The Doug Alone

Pictured: a photo I took of a pumpkin by a fountain where the water collected in the stop and there was this strange "blue eye" effect with lots of little bugs climbing around inside. It has been a moment since I did my last "fourth wall break" so I figured it would a good time to do another. Three topics generally have been bouncing around in my head for a minute and I kind of wanted to get them out there for myself to have a kind of marker so let's do it.  Formatting in the Technical Sense For a while the colors on this blog were rough on the eyes in some places. The text was a dark gray, links were a bright green, and the background was white + light gray. It meant some text was pretty hard to focus on and I had tried playing with changing colors and font sizes for specific posts but it was not really working out so I went back and did some universal changes to make the fonts a little bit bigger, a bit darker, and generally a more readable format and color

This last week or so has been the "Welcome Back" week for the college campus where I work so my ability to spend time working on anything game related - solo or otherwise - was somewhere less than zero. It was a good and positive 10ish days, overall, and got to meet a lot of students at various library-related events and such but I am bone tired (unfortunately literally, ouchies).  Hoping to resume in the next day or two and finish out some threads I have typed up here or there but also felt it might be good to take a moment to do a "fourth wall break" and just drop a few things here... for this first one we'll keep it simple: a new tea I'm enjoying a few RPG products I picked up to add into my solo games.  A New Tea Blend I Am Adoring Despite tending to like black and green teas more on the strong and plain side, I picked up Ahmad's Paradise Blend from a local market and have actually been really enjoying it. It has bergamot and orange blossom and it w