Author: rommel

Tried the hard way to Otay Lakes on the bike this morning and the terrain had the final say. Between the heat and the climbing I tapped out at twenty miles, well short of the lake. No shame in it, just a clear read on where my condition actually stands right now; I’ll build up…

Spotter missed its fire today, which it was not supposed to do. I traced it to the network requests and spent the time hardening them so the same failure doesn’t repeat quietly next time. The rest of the day went to the Uboat, hours at the periscope with little to show for it but the…

The suit remained unbought for a second day running. I stayed inside again, telling myself I was too tired to go out, though the truth is the quest simply stalled. There is a difference between resting and avoiding, and today leaned toward the latter. Time is short now; tomorrow the errand has to happen, no…

The suit doesn’t fit anymore, and two weddings this fall mean I can’t get away with pretending otherwise. It stings a little, less about the mirror and more about the math: over three hundred dollars for two events I didn’t choose the timing of. Liza’s right that it matters, so I’ll go get fitted, but…

Uboat kept crashing on save, and I kept at it anyway, retry after retry, until it finally took. There’s a particular stubbornness that video games bring out that nothing else does; I couldn’t tell you why this one save mattered so much, only that giving up on it wasn’t really an option once I’d started.…

Gave Uboat one last chance, and it met me exactly where it always does, with the same bug that had already sunk it for me before. I left it a negative review on Steam, my first ever. It felt strange to write, but honest: this was, without exaggeration, the worst gaming experience I have had.…

Beat the Astro bot tonight. Didn’t find every puzzle piece in the hidden lab, but that hardly mattered; the game earned more enthusiasm than I expected going in. Started up Uboat afterward, hoping for something in the vein of the old Silent Hunter games, and for a while it delivered. Then I went to save…

Spotter is not coming together, and after another failed attempt today I’ve concluded the approach itself is the problem. I’m setting it aside overnight rather than force it. Better use of the day was Astro Bot, which I’ve torn through faster than expected, three quarters of the game in a single sitting, and it’s earned…

Two hours into the last battle, Mesmer finally went down, and Worms Battlegrounds is beaten. It was a long fight, the kind where you start to wonder if the AI is just better at this than you are, but the win held. On a quieter note, Miguel came by to fix the floorboards. Good to…

Five Worms missions remain, more than a day’s work, so tomorrow will have to close it out. Dinner was tilapia, simple and good. The harder news is the Spotter project, which has run into a wall I haven’t found a way around, and I’m close to setting it down for good. There’s no shame in…