#bfl

They come with some BFL on either side (probably as a barrier because trying to pull straight southdown off of carding cloth without it ripping to shreds is very difficult), which for all the other colorways I've bought from this shephard is great, but with this one it has kind of a candy cane effect once spun, which isn't what I'm going for.

Luckily it peels right off. There's some stray BFL but not enough to bother me.

I decided to just process all of the batts at once so that I don't have an extra step to cause executive function problems later.

Anyway here was the result. I was kind of worried when I saw how big the BFL pile was (basically the same size as the southdown !), but I weighed both and theres approximately 350 grams/12.5oz of southdown and 80 grams/2.75oz of BFL, so the BFL's volume is almost entirely air.

I'm thinking if I finish the southdown with time to spare (which I ought to), I'll blend something with the BFL and spin that next so that it doesn't take up tons of room in my storage. It has lots of flecks of red in it which should be an interesting effect, just have to figure out what to blend it with.

(And yes, this huge pillow of southdown batts was extremely satisfying to squish)

While Football's still on the brain, I thought I'd share a fun little thing I did last fall with Backyard Football '99, which had seen recent re-release on Steam.

For this season, I picked Ricky Johnson, Kiesha Phillips and Chase Downfield and let the game pick the rest for me. Say hello to the Inky Squids, coached by one half of the Squid Sisters, Marie. With a classic colour scheme to match.

Editor's Note: Alas, I didn't get any video of this campaign as neither Steam Recorder nor the Xbox or Nvidia recorders would play nice with it. Screencaps is all you're going to get. I need to remember to try capturing with OBS next time I play a Backyard Sports game.