Some thoughts late at night.

I've been doing a little cleaning. Deleting blog posts and stuff, rearranging my front page a bit. Not sure where and how far I want to go with this because as of the 26th it'll have been four years since I joined this site, and I feel different but the same, if that makes any sense.

Used to call myself Menace of the Mines, but I eventually thought that was a bit too pretentious and just switched to Mine_Menace, occasionally having trouble on whether to keep the underscore of all things. I used to have it, then I switched to a space, now recently I switched back.

I've said a lot about myself on this site, and done some things too. I used to write. It felt good to write. I've still got ideas knocking around in that head and plans written up, but I can't put them out yet because I'm in the final semester of college and it's real important. I remember when filling that void I used to write movie reviews, and even talked about Switch games and some music. Then I just stopped. Part of me wants to do it again but part of me is calling myself a stupid idiot who can't write anything well because even when looking at those I think to myself I could have written better. I've thought about deleting some of those too but right now they're staying intact so people can look at that brief focus on one topic I used to have, which kind of happened to me a bunch of times before.

Sometimes I think about drastically reducing my presence here. So that when I'm on this site I'm doing nothing but reading, at least for the time being. I'm not active in most places on this site but even so I've considered taking a break many times. The only thing that's really stopped me so far is the stories and such, because I have a lot of things in my shelves and I like quite a lot of stuff on here. Maybe I'll leave some day. I don't know. Not quite yet, I guess, and like I said I still have ideas. I'll hopefully have something out this year sometime.

Thinking about changing my avatar yet again too. Used to be a rocket barrel, and a blue mine background from Donkey Kong Country 2, and a red interconnected nonagon on a black background, and candles in the shape of castles, and now the current sun with a fishy face (yep, that's supposed to be a fishy face). It'll keep the face because for some reason I just really really like it, it might just be superimposed on something other than the sun.

We'll see, I guess. I dunno what else to say. I should be either sleeping or writing a paper for school, but I've just got Dave Brubeck in my ears and a veritable mess of thoughts running through my head that just got vomited out onto my screen. There's other stuff I could say but this is one place I don't think they're really good to put. If you know me you might have a guess, but I'm not keen on confirming or denying anything. Just better to not say some things, I bet.

If there's a blog post in the future it'll either be further acknowledgement of how I've been on this site for four years, an expansion to the music recommendation post I made a while back, or some update on the thing I'm currently sort-of working on, which is a total rewrite of my first crappy story. Maybe more than one of these things.

I've been writing for something like twenty minutes and while class has been cancelled for me tomorrow I had better call it. I'm tired and if I don't stop I'll fall asleep really uncomfortably in this chair instead of a foot away in my bed. Already got a bad enough back, I don't need to exacerbate the problem.

Let's have some good music to part with. First a bit of what I've been listening to while writing:

A new bit of weird electronic stuff from a new project at my favorite record label:

And some pretty beautiful stuff I discovered late last year:

In a hypothetical music recommendation update post I'll probably mention them. Have a good morning/afternoon/evening/night.