So I kind of binged on doomscrolling way too much for way too long, culminating in getting sucked into my feed until like 10 or 11 am today. I finally put the damn phone down and caught a few zzz's with some bizarro but not-unpleasant dreams.

I'm ready to do other stuff. I've been meaning to write for quite some time. I have numerous writing assignments / projects. Everything from thank you notes to apologies to memoirs to my other book project. And maybe finally my zine.

My phone is in a bag near...

Did my paratransit assessment today, hope I did ok. If I am approved, it's going to make it a lot easier to get out & about to places like the library and the craft store and the occasional fast food indulgence. I will have to wait for the mail they are going to send me.

I am an Old and I have bad feet and bad lungs. Brain is still sparkly though, thank goodness. I'd much rather have a busted body and intact brain than the reverse!

Today I have been working on a MUD (multi-user-dungeon) that I have been poking at for a couple years, but never really got started making stuff in it. I plan to work on it a bunch more on an ongoing basis.

A MUD is like a text adventure that lives on a server that you can invite people to, and make new items/rooms/npc's and so forth on the fly. Many/most(?) have a simple DND-style (or DND-derivative) combat system. You could say they are the ancient precursors to today's MMO's and such.

I use an...