Small poem this morning. Not a happy one. But such is the mood for so much these days.

Re-listening to the first couple Big Shiny Tunes CDs (if you're Canadian and of a certain age, you know), and some of the songs are big, famous, still on the radio. You know, Bush, Sloan, RHCP, etc. And then there's the oddballs, like "Paste" by Pluto, a Vancouver band that had a brief run of a few years in the mid 90s. Nominated for a single Juno. It's a pretty decent song! I think a lot about who makes it and who doesn't (in various things) and how so much is a matter of luck and timing.

Debugging a user-reported issue by switching to my last release tag and rebuilding. Bypassing all the usual in-game checks by setting certain ini settings. Setting lots of logs to the message pane in Lua to try to figure out why one particular shopkeeper is being a jerk.

Turning dull supermarket price checks for my wife into circa 2007 Flickr pictures

Twice today I've run into issues with accounts that used my old email for contact purposes. Thanks, U of S. The gift that keeps on giving.