at a time at worst, and when we come in we have water, popsicles, gatorade, etc. available to us. Our team leads have been doing their best to make sure we’re safe which is highly appreciated. Doesn’t change the fact that it is HOT out. Regularly hitting 35+ Celsius, we had a 41C day last week and it was rough.

Anyways, blog has slowed down a bit lately in part just because life has been weird. The heat has left me exhausted and going to bed early, but the sleep has not been of the highest quality due to what else but the heat. This also means work on my game has been slower. Not at a halt, I am making progress, but honestly it’s been more writing than anything else. And some learning web dev. I have a rather simple app that I’ve been working on that is mostly working? I need to fill in a lot of data to make it really usable but the core functionality seems to be working.

In other news, I am moving! Staying in the same general area, but we are moving somewhere that is cheaper, bigger, and closer to work. So literally better in every way. That won’t be happening until mid September, but the lease is signed and we are locked in. I am very excited. Literally the only downside is we will be on the top floor, which means it will be hotter. Thankfully we do have AC there. And a dishwasher that is older than me. That either means the dishwasher is amazing or absolute garbage. We’ll find out I guess!

Until then, I am going to start packing a few things that I won’t particularly need so they are ready to go and try to get decently far ahead in my recording so that videos can continue going up relatively uninterrupted. Currently I am just about done with recording for July, so I might get an early start on August? Speaking of, apologies for the delayed FFXIV upload to patreon this past week. I point to the above “life has been weird”. The videos were all ready to go, I was just too tired to make the post.

Oh, and last note! I am trying… again… to fix my routines. If it goes well, blog will update on Thursdays, game development will be Monday/Friday, game writing will be Wednesday/Sunday, and web dev will be Tuesday/Saturday. When I can get into a routine and stick to it it tends to go very well for me, the problem is making it stick.