Rain Dog @Leucrotta@awoo.space

I ate too much but aside from two pieces of shrimp it was all vegetables so that’s healthy right?

Since I'm up thanks to acid reflux etc, my REALLY hot gaming take is; D&D is full of wonderful settings which don't really match its default style for ancestries and combat. I'm not necessarily sure which system would best match the "feel" of Ravenloft, Dark Sun, Eberron and possibly Planescape.

Went to the nearest park, and once I got past the really REALLY bright lights there the aurora was far more obvious. The colors and shifts in it were far less obvious without the camera, but I could still see them. I decided against walking to 7-11 and by the time I got back to my apartment it was largely no longer visible from my apartment - so I think it really was most visible from here at 10:50-11:30.

Okay, I can *kinda* see it from here if I look due north - first time I spotted it was a VERY slight distort, it seems to have been more active about 5-10 minutes ago, I initially thought I was seeing the milky way which would be pretty unusual here. I can pick up on some green with naked eye but this is all WAY more vivid with iPhone camera, which sadly doesn't take great photos tho I told myself I wouldn't photograph if I saw it, hopefully I haven't messed up

Lately I've been getting hit more often by the realization that my buttons are being pressed and naturally I feel MISERABLE,

such that not only might reality be a lot less obnoxious (just harsh),

but also, for most of 18 years my buttons were being pressed ALL THE DAMN TIME, this recursive loop of bullshit which made it impossible to feel like I had a chance of ever getting anything better, enough that horrible self hate was enough of an explanation/distraction that it actually FELT BETTER.

yuck!

Earlier today I was looking at an old Dragon magazine while on the pot and confused an illustration of a wizard with a bracer on his raised arm, to be a wizard wearing an elaborate, Seussian hat.

I thought, maybe D&D needs more weird hats? then realized that’s a slippery slope leading to Dark Sun.

#drawings today. Future Seattle is full of big terminals with clicky analog keyboards.

hm. "wo shuohua yi diandian zhongguo, duibuqi. Qing shuo yingwen huozhe eyu?"

okay this is cool. Mandarin is kinda logical, so people from Deguo speak dewen, people from Faguo speak fawen,etc. Naturally I want to say which languages I *can* sorta understand so... people for Russia, EYUOSI, speak EYU. And similarly everyone in immediate contact with China (riben, hanguo, yuenan) has older forms. Equivalent to how the Russian for China and Chinese -kitai/kitaiskii - reflects an empire which hasn't existed for over a thousand years.

the Erowid review for taking a shit

In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. Okay so a 16’ tall dire hobbit, but he had hairy feet and had biscuits with tea, and that still counts. So it was a very large hole in the ground, but it was still a hobbit hole, and that means comfort.

it took me years to realize the name of the old 60s vintage song is "Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye," because despite the very clear diction of the chorus I kept parsing it as "Sayonara, sayonara, hey hey, goodbye."

Managed to work on two #drawings today

Indiana Jones and the Egregious Ethnic Stereotyping

but who would be the best fit to direct the movie adaptation of the Silmarillion? since it's a pretty safe bet that David Lynch has effectively retired I'm pretty sure that leaves it a toss up between Peter Chung and Lloyd Kaufman

I was a good boy, girl or whatever the hell gender I actually am and I cooked a fuckton of noodles instead of spending more money. VEGAN even.

https://gofund.me/654e4de6

fine, ain't like I have tons of money to throw at getting people the hell out of this crap situation but here, maybe someone else does.

video interview 2 done, no thanks to fuckin' Teams deciding that now was a great time to choke up. Hopefully I can troubleshoot Teams later and after video interview 3 I can fill my day with nothing but thoughts about D&D, MAYBE picking up more Mandarin, MAYBE getting congee or a big froofy crepe.

Today's gonna be another three (thankfully remote) interview day, and more than one interview trashes me out completely, but given my luck with interviews, it's not like this hurts my chances. And anyway, I got a good cup of coffee, a tiny amount of drawing time and I got to pet a couple of dogs.