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Things I've done the last few days:

  • Removed a dead lilac and replaced with a sweet almond.

  • Designed and printed a fucking adorable plant pot.

  • Drew a new comic that I was thinking about posting but might hold off and see how many I do and make it a zine.

  • Made a new metal piece; presently printing / prototyping plastic component.

  • Shed more skin as my latest tattoo continues to heal.

  • Fought hordes of C-virus infected in RESIDENT EVIL 6 which is a rather good time.

  • Bought a pressure washer and cleared off some of the house and yes ok fine i probably bought it to tide me over until POWERWASH SIMULATOR 2.

  • Removed big monitor from shed since I don't really need it anymore. Which I’ll probably need sooner rather than later since I just said I no longer need it.

zombie remake gamelife phase

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Seem to have entered into a "zombie remake" phase of my gaming life – most of which I never played in their original forms: the amazing, limb-slicing DEAD SPACE remake was first, and now I've moved on to RESIDENT EVIL 2 (never played any of the original games when they came out) and DEAD RISING DELUXE REMASTER (which I attempted to play when it first came out). To swap between the atmospheric dread, low ammo, low health, and puzzles of RE2 and the pure mall-ratting insanity and narrative inanity of DR has proven a valuable balm for evening brain capacity needs. And when that fails, there's always POWERWASH SIMULATOR, that digital earthly delight to which, according to the Playstation app, I've given more than 61 hours of my life and will happily give many many more.

coda/20230216

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Taxes have been picked up, a check written, and: here endeth my mother's estate and all that went along with it; that particular saga is, at last, over (this is the sound of my relief).

Finished the comics portion of the MIRACLEMAN OMNIBUS but want to go through the extra material (at least half of the book seems to be extra material) before I write up a Postscript…

Probably starting PICARD, Season Three tonight – but first, POWERWASH SIMULATOR…

formless forms taking form maybe or maybe not

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Think I somehow combined MARIO with POWERWASH SIMULATOR in this morning's attendance card. Oh, the things that happen in 3.5 minutes.

A single line written this morning (3.5 seconds?) led to a return to another short thing and unlocked the thing that was missing from it – but not enough to push it forward: returned to the other thing in W2. Not ready to follow through on yesterday's notions of connectivity and combination between the two seemingly dissimilar projects (a tonal shift from a projects began and developed before LAST CHRISTMAS and projects began after) but I'm not ready to discount the potential either.

Regardless, the form of PRESS (A) 02 has started to take shape and make sense, if only to me, which is all the sense it will ever / has to make.

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