...man. Thirty. That sure is... a number.

No content updates per se (aside from a quick "hey, the server move's done, hopefully this'll be the last"), since I've mostly been taking it easy/busy with work/dealing with stuff. The one thing I would've reasonably been able to have ready given my month so far isn't quite postable yet, but hopefully it, or a variation thereupon, will be ready to go up in the near-ish future. In the meantime, what's on the docket for this year?

Altered Origin turns eleven years old today! Not as momentous as ten, certainly, but still a little terrifying, haha. It's going to be another quiet one due to busy days and a few personal hiccups, but here's what I've got...

I guess I'm just gonna do this on my birthday from now on rather than anywhere remotely near the first of the month? That's how it's been shaking out for a while, I guess? Sure!

Nothing new to add to AO today; I decided to just relax for my special day rather than scramble to get some frivolous project or other done because I am The Best at remembering deadlines. I do have plans, though! Plenty of stuff I'd like to see happen this year, ideas and concentration willing. Let's see...

I'm still having some difficulty processing it, to be honest. Ten years. Ten years ago was when the Demented Chicken Network first saw the light of day, tossed up on some inexpensive hosting while I was lounging around in my dorm during freshman year. And having written that I've just realized that this website, as dcNET and Altered Origin and all the miscellanous constituent projects that popped up here and there and were eventually folded back in, like Insubstantiality (my sporadic "blogging") or 493 (the one-shot pokédex project that survives today as 807 mini), has been with me for almost my entire adult life so far. Oh, man. That's... that's a thing. That is a thing. I don't know what to do with this information.

I'll figure it out eventually, I suppose. In the mean time, how about a few birthday updates so you visitors can enjoy yourselves while I'm over here having my mind blown?