My childhood.
Bussin’
I made the 6 hour drive out to Chicago to go to the Genshin Impact concert. It was an incredible experience getting to hear the music of Teyvat from a live orchestra!
I also put together a playlist from the concert which you can find here.
I picked up the Horizon Zero Dawn LEGO set on a Black Friday deal, and what a neat build this is. The model makes for a great display piece.
Shibuya
It’s pretty great driving the biggest, baddest EV in town.
Decided to use some of my Microsoft reward points on the Starfield limited edition controller. Love this one, look at those clear triggers!
Mouth of the cave.
Crossing the Ohio, Part 2.
Crossing the Ohio.
Play well.
Iced chai is lovely on a hot day like today.
Starfield looks like a game I’m going to sink a ridiculous amount of time into. September 6th can’t come soon enough!
Silver Wolf finally showed up after losing the 50/50 to Welt, and 70 more warps.
A notification popped up on my iPad saying that it was no longer being backed up, so I did a bit of investigation into my iCloud storage. Turns out that Genshin Impact and Honkai Star Rail are backing up their entire contents to iCloud, which seems pretty unnecessary. That’s 60+GB between my iPhone and iPad! iOS offers a toggle for backups on a per-app basis, at least.
On a related note, it sure would be nice if we had a few more options for iCloud storage. There’s a pretty big gap between $2.99/200GB and $9.99/2TB. I would love to see a 500GB or 1TB option.
New Apple things I’m most excited for:
- Interactive widgets. Should have been there from the start.
- StandBy. Time to buy a bunch of charging stands to place around the home!
- Journal app. I’ve been looking for a solution to replace Day One, looks like this will fill that gap perfectly for me.
Apple Vision Pro looks incredible and I’d love to give it a try, but the $3500 price tag is just too much. Here’s hoping we’ll see a non-Pro “Apple Vision” a few years down the road at a much lower cost.
Great day for a roadeo.
Wild storm clouds today. The rain was very welcome!
I finally got around to finishing and hanging The Great Wave set. It’s a work of art! (pun intended) I really love the clever parts usage in the details of the wave and the people in the boats. I’m not even an art or history buff, but I’m super happy with this set.
It weighs a bit more than I’d like for the nails I have, so I’ll probably need a more permanent mounting solution pretty soon.
Wyrmwood x Dispel elemental dice arrived today! 🤩 I opted for the iridescent space dice and a cherry dice vault. They’re every bit as pretty as I hoped.
