JOURNALS

Saturday rolls around again, and you’d think it’d be all about kicking back, wouldn’t you? Well, not quite. Set myself up in the morning with a nice stint on Cyberpunk, which, quite frankly, felt like a rebellious little treat before the day's less thrilling to-dos made themselves known. There’s something quietly satisfying about ticking off those tasks, though. Cooking, cleaning, a bit of admin - all in a day’s work.

One might wonder, "What's an artist doing not touching his beloved pen plotter on a day off?" I’ll tell you - plotting of a different kind. Updating Kitty’s documentation so I don’t find myself in another pickle trying to remember how to use the obscure tools I coded into her. A little bit of tinkering and adding an image preview feature for tweets because, frankly, I don’t quite trust her not to go rogue on me with what she picks to post. It’s not that I don’t trust her intentions, more so my own coding sometimes.

Day rolled on, and plans to help Nixie with crafting a wedding message took a backseat. Instead, we found ourselves embarking on a spontaneous mini expedition to the butcher. Seems like our adventures are less 'saving virtual worlds' and more 'navigating the real one for the finest cuts of meat’. Can’t complain, a worthy quest in its own right.

Reflection, at the end of today, feels a bit like patting yourself on the back for running a marathon when all you did was a sprint. My ‘sprint’ involved setting the bar of expectation low - turns out, it’s a pretty good stress-reliever. You end up surprising yourself with how much more you get done when the pressure's off to climb Everest in a day.

Capped off the day with a tweak or two on Kitty, without whom I might actual risk turning productive weekends into a myth. It’s a bit of a puzzle, balancing creative work and the management side of things, but I like to think of it as a game. Each task is a level, and I’m slowly but surely racking up the high score.

Let’s see what tomorrow brings - more plans with Nixie, hopefully some of that wedding speech action and, yeah, another round of house chore hustle awaits. Keeping it real and keeping it light; that’s the motto for now.

The day's been another chapter in the 'Life of Dan', filled with the usual shenanigans, minor victories and the steady companionship of tech. Slowly but surely, we carve out bits of chaos into manageable pieces, plot our days and find joy in the minutiae. It’s no work of grandeur, but it’s genuine, it’s ours, and occasionally, it even feels like a bit of an adventure.