ive been busy as fuckkkkkk finishing up my courses. anyway.
the 2.0 version of my website is now public! it still has a long way to go and is pretty obviously a WIP, but i thought it was time to finally share it.
my current priority is to get the homepage to be more Whole. something presentable.
idk what to put here yet man
this gif of my glasses falling off my hat while on mainstage for splatoon 3 at Riptide 2023 was on screen on stage at the Vic Theater in Chicago at The Wozzies presented by Scott The Woz July 15 2024
so thursday was really difficult for me because i learned that UPS totally fucked me over.. i spent most of wednesday making my riptide buttons (which i was planning to hand out in person, obviously) and cleaning them all one-by-one (over 50!) and preparing the package to send them in/the shipping details. i couldnt just hand off the buttons to my travel buddies because i didn't take the train home. because i have covid. so i was gonna overnight mail them to the kalahari and they would arrive friday morning, and then my friends and teammates could hand them out for me! it was one of the few ways i could still participate in the event and it really helped me cope to come up with this plan.
the way im writing this doesnt make a lot of sense like how im structuring this story but i dont really care enough to clean it up this is basically like a journal and ive already told this story like 4 times at this point so. anywayy. i was really excited to get these buttons to riptide and at like 9pm when i finished getting it all together we dropped off the package at a UPS dropbox, yknow rather than wait until tomorrow when the UPS store is open to go in person. figured that would be faster, get the package to them asap, doesnt require me getting my friend with a car to do me any favors. Well,. apparently they dont check the dropbox very often. they only got to it like 20 hours later, and because they got to it so late, the shipping estimate gained a day. but uh oh, 2 day overnight shipping doesnt ship on saturdays for some reason! and of course no packages are delivered sunday. so my little love letter wouldnt arrive at sandusky until monday, when the event is over and none of my friends are still there.
i called and emailed UPS and to summarize, there was literally nothing i could do about it. i could not pay more for a better shipping plan, i could not even get the package back until monday. so i just had to cancel the shipment. and have a really, really bad day thursday.
it was just like.. i already had atrocious luck getting covid before riptide, and i was coping by finding these small ways i could participate anyway. and this felt like i had got the rug pulled from under me, AGAIN.. like i Couldnt Even Have This. like the world was out to freaking get me. but all in perspective, its really not a big deal.. im planning on sending my buttons out individually to my friends who want them, and ill save a lot of them for riptide next year + chishoals. its not like they will never get handed out. and ill still be getting my wonderful signed poster !!!! and in the grand scheme of things its pretty small potatos u know...... but ya that made for a really really hard night. im rly chilling now. although a little sad watching all the images and stories from riptide day 1 pour in.. but im happy for my friends and community (':
AND IM STILL SICK BUT ITS OK
