Hi all! Stuff has been a weird sort of mixed bag lately. I've gotten a lot done, as usual, but I've also been having more issues and generally haven't been feeling well. I got my second covid vaccine a few days ago, so that certainly doesn't help with that either. I've had a massive headache ever since, not entirely sure if it's to do with the vaccine or just a fairly normal neck issue.
Luckily I was able to get that done after my birthday which was recent! Really wouldn't have liked to have been out of it that day. Really didn't do much anyway but still would've sucked.
Recently I've been doing a lot of visual stuff. For instance, I've done a couple music videos based on an effects software I got awhile back focused on glitchy visuals, which I really like the style of. Even did a couple of which for Starset songs. I did some visuals for stuff surrounding The Message, so I was glad to be useful in that way. I've kept on working on the ship based on the schematics thing I made, it's slow going because it's pretty complex. I've also been trying to secure my ability to do some more hand-drawn visual stuff since using a mouse for that is terrible by looking for a digital drawing tablet to buy. Because of my vision issues, I'm likely going to need to buy a rather more expensive one and I'm really not liking that, which is why I haven't just gone ahead and bought one yet. I do have one in mind, it's just more expensive than I'd prefer so I've been holding off...
What I haven't been holding off on buying (or at least I was, but stopped since the last log) is music! I figured I'd buy some of the music I usually listen to for free on YouTube and stuff. One artist (Or record label? seems kind of unclear) seemed to have all (or at least most) their music for free anyway when I looked, so unsurprisingly, I got that. There, however, were many others I did actually buy from. I've tried to put all this new music in my iTunes library and it just doesn't like it. For instance, for some stuff the album cover just, doesn't work. I've had this problem with my own music too. I try to add album artwork and it just refuses to acknowledge I've added any artwork and if I tell it to go fetch the artwork online it gives the wrong one. So, I'm not entirely sure what to do about that.
Speaking of my own music, I've been working on that recently, I've built the basics of some songs but it seems hard to complete them. I have completed at least one though. I've also come pretty close to finishing my Die for You cover. It's mostly just the vocals and minor tweaks left unless I find I want to add another instrument or something, but that's unlikely. I'm trying to keep it fairly simple and not too busy.
Making music has just become rather difficult though, as my headphones broke. Sending them back for repair looks like it'll be expensive, and the DIY fix involves stuff I don't know how to do, it's a bit of a predicament. Really bad timing too as I just got a headphone stand for my birthday :-/
Also my Starset hype has only been growing, they released their new album Horizons on the 22nd, just a few days before my birthday, and I got my CD the day before it, so that was pretty cool! I'm going to be going to a demonstration (their name for their concerts) in a couple days, and I'm going to the associated VIP. Very excited!
I've also been doing some writing. I wrote a poem, and I also had an idea for an SCP based on a very, very old concept I've had rolling around in my brain inspired by some Starset lyrics. I figure it'd probably work pretty well in an SCP format, so I might try to write it as one. It's a bit too big of an idea for a short story, it'd at least need novella length to really play out of normal prose, but SCP format may allow me to condense a big idea into a smaller amount of actual reading. I've also worked on A Sophon's Cosmos a bit, primarily adding some stuff into the timeline that I still need to flesh out but wanted to at least put in there to remind myself I want it to be a thing, haha.
Most of today specifically was spent on Dune. I watched the original movie from 1984 for comparison and then went to the theater (pretty much immediately after) to watch the new one. They are both VERY good, I definitely see where the hype is coming from. I can't really say which I prefer as, although they're based on the same story, they're rather different so they're hard to compare in that way.
I've been having a lot of headache and eye-related issues, so that's really all I've got, that I can think of anyway. I recently got MS To-Do, and it's been helping me to get things done by making it easier to just look through and see what stuff I want to do, go do it, and check it off the list. I'm still not great at it but I hope that improves. Hope I've got more to report next time! See you all then!
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