This was a lot less of “I’m drinking a Jarritos”, and more of the cool effect that the bottle had while porch sitting. Hence this getting stuck in the Camera Roll.
Summer is still a week away, but I’m already feeling the higher temperatures. Doing the porch workstation thing has already become problematic with said weather.
Still, you can put Will Smith’s “Summertime” to play without worrying that it isn’t summer. So go ahead and give that a go.
I ran with Dad to Knoxville to help take care of an errand. On the way back, the severe weather due that day finally hit while crossing the French Broad River. By the time we reached Newport, the snow was falling quite quickly.
The individual flakes are hard to see as we’re blowing past them here, but they were clogging up the horizon if you look towards where the river was. Visibility had already started to decrease.
I got the vibe of a plane heading into heavy weather, swapping to rely on instruments. As this was a non car as well (Ford Econoline), that feeling got driven home even more.
When I was out doing the Thanksgiving run, I noticed the good contrast between the sign and sky while walking in. I decided to pause and take the shot; this was the end result. Honestly, I was impressed.
I miss having a non-iPhone camera, like a Rebel T3i. I’ve never been able to buy one since I got out of college, but I should get on that funds willing with how far I’ve come in life so far. Thank goodness for the iPhone though, otherwise I would’ve had a lot less photos bouncing around.
As much as I hate the newer models, you have it to thank for the trip I’ve tried to bring you guys along with since 2011. While there’s a lot more that doesn’t make it to the blog, it helps make a living record of what I’ve went through to a point.
The Blount County Library has lots of inspirational visuals to look at. Whether it’s the lobby, their little cafe in the corner or just wandering around, it’s quite a different vibe than most of the libraries I’ve been in the past.
I briefly found myself in this section and quickly grabbed a snap, feeling separated from the rest of the world for one brief moment. If I didn’t have the immediate thoughts of grown up things like paying bills, I swear I almost could’ve felt I was in an alternate 2009 where things turned out better.
The image is almost there:
Swissgear backpack with a bunch of books, iPod Touch. On a high wave from beating Nanowrimo for the first time. Classes are done, you’re just killing time momentarily before going to to the computer lab. And this is the scene you walk through, except a lot less negativity on your shoulders. There’s a world past this institution that you want to explore, and not having to go 50+ miles to another town to see what’s there (or meet someone).
Things could’ve turned out a bit different.
I’ll explore this library in proper one day, considering how many times I’ve found myself at their doorstep.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!
My name's Janeil.
Welcome to my part of the galaxy.
Moonlight game dev, creative writer, sharing my personal experiences.