Jenn Dolari @dolari@driveinsaturday.org

So I often talk about how I'm in VR a lot, but I really don't do much there.

I'll visit worlds, talk to people, but mostly I'm just hanging out in my virtual spaces watching movies or reading webpages. Just kind of existing, because I can exist there the way I want to.

But once a week, I go into our Creator Jam and build stuff. It's a lot of fun and I'm learning to make more and more complex items. Last week, I made a floating island. But this week we had a "build battle." Two and a half hours to make a world and/or game, with a team of people.

And we built one! A doom-ish game where you're chased by kill fridge. I'm really proud of pur team for this one, so here's a video from the POV of our Creator Jam host.

You'll see me in there in my "performance avatar" which is just a head-and-hands avvie so we don't all bog down the server. I'm in Green with brown hair.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTDqlIOE99w

Packing up toys in the bedroom. These aren't so much toys as they're memories.

Lots of bittersweet here from my decade with Nintendo. Still the best place I ever worked, and the saddest place I ever saw descend into malevolent mediocrity.

So, for lunch today, I had a half-a-block of Ramen with pork sausage. Since this is kinda bland, I touched it up with a but of white pepper and vinegar. And it's VERY good.

Which is great cause I tried that last night I tried this, forgot to whisk the pepper into it, and ate a full teaspoon of white pepper at once. So I wasn't tasting ANYTHING but white pepper last night.

Well, let's get the day started.

All the toys with packaging in the office are repacked and put away for putting into boxes. It doesn't seem like I did much, but it sure felt huge.

Alice Brock
1941-2024

https://www.wbur.org/news/2024/11/22/alice-brock-alices-restaurant-dies

Wow, it's been three days since the windstorm, and power is still out for a ton of folks. We were lucky to get ours back up in a about 12 hours....

Spending a scant few moments in my virtual Las Vegas apartment.

Yesterday was the Transgender Day of Remembrance. A day where we remember people who were killed for being who they are.

What will you do today to make sure there is no need for a vigil tomorrow?

No wonder the internet keeps popping in and out.

Quick heads up. Power is out, internet is spotty. Big wind storm. We're okay.

Listen neighbor, I'm someone who is a late sleeper, so I'm not going to mind this, but our other neighbors will NOT be happy you're running a very loud generator at 11:30PM.

I got three power banks at 100%, and months of MREs to eat...

...but I had work to do!

That's a big fella. Apparently we won't be hit by it, but the winds being sucked into it are going to hit us in a few hours....

Well that was quick. The cruelty is the point.

https://abcnews.go.com/US/republican-introduce-bathroom-bill-banning-transgender/story?id=115989977

I have so much buttermilk, I can't eat this many waffles...

...wait, don't I have Threadgill's cookbook? And didn't they have a buttermilk pie? And Thanksgiving is coming up?

BUTTERMILK PIE IT IS!

Well, I guess after yesterday's 12 hour sleep, one where I got almost no sleep was inevitable.

Ice Cream #4: Blue Moon

So, because I accidentally used buttermilk in my strawberry ice cream, I still had a cup of frozen cream left, so I looked around for another regional ice cream flavor I could make, and came across "Superman."

But one of the ingredients of Superman, named for the color, was "Blue Moon." I decided to go with that first, and try Superman some other time. And Blue Moon is GOOD.

Basically, if you want the flavor of Blue Moon, go eat some Froot Loops Cereal with a LOT of milk. Let it soak in there a good while, then eat the Froot Loops. And all the milk left over? THAT'S the taste of Blue Moon. In fact, if you could add some crushed froot loops this would be amazing.

This one was made with frozen raspberries, which it recommends if you can't find raspberry extract or oil. I wouldn't do it that way as the seeds get into the ice cream (I don't mind that), but the raspberries don't incorporate well, or deliver a strong raspberry flavor.

But I'd totally make this again.