Stuff

Okay, so I tried a game called "HabitRPG" because I saw someone mention it was getting them motivated to do stuff. And so far it has gotten me motivated to do stuff, which is pretty impressive. For example I realized that when I heat up a cup of tea or something in the microwave I could clean the kitchen for that minute and twenty seconds instead of just pace around--and now the kitchen is *much* cleaner, and that section of my HabitRPG page has turned blue (indicating I'm making this a habit.)

And someone e-mailed me to ask about getting hold of Under The Gripping Beast--Echo's Children's first CD, which is out of print. Apparently it's offered for sale (a used copy, I suppose) on Amazon for $75 (boggle.) I put it as a "to do" on HabitRPG and managed to get it all uploaded in one day yesterday. For those who are interested, it's at the Echo's Children's bandcamp page, available for $10 for high-quality (CD quality anyway) downloads.

Now the other three CDs are "to dos" on HabitRPG, and we will see--I'm hoping to get one up today, and one up Friday...tomorrow will be a loss, since I'm working at the clinic again which will eat half the day.

And I notice there's more talk about Rape Culture.  Good.  I look forward to the day--which I may not live to see--that people stop assuming other people are meat who exist for their pleasure.  I look forward to the day when people blame rapists for raping, not rape victims for not being able to stop rapists.  I look forward to the day when the only imaginable sex involves a partner or partners who are enthusiastic and enjoying themselves.

Some thoughts on HabitRPG

HabitRPG is a sort of mix of gaming and a to-do list.  There are three categories you can add things to.  "Habits" are things you may want to do several times a day, "dailies" are once-a-day things and "to-dos" are one-time things.  You type them in yourself, and you can add or subtract new ones all along, as far as I can tell.

"Good" actions (as you define them--but doing the good side of a habit, or checking off a daily, or checking off a to-do) gain you experience and gold.  "Bad" actions (again as you define them--but doing a bad habit, or not checking off a daily) cost you hit points.  You can specify "rewards" (and are encouraged to) and can spend your gold on them (and then presumably go claim them in real life, if that's something you can do.  So you could specify that a new fantasy book is 20 gold, and when you earn that much, you check off the reward and then go to the store and buy your new fantasy book to reward yourself.)

So I thought of a clever new habit "clean kitchen while heating drinks in the microwave."  If I remember to do it, I click the plus side, if I forget, the minus side (but I hardly forget at all now.)  And another new habit "work on new song" and another "meditate."  My dailies are things like "practice mandolin"  "practice octave mandolin" "practice vocals" "exercise"  "three helpings veggies" and stuff like that.  Recent to-dos were "Put Under The Gripping Beast on Bandcamp", and "make playlist of my favorites of Peter's songs"

So far, so good.  The kitchen is, if not quite "sparkling," as Kip claimed this morning, still clean enough that I wouldn't be embarrassed to have a stranger drop in.  I've worked on songs the past three days, and have a couple new ones well on the way to being finished.  Two Echo's Children CDs are up on Bandcamp now, and the third and fourth are in the queue.  I'm doing a lot better than I have been the past couple of months, when it was all I could do to get my practicing done.  I think I like this game.