My Shokz Aeropex of the past five years finally died, so I upgraded to their newest model, the OpenRun Pro 2. Other than the color, they are better in nearly every way, and the app is actually helpful and worth installing for the settings alone.

My friend Carly brought the hive over and processed it with me. For a dead hive we had a good yield. 15lbs 8oz of honey and 2lbs 3oz of wax. We pasteurized the honey since the hive had died. Lots of work though, and what's not pictured is the mess. Everything is sticky, and/or covered in wax.

Awesome cooling pattern in some rendered bees wax from a hive we tore apart(it had died).

Ok, so this is 10 trees and two lilacs, that just came in the mail. I am not ready for this project, but it looks like I'm planting trees tomorrow.

Made a rösti for brunch. I love them, but it did take me an hour and a half. Low and slow gives such a deep crunch.

Got a Mandelbrot Set zoomer and the Game of Life running in godot. Feeling slightly more confident about my possible abilities as a fledgling game designer.

Took a fresh start this morning, pointed out the issues with ChatGPT, and managed to get this running in the godot IDE. With the godot IDE being significantly more powerful than the processing.org IDE, I'm going to try using it for my visual sketching more.

I'm still using processing.org for my generative image sketching even today. I should learn how to do such things in godot now. This is what a map in my game might look like, though the colors are currently randomly selected each time it's generated.

We made savory waffles for brunch today. They had a mix of farmers cheese, shredded cheese blend, herbs from the indoor garden, and some pepper. I've topped mine with sour cream, tomatillo salsa, and a drizzling of nice olive oil.

Literally just saw a muppet feeding. They are so awkward and cute.

Finally got my first win. Only took 17 hours.

Might have literally spent half of my time playing Balatro since purchasing it yesterday. I regret nothing, it's a great rogue like, and I've yet to win a run. This was my closest attempt.

Today I finally got to make a fusion dish of tahdig and dirty rice, I'm calling "dirty tahdig". It came out so well that this is how I'm doing my dirty rice moving forward. The crust is nothing short of amazing.

Last week I made my first tahdig, and I'm damn proud of the crust I managed. While we were out of saffron, we made due and it was delicious.