I've been snowed in for 4 days in a row, 2 being days I was supposed to work. But I can't go to work when there's ice on the road. I'm absolutely not complaining that the storm hasn't been hectic for me. The power has stayed on, the temperature is cold but I've just worn multiple pairs of shirts/socks indoors and sleep with 2-3 blankets. I did have to stomach a "Cuban style" (lol) shower and washed my hair in cold water this morning, but it surprisingly became slightly warm and bearable.

My paycheck drops tomorrow, and I'm very likely going to work. My household needs to get groceries. When I go back to work, I'm probably going to request my schedule for the next 2 weeks be rearranged, since I missed half of this week's and I'm worried about my paycheck. Fingers are crossed that I'll get hazard pay, but I doubt it!!!

My website is also back online under a new url.

https://capyhaus.neocities.org/

Hopefully I will get back to "long form" or "high effort" forms of creativity than doomscrolling and venting. The last 2 years have been just, really really bad. Ideally I should have Capy stickers printed by TFF in March.

I also want to bring my Ivy shrine back, but redo it. I think I'm going to have to go for an iframe if/when I make a new layout. I really didn't want to do this, but I have so much canon info and official art I want to store :( But I'll cross that bridge when it happens.

So... I'm very close to my rebrand. I'm iced in, missed work today, and there's been no power outages in my county. I'm thankful I'm in the privileged end of this storm, but despite having so much free time and freedom, I just can't focus to have fun or do my "work". It's really frustrating me. Even when I was a NEET during my early-mid 20s I had this problem even on high dosages of Wellbutrin. I was more productive when I was unemployed in 2024 because I was in a relationship... go figure. Now my brain is just a cheap dopamine-seeking ping pong ball.

I'm chipping at my first rune of 2026, and it goes from humorous to sad. I shouldn't get into how my only relationship fucked me up, but I'm just... distraught how I wasted the last 7 years of my life on a lie. But I shouldn't write about that on a public "entertainment/portfolio" website. So I'm just cutting this melodramatic bullshit.

Stumbled upon this pet rat resource website. This is an old school site from 1999... But the front page notes the owner died in 2018 :(

http://ratfanclub.org/

This is another site that's been online for 30 years and still updated. I sent the owner an email because I discovered it in middle school via a rat care book.

https://wererat.net/

I'm slowly editing older entries. My plans are:

- website stuff will go private, because the links are dead.
- some slightly personal stuff will be access-only. I do want to start making locked entries, but I don't have a circle. I'm considering giving access to anyone who gave me access first, but I'm not active on here enough to make it yet. I plan on ordering stickers with a carrd link that includes DW as a social, but DW still is niche and my attempts at introducing people never stick lol. So a circle / access to locked posts: coming soon, I just don't know when.
-- On that note, I am considering including discussions on more fringe or "fragile" discussions under a lock, but I don't know. Most of my online life was being in manipulative groups or echo chambers ("cult" is a strong word) that punish for wrongthink, so I'm hesitant for making unpopular opinions "centric" to my identity again.
- Half of my mundane posts and to-do lists are also private. I use blogs like twitter, which is the point, but there's so much random bloat in my old posts it's like "ok, whatever".
- I haven't gotten to 2024, but bullshit about my ex will go private too. I just want to leave those 7 years I wasted behind me. One reason I want to make a circle is to have a space to unpack that. I'm not going to police degrees of separation, but I stopped talking to a lot of people because I'm disgusted they still associate with them. Granted, most people don't know how I was treated due to my ex being superficially charming lol. Oh well.

(Not to be shady, but even some public writings I otherwise think are solid have some lies in them... LOL...)

Taking notes...


There's a snow warning in Dallas this weekend, I really hope a freeze doesn't happen. Any excitement for my days off on Friday and Saturday is dead.

Soo... I'm dealing with a light hangover from sleep aide sedative effects, but I will feel bad if I don't post about Engage's 3rd anniversary.

Unfortunately I took my review offline*, but everything went offline yesterday. Most of my opinions from 3 years ago are the same, albeit harshly worded back then. My expectations were really low! But I thought Alear was charming in an ugly way so I went ahead and bought it. I thought it was really fun and a cute game! I've soured a lot on Three Houses, so I'm fine with the 30th anniversary game being a hybrid of FE6+FE1+diet Fateswakening. I have my share of gripes, the manga adaption is more interesting story-wise and the first 8 chapters of the game are piss boring. It very quickly became a special game to me. I may have fallen in love...



I have so much more to say (or copy and paste from my offline shrine) but i have to go to work in an hour... I should probably cross-post serious or subjective takes here.
3 years is baby, but it's weird how it's been that long. My life has changed a lot since then, desk shrine and itabag aside...

Hopefully I'll check here more after I bring my site back online and the con prep stress fades.

*When my website comes back online, I'm going to have a "vault" folder of runes that don't fit my values, but I want to keep online anyway. My Engage review might be in there... I find it very terrible and badly written tbh. 

https://randomhoohaas.flyingomelette.com/gw/croc/

I expected this to be a simple review, but this is a pretty good deep dive into the 3D platformer genre as a whole during the 90s. It's very long, and reader mode -> read aloud doesn't even cover the entire page, wow.

Here's a sequel, but I haven't looked at it yet.

https://randomhoohaas.flyingomelette.com/gw/croc/2.html

Makes me want to try this game...

This is old news, but Stickermule has shown their asses again by giving away free pro-ICE merchandise, so people have been scrambling for other suppliers for custom stickers. I'm thinking about ordering stickers of my art by Harmonycon. I can't keep up with a million tweets and my Bluesky feed is already scrambled, so here's what I've found:

https://www.standoutstickers.com/
https://stickerguy.com/
https://thestickybrand.com/en-ca (limited time deals page is worth looking at)
https://thestickerlad.com/home (website looks like a WIP but furry-owned. Prices are ok)
https://stickerninja.com/ (this looks like Stickermule's biggest rival)
https://unionmadestickers.com/en-ca (you can probably use them for non-union stuff lol)
https://stickerblitz.com/ (another rival with good prices)
Vograce orders from China but I've had a good experience ordering sample packs and one-off keychains from them. YMMV. It's better for physical goods. Not sure of any alternatives that let you do one-off orders.
ETA 1/17: Found some more options.
https://wiki.scumsuck.com/resources:stickers (guide on how to print your stickers at home. Lists options for scanners and paper to buy, etc.)
https://zapcreatives.com/en-us (UK based)
ETA 1/24
https://bearandbeagle.store/ (furry-owned, worth noting because you can input a "due date" for an upcoming convention)
https://www.copybaracreations.com/contact (also furry-owned and convention-oriented, currently no TOS / quote guide but you can contact for one)
https://stickerjerk.com/
https://stickerapp.com/
https://www.stickerbunnies.com/ (I've read good experiences on Bsky, but you have to email to start instead of using an on-site form)

After I edit some art with a signature, I might "trial run" some of these? I have a few paychecks before Harmonycon... Hours are tight but some of these are cheap enough.

This issue with Stickermule is it's the only option I know that lets you print one-off tshirts. I don't know who else does that. Redbubble's prices for making a private design and buying it yourself are inflated.

Side note, is there an external program or some other way to mass-edit DW entires? I have some cleaning up to do and want to mass-private / lock posts without viewing each one individually....