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I joined many members of my city in losing my power last week. We’re very lucky. We have enough money that the loss of groceries didn’t really affect us. We were able to go elsewhere to eat, and then to the movies to get cool. I know a lot of others are and were not so lucky. I hope that the powers that be can take this failure and work to ensure that it doesn’t happen again.

We attended the Columbus Arts Festival on Saturday. There were a few artists showing there that I was excited to see, but overall the art itself was less important than the food and the excuse to be out and about. We took the bus to get there, my first bus trip since the pandemic. I absolutely love riding the bus. The routine of walking to the bus stop, waiting, getting on, paying, start stop start stop along the route is very satisfying for me.

The long weekend stretched into a long week. I wrote about half of this a week ago but never finished. Changes to my routine, even good ones like an extra day off, always seem to mess me up. My sleep schedule is no longer a schedule at all. My mom went out of town on vacation this week. So I walked one of her dogs, Lily, for a few days. She’s a bit afraid of everything, and a lot afraid of me, but I managed to get her to walk for me!

No post last week. My friend was very sick. He seems to be better now though! These past two weeks have been very very busy for me. I had a lot of fun, but also a lot of stress and even fear. I’m going to focus on the good times here, although some of those were stressful in their own way. One of my friends had a birthday this weekend. We went out to a bar at peak times for the first time in years.

A few years ago, my girlfriend asked me to fix her sunglasses. The ear piece had snapped off. At the time I thought that maybe it would be possible to 3D print a replacement, but I couldn’t wrap my head around how to do it. The project was never high priority and so it got buried under other TODOs only to be resurrected this week. While the final product is a little rough, it looks good from a distance and is 100% functional.

I made a mini-bucket list for Destiny 2. I can feel my enthusiasm waning and I want to get some big things done before I fall off. This way I can look back on my time with the game with satisfaction, rather than with regret and vague plans to return some day. I tend to leave a lot unfinished when my hyperfixations fall off. The worst part is, I never completely lose interest, just enthusiasm and focus.

This is a copy of the actual bug report I filed today with 343 Industries, the main dev team for Halo Infinite. I can’t overstate how disappointed I am. Normally I would not condone using bug report forms for feedback submission, but, as stated in the ticket description, I could not find a better way to do this. Halo Infinite Bug Report Title Patch removed all my favorite parts of the base game - skill jumps, mangler cheese, etc

It’s actually nice out! I worked out for the first time in months last night because the bar was actually warm enough to touch. It was a great session! Next year I really need to figure out a better way to heat the garage and equipment for workouts. It stays cold in there for way too long. My Destiny 2 obsession continues, but I believe I can see the light at the end of the tunnel.

My current hyperfixation continues to be a pretty big priority for me. However I’m trying to think a bit more and ensure that I’m doing at least some other things too. One of the rules I try to live by is Leave things better than you found them. Googling this doesn’t give me a good source in the first page and I’m not up for digging right now. I try to practice this in an everyday kind of way for myself.

I blew clean past my normal weekly posting time. That’s ok though. I made no promises to anyone, including myself about that. And I will continue to make no promises moving forward. Destiny 2 I had my first real hiccup in Destiny this weekend. I ran into the limits of solo play hard. Then had a big fail in a matchmaking queue that was incredibly embarrassing. One teammate made it clear they were upset as well even without voice chat.