Perhaps I should catalog the daily accomplishments. T-minus 5 days.

I was thinking to myself the other night that I should probably be "doing more" with the time that I have. Then I realized that I was actually accomplishing quite a bit, but wasn't cataloging it very well. It should be a combination of both the big picture goal as well as the steps along the way to show progress.

Yesterday I broke out my guitar and played music for an hour. When I was younger I did this every day. As I got older it sort of just, I dunno, stopped. My accomplishment yesterday was music related and I'm quite stoked about it.

I arranged a simple version of "Spooky Scary Skeletons" for my kids and I also decided I'm going to try out for The Voice. It's all virtual, so no real harm in just submitting a video. Why not? I wanted to do it a few years ago, but got cold feet. This is my vacation, so I might as well give it my all!

We also got the Christmas tree decorated.

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Fair Use in the Coloring Book

Fair Use is an interesting thing. I've been sharing little snippets of my 90s Video Game coloring book and got my first side-eye comment that it's obviously (it is) a coloring page from a screenshot of a video game. I was doing some digging on the web and found a really good article written by Northwestern University on the subject ( link ). Specifically they put together a coloring book (how serendipitous!) of work in their art collection. Columbia also has a good page on just explaining these four categories to consider ( link ). I decided to fill it out in the same way for what I'm doing with this 90s Video Game coloring book. 1. The Purpose and Character of the Use The coloring book is designed to celebrate and used as a teaching tool that showcases influential and relevant video games from the 1990s. The work itself is also transformed as the utility of the original work has changed substantially (i.e. a coloring page will not be confused with a video game nor be confu

Pim Pam funded! T-minus 1 day.

I also created a digital demo so folks can try out the mechanic: https://alexandershen.itch.io/pim-pam-demo Looking forward to my last day tomorrow.

Can't forget the Quests Over Coffee crowd. Today's my last day.

It's my last day at work. It's bittersweet. I'll miss many of the people I worked with. We really delivered and shipped some amazing things. I'm not going to miss checking my phone at all hours for messages, feeling the need to get online at 6:00a to help put out a fire, or bringing my computer on vacation. They'll be fine. They already have the job rec for my backfill out in the wild (the body's not even cold yet!). I know hiring is difficult and can take months end-to-end, so no ill feelings! I've been so hyperfocused on the new projects as of late that I just need to shift gears and get back in the Quests Over Coffee world again. The December theme should be fun to put together! I put together a digital demo of Pim Pam so people could get a feel for the gameplay (minus the Wild card) to see if its speed/quickness is for them. Hopefully it allows folks to make an informed decision! You can try it here: https://alexandershen.itch.io/pim-pam-demo

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