What's Happening In The Now
- 📖 Writing: [The Textbook Case: Part 2] (seriously, you guys...)
- 🖥️ Tinkering: General site maintenance
- 🎮 Playing: Fallout 4 w/ Sim Settlements
- 😴 Practicing: Not sleeping (still awesome at it)
Same shit, different day(s). I recently wired hVmark functionality into this page to replace the hard-coded HTML that was used before. The implementation isn't as... obtuse as /nexus, so it's a lot more accessible on this side, which is important for a page that's meant to be intermittently edited.
AMENDMENT: It's been a bit since I wrote the above, and I gotta say... hVmark has made things so much easier. To whoever created hVmark: Thank you, good sir. You are a gentleman and a scholar.
"Life Has Many Doors, Ed-Boy"
Someone close to me has passed away. Ed Eastin Jr shed this mortal coil in his sleep yesterday; he was only 43.
A lot of people are going to miss him, and that very much includes me. I had known him for about 19 years, and he was a big supporter of my projects; he was one of the first people to ever buy a copy of Lucky Lead. He once told me I was one of his favorite authors, and... I always took it as flattering hyperbole, but he really did seem to love certain short stories that have been more or less lost to time.
He was also one of a small few who knows how The Textbook Case ends.
Keep his family in your thoughts; like I said, a lot of people are going to miss him. He was a great father to his son, and a great friend to everyone in his orbit.
Rest In Peace, Ed-Boy. The world is much worse off without you.
City To Village, Hamlet To Town...
The show must go on.
The Insane Clown Posse are coming back to Chicago for the first time in... a while. I'm willing to bet decades, because I'm pretty sure the last show I was at in Chicago's city limits was at The House of Blues in the early aughts. After that, whenever they were in the area, we'd have to drive out to Milwaukee to see them and Twiztid.
...In fact, mentioning ICP and Twiztid together kinda shows how long ago it was.
The show's in a few days, and I bought a ticket. TicketMaster and StubHub really need to start seeing some regulations, because their bullshit is really getting out of hand. The price for the show was not great, but I paid it anyway because this'll probably be the last time I'll ever get to see them live. If you know, you know; J's only got so much left in the tank, and I'm not talking about when it comes to doing live shows.
I Haven't Even Begun To Peak...
It's Christmas time again, which means freight & logistics is about to get super busy. Thus, for the first time in a couple of years, I will be working a peak season in the field.
It's not easy work, but it's good work if you could get it, especially around this time of year. The last peak season I worked, I was doing the job of five people and barely had time to think, let alone take any breaks. It makes the time go by faster, but by January, a couple days of PTO becomes mandatory. Sure, it'll be difficult, but this time around, it won't be like that.
If you're also working this peak season, stay strong. It's only a few more weeks, so get as much of it as you can.
Old Shorts
A long while back, I made these shorts called, "The Exciting Adventures of Captain Phone-y and The Hair Revenger". They were (mostly) created using a service called XtraNormal; a service that is long gone, but if you're of a certain age, you probably recognize.
I found them buried in digital decay, made some newer edits and put them on YouTube. Check 'em out:
Yeah, I only made two. It's probably for the best.
Pfft, More Like The Snowy City...
Heavy snow officially hit Chicago overnight. From the lake to Cicero, everything got caked in a continuous blast of snow. Then, within 18 hours, it all started melting away. And now, we probably won't see another heavy snow storm until March.
"Wow, that's pretty early for snow..."
Not really; this has actually been a pattern for the last few years. Mid-to-late October or early November, we'll get hit with a violent storm, but the snow won't stick. Then, it's just isolated flurries and snow showers.
It does signal one important thing: It's officially time for everyone in the city to switch up their traffic habits. If you're on the road, you gotta start covering your brakes more to brace for a slide, and if you're on foot, you have to be extra vigilant near roadways since snow magically makes people forget how to drive (especially in Rosemont).
Stay extra safe out there, peeps.
UPDATE: This was added on November 10th; it's November 14th, and it feels like a summer day. That's Chicago: If you don't like the weather now, wait a few minutes.
UPDATE 2: We actually got snow that stuck, and it couldn't have happened at a worse time.
...Well, worse time for me, given that I spend my late mornings-to-early evenings in a small truck full of packages.
Subtennial Incoming...
The HisVirusness YouTube Channel is almost at 100 SUBSCRIBERS. It's pretty surprising, but if you notice the first upload on the channel (and how many times it's been reuploaded by others since then), it starts to make a little more sense as to how we got here.
It's nothing to shake a stick at, and honestly, I'm going to feel further compelled to start making more original content on there. Not to say I'd be on a regular schedule, but at least putting in more effort than I currently am... which is none.
I do have some ideas (one of those, of course, is outlined displayed above found here now), so Stay Tuned For More Bullshit. However, temper your expectations. After all, this does wrap back around to me pushing myself to start what I finish. And to be totally frank, I'm willing to have gaps between uploads if it means other projects in the pipeline are done, or at the very least actively being worked on.
It is pretty exciting, though. Wonder how long until I get ✓ verified ✓. I had a chance to way back when, but I stupidly turned it down.