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Hurricane Ida came swiftly in the morning, slamming into Louisiana as a Category 4 hurricane. Terrebonne Parish and surrounding areas lost power early on; I didn't know if my friend had evacuated or not until sometime later in the day -- t…

Entry for August 28th, 2021 Unfortunately, my friend wasn't able to join me in the morning. I waited for a while and eventually, about 5-6 hours later, found out that they wouldn't be able to do it. We made tentative plans for next Saturda…

Entry for August 27th, 2021 I'm getting ready to spend Saturday morning racing Pokemon Red/Blue with a friend! This is a very close friend of mine. I have the 3DS Virtual Console version of Pokemon Blue downloaded onto my capture-card 3DS …

Entry for August 26th, 2021 I've been working on trying to figure out if there's a way that I can advertise Sudo Haiku to old Hatena Haiku users, but it's not going too quickly. スドハイク - お絵かきも楽しめるミニブログ。 はてなIDでログイ…

Entry for August 25th, 2021 I've been looking at alternatives to FontAwesome so that I don't have to shell out a bunch each year. However, I haven't found any that have what icons I need. I got this in the mail from Husqvarna. I guess this…

Entry for August 24th, 2021 I spent a while digging through information on developing Minecraft plugins. There's a plugin that used to work on older versions of Minecraft that would cause minecarts to load chunks as they traveled, allowing…

Entry for August 22nd, 2021 GitHub Copilot is continuing with its fatalistic title suggestions. Friend I drove for an hour to visit a friend today, and ended up helping them out with their A/C -- their condensor unit seemed to be operating…

Entry for August 21st, 2021 I've been sharing my posts to Sudo Haiku, and usually type up the text I put there in Visual Studio Code. This is the entry title that GitHub Copilot suggested for today's entry: "The world is in chaos" House re…

Entry for August 20th, 2021 Wanderlust Over the past few days I've constantly had thoughts of travel and exploration on my mind. I just want to get out of town for a day or two, take a cheap flight or train somewhere and just have a nice t…

This entry is for August 19th, 2021. I must confess, I really should've taken more pictures of my preparations for Haiku Day. I'd like to encourage you to browse through the entries posted on Sudo Haiku here! First meeting I had a slow coo…

Entry for August 18th, 2021 Recipe Exchange So I refined my idea for a "Recipe exchange" activity on Sudo Haiku: The details are here: E Essentially, each person would submit a recipe. At the end of the submission period, everyone would cl…

Entry for August 17th, 2021 (This entry and the several after it have all been backdated.) Planning So I've been asking around a bit and trying to figure out what is going to happen on 8/19 (Haiku Day). It looks like id:boundary-line has t…

Entry for August 16th, 2021 Minecraft I've started playing around a bit with Minecraft again. It's kind of a time sink so I usually try not to play for very long. I didn't get much else done today. Here's some things I've built in Minecraf…

Sermon/church notes I was planning on going to another church today but I got the time wrong and missed it, so a good friend let me listen in to her church service instead over Discord. But things were a bit strange. Speaker: ??? Morning w…

Entry for August 14th, 2021 Enjoying the day I felt a strong pull to worship and sing today. I went and walked around Michigan State's campus and practiced both whistling and singing. I wasn't trying to do it where there were a lot of peop…

Entry for Friday, August 13th, 2021 Music-making I was exploring a program called LMMS while trying to help a friend with some of their music-making efforts. I made some decent progress learning about how MIDIs work and soundfonts, though …

Barbecue This afternoon I went to the park to see my coworkers for the first time in a very long time in person. The event was noted as BYOB so I brought some Mike's pineapple lemonade. I did feel a little like I had a hard time engaging i…

Entry for August 11th, 2021 This entry is backdated...Yesterday was a long day. Heavy rains It's been raining heavily on and off all day, and my basement's started flooding again. My kitchen ceiling started dripping again as well. Faith te…

Soundfonts I've been digging into soundfonts because of a friend who's making a Pokémon Minecraft map. I previously offered to help make a resource pack but also had the idea that it'd be super cool to render her MIDI using a real Pokémon …

Entry for August 9th, 2021 I just wrote 4-5 other blog entries to catch up. Since I backdated them, I suggest reading back if you want to see them. The one from yesterday has a particularly large amount of thought put into it about my walk…

Entry for August 8th, 2021 Church This morning I went to a place called Faith Church in Lansing. The church is based upon the Wesleyan Holiness tradition which is something I'm very familiar with because of Eaton Rapids Campmeeting. I was …

Entry for August 7th, 2021 Forest walk I went on a short morning walk on my parent's forest trail.I dream of one day being able to afford a house with this much natural beauty. In the early morning, there are many verdant green colors and …

Entry for August 6th, 2021 Dream I had a dream where I convinced my dad to allow me to go with him to Japan along with another friend. So we all got on motorcycles and, after a lot of preparation, drove for a while until we reached the par…

Entry for August 5th, 2021 House-sitting After work I went over to my parents house to house-sit while they're on a vacation. It's very peaceful and nice there. Emotions The deep sense of loneliness that I have every so often has returned,…

This entry is for August 4th, 2021 HOORAY!! I'm super-delighted to say that (along with other people in the industry) we've been able to get the Chromium team to delay the changes for native dialogs from cross-origin iframes until at least…

This entry is for August 3rd, 2021. At Eaton Rapids Campmeeting, there was a decision made to sell some of our trees to a logging company. However, the people that did it made a really big mess, left a lot of half-trees laying around, and …

This entry is for August 2nd, 2021 Bathroom My mom came over again and she came bearing gifts -- more themed items for my bathroom! I'm really grateful for her and thankful for her kindness and creative spirit. Here's how my bathroom looks…

This entry is for August 1st, 2021 Church I've been looking for a new church recently. On the recommendation of some family friends, I tried a particular one nearby. I felt very welcomed when I went there! The worship was difficult for me.…

Morning This morning I woke up bright and early, drove over to Horrocks and got myself some breakfast. I also decided to buy a plant as a gift for my mom, so I took it over there! We potted it together and talked about various things. :) A…