Tuesday: it's the last day of our Black Friday/Cyber Monday sale, so call volume was as bad as ever, and since it's only going to increase as we move into wave season, our procedure is now to assume we're taking calls until notified otherwise. I'm very glad I've got the next three days off. Julie had a trivia meet-up with a couple friends, so I finished my half of the pork roast. Trying to catch up on some IF projects this weekend.
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Saturday: the update Julie posted to facebook reported that we had dinner before going to see the Garth Brooks concert at Intrust Bank Arena. Great show, but it lasted 'til 2 AM. (I would have been up that late anyway.)
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Thursday: this was the day we brought Angel to the vet for the last time. She'd developed a brain tumor, and her condition was worsening. She wasn't uncomfortable: she always enjoyed car rides, and characteristically, she spent the drive to the vet watching the scenery as we passed with some excitement, which was heartbreaking in its own way. I take comfort knowing we spared her a lot of future unpleasantness, but this was a painful loss.
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Saturday: this one requires some context. A friend of mine, zaratustra, combined the ideas of "exquisite corpse" and "Knytt Stories level" and combined them into something he called "Exquisite Knorpse". Over on the Brontoforums (or whatever they were being called at the time), he invited anybody who was interested to participate in this level-building activity. One person would build an area, zara would hide most of the rooms except for those that had open connections, and he'd send the level to the next person, who would build off those connections. Repeat until the level is finished.
I participated in this, and while my contributions were bad, the contact high I got from working on something with my talented and successful friends drove me to want to repeat the exercise. First, I brought the concept to Select Button, but I wasn't satisfied with the outcome, and some of the Brontoforums folks were still interested in giving this another try, so I lead the creation of a proper Exquisite Knorpse 2. The creation process took six months, and I released it today, though I'm not sure where the level is actually hosted as of 2023. I'm sure I have it on one device or another.
(I did try to lead the creation of an Exquisite Knorpse 3, but participant interest waned enough to demoralize me into putting this on the backburner, where my own interest gradually burned out. Friday and other forum folks gathered what remnants they could and released a level with that name, but I don't think any of my material made it into the finished product.)
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