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Status Report for November, 2024
Well! That was certainly a month.
For various reasons, I decided to renew my passport, which is expiring in the next two years-- if you're not aware, if you plan to travel to another country, it's best you do so when your passport has at least a few years on it. I still have ambitions of visiting Japan someday, and it wouldn't be bad to visit other European countries.
After going through the rigamarole of taking my passport picture at a Walgreen's and then taking the application to the post office, I discovered belatedly I could have done the whole process at the post office, with an appointment. Next time!
I commissioned a new computer from Central Computers. It arrived midway through November, but while trying to set it up this last weekend, I discovered it lacked a secondary hard drive-- miscommunication between myself and the store. I'll be taking it back to get that remedied this month. I prefer to have an SSD for just the operating system and critical applications, and most other things living on the secondary hard drive.
I also picked up a Chromebook from Best Buy. This is now my main non-gaming computer; the intention is that my new Windows PC will be strictly for gaming, owing to Microsoft's intentions of making Recall (which saves screenshots of users' Windows frequently) a part of their Windows 11 users' lives at some point in the foreseeable future. Needless to say, I don't approve of their intrusive manners or their decision to opt users in by default.
I deleted my Tweets from Twitter ahead of the threatened deadline at which they would assume all users had given tacit permission for their Tweets to be used in whatever fashion they pleased, including feeding them into LLMs for training purposes. If you're looking for mew on social media, Mastodon and Bluesky are my hangouts of choice.
I reread Timecrossed Engineer and made various changes. Once Rowyn is done with making her word count goal, I'll see if she wants to be the first reader!
I began working on concept sketches for the book cover. It looks like this will be a long and complex process that will last through December, but I'm hopeful that I'll get good enough results to be able to publish with a self-made cover.
I began planning for the next book to work on... While I have a few outlines I could work on, I decided on a complete change of pace-- it'll be a fantasy heist story, "Grand Theft: Dragon." This is turning out to be quite complicated but I find it the most interesting project at the moment.
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For various reasons, I decided to renew my passport, which is expiring in the next two years-- if you're not aware, if you plan to travel to another country, it's best you do so when your passport has at least a few years on it. I still have ambitions of visiting Japan someday, and it wouldn't be bad to visit other European countries.
After going through the rigamarole of taking my passport picture at a Walgreen's and then taking the application to the post office, I discovered belatedly I could have done the whole process at the post office, with an appointment. Next time!
I commissioned a new computer from Central Computers. It arrived midway through November, but while trying to set it up this last weekend, I discovered it lacked a secondary hard drive-- miscommunication between myself and the store. I'll be taking it back to get that remedied this month. I prefer to have an SSD for just the operating system and critical applications, and most other things living on the secondary hard drive.
I also picked up a Chromebook from Best Buy. This is now my main non-gaming computer; the intention is that my new Windows PC will be strictly for gaming, owing to Microsoft's intentions of making Recall (which saves screenshots of users' Windows frequently) a part of their Windows 11 users' lives at some point in the foreseeable future. Needless to say, I don't approve of their intrusive manners or their decision to opt users in by default.
I deleted my Tweets from Twitter ahead of the threatened deadline at which they would assume all users had given tacit permission for their Tweets to be used in whatever fashion they pleased, including feeding them into LLMs for training purposes. If you're looking for mew on social media, Mastodon and Bluesky are my hangouts of choice.
I reread Timecrossed Engineer and made various changes. Once Rowyn is done with making her word count goal, I'll see if she wants to be the first reader!
I began working on concept sketches for the book cover. It looks like this will be a long and complex process that will last through December, but I'm hopeful that I'll get good enough results to be able to publish with a self-made cover.
I began planning for the next book to work on... While I have a few outlines I could work on, I decided on a complete change of pace-- it'll be a fantasy heist story, "Grand Theft: Dragon." This is turning out to be quite complicated but I find it the most interesting project at the moment.
( Cut for image! )