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When I last used this thing I mentioned that I didn't really have anything to talk about. So I didn't send any newsletters for checks 9 months? Hoo doggy. It's been long enough that frankly I don't blame you if you thought this was spam.

ANYWAY!

It's my birthday! I continue to age.

I do have stuff to talk about, because as I also said in the last email, I am the type to have Projects(tm). Right now, my main project is simply a much-needed vacation. I'm sending this off and then heading off to PDX to take a long flight (on WestJet; pray for me) to Paris, France. After a few days I head off to Berlin, and then again to Copenhagen. Once two weeks in Europe have passed, I fly home via Reykjavik.

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I kinda suspected this would happen. I know a lot of folks can just go on, talking about nothing, without feeling self-conscious or anything like that. But after years of livestreaming, I’ve realized that… no, I kinda run out of things to talk about kinda quickly. I think I don’t consider my opinions so important that people should hear it. I have to have a thing I’m doing. A capital-p Project.

Of course I’ve been thinking of more projects.

I should really finish my current projects.

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Is "character creator" not just another term for a fiction writer? No it's not nobody says that

ANYWAY I've been thinking a bit about names lately. One good bit about being trans is that you have a strong impetus to think about names, what name you want for yourself, etc. Of course, anyone can just change their name if they want, but transition is a pretty clean reason. I spent a lot of time poking at and picking my name. Naturally, naming things is hard no matter what, but with that context I at least feel alright about putting together people names. But I struggle with place names. There are a bunch in Vapormage that I'm not happy with, with names pulled straight from cosmic geography (valles on Mars or plains of Venus, for example), and after watching some YouTube videos on the topic... yeah I'm gonna want to rename them. My current names are kinda lazy, and everyone deserves a good name, even a place.

Neat!

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In the US, today is Thanksgiving. For Canada, it's a very M. Bison "but for me it was Thursday" kind of day, in my experience.

I used to live in Buffalo, NY, pretty close to the border. And without getting into it, I didn't exactly have friends or family to spend Thanksgiving with there. So for want of anything to do, I wound up crossing over to Niagara Falls for the day. In late November, which is not optimal Niagara Falls time. The area was quiet; tourist traps were largely disengaged for the season, and it's not like Canadians were out and about much on a random work day in the early 2010s. I had lied about my plans to head further up to Toronto that day (I still don't know why), and instead had Thanksgiving day lunch at a Harvey's before driving aimlessly around already-harvested vineyards and ultimately heading back home. God that story is depressing I don't know why I tell it

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