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./january 2025

• fulfilled one of my life's dreams: watching an entire AGDQ. We left the living room TV on almost 24/7 during the event, and watched the runs while working. It was very good

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TOP 5 AGDQ 2025 RUNS

1. Ratchet & Clank: Going Commando Max%
2. Tetris: The Grand Master Multi Game Showcase
3. New Super Mario Bros. Wii Any% While Playing Piano
4. Elden Ring DLC Lockout Bingo
5. Crazy Taxi with Live Backing Band

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• started watching Scavenger's Reign
• watched Sonic 3 and found the script fun but the dubbing absolute garbage

• decided to do something experimental and different with my wife...... started reading We Have Always Lived In The Castle aloud to her
• read exactly one book: You Can Negotiate Anything

• was reminded by AnyAustin that it's possible to make a good video with minimal editing

• drafted a semantic search site for CD-ROMs and put it on AWS but haven't finished it yet
• had ideas for two other visualizations to make but haven't done any yet
• made a visualization of Brazilian names with 3 letters

• started studying for the AWS machine learning engineer certification

• went to a garden center and was summoned to choose a plant to inhabit our residence, at which point I chose the most Chaotic Evil plant I could find -- a moment which, in retrospect, was the beginning of my Little Bloodborne Era

• honestly I don't want to recount this story for the umpteenth time, but I want to say two things: first that I'm now Fine and my life is completely Normal, and second that during the 50 minutes in which I lay on a stretcher blindfolded and anesthetized, I had to act as a simultaneous translator between a medical team that didn't speak Portuguese and a nursing team that didn't speak English -- all this, of course, while an Italian, a South Korean, a Dominican, and an American stuck a radioactive needle in my neck and learned to do the procedure live. On me
• over an interminable 24-hour period, I went through one of the most bizarre and potentially fatal (!?!) experiences of my life
• showed up at a public hospital to undergo an elective surgery planned 6 months ago

Italian student: "Like This?"
American instructor: "Perfect, perfect, yes, just like that, you're doing great."
Italian: *continues moving the needle*
Instructor: "Now through the second layer... Just a little bit deeper... Go down a bit... Excellent..."
Me: *feels a sharp pain* Ouch!
Instructor: "Yeah not like that, that was too deep"
Me: O_O

• read four chapters of The Paleblood Hunt and found it an amazing fanfic
• enjoyed Bloodborne
• during my two weeks of recovery at home without physical exercise ("and that includes making out" -- Dr. Camilla), accumulated 51 hours of Bloodborne -- two weeks in which I completely immersed myself in the game to the detriment of anything else in my life

• suffered through one of the hottest months of my life, and one of the least hot months of the rest of my life -- I'm talking about a heat index of 49.5ºC (121ºF) in this crap, a heat that melts even your neurons and makes you forget any phrase beyond "it's hot, isn't it?"

• adventurous yet resolute, I entered 1 cave and 0 waterfalls
• did a hike organized by my neighborhood's residents association, where we passed by 4 waterfalls and 1 cave

• finally visited my FLGS and was disappointed by its small size and intense dedication to the cardboard card game for rich people
• took an experimental yoga class and really enjoyed it

• we solved the elusive remote control problem by Changing the Batteries

• received 40 more CD-ROMs and at least 10 emails from people asking about some specific CD
• saw the bluesky post about the preservation project hit again
• catalogued more than 100 CD-ROMs in the Digerati spreadsheet

• wrote 4 RPG monsters and intend to write more

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