Tomorrow is the start of our trip!

Today I spent some time finishing up packing and taking care of a few things, and then cooked for 7 people, which went well!  Made kimchi fried rice, roast butternut squash, and a salad with seared rare tuna and some homemade sesame dressing.

I was hoping to spend some time relaxing but I learned that some of our Android games weren't available because I had forgotten to make new builds for them for API target level requirements.  Sigh...I really hate software obsolescence (rip flash...).  All in all it wasn't TOO bad to make new builds for those 3 apps (the godot ones were pretty quick, the unity one slower...), but it's really not a great feeling to think about "oh, this is just going to be a big pain in the butt to do every X years".

Pet Furball has always been a thorn in my side when it comes to this.  I gave another shot at trying to get it into some sort of working shape and I actually got further than before -- actually have a working compiled version, I could even provide native windows binaries, perhaps.  But the good news ends there -- I fought against Android building for a while but threw in the towel, and even the HTML5 build had issues, as it runs but only a quarter of the screen displays properly.  That whole Haxepunk/OpenFL/Lime ecosystem was just super terrible...at this point I have to remind myself next time that this comes up that it would be easier to just recreate Pet Furball / Ripple Runner / Melody Muncher / etc from scratch in something like Godot than try to mess with any of them now.

Anyways, it's always a terrible feeling to hear about things that are going wrong with your projects, haha.  (I will never release a live-service game......)  I also have to migrate all of my repos from bitbucket to gitlab at some point due to storage limits, but I guess I've still got some time to do that and it shouldn't be the most terrible thing...

I had some feedback on the FTUE for Rhythm Quest and the good news is that the part that I worked on most recently is working great, the bad news is that pretty much all the other steps in the process are pretty mediocre. =/   Definitely a discouraging sort of feeling, but I just have to remind myself that it's supposed to be an iterative process like this...

Anyways, now that I'm trying to put all =that= out of my mind, I think I'm actually feeling pretty ok about the upcoming week.  I've got a variety of things to choose from for the flight time -- a game to play through, some ALTTPR programming or timing work, Rhythm Quest charting/coding perhaps, letters to write, some movies to watch.  Even though I know I won't get to most of these things (probably will spend a few hours playing something, then poke around and then doze off, etc), I think it helps to "get hyped" about all the things you could possibly do.

I kind of already know that Rhythm Quest won't be done this year; I think everyone else can naively continue to hope for it but I think at this point I know a little better than that.  But that's really not the important thing that matters, the important thing is to look back on each month and either be able to see that I got some good work done, or see that it just wasn't in the cards for me because well....life.

Looking at it from an objective standpoint, though, I could be doing a lot worse.  I always look over to Rhythm Doctor and how they started way earlier than me (2011!) and they're still not done, and they've got a whole TEAM working on that, eh?

There's a lot of stuff coming up ahead, I think despite the fact that I had mostly all good things to report to my therapist, it's intimidating to think too far out about all of the things that need to be taken care of.  But!  Perhaps it's also good to take time to look back and think of all that I have already gotten out of the way.  Wrote my Rhythm Quest devlog, filed my taxes, even helped somebody else with their taxes, I mailed out my ballot too.  Published my monthly album, took care of all that, too.  I didn't get to trim chickie's nails but I gave them both a nice foot soak and topped off their food and water.  Installed the new air filter into my room (maybe after I come back we'll see if that can make any noticeable difference for me).  Put away a couple of things...and yeah, even though I was grumbling about all the build update stuff earlier, I mean, good on me being able to put that away for now.

It's time to wind down, and tomorrow we can start to stretch our legs (well, maybe not literally) and take a break from what we've been focusing on.  It's time to turn away from all the things I "have" to do and start thinking about the things that I "could" do.