July 30: First Stream from Ohio!
I started the day, as is the new normal, by taking the dogs for their morning consti-poop-tional! I take them out, one at a time, to prevent getting tangled up. On both walks, I saw a cute lil brown bunny (and the dogs didn't!) Each morning, I've seen a neighbour take their cat (or smol dog) out for a potty break, and we've exchanged hellos. This time, they were walking to their car and started telling Kit how pretty she was. Kit is normally very standoffish, but she was excited to see the neighbour. Her lil tail wagged something fierce, and she jumped up on her?! I was so surprised. Neighbour asked permission before petting Kit, but at that point it seemed it was probably fine. I appreciate being asked though!
Later in the morning, the internet fell over so I was rudely forced to do offline things. I have plenty of reading material, and crafty stuff, so that was totally fine. Dean had mentioned that there's a food truck that parks nearby on Tuesday afternoons, so I decided to take a stroll for myself, and get some fresh air too. I guess I was too early for the food truck, but I did see a truck for the ISP, so that was good! I had a lil wander about, enjoying the greenery and the retention ponds (so poetic!) My timing was perfect as, when I walked in the door, I heard the echo thing make chime sounds to announce it was online again!
Since everything was working, I got to dealing with some emails and stuffs, and decided it was time to do the stream thing! I started out with a couple of indie titles, but my brain was not in the mood for learning new things. Ended up switching to Vintage Story (SURPRISE!) after chatting about a few different mods. I enjoyed them so much, I think I might reset the Fourthwall VS server and get it going with these new ones. We'll have a chat about which mods in discord so, please share any input on what you'd like to be see on the server.
Alerts and things were a bit wonky, but apparently that was a twitch issue. I had tested all of the things through streamerbot before I went live, but none worked properly after I pushed the start button. I couldnt tell what was working/not working, so I just disabled all redemptions so people don't waste their channel points. Hopefully alerts will be better for Wednesday!Â
I wasnt sure what to do/play, and I was anxious that noone would come, but it worked out wonderfully. I'm so lucky to have such lovely people in the community!