9/11/2025: Oh yeah I have a spot to blog about whatever

When first thinking about a structure for my website, I liked the idea of having a section just for me to let my thoughts out. In practice, I realize that I feel most comfortable keeping my thoughts to myself. Each time I see this button though I feel like I should add SOMETHING to it but am not sure what. I wanna make another entry to review myself on different things I did this year but also have been debating putting 'yearly self reveiews' into its own section, who knows! Not current me who is typing this, thats for sure!

Another fact I've accepted about myself is that I show my emotions better through drawings instead of text. I have been doing a lot more doodling lately, mostly because its one of the things I enjoy doing during downtime at work but also as a way to practice drawing different things &/or just letting my mind loose. There have been a few instances now where I'll sketch something and make it into a full rendered illustration later. My online activity doesn't get much interaction so I also don't feel compelled to share much more than the stuff I make, so that is also probably a factor in me not posting much here or anywhere else.

7/7/2025: Quarter-century old

I feel pretty lucky to be able to live for this long considering how much of the world is a mess, especially these days. I also feel mostly content with what I am doing with my art. As of writing thise, these two drawings are the beginning to something I'm trying where I'll make one-off drawings as a way to tell a story I have in mind for these characters. Structuring sevral panels like a typical comic is not something I usually do and I want to stick to it this way to prevent myself from burning out on it. I'll also be keeping most of it dialogue free as another way to save time on it.

I also want to try keeping the main beats of the story to be traditional art. I've been looking at computer screens a lot lately, both from my job and also my main form of entertainment. Focusing on a piece of paper is one of the things I enjoy that keeps me away from a screen, even if only for a couple hours at a time.

6/15/2025: Current views about technology

I currently work as a technician to help people with getting set up on their new computers. 99% of them are on Windows 11 and it makes me a little crazy. It seems like the people I work for want to push so many new things to make stuff easier but in practice feels like its doing the opposite. If there is a common issue on the SETUP of a new computer that requires a workaround, I don't think this new OS should be getting pushed so heavily. A lot of the people I work with aren't great with computers so I don't understand how they expected this to go well.

I don't see all new tech as being bad, though. With things like linux, especially linux mint, it makes me happy knowing there are different user-friendly OSs if people don't want to use windows anymore, which is the point I'm getting to. I feel blessed to live in an age where I can have access to so much information and entertainment just through a computer. Its amazing that so much art and stuff in general can fit on a storage device thats physically takes up so little space. Whether through websites or physical discs, I recognize how privelaged I am to live in this time.

I do feel a bit like a brat that, despite all of these benefits, I still have things to complain about. It does feel a little justified since others, both in my workplace and on the interwebs, also have gripes with new tech. I mostly wrote this post to remind myself that, no matter how poor in quality new technology gets, there is years of old tech to appreciate and people to this day making alternatives to more popular products.

6/2/2025: First real blog post for real

Website is now in a state where I feel comfortable sharing it with others. The artwork posted right now is not everything I've made, its just what I want to upload right now.

While I do plan to tidy things up a bit and add a few more buttons, this is mostly what this website going to be: a simple collection of various art pieces I've created. I plan to use this blog space as the primary place to yap about subjects I want to talk about. I know I could do this on newgrounds and bluesky but a part of my gut just feels like I'll be more comfortable typing about such things here so I don't annoy followers with things mostly unrelated to my artwork (which I presume is what 90% of them follow my account for, though I don't know for certain).

5/17/2025: Test blog entry

This is a test on making a blog. Here is what the front page of my neocities website looks like at the time of typing this. Maybe I'll scroll down here and laugh at this later.