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Asked Drew last night about that calendar, and he specified that it had already been published before he gave me my copy.

Marie joined in afterwards and showed me Will's website:

https://www.willquinnart.com/

Well, he's still a pretty obscure artist, and since the calendar's images don't appear there, that tag would still be worth sharing in video descriptions.

John Isaacson, one of two freelancers currently responsible in Aderemi's place for Super Mario RPG, has expressed interest yesterday in Starbound for when I have any related work to assign anyone.

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Feeling much better so far. As of this morning, all I seem to have left is a slight cough.

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What a coincidence that I started craving some of that just a few nights ago, something sweeter than tea, when I can't remember ever having any since my teen years. Usually, it was a drink to go with breakfast during the fall and winter, meant to warm us up, but I eventually stopped after failing to notice any difference from having or not having some.

Forgot to mention, but three days ago, from where I left off, Marie finished this past Week's crossword almost singlehandedly. I discovered the next day, and what better timing in this case. The clue for 38-across, one I wasn't able to figure out, was "Original name of a resource-based game among the nominees; its official name was shortened to its last word in 2015." The answer was a certain favorite board game of hers from back in Boston, (The) Settlers of Catan.



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Mom and I are going to visit our relatives in Pennsylvania this weekend, and in preparation for that, she came home early from work yesterday and will be doing so again today. I had an appointment each with a new foot doctor and the eye doctor at different hours, and stuff to do in-between.

Since we're not gonna be home for the 1st, and I had posted a day or so late several months, here is October a day early for once:

Michael sent me a folder with various documents explaining how different aspects of Super Mario RPG work last Saturday, and asked for another three days to finish up the ROMhack.

Sunday evening, after spending the entire afternoon figuring out how to reprice all food items in Epic Battle Fantasy 4 if I were to make certain changes to them, I decided, instead of starting over yet again, to ask for an initial mod simply to re-price Chips (what we call French fries) much lower. (Really, there is no reason for something only twice as effective as another item to cost a whopping fifty times as much money.)

Monday, I was going to create some food icons, and did manage to design some borodinsky bread, but then noticed that a cinnamon roll I designed the other week is gone. Can't tell whether I pasted something over it or clicked Discard instead of Save upon closing out, but needless to say, that killed my muse.

There were also some edits I've been meaning to make to the Starbound outline, so that would've been a better way than any to switch gears. With Mom home for Memorial Day, though, things got kinda busy.

Yesterday, someone assuming the name Dawnbomb on Discord applied for my latest Earthbound post on Upwork, a whole week after I last attempted that. My EBF4 post might've had something to do with that, because she initially assumed there were more posts for game mods that Upwork was not displaying, but I went on to show her my Google doc of all games I'd like edited for the long run. She requested a few days to poke around and decide which games she'd be interested in modding.

After wrapping things up with her for the time being, I went out to finish some mowing I've been doing these past few days. By the time I finished, though, it got to be too hot for me to clear my head, and I wound up barely doing anything except for a bit of cleaning.

For once, I actually looked forward to hitting the gym, and even came with Mom inside Savers first instead of heading straight into the gym by myself.

Of interest, we saw a couple of motor scooters parked in front of the gym, one the same purple as the logo for Planet Fitness. Inside the store, just moments before we left, I saw one of the clerks wearing a shirt saying "I've got your back!", with a stick figure holding the segment of another's between its arms and legs.

Following our actual workout, Mom had to pick something up at the library, and I came inside with her. Had a look at the DVD section, and picked out Chaos;Head and Welcome to the NHK. (Nice to see a few new items there for once.)

And finally, to Meat Farms. Nothing really noteworthy there, but sure enough, yesterday was in fact the best day to run all those errands, and I managed to come home to some messages from Crunchyroll (about an issue I recently ran into regarding a joint promotion with Funimation), Michael (whom I contacted after first hearing from Dawn) and someone named Ebenezer who is currently working on a walkthrough for The Other: Airi's Adventure.

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My Internet connection went down, and at first, I assumed something was going on somewhere in town, but I found out later that our main connection was working just fine. Didn't play Disgaea, because I had no access to Google Sheets, on which I keep track of certain things.

Quite by coincidence, I had found myself really tired, obviously from waking up before dawn every morning, and spent most of the day sleeping. Sure enough, I actually did feel gradually better throughout the day.

Mom had hurt her back the previous day, and had to take a particularly long nap upon coming home. I had to wait until she got up to answer a call on Dad's cell phone, before bringing the issue up with her then. She suggested I reboot it, and that actually solved things.

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Quite by coincidence, the item I upgraded that morning, a Mage's Staff now at level 20, went on last night to my Blue Mage, Ecole, replacing a level 10 Leather Glove.

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Happy New Year, everyone!

Here is the cover for that calendar Drew gave me for Christmas:




And, this month's illustration: