Also, today I have pretty much all of the parts I need for a awesome light display on our Christmas tree this year. Fingers crossed it works out

Day 4 of Advent of Code done. Learned a lot but had a lot of help.
Should make future days a bit easier.
Still having issues with day 3 so will probably try that again tomorrow

Also trying to stay up to date with Advent of Code this year. Finished day two on day two with about 3 minutes to spare.
Could try to do day three tonight. But I think I'm going to wait till tomorrow. Doing it in rust, which is an interesting experience

We t Christmas shopping and finally getting a tree and everything, and going to getting some addressable led lights for some great animations. Should be up sometime this week.
Finally starting to feel like the season
Hopefully be able to decorate better next year.

Good morning.
Monday on my week off and taking the wife to get a scan at the hospital. Always fun getting up early in days off

Trying to see if this gif will work

Due to money issues we still done have a tree right now.
But I set up my digital countdown clock. It feels nice to have some holiday cheer in here.

Talking to my eldest about his friends.
Me: I don't know why your friends are scared of Mama. Everyone should be afraid of me. I hold grudges.
My wife: Hi, I'm grudge.
Lololol

So this weekend, took the time to watch the Five Nights at Freddy's movie and finally sat down and watched Willy's Wonderland
FNaF was better than I expected, but my God, Willy's was so much more fun to watch.

But I do love "bad" movies.

Late night security training prep

So, in an effort to rekindle my JavaScript/ Typescript skills, built a hand builder for an upcoming board game.
Got great feedback so far, and super happy people other than me are finding it useful.

Still relatively early and lots of improvements can still be made, but enjoying a bit of satisfaction.

Playing an online X-Winf league through Tabletop Simulator. This week I had to play Scum and Villainy. I won. /celebrate

So as I prep to relaunch my Pathfinder 2e game, I find myself trying to find good maps for a planned encounter and I am coming to the realization that I will probably have to make my own, and I'm kinda scared.
#cosogaming #tabletoprpg #pathfinder

As a software engineer, I constantly have to remind myself, that the me from 6 months ago was probably really an idiot.
And the me from a few years ago, I don't even know how he got a job. Lol

Had to get a screen replacement on my phone finally.
Ugh. But cheaper than a new phone.

So Arcade1up recently hosted a sale on one of their cabinets. Killer Instinct was sold for 80% off. Don't know how many were sold, But apparently a lot were. Due to the price, I jumped on it. Only for one day later to get an email saying that things were oversold and they were cancelling orders and giving a $25 gift card.
Today, I got the email officially cancelling my order.
So I'm now picking up a used Street Fighter one locally. Looking like I'm hacking on it this weekend

So last night, with the 3 year old, we were playing Mario Odyssey in 2 player mode. First, an observation. Want to play Odyssey on hard mode? Have a toddler controlling Cappy. We spent probably 30 minutes of me just chasing to catch him.
But the main point, he just came up to me to ask if we could play Odyssey together. I told him I was working and couldn't play right now. His response?
"You don't need to work, you need to play Odyssey with me." Hard to argue with that logic, am I right?

Twice now, in about a month, my eldest has tried his damned best to fall for a giveaway scam through TikTok.

Luckily he knows enough to talk to me before trying to actually engage with most of these. But he then wants to argue that it's legit when I tell him that it's pretty much almost guaranteed to be a scam.

It's getting rough out there

Every April 1st...
I miss ThinkGeek's front page.

So I went into the office today and apparently the HVAC in my side of the building was broken, blaring the heat up to 90° F

Didn't expect to be programming in a sauna today