This week… was rough. I made progress (completed a scene, even!), but not nearly as much as I’d have liked. Everything else after this is going to be me griping about my personal life, which explains why I didn’t get much done, but isn’t important if you care only about Mythos and not about the dev. Just skip to the checklist to see where we’re at with the release!
Last week I mentioned that our cat was peeing a lot more than usual, so we took him to the vet. They took some blood for labwork and said they’d get back to us. Over the weekend Morgana and I went to a little Pokemon convention, so that was a busy time. Monday the vet called about the labwork, and it was kinda as I feared – Gulliver is diabetic. This just threw a ton of stress onto me, because I had no idea what would happen from that point. How are we going to handle giving him insulin shots? Is he in pain? With him needing an injection every 12 hours, doesn’t that basically mean we can’t go on vacation until he passes, or we find a friend we really trust to jab our big furbaby with a needle for a few days?
This resulted in me hardly sleeping at all. We had to take him in for a “glucose curve” on Wednesday, where we drop him off in the morning and they monitor his blood so they have some idea of what dosage of insulin he may need. When we picked him up that afternoon they showed us how to give him his shots, and it’s really not quite as bad as I’d feared in that regard – he doesn’t even feel it, or at least doesn’t appear to. This put my mind a bit at ease, as well as seeing just how little we have to give him. One bottle will last us like two months! I thought I’d sleep well that night.
I did not. The smoke detector in my bedroom malfunctioned early Thursday morning, waking me up by going off for very brief flashes every 10-15 minutes. It wasn’t the little “beep” that happens when the battery backup is dying, it was the full-on screech of the actual alarm. Being as the smoke detector is hard-wired in, and I’m really hesitant to screw with anything electrical, I had no idea what to do beyond trying to change the 9-volt battery backup (which did nothing). So I decided I was just going to have to stay awake in my extremely sleepy state. The pharmacist told Morgana that Gulliver’s insulin was going to cost about $300 (in a very snooty tone), which isn’t unaffordable (again, a bottle will last us about two months), but is still a strain on our finances.
Thankfully, two things happened later on Thursday that alleviated my stress a bit. First, the pharmacy texted me when the prescription was ready, and it was only about $100 – not $300. Second, I finally got the mental wherewithal to look online for how to solve the smoke detector drama, and… you can basically just unclip the thing and take off to disable it. A replacement only cost me $13. This is also good to know for next time I cook: I’m just going to yank the alarm out whenever I wanna use my broiler. I can make ribs, again!
This weekend we’re going to see Six (a musical) and I’m going to run my first tabletop game in years (Torg Eternity) so that’s exciting stuff. I also plan to finish writing the last bits of Chapter Four that need writing!
A hugely special thanks to Bitstream, who actually took the music from Mythos and did the conversion for me on the tracks that needed it, as well as providing me the code to drop into the game files to make it work. Now for all those songs where there’s an intro bit followed by a loopy bit (like Tara and Mara’s themes), there won’t be any odd audio hiccup between the two files!
Chapter Four Scenes Completed:
- It’s Always Sunny in Baltimore
- Born in a Barn
Chapter Four Scenes to be Done:
- Law and Mordor
- Writing: Complete!
- Coding: Complete!
- Rendering: In progress…
- For Here or To Go?
- Writing: Complete!
- High School Never Ends
- Writing: Complete!
- It’s LeviOsa, Not LeviosA!
- Writing: In Progress.
- Fairy Tail
- Things That Go Bump in the Night
Other Things:
- Version 3.11 Streamable (On Hold)
- Music Track Revamping (Complete!)
- Reshooting Some Side Images (Complete!)
- New Side Images (Jodi and Tara) (Complete!)
- Chapter Four Achievements (0/2)
- Ain’t Nobody Got Time For That (Tara Render)
- Glutton for Punishment (B Render)
- We’re one of a kind no category
- Too many years lost in history
- We’re free to take our crowning glory
- For five more minutes
- We’re Six!
Keep the Legends Alive!
– Nine ♥