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Mar. 1st, 2018 06:44 amWent with Mom down Long Island Avenue yesterday morning to clean up on the sides of the road, now that Dad's gotten back into that these past few days.
She and I went to Riverhead later to buy some new sneakers for me, and we also ate lunch out at Panera Bread, which Mom meant to treat me to the other day while shopping at the Costco store there. Got myself a steak-cheddar panini, some kind of large cookie, and a cup of coffee; Mom ordered some tomato soup with a few croutons in it.
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Before we headed down LIA, Mom and I had a rather confusing conversation in the morning, about researching other countries starting with Great Britain. For starters, I do recall reading Culture Shock! Japan while writing chapter 2 of Starbound, but that was like the only book that proved worthwhile for my purposes. England's book in the same series specifically covers London, not the country itself, and is also too out of date (1991), and finding the right books otherwise might be rather tricky. I also know they're not going to cover every facet of life in any given country, but I'd probably be able to find people on Upwork who might be willing to iron out anything culturally inaccurate.
Hard to explain, so here's what this eventually led up to: After Mom came home from the gym (I had a nap after coming home from the outlets and staying up to wake Mom up while she took one first), I decided to begin by watching one episode of Lucky Star a day with her. Went on afterwards to write down my actual plans into my notebook to show her, and among them, rather ironically, I now have a pretty good reason to play Earthbound. (Yes, the localized version of Mother 2. I wasn't particularly satisfied even in general with how last year's playthrough panned out, along with ActivePresenter having turned out to record the video and audio slightly out of sync.)
Here's the deal overall:
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In case this affects anything later, I have moved back to the llama trade group as my default entry page to deviantArt. Do not need to see any more Fakemon to remind me of a certain fic I'd like nothing to do with right now. (For the record, though, I've been doing much better for five days straight now, ever since deciding just to leave that rant to rest even before Jake last got back to me.)
She and I went to Riverhead later to buy some new sneakers for me, and we also ate lunch out at Panera Bread, which Mom meant to treat me to the other day while shopping at the Costco store there. Got myself a steak-cheddar panini, some kind of large cookie, and a cup of coffee; Mom ordered some tomato soup with a few croutons in it.
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Before we headed down LIA, Mom and I had a rather confusing conversation in the morning, about researching other countries starting with Great Britain. For starters, I do recall reading Culture Shock! Japan while writing chapter 2 of Starbound, but that was like the only book that proved worthwhile for my purposes. England's book in the same series specifically covers London, not the country itself, and is also too out of date (1991), and finding the right books otherwise might be rather tricky. I also know they're not going to cover every facet of life in any given country, but I'd probably be able to find people on Upwork who might be willing to iron out anything culturally inaccurate.
Hard to explain, so here's what this eventually led up to: After Mom came home from the gym (I had a nap after coming home from the outlets and staying up to wake Mom up while she took one first), I decided to begin by watching one episode of Lucky Star a day with her. Went on afterwards to write down my actual plans into my notebook to show her, and among them, rather ironically, I now have a pretty good reason to play Earthbound. (Yes, the localized version of Mother 2. I wasn't particularly satisfied even in general with how last year's playthrough panned out, along with ActivePresenter having turned out to record the video and audio slightly out of sync.)
Here's the deal overall:
( Read more... )
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In case this affects anything later, I have moved back to the llama trade group as my default entry page to deviantArt. Do not need to see any more Fakemon to remind me of a certain fic I'd like nothing to do with right now. (For the record, though, I've been doing much better for five days straight now, ever since deciding just to leave that rant to rest even before Jake last got back to me.)