Janeil Harricharan

Crystals on the Window

by Janeil_H | Jan 7, 2025 | 2025, Camera Roll

While I usually warm up the car and head out pretty quickly, my car took a lot longer to defrost than it usually did this morning. So I still had ice crystals when I rolled out. I could see, but it weren’t completely gone.

I stopped mid-departure when I saw how intricate the crystals were on my driver side window. I did pause and wonder why I was taking a photo of such a mundane thing, but as you look closer you can see how fragile and intricate the crystals are. It reminded me of something that could be used in a Lo-fi video.

Accessing Yesterday’s Memories

by Janeil_H | Oct 24, 2024 | 2024, Camera Roll, PC

In my downtime from my job, I’ve found myself trying to take care of old things off of my to-do lists. One of these was to get a USB hard drive adapter to PATA drives.

I spent a good week and some backing up almost every loose drive I had sitting around, and I believe it’s a good thing I did. I not only got some of my childhood memories back, but also was compelled to make sure most if not all of my old PCs worked.

This is the flagship of them all, though. The famed Millenium Project.

I’ll do a better breakdown on it at some point; not all these drives and parts work on it; but it will boot up and run it’s installed copy of Windows 98. Getting “hot rod” parts are something that’s a maybe when funds or time allows. Unfortunately, COVID and the Gen Z rush of nostalgia has driven up these components quite a bit, so getting something you only poke at for childhood’s sake weighs a lot.

Speaking of which, this is pretty much how I imagined this system back when. Or, at least how I wanted it to turn out. I never got it to even run till my last year at Walters State. Mostly due to parts, but also due to lack of technical knowledge as well.

Firing this up tonight made me bask in the glow of what could’ve been, but at least older me can experience it now.

Heather in Wharftown

by Janeil_H | Feb 26, 2024 | 2024, Heather, Writing

When the pandemic started, I had started to do a project where my Heather universe would be involved in crossovers. These were mostly for fun, and to let people experience my world in a way. Generally, it was someone else’s character getting teleported in to explore about.

Up to date, I still have three of them to finish, mostly due to some illnesses and a lack of actual writing. But after recently revisiting the deviantART community, I came across a curious piece from a user that goes by CapnDeek373. We’ve ran into each other before via comment exchanges, and this was why I had ended up at his creation. A joke was laid out about Heather mucking about his setting, and that led up to this tale.

This one is unique as it involves Heather visiting another setting, which is not the usual direction I take these tales. The setting’s appropriate for her to check out, and lines up with a lot of the story beats I typically try to have her involved in (typically something horror and exploration related). CapnDeek’s pieces line up with a surreal, mysterious and eldritch vibe; that just adds to that appeal even more.

Be sure to check out his deviantART, where he does do frequent updates on his world. Do pay homage at the piece that made this crossover tale spawn into being as well, which is aptly titled shot room #1.

Without further adieu, here’s said tale. Enjoy!

Ellowwood Town Center, Cotley’s
Approximately 3PM
YTD 334, 26th day of the 4th month

“I thought Mom said you were going to go on an adventure,” Janus complained.

Heather exhaled in a huff, unhooking her thumbs in her suspenders.

“I told her I was going to meet Caroline at Cotley’s. Maybe she thinks it’s an adventure for you.”

One Degree of Heat

by Janeil_H | Jan 21, 2024 | 2024, Camera Roll

While I normally stay up late, Mom asked if I could stay up later to help run the water. As in, no frozen pipes.

Good thing I did, because they were getting stopped up through the night. I rotated to doing it every hour instead of once before turning in, so I stayed up a lot later than expected.

I believe the temperature was only supposed to go to 5F, but it kept dropping after 3PM. By 6PM I was shocked that it was 1F.

Very few times has the temperature dropped that low. I know there’s always this period in January/February where the temperature usually makes it to 10F or so, sometimes even up to 8F. But when it gets to 0, that’s a rarity.

A Wild Janeio Appears!

by Janeil_H | Dec 13, 2023 | 2023, Camera Roll

I know people have a hard time spelling and saying my name, but that’s a new one on me.

Picture is self-explanatory, so ROFL at it as you will.

Eateries – Grandpa’s Country Fried Breakfast

by Janeil_H | Feb 22, 2023 | 2023, Eateries

I don’t think I’ve actually cataloged an eatery from Cracker Barrel, but here we go.

I ended up at the Cracker Barrel in Strawberry Plains. I decided to grab something different from pancakes this time around; Grandpa’s Country Fried Breakfast, mostly because I got two eggs and fried meat. I took hash as my side, and the gravy didn’t go too bad with the fried steak.

I actually forgot how the coffee tasted beforehand, as it’s been before COVID since I stopped in at any Cracker Barrel. It wasn’t bad, could be better but was great in a pinch.

Not a bad stop for being around to eat something in the morning.

Unlikely Desk Buddies

by Janeil_H | Jan 23, 2023 | 2023, Camera Roll

On a random whim, I realized that my Halo Elite was almost as tall as my Pyrrha figure.

With figure bases and both warriors in the line of duty, I had to put the two together to pose.

It’s safe to say while most of the Internet wants Covenant to shoot at, I’m still carrying the near-twenty-year-old tradition of Sangheili being friendly aliens.

Towers of Dice

by Janeil_H | Jan 20, 2023 | 2023, Camera Roll, Tabletop RPG

When my online buddy wayc found out that dice towers were a thing, he challenged me to stack all of mine together.

This was the end result. It wasn’t anything fancy; green dice was a gift from my sister, center set is something I bought from a Chattanooga Books-A-Million ages ago (sat as a shelf decoration), and the set on the right was one he sent as a Christmas gift.

Seeing his gift in ‘action’ made this day, suffice to say.

He then challenged me to stack all three together in one big tower, but that didn’t go anywhere unfortunately. I did try, though!

Storytime – 2016 Holidays Nostalgia

by Janeil_H | Dec 31, 2022 | 2022, Lifestyle, Storytime

As 2023 starts to roll around, I’ve done lots of self-reflection on myself. A lot of it has to do at a milestone point of my life, the winter of 2016. A lot of good and bad things happened that year; and while there was that swirling torrent of negative things that were going on, there were a few bright lights that made me look ahead and see something beyond that.

Mostly I looked at how my life could’ve gone different, and actually did have a ton of regrets with a lot of things. But, I found myself still coming back and thinking about those few positives that happened in that season.

Why am I mentioning this seven years later?

I think that’s exactly it; just time passing by, and still trying to sort out where I want to go in the future. And then you look back at happened, remember some things and wonder what’s going to happen to all of that. Moreso, what’s happening to all the things in my head that I don’t share with people.

To just preface, I don’t go around and say “I’m going to make this for people online to see!” I do keep quite a lot of things to myself, either for my own enjoyment or to share in person. But when 7+ years go by and you’ve not shared these things with a single soul, I do step back and wonder if there’s any value of those experiences to put in the public space. A lot of the time they do get censored and filtered to leave the interesting bits, protect privacy, etc.

I think that cycle does have to do with me aging and reflecting, for sure. Maybe that’s musings for another day; but today, I’m here to actually share something from that databank of memories.

Your late Christmas 2022 present is what my space was, several tunes and some munchies from the period.

Stray 01 – Not a Walking Simulator

by Janeil_H | Dec 30, 2022 | 2022, Gaming Playthroughs, Videos

Shoutout to Robuster and my sister for coordinating getting me this as a gift, under the pretense to do a playthrough of it. Which is fine by me, let’s get that done.

Not a fan of the Zurk parts, had a small rough edit because I kept failing several times. Why? Left Alt and Shift brings up Windows functions; so I had to remap the “Meow” key to something else. Succeeded on the 2nd try afterwards.

I would’ve put this out earlier, but I’m behind on actually getting content queued with IRL things. But I got some pretty nifty presents, and needed to get it warmed up with a modern game. So here we are.

Who Am I?