Don't owe anybody anything!

Apparently it had been more than four years since the last time my father and I meaningfully settled our accounts with one another. I suspect I hadn't pushed for it because I thought I was heavily in debt. Four years covers an entire hot water heater, kitchen cabinet, tablet, and various other gribblies. But in the end, I had started off ahead and ended up still ahead though by about half. I definitely need to pick out some more things to go on eBay, though.

At some point I'll make more Accidental Advent posts. It's been about five weeks now and I can honestly say this is one of my better ideas! I drifted away from the shelf of floppy comics and have been working through piles on the mounded desk in my bedroom but it needs attention more so this is a feature not a bug! Anyway, I have definitely been reading and watching a lot of stuff that I wasn't getting to otherwise and honestly, I think I've been shuffling a third or so to the sale box. (Percentages may change as I go, but at least I'll know what I have even if it's all keepers?)

Built MG Astray Blue Frame D, though she needs a few stickers before I declare her actually done. Built an EG Strike that I found while straightening up, and then built an HG Dagger because of a conversation on discord. The Dagger was a nice build, the EG was good, and Blue Frame was sure a build. ^^;; And this morning built an easier-than-it-looked brick kit called Keiji that M got me about 200 years ago. IDK if it counts as Accidental Advent or just normal backlog clearing, hmm. (It's honestly me avoiding the Throne Zwei and its incredibly poor color separation, more likely.)

Overnight I noticed that the one blog doing the Astray 'translations' (despite claiming to be translations with multiple editors, they are clearly just MTL and have a shitton of errors like basic name and term mistakes) had some chapters of Destiny Astray B up and since I apparently don't know when to stop touching the electric cupcake, read through them. And seriously, I feel gross for having done it. Seriously, they're gross. Where VS Astray is just bad fanfic, D Astray B is gross. Like half a chapter over-describing the female performers in a strip-club and that's after repeated descriptions of Elza naked. WHY. This is not what I want in my giant robot stories dammit.

This all started from quietly Lensing a few things in one of the old black-spine Dengeki books. And finding actually interesting material.

A strange week...

September was a decidedly expensive month, so October's personal theme involves being a bit frugal if possible. Nothing is wrong! It was a just a collision of larger bills + events.

This last week was busy: house-sat, had some grout come loose in my shower and had to acquire grout supplies and learn all about grout, got the windows washed (and finally got the screens back in), took the big comforter to the laundromat and washed it...

ficortreat is live, as is octobercest, though the latter hasn't had any activity yet. I suppose I'll advertise both in the days to come.

Finished up the... 1/72(?) Mailes Kenbu, who was a decent-enough build. I might still get the Ghost from that line.

Working on MG Astray Blue Frame D, and when I get annoyed with her, I'll get back to Zwei? No polls for awhile; I really want to enjoy the feeling of grabbing whatever looks interesting and building it. (Next MG-or-1/100 will be a Wing kit though.) I have another kit on the way as audition for Revenant's backpack since I'm not entirely sold on my current choice. Eventually I'll have to decide on colors. IIRC Reverent was mostly white and Revenant decidedly is not.