Version 1.7 All Dogs Go to Heaven

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Blessed to have spent the end of the year and the beginning of the current one, for the first time in many, with my very best friend kiapou, pictured here dancing drunk in our kitchen approximately three and a half lifetimes ago. we spent the first day of the new year sitting on various tables and chairs throughout the county freshly forgetting at each new location that most things were closed due to the holiday and hangovers. She hit the road early the next morning, needing to make it to (place) the next state over before nightfall. i bid her farewell and sent her off with a huge stack of my magazines for her to flip through

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a few days later, multiple fires would erupt across LA county, leading to this exchange in our family group text. Later that day my brother, his wife, and their cone-headed dog would pile into their Rivian named RiRi and come to shelter ahead of evacuation warnings. ngl it was fun having them in town for a week since usually their stays are limited to dinner or a single overnight at most. A not insignificant amount of time was spent eating ice cream, going to the mall and going to the mall to eat ice cream. The mall happened to have a kiosk selling blind boxes these naked baby figurines 弟妹 collects, kfc mini brands for me and Japanese strawberry ube soft serve for all. We also spent some time at the arcade so jen could play some iteration of DDR and I could prove to myself that the claw machines there were a rip off.

Beyond crafting and painting, I spent a large part of my downtime perfecting my cyber experience, tweaking system settings and downloading increasingly obscure utility apps.

-[Pause to code an entire tangent page highlighting my favorite productivity finds]-

utility.html
~.Click here to better yourself.~

idk some other shit happened but putting the above page together really drained my batteries. there was a fire? i got myself back into painting and so that was cool, nothing big, mostly sketchbook stuff. broke in my hibino (this year's hobonichi alternative), whipped up a little animation i ought not to share, obsessed over that avatar rig i did in december, saw a racoon, caught the planetary procession which was pretty nifty, put together a few non-official Temu lego sets... oh! 新年快樂! bing bong.

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