Chris Salzman @csalzman@a2mi.social

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the christmas one shot is dangerously close to breaking 10 dollars in cold hard profit. I absolutely 100% did not do this for the money (bc lol, the hourly pay calculation...), but I find stats like that hard to not look at.

More importantly for me is that it's been downloaded almost 84 times! Here's hoping even 10% of those people play it!

@csalzman update: a lot went wrong and I needed both my computer and the backup usb thumb drive I wisely brought. Also, no one has photo printing kiosks anymore other than meijer.

Every year _something_ goes wrong too. 🎼 it's the most stre-essss-ful timeeeeeee of the year.

Looks like it's time for my annual "oh crap we need to print off a bunch of photos to hand out for christmas gifts tomorrow" trip to fedex!

A few years ago on a lark I illustrated and laid out an essay that Dave-o wrote called "In Michigan". He recently published it on his site.

The essay is phenomenal and well worth reading. It gets at the sort of melancholy I feel every winter in this fair state:

https://davideriknelson.com/InMichigan/

D&D highlight today was the party taking out the BBEG very handily through some excellent strategy and @george getting just the luckiest shot off at the start of combat.

Excited to see what happens next!

(Trying to do all the marketing "right" takes time and goodness I should have started three months ago! There's always next year.)

Finishing up a landing page for my Christmas one shot:

https://chrissalzman.com/christmas-one-shot-marleys-scrooge-case/

If this looks interesting and you want to play (and you haven't let me know already) I'll be running it in the next few weeks! Holler at me and I'll get you the doodle link for scheduling.

@csalzman it works! https://www.instagram.com/p/BrT7_yYgqB0/?utm_source=ig_share_sheet&igshid=uxlbamw5wixe

A “fun” thing we do sometimes is say “babadooook” through the baby monitor to each other. Do not do this to your significant other unless you are prepared to have it done to you.

Made some progress on a cyclone dust system last night. Was all going well until the shopvac started emitting an earsplitting whistle. Googling and this is a common enough problem (something about resonance and seals) that they sell mufflers that go between your hose and the shopvac.

The 10 seconds I got to test the cyclone system though were promising! all the dust went into the bucket, not the shopvac.

TIL about this cargo bike kit that you can attach and take off a normal bike:

https://argobikes.com

We've been thinking about getting a bakefeits style bike (they are pricey though...). the toddler wants to talk, but I can't hear her very well in the trailer with the rain/wind cover down.

REVISED PRICE: I'm told that you can get a google home mini new from a store for 30. I'll let this go for 15 if you want it. Or trade me something fun?

Does anyone want a google home mini? I have one new in box that you can have for 20 bucks. Got it as part of a promo, but a smart home thing is not of interest to our family.

Santa is Lawful Evil

I fixed a door yesterday and then spent way too much time being philosophical about it: https://chrissalzman.com/blog/adoorsomelessons/

Installed a range hood (not venting out the roof, but at least it'll circulate through a filter) and ordered an under-counter pull-out trash/recycling thingy.

Barring a full remodel we're at least going to make this kitchen as good as it can be.