Mixed Feelings Today

Not really having a good morning today.

Strikes for today: I added a bunch of links to stuff I think is cool to the front page of [my website](https://tilde.team/~mathpunk). If enough stuff gets added there I might think about organizing it into topics. I didn't get as much done as I would have liked, but I still got some things out of the way despite being in a very bad mood. I think I'm getting better at that.

Rest of my day has been mixed. Don't have as much to say as in previous posts, but the tl;dr is I didn't get as much done as I would have liked, but I spent some time with my wife and got them some surprise gifts (namely Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time :3). I also bought a fuckton of music again, which I probably shouldn't have, but lol. I bought the entire Liquids discography again, which I'm excited about!

Gutters for today: Wish I had used my time more wisely. I have a tendency to just kind of putter around when I'm waiting for something without a solid plan, because I feel like I **need** to be available to people in my life at a second's notice. As if I'm not allowed to say, "yeah I'm just working on this thing, I can be there in 10 minutes." That's something I really have to work on.

There are strikes and there are gutters. The dude abides. [The machine](https://tilde.team/~mathpunk/aboutme.html) persists. I promise more to myself tomorrow.

###Video Game Progress
####TIS-100
Briefly glanced at TIS-100. I'm on the last 6 or so puzzles, which I think is impressive for someone for whom this game was their actual introduction to programming. But I've been bashing my head against these last few for... a really long time. Since before the pandemic, I think. Wild. I didn't really do much but look at some of my attempts and go "hm, yes, this doesn't work" before closing the game, but that's part of my process, I swear.

####Terraria
I started a new world on expert recently, with a new character. I have a base with a crafting area, a storage area, and the beginnings of a hellevator. I've built a couple houses around it, one of which is occupied by the Merchant. Today I found some bombs and built a house for the demolitionist, which should make it easier to divert underground lakes away from the hellevator's path. In the process of this, I discovered what seems to be a fairly expansive cavern system which needs to be explored and gutted first.

Other games I'm currently playing: Overlord, Rogue Legacy, Caves of Qud, Dwarf Fortress, Nethack

Not sure if I'll post video game updates like this often, I just didn't have much else to talk about today. Also, it was mostly an excuse to see how different header levels look.

tags: music, video-games, prince-of-persia, the-dude-abides