Category: Game World Progress? –

February 6th, 2022

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Sunday – February 6th, 2022 —> -8˚C /+17.6˚F @ 3:15 pm in Atlantic Canada – { Was my aunt Phylis’ Birthday 🙂 }

 

Draeydan & Shelley at Daybreak

– Latest couple of characters from my latest NaNoWriMo novel –

— { I was shocked to see how good the above screen shot looks on a gaming monitor. }

 

Path to Deer Hill

– Snow-Blown path from tool shed to ‘Deer Hill’ { Taken from squatting down low – The snow piles are not over our heads } – Photo taken yesterday, February 5th, 2022. –

— Um, we do not live in igloos in Canada – We do need air conditioners in the summer … { And “Wellington Court” was named after someone whose middle name was Wellington { Last name was Pond – The street began with five houses in a cluster – all inhabited by families related to each other – whose  last name was Pond. }

— Haven’t done much with my Genealogy blog —> https://aerendel.ca/DNA-Tree/ <— Looked up the spelling on my Aunt Phyl’s name and got lost – didn’t find it.

— The other night I was at my living room computer { One of several computers – the living room computer is hooked up to a really good set of speakers that we use to listen to live podcasts from time to time } — I heard something and turned to watch a colander jump up and slide down the wall behind our living room wood stove. … The love of my life subscribes to a friend’s Psychic podcast and has asked questions from time to time. … This house has some very unusual acoustic qualities. People talking to each other a couple streets away sound like they’re in the next room – I’ve heard our sadly deceased Labrador ‘Boof’ clipping down the hall now and then { and felt my favourite orange cat jump on my arm two years after he dropped his physical body and went off to play in the happy hunting grounds 🙂 } … a really sensitive psychic said that was because we live in a spot with a bowl shaped sort of spiritual amphitheatre – where curious inter-dimensional beings sometimes stop by to check the place out – when my love asked who played with the colander the psychic source rattled off a series of names including my cousin’s { Joan Pond’s } name – { Her birthday was last week – {{ Happy Birthday Joan! }}  } – Which prompted me to check out her net presence and she’s still with us {{{ Yay! }}} — But hey, if you’re  growing telekinetic talents – tell me about it, Cuz – }} {{{ Or was it one of the Ponds who lived on this street in the past dropping by and saying hello? }}}

— until next time…

~~~~~ Jim

Saturday, January 15th, 2022 –

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– Saturday, January 15th, 2022 —>  -17˚C / +1˚F – a bit windy @ 7:30 am – and, no, we did NOT get a foot of snow yesterday 🙂 – & Today is Jenny Leigh’s { & Doctor Martin Luther King’s } Birthday –

— & After the latest ‘critical’ update to WordPress weighed in around a version number I thought was a lot higher… the latest version says it’s “5.8.3” ???  —> Or, have I slipped into some weird parallel universe? —> that might explain a lot…

 

– “@ 07:38 this morning – I was happy to see that we did not get a foot of new snow yesterday and/or overnight.”

— I made sure I was awake enough to go get gas for the van and the snowblower and picked up two bags of whole oats for our critters from the Co-op. { There are two or three deer in the photo above – if you can see them you’re amazing. }

— My usual winter allergies have been ravaging me lately – I can hardly get through a day without feeling like the usual post nasal drip will be activating reverse peristaltic reactions any time, anywhere. We’re both  incredibly careful and hardly move out of the house for anything. So, while our idiot ‘Premier’ { if this was the USA he’d be a ‘Governor’ or other ‘Chief Elected State Official’ } –  has an annoying history of – for instance – delivering disinformation – Like the time he said he’s had all his shots and doesn’t need a mask — & when he shows up to deliver that kind of disinformation with a gaggle of bobble heads standing behind him wearing acrylic face shields without masks – I wonder why nobody screams at him that those stupid face shields are totally freakin useless unless they’re accompanied by one or two surgical masks – or an N-95 mask that is properly fitted to the wearer’s face. { To be fair – the definitely political moron is probably getting his information from another radically misinformed idiot. } … We are happy to self isolate and keep self monitoring for new and/or unusual symptoms and, so far – have not come into contact with anything like ‘weaponized’ Chinese Viruses – Both Cathi and I have had our three shots { The booster didn’t even cause a minor ache this time and might have left us slightly more drowsy than whatever our ‘normal’ is … } and we’re both confirmed Introverts who do not need a lot of physical or even social contact with other human beings to enjoy life or feel good about ourselves  – As a matter of fact – we’ve both been bullied by corporate stooges and other insane high authoritarians way too often —> to the point where we feel a lot better having nothing to do with them.

 

– Two Characters from my latest NaNoWriMo Novel –

— “Draeydan” { left } & Shelley { Right } lit by a camp fire at daybreak in the game world – I thought this screen shot looked amazing on my gaming monitor. { Taken at 02:38 am on Thursday the 13th of this month }

 

– “I set my iPhone down on the porch desk while I climbed out of my winter jacket and it took this photo-” –

— Um, that’s some stacked scraps of lumber unretouched – the colour is from the grow light that is keeping quite a few plants amazingly happy on our porch 🙂

 

– “& I took this photo at 11:25 am yesterday – in anticipation of having some radical before and after shots while the weather people were forecasting a big dump of a foot or more of snow -” –

— This was just before I jumped in the van and went out on a mission to gas the van and fill an empty gas can because we fully expected to be struggling valiantly against a raging blizzard. Also picked up two bags of whole oats to keep our friends alive…

 

– & Dat’s me in a Christmas Present that was ‘guaranteed’ to get here by December 23rd, and finally made it on the fifth of January –

— Egad that guy looks scary …

— Ehhh – So I’m sorry but I haven’t even looked at ‘effbook’ more often than once or twice a month – and generally find a couple dozen missed messages with expired links to deleted photos and stuff – But Dang! I love this crazy human race and pray our next pandemic slaps us in the soul with some kind of amazingly contagious common sense.

– – – – –  Love Anyway!

~~~~~ Jim

Updating Characters as I’m re-writing here –

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Thursday, December 2nd, 2021 —> +1˚C / +33˚F & the weather app thinks we’re experiencing ice pellets /sleet – but I don’t see that – @ 2:32 pm Atlantic Time.

Shelley Got Dressed

– “Shelley at Seventeen”  – Her comment? “The Green light makes my red hair look weird – But I like the glasses.” { & she got to choose her own clothes after a ‘nicer’ person got a hold of the game world software and let her make her own choices. – but that would fall under ‘spoiler alert’ -;) – } –

— Yeah, I wanted to find a more ‘character friendly’ ‘photo’ for the beginning of the story line – { Shelley didn’t have a say in what her avatar wore when her manipulating cousin scanned her in to the software at his university when she was fifteen – Then her cousin uploaded screen shots from the game and posted them – and back at school – the bullying ‘popular girls’ found the screen shots and added ammunition to their character assassination plot and wrote ‘Slut’ in very red lipstick on her locker with a printout of the screen shot taped below that. }

Draeydan at seventeen

– “Draeydan at seventeen” { Shelley’s idea – after she found out she didn’t have to run around in the game world looking like she’d freeze to death at the slightest breeze – she had somebody help her scan Draeydan into the system and then she got to pick what he wore. 🙂 } His hair is darker than that – The computer guy admitted the software has a couple ‘glitches’. –

— Draeydan is not her manipulative cousin. He’s a supportive friend { maybe more than friends? – } & He probably wouldn’t want to be caught dead dressed like that –

Shelley in Faery Land

– “Shelley in Faery Land” { When her older cousin was controlling the backgrounds and not letting her pick her wardrobe. ) –

— The story begins in a ‘parallel word’ where the geography is pretty much the same as it is here – but a lot of names are different – History is slightly different – Benedict Arnold was revered as a hero and George Washington was hung as a traitor. The Capital of New York state is in the same place as Albany is here – but the city’s name is Springfield.

— And a lot of names are spelled differently –

— But bullies are still bullies and all these two sensitive kids want to do is survive high school – finding love along the way might help.

~~~~~ Jim