September 2020
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I can't really find a good theme for this month; it was a lot of miscellany but I feel like I did a fair amount.Dragon Fruit
I bought a pitaya cutting from a seller on eBay after watching a few youtube videos and realising that my indoor climate was roughly the conditions the dragon fruit plant likes. It arrived pretty quickly, a 15-20cm segment of the succulant plant, with "↑ UP" written in marker pen so I'd know which end to put in the ground. I prepared it by cutting off the tip, letting it dry over, then dipping in some rooting powder and potting up by my window.
The cutting itself was about £20 but I spent more than that on the pot and 30L of soil. Hopefully it does something (fruit in a couple of years would be splendid, but I'd settle for it just growing), or as I said on twitter, I'm going to feel pretty foolish.
I bought a pitaya cutting from a seller on eBay after watching a few youtube videos and realising that my indoor climate was roughly the conditions the dragon fruit plant likes. It arrived pretty quickly, a 15-20cm segment of the succulant plant, with "↑ UP" written in marker pen so I'd know which end to put in the ground. I prepared it by cutting off the tip, letting it dry over, then dipping in some rooting powder and potting up by my window.
The cutting itself was about £20 but I spent more than that on the pot and 30L of soil. Hopefully it does something (fruit in a couple of years would be splendid, but I'd settle for it just growing), or as I said on twitter, I'm going to feel pretty foolish.
Mr Blobby
The long and short of this is that Twitter is weird, and my brain latched onto a cursed Mr Blobby concept that I sort of helped create in August during a late night drifting-off-to-sleep tweet?
Anyway, it did the rounds a few times and then one night I ended up having a Mr Blobby Doctor Who crossover nightmare, as you do. I turned that into a short story thanks to a bit of encouragement from that area of the Internet. Here it is! You absolutely should not read it (seriously; it's kinda of ended up as literally the stuff of my nightmares on page, and I wonder what it says about me in all honesty).
I'm a little surprised that even though Guy Kelly, who has over 15k followers, retweeted it, it's only had 27 views as of today, which is definitely less total time spent reading it than I spent writing it. But obviously it's extremely niche, and I guess that's an interesting lesson about having a huge following on twitter, too.
The long and short of this is that Twitter is weird, and my brain latched onto a cursed Mr Blobby concept that I sort of helped create in August during a late night drifting-off-to-sleep tweet?
Anyway, it did the rounds a few times and then one night I ended up having a Mr Blobby Doctor Who crossover nightmare, as you do. I turned that into a short story thanks to a bit of encouragement from that area of the Internet. Here it is! You absolutely should not read it (seriously; it's kinda of ended up as literally the stuff of my nightmares on page, and I wonder what it says about me in all honesty).
I'm a little surprised that even though Guy Kelly, who has over 15k followers, retweeted it, it's only had 27 views as of today, which is definitely less total time spent reading it than I spent writing it. But obviously it's extremely niche, and I guess that's an interesting lesson about having a huge following on twitter, too.
Adventure Time; Command & Conquer
I finished both Adventure Time, the TV animation, and Tiberian Dawn, the remastered edition of the Command & Conquer game. Adventure Time took me a good couple of seasons to get into, I seem to recall, but then I got really into it. It was my breakfast TV for about a year so I'm feeling the loss of it at the moment.
Tiberian Dawn was very good and felt like playing a vague memory; even though I'd never played that game before, Red Alert and Tiberian Sun, which I was obsessed with in my teens, both used similar elements.
I started Red Alert from the same Remastered pack on the last day of September and that packed a full on nostalgia punch. I've never actually finished both campaigns in Red Alert (I preferred the skirmishes as a kid) so I've got that to look forward to.
I finished both Adventure Time, the TV animation, and Tiberian Dawn, the remastered edition of the Command & Conquer game. Adventure Time took me a good couple of seasons to get into, I seem to recall, but then I got really into it. It was my breakfast TV for about a year so I'm feeling the loss of it at the moment.
Tiberian Dawn was very good and felt like playing a vague memory; even though I'd never played that game before, Red Alert and Tiberian Sun, which I was obsessed with in my teens, both used similar elements.
I started Red Alert from the same Remastered pack on the last day of September and that packed a full on nostalgia punch. I've never actually finished both campaigns in Red Alert (I preferred the skirmishes as a kid) so I've got that to look forward to.
19 Martian Years Old
I had my 19th Martian birthday this month. A little irritating that both my 3rd Jovian and 19th Martian were spent in lockdown this year. I did at least make myself a cake this time, a really nice chocolate-orange sponge cake. The icing was supposed to be rusty orange, but ended up murky pink, but I've bought myself some more food colouring gels so that hopefully won't happen again!
I had my 19th Martian birthday this month. A little irritating that both my 3rd Jovian and 19th Martian were spent in lockdown this year. I did at least make myself a cake this time, a really nice chocolate-orange sponge cake. The icing was supposed to be rusty orange, but ended up murky pink, but I've bought myself some more food colouring gels so that hopefully won't happen again!
SAGE and BCMX
Two online events this month: The Sonic Amateur Games Expo, where a few youtubers were streaming various Sonic fan games, which tend to have a lot of work put in to them, and BarCamp Manchester X, which was a series of online talks in Discord this year.squirmelia was there too! I didn't do a talk, but I watched some interesting ones, including one about dolls houses and another about web accessibility.
Two online events this month: The Sonic Amateur Games Expo, where a few youtubers were streaming various Sonic fan games, which tend to have a lot of work put in to them, and BarCamp Manchester X, which was a series of online talks in Discord this year.
squirmelia was there too! I didn't do a talk, but I watched some interesting ones, including one about dolls houses and another about web accessibility.
