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my progress this year
## journaling
I'm about halfway through my first thicc journal (more of a [commonplace book](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commonplace_book) really) and my first bullet journal, both of which were started in June of this year. I picked up the journaling habit (again) back in March, so I have two other journals I finished before this one (both A5 size), but this is my first thick journal of this style (it's square with grid pages). I'm really enjoying writing again -- I thought I wouldn't have much of anything to write about, but being able to go back and look at how I was feeling a week or a month ago has proved really useful for my own well-being and mental health, so I'm very happy with where I am on this habit currently. 
## retrospring eos
a bunch of people have been hosting their own instances of [retrospring](https://retrospring.net/) in preparation for next year's end-of-service for the site, and I've joined a couple in preparation and to go ahead and reserve my username in case one of them takes off with my friends. I'm currently on both [melospring](https://spring.love4eva.net/) and [fragsturztaube](https://ask.absturztau.be/) in addition to retrospring (until it's end of service), so if you end up joining, give me a follow and I'll follow you back! 
## fountain pens
rip to ur lid, lil homie
I recently brought my bujo to bed to jot down some stuff before I fell asleep and knocked it (and my sparkly pink jinhao fountain pen) off the nightstand in my sleep and broke the lid of my sparkly pink jinhao ;w;
Finally got the other two pens from the Sanrio x Platinum Little Meteor crossover (blue for cinnamoroll, purple for hello kitty) along with some nice lake blue-colored ink to go in the cinnamoroll blue one. (I'm currently using the first bottle of ink I ever bought, [PenBBS 223 - Chongqing City Blue](https://www.fountainpencompanion.com/brands/227-penbbs/inks/5910-penbbs-223-chongqing-city), in the hello kitty purple).
## this website
I've been working on converting this website over to [jekyll](https://jekyllrb.com/), which if you're reading this means I've been successful! I'm having a much easier time with it as opposed to [zola](https://www.getzola.org). It's written in ruby as opposed to rust, which I have more experience with, and seems to be better documented; at least, for a beginner like me it is. :'3
## gaming
I bought [Fields of Mistria](https://www.fieldsofmistria.com/) and have been playing a ton of that and [Stardew Valley](/games/sdv). Playing it for our archipelago games reignited my interest in the game, so I'm back on my modded bullshit uwu
I'm still playing [Divinity: Original Sin 2](https://store.steampowered.com/app/435150/Divinity_Original_Sin_2__Definitive_Edition/) with Amara and Egg; and also [Baldur's Gate 3](https://store.steampowered.com/app/1086940/Baldurs_Gate_3/) with [Fiona](https://www.twitch.tv/powerforge), Egg, and Amara. I stopped my solo playthru of BG3 so I could experience the story with everyone, because that's been more fun for me. 
## home server
I decapitated the server I built earlier this year and set it up inside of my front closet, but I uh...set something up improperly and have to login for any of my daemons to startup... 
So I'll have to drag it out and re-setup the peripherals so I can fix that flub. 
I already miss my [pihole](https://pi-hole.net/). 
