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Oh yeah so a lot has been going on, this past week especially has been bonkers, and I’m super happy about things right now. Furality Furality went great! I had a lot of fun seeing folks I hadn’t seen in a while, a heck of a lot of people checked out my booth, I gained a lot of new fans, and I contributed some of my homemade espresso cups and home-roasted espresso to the charity auction and it helped raise another $1010 for Resilient Hearts! The con as a whole raised $115,000! Furries are amazing. One fun highlight of the weekend was when I was doing an impromptu set in the Dealer’s Den spawn area, and I got a pretty good audience, including some folks who were enraptured by my booth video. Folks made requests that I play the jingle from it, which I did, and the crowd went wild! And then one person told me that this song had been their new vocal stim all weekend and then they shared a dubstep remix that they did of it, which was hilarious. I failed to remember their name, unfortunately, but if whoever it is would like to say hi, please do so! Another fun thing happened where I was in the “greymuzzles meetup” (I’m old lol) and suddenly I heard “OMG it’s Sockpuppet!” and suddenly I was being mobbed by like four people who all wanted to say hi to me, much to the confusion of the other folks I was with. I also got to meet Hiyu and Ashtalon, who do the sound and music for Furality, and expressed interest in working with them in the future. They said they don’t really have any need for additional sound/music people but who knows what’ll happen over the next year. Anyway, the response to my espresso cups was pretty amazing. Obviously they wouldn’t normally go for $1010 outside of a charity auction but there were a lot of nice comments on them and people saying they’d love to have ones like them, and that’s gotten me back in the mood for working on ceramics again. House stuff Seattle City Light has a home weatherization thing that they do for low-income homeowners, which has got to be a very tiny sliver of a Venn diagram in these parts but I happen to be within it, so I got an energy audit many months ago. Anyway the audit found a bunch of stuff that needed improving in my house, and this Monday the construction crew came through and fixed it. In particular, they redid the insulation in my attic (I had actually paid quite a lot of money for it a few years ago but they did an incomplete job and couldn’t get to the whole house for some reason, but when I got a new roof last year I think that opened up some crevices), sealed the sill plate, properly weather-stripped my basement door, and fixed a bunch of other little things. They also upgraded my bathroom exhaust fan and dryer vent. Good stuff. I also hired a home organization consultant for a 5-hour session, which was a bit more than I could handle all at once but it was her minimum session time, and we got so much done. My kitchen and dining room aren’t a cluttered mess. My office is much tidier. My basement/studio doesn’t feel like a disaster area! I don’t dread going down there anymore, so maybe I can start working on music again. And of course now that my basement is much better-organized I can consider working on ceramics again, so maybe I’ll get back to doing more espresso cups (and other things). This also got things to a state where I could finally take care of a project I’ve been meaning to do for years; the concrete pad where my old furnace was is a jagged mess that’s just wasted space, and I’d been planning for quit esome time to fill in the voids with sand and then do a layer of concrete on top, so that I could use it as a space to keep a small refrigerator to keep drinks in. A friend very kindly gave me a spare dorm fridge a few months ago but it’s just been sitting around doing nothing, and so today I finally got some bags of sand and concrete delivered and got it… mostly done. I underestimated how much concrete I needed so I’ll need to get another bag to finish the job, but soon I should be able to have nice beverages at the ready. Music On the note of music, I am still very inspired to record more of my next album, Misfits, but I’ve been super busy, between Furality and all of the shows I’m doing. I’ve also been given a last-minute short set at TPVR, which should be fun. A moment of Zen I’m giving Zen Browser another try. It’s working a lot better than it did the last time I tried it. The UI is still very strange compared to other current browsers but it’s not necessarily a bad thing. On a related note, I’m still using gram despite its foibles. Emacs didn’t stick for me this time around. But there’s still some things Sublime Text does better and I might just switch back to it. Intel apps on macOS have been given a stay of execution for another year (as macOS 27 will continue to include Rosetta) so I could stay on version 3 for now, but I’ll probably just bite the bullet and pay for 4. Also BIRTHDAY I already posted about it but holy shit I’m turning 48 on Sunday, where did the time go When I was a kid I never thought I’d make it to 30, and now 50 is just a blink away. And all in all I’ve never felt happier with my life, and is it weird to actually feel optimistic for the future? Sure, there’s a lot of stuff that’s bad now, but now will eventually end. We all just gotta keep fighting for the future, because soon the future will be now. comments #blogging #studio #furries #Furality #house stuff (via busybee)

Hey y'all! My birthday is coming up this Sunday. I have the following things going on: I’ll be spending some time in VR for the Trans Academy Trans Pride festival, and in particular will be speaking on the music production panel which is at 10:45 AM, Pacific time I’m going to be seeing The Amazing Digital Circus: The Last Act at AMC Pacific Place at 7 PM, and it’d be super fun if I had a bunch of friends with me! Right now the theater is completely empty except for me and it’d be nice to not be alone like Kinger lol And I guess if we aren’t too emotionally destroyed afterwards (or maybe especially if we are!) we could get drinks and snacks somewhere in the dying mall? It’d be thematically-appropriate, at least is the Pacific Place food court even open that late anymore (8:30)? probably not looks like the hot pot place is, at least how is midnight cookie in any way deserving of that name, wtf help i’m trapped in a neverending <ul> comments #birthday #Seattle #VR (via busybee)

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Yay, Furality is here! I don’t know how many people are coming here vs. to my music site since Furality doesn’t give me any dealer’s den click metrics or whatever, but welcome all the same. I already posted a Furality-specific entry on the blogpuppet, but since this is what I consider my main website, I guess I’ll cover all my bases! So, here’s another little FAQ. Who are you, exactly? I’m fluffy. That has been my real-life nickname since 2003, well before I renamed my fursona to match (which happened sometime in 2004 or thereabouts). Note that “fluffy” is the name I respond to! Sometimes people call me “Sockpuppet” but that’s my band, not my me. Also sometimes people call me “fluffy OwO” because I used to have θωθ in my VRChat username to make it unique. Also that’s not how it’s pronounced. What species are you? Me? I’m a human. Now, my fursona is a critter! I have a song about it. There’s vague and inconsistent lore about it. The short version is that it’s just a nondescript “generic furry” that takes on aspects I think of as cute. Previously I had a few separate fursonas, most of whom were porcupines, and one was a grue. Incidentally, I’m not a therian, but I get why people assume I am. Okay so what is this website? This site is pretty much a shrine to my ADHD. Originally I registered the domain name as a joke (say it out loud if you don’t get it), then later I decided to use it to host one of my webcomics, and then later still I decided to just use it as my main website for everything else. So pretty much everything I do aside from music lives here now. I don’t really post to much here aside from the blog most of the time, although I’ve been slowly working on rebuilding my shop section. Someday I’ll also get back to working on comics too. In particular, I really want to finish both Lewi and Unity (no relation to the game engine) someday. But I only have so much energy these days (due to some chronic health issues) and I like to focus primarily on music. What else should I look at while I’m here? Even though my “main thing” these days is making music, I still do a decent amount of software development. My current big projects: Publ: the software that powers most of my websites (including this one); in need of some major rewriting, unfortunately Bandcrash: an app to make it easier to encode, self-host, and sell music online Canimus: a lightweight protocol for musicians to publish their music to the web with the hope of building a robust, self-hosted, fully-independent streaming network (and I hope to eventually build some client apps for it as well) I’m also super into coffee which sometimes crosses over with other things. I also have a billion hobbies that take varying amounts of time and energy. For a hot minute I was doing ceramics and I’m hopefully going to get back into it soon enough (if you came here because of the Furality charity auction and were interested in buying my espresso cups, hi, I see you!) and I also have a bunch of other things I need to get around to listing on my shop. The best way to get notified about those things is probably by followng me on ko-fi, although any new product releases will also appear in this site’s RSS feed. Speaking of RSS feeds, you can also subscribe to just the categories that you care about, if you don’t want to see everything. Where else can I find you? The linkbar on the main page is probably a good starting point. Of all the things there, I’m most active on Mastodon. You can also feel free to join my Discord community which is typically pretty quiet but has some cool people in it. And of course here’s my VRChat profile. Feel free to join my music group or get some plaid wallpaper for your nameplate. comments #furality #VRChat #furry (via busybee)