Last year I managed to get the Sailor Profit Fude de Mannen pen secondhand, and it's my new favorite sketching pen by a large margin. I screwed the nib section onto the Sailor Compass, so (part of) that pen is getting significantly more mileage.
An ink drawing of a cat sleeping on a Vespa scooter, pictured with the Sailor Fude nib in the Sailor Compass body
I love me a good prompt list as a substitute for actually working on stuff. Here's one with a million questions. You, too, can answer a million questions by copying 100webmaster.txt!
Read moreI had originally started writing this draft entitled "Not Dead" in... August 2025. As it happens, I am dead! Hopefully less so now.
Some context: I moved (again) to start a new job (again) last summer. Starting a new job in education is famously annoying and difficult. I was doing a lot of work for free, and I was tired of looking at screens so much.
I also bought a computer last year, a tower, because I wanted to be able to replace parts as needed instead of dealing with the cycle of constant machine replacement. This worked out for a while until the computer started suffering from frequent forced logouts or OS crashes, which was the product of some kind of poor interaction between the on-board graphics and the OS because Linux is fun. I didn't have the time or money to spend on the computer for most of the year so I put that on the back burner, but I finally got an extremely basic GPU and presumably everything is fine now.
All the life and tech issues (not to mention All That Shit in the world at large) have meant that I've been spending all my free time doing non-internet stuff. It's been really freeing, and I haven't had to think about doing write-ups for anything in a long time! I do want to find a more sustainable way to keep the website afloat without going ghost for a full year, though. I don't know what that looks like yet, but there will be a fairly significant reduction in scope just so there's less stuff to deal with.
If you're still hooked up to this RSS or still browse this website occasionally, I'm glad it's still serving a purpose for you. Thanks for bearing with me :-)
I went to a curio-themed art/craft fair a few weeks ago, and I'm so happy I did because everything was completely up my alley. It's hard to find local artists without social media, and you don't usually find this type of stuff at granola mom craft fairs. It was also just fun to talk to so many people with common interests. I was happy to have gone for that reason alone... but of course I ended up buying a bunch of things.
The vegetation is finally turning green here, which means it's jorts season! And update crayon tin season!
