tracker7 | Entries tagged with cyberpunk

Shotgunning resumes has led to some small progress. I have interviews coming up - two tomorrow, two Friday, one next week. None are bad options, and two are especially good. One is a substance abuse case management position that would probably move me to Danville or Nicholasville soon; the other is a prevention training gig that is very much in line with my MPH and would move me back to Lexington. I've said that I wouldn't go back there, but ... well, I do still have friends there, it's closer to home, and ... it's not here.

Booted a player from Cyberpunk Red over the weekend. Got tired of his in- and out-of-game antics, and didn't see it getting any better, so, seeya. Looking for a couple of new players, of course. And our Delta Green handler wants to get in some time as a player, so I'm taking over that one in a couple of weeks.

UofL lost to Florida State in the ACC championship. No surprise there, the Cards were underdogs. Next up is a mid-level bowl game between Christmas and New Year's Eve sometime. I think it's a nationally televised game instead of ESPN coverage, so I can watch Jeff Brohm close out his first year as our coach.

I spent a lot of the last week sleeping. More than usual, I mean. 12, sometimes 14 hours a day in bed or on my couch. A lot of ibuprofen, a lot of orange juice - and why do I forget how delicious orange juice is until I'm sick? This stuff is divine.

Rain, then ice and freezing rain Wednesday and Thursday. Roads were treacherous. Not much more than that, thankfully.

Added a fifth player to the CP Red game. Good decision, both because of the slightly deeper player pool, and Mike is very sharp and entertaining.

Spending a couple of days at the farm with Dad. We have a tiny conundrum - he caught a skunk today, and, well, what do we do with it? Try to let it out of the trap and it'll almost certainly spray us. Probably going to have to just shoot it.

I'm not feeling well, dear reader. A headache started coming on about 90 minutes ago, and my stomach feels leaden. The latter I can understand, having eaten too much when I got home from the tower. The headache, though, is something else.

Barring catastrophe, I'll be in Indy in 72 hours, making final preparations for GenCon. We're showing off a couple of new games and continuing to milk the Mistborn license, and on a personal level, I'm very much looking forward to seeing some people I don't get nearly enough face-to-face time with. Got a couple of things on a shopping list - Cyberpunk starter kit, maybe the new Armada campaign box. The time of GenCon being a big new release event has passed, and I think that's a good thing.

I had this idea to get out to Meijer and pick up a couple of little things for the trip and some of the cash I'm taking, but unless this headache goes away, I'm staying on this couch and trying to avoid too much noise. I'm willing to bet that this screen isn't helping things, either, so that's a good sign to wrap this up and close the Macbook until another time.

Violet Days and The Midnight played at Headliners last night, and I'm a little bit pissed at myself for not going. As some kind of compensation, I'm listening to their stuff on YouTube, letting Google's algorithms do their thing. They're an interesting pairing. Violet Days is a Swedish pop band that sounds a whole heck of a lot like some of the better stuff from my teens, with a little bit more cynicism and self-awareness. The Midnight is a duo riding the synthwave ... wave, and they're pretty darn good.

Synthwave has been my go-to writing music lately, along with youarelistening.to. Cyberpunk vibes, nostalgia for a future that never was. The Imaginary Network Expanded art subreddits are complementing the audio with some fantastic and evocative visual pieces - ImaginaryCyberpunk and ImaginaryCityscapes are just full of good stuff. Sometimes, there's a track or a piece that just hits me the right way and it feels like I'm coming home.

It's been a weekend for going back to old headspaces. Last night's Somewhere in Time was an episode from the mid-90s about Cydonia and the "Face on Mars" and all that, and Jesus that took me back. In those heady early days of the World Wide Web and my access to it via UK's NeXT machines, I was seriously on board with the groundless crazy of photographs "clearly showing" the ruins of a city near that pile of rock on the Red Planet - a couple of pyramids, a kilometers-long wall, and other features that had to have been built by some intelligence. Goofy stuff, and compared to some of the horrible nonsense filling up the 'Net in these recent days, pretty harmless.

I have to wonder, though, if things like Infowars and antivax and all that awfulness can trace a lineage back to those early conspiracy and secret knowledge sites. Conspiracy theories have always been around, and there's never been anything like the Internet to give them traction and an audience.

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