Things are rollllinggg alonnggggg as we reach the end of October.

Before I forget, my wishlist is still pretty much in the same place.  Can be found at https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/8tjiqzmqavizau8q87mis/Profile.txt?rlkey=xkvyrqbnl5gadyjmyxfugqgvr&dl=0

I've been continuing to explore progressive house sounds in OHC -- may spend one more week doing that, or may do something slightly different this week, who knows.  Notably though, I also spent a good chunk of time purchasing a few new soundsets (as alluded to last time), and almost more-importantly, spent some time trying to reorganize my sounds a bit.  I've gone through a few different iterations of trying to get my virtual instruments and samples and everything organized and I'm still not 100% sure what the =best= way is going to be for my workflow, but I'm at least trying something different and seeing how it feels.  There's not really going to be a perfect solution as you always have to give up on something...for example, you can't audition generator plugin sounds from FL Studio's browser (understandably), so if you wanted something like that working you'd have to render your own preview sounds and name them the same and kinda have it working in a hacked-together way.  And there's this weird tradeoff between browsing channel/plugin presets that you've hand-picked out in FL Studio's browser, versus browsing plugin presets within each plugin itself.  And there's pros and cons either way...well, anyways, it's a work in progress.

I hung out at a Teance event and it was really nice!  Shouldn't be a surprise that I'm looking forward to spending some more of my afternoons there when I can.  Recently I've tried a yellow and a green tea from their catalogue, and.....yeah, as expected, they're fine but not really my thing.  Have to have my white tea......

I spent some time at Philz Coffee today writing up another xmas letter, and then came back and sank some quality time into Rhythm Quest, including upgrading to Unity 6 (a.k.a 2023), which went...alright actually, not a ton of stuff broke, and the main thing that was not working was actually just my fault anyways.  And now I finally get to ditch the Unity splash screen (yay...).  The real question is whether this update will end up fixing any of the other random issues (gamepad input not working, but system-specific?).  Bleh.  I'm due for a devlog post for this month; I don't think it'll have anything super exciting but overall the feeling I get is that I'm doing ok on balance with the amount of work that I'm putting in, and really that's all I can ask for.  If I can get one or two more quality days with the project this week (I kind of intend to) then that'll be perfect.

All of the keyboard stuff that I ordered has come in and I'm excited to set aside some time at some point to tinker on all of it! :)  If only those HMX Gachapon switches would come back in stock...(was supposed to be September, then October, now November...).  But anyways, I've got the wireless PCB to put into my Cycle7 (wooooo), plus I will be swapping out the stabilizers for new ones that I bought.  I will probably be lubing those and I miiiiight try to wire-balance them a little bit but I want to err on the conservative side for wire adjustments.

In the meantime my Evo80 came and it's got a lovely sound signature out of the box!  Definitely not regretting that purchase, it's kind of distinct from the rest of my boards and the per-key RGB is actually not too shabby either, uses better firmware than other RGB boards I've seen.  I'm going to be looking forward to spending some time using that as my main board for a bit once I get back home.

I've been continuing (slowly, just here and there) to work on the next big update to my ALTTPR site.  That is going to take a while longer to put together since I'm doing GT basement rooms and there are a billion of them, but I'm learning more and more as I go, which is always nice.

I have a new dance choreo that I might try to learn...really not sure though, I've basically =never= managed to commit and then follow through on learning choreo.  So I'm hesitant on that, but we'll see I guess.

I ended up with 180 letters for this batch of Vote Forward (voter outreach) mailings.  I could try and get that up to 200, but the deadline for mailing is Tuesday and I'm getting back home late Monday night, so it's looking unlikely, despite the fact that I want to.  I probably ought to spend my time on my own personal letters anyhow.  There's always next time, I guess.  Honestly always feels a little sad when there's no vote forward letters at all for me to work on; it's just this really nice thing to do every once in a while.

Some plans got cancelled on me this weekend and honestly it ended up feeling a little silly that I ended up here in the south, but eh, overall I don't think it was too much of a waste, and I'm glad I've managed to get some things done here and there.  I'm feeling ok about things, despite the ever-present pressures and stresses of life (Rhythm Quest...ephemerality...people...etc).  I'm going to have to start thinking about xmas shopping next month in addition to finishing the other half of all the letters [sweat].  It'll also be time to potentially go and visit the MB kids.  I didn't do so last year (maybe even the year before?  I don't remember).  It honestly doesn't feel super keenly important anymore, like do I really need to go in order to connect with that part of my past?  It's not like I am really going to meet the people who once were there, and the ground itself isn't even the same anymore.  But I'm not opposed to it either, at least not yet, so I wouldn't mind another trip over there, as long as I don't have anything else to do.  I thought about inviting Dina to come with, but I really feel like they wouldn't want to, is the sense that I have.

I'd write something about how the important experiences that make up my past end up shifting here and there, but I think that's good enough for today and I may as well save that topic for some letters.