well, we got another 18 inches or something of snow. it's hard to measure exactly how much, because it was so windy on the day of the blizzard that the coating is very uneven; in some places, it barely covers the ground, while in others, it's piled up a few feet. i normally would be at work today (and yesterday too), but everything has been kind of shut down while people were huddled indoors during the blizzard, and then dealt with the aftermath.
thankfully, the show last weekend was unaffected, since the snow didn't begin until the next day. however, our friends who were on tour did have to cancel their nyc show that was scheduled for sunday. meanwhile, we spent sunday afternoon at our friend kit's house, who lives close enough to walk to. kit was hosting a "soup party," which is a party where he makes soup, and people come and eat it. by the time we walked home, the blizzard had begun in earnest, and we got fully coated in snow. there was a surreal moment where we walked past a man who was standing very still in the snow next to a telephone pole, who said "we got that blizzard ahh?" as we passed. it's hard to explain why, but it was totally unreal. also, the snow muted all sound reflections so there was no ambient reverb whatsoever, which was also super weird to experience.
in between shoveling snow today, i worked on the aforementioned blog post. what else have i been up to? the usual noodling around with coding, website, and self-hosting stuff. i installed nextcloud, which i resisted for a long time but i actually really like it. i didn't install any of the "document editing" features, i am just using it for files and it's really great for that. i also worked on setting up various data to get backed up automatically, which seems like it should be easier than it was, but i think it's working now. *fingers crossed*
oh, and i made a custom script that grabs all of the drawings in my e-ink tablet as images via usb. and i used my website-tools suite and found it saved me a lot of time when updating my website recently. and i made some spreadsheets that do cool stuff. these things brought me joy.
we watched john waters' crybaby and brian de palma's femme fatale, both of which i enjoyed. we also tried to watch another movie that was so bad we had to turn it off. that doesn't happen very often; we usually watch a lot of bad movies ... although we seem to have a higher tolerance for them if they involve martial arts.
that's all i have to report for now. till next time...
