The Chip Bag

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!

I 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 :-)

The vegetation is finally turning green here, which means it's jorts season! And update crayon tin season!

I am a serial killer. During the last two months, I killed a handful of plants and drove others to the brink of death. I regret my actions immensely and will be issuing a Notes app apology shortly.

I used to be really invested in caring for tropical plants, but I've moved back to a drier area and generally don't have as much time to baby them anymore. I selectively bought some replacements that I wouldn't need to micromanage as much. The surviving plants appear to be salvageable, since they're still growing (somehow)...

I love making book covers out of things that otherwise would have ended up in the trash, so I couldn't pass on one of these handmade book-sketchbooks from Arsenik Press. I don't have the time or energy to bind a new sketchbook right now, so I was happy to buy this one because it's still handmade and (importantly) it looks cool. The paper in this book is Fabriano 1264 watercolor paper.

I stole the idea to draw/paint an overview of my current favorite supplies on the first page from Apple Pine. I always struggle with what to put on the first page of a sketchbook, so I like this exercise. I've also made several changes to my tools lately, so let's talk about them.