Seriously though... this year has gotten off to a weird start. I've been focusing as much as possible on finishing off this story bit while trying not to burn myself out after taking a break to... well, you know. Not burn myself out. And it has been working! That's the good part.

In keeping with this attempt to not ruin this good thing I've got going on, I've recently picked up a set of tiny chisels to use on my model kits.

For years, I've used whatever pointy thing I had to cut in the panel lines on my kits. Bandai does some great things with their kits but plastic is finicky and sometimes you need to carve out the existing lines/details a little deeper before you add ink or paint to highlight them.

For Years, I've been using fresh blades and an old snapped blade and even a bunch of sewing needles to do the job. This worked well enough... until I wanted to try doing My Own panel lines. I tried using my existing gear and, well... I got to fix a bust SDCS kit with the spare parts from the stuff I had to buy to fix my mistake. Who would've guessed that pointy things would practically skate over a unblemished surface or catch the weirdest angles and cut the wrong way? -.-

I now have this set of tiny chisels in a bunch of different sizes that should both help me not ruin kits by using the absolute wrong tools to make new panel lines on them AND save my existing tools from being slowly destroyed by me using them for stuff they weren't meant to be used for.

On a more Biff-related note:

Thanks to some amazingly helpful folks over on Mastodon, I got some good info and some possible leads for updating the base code that runs this place. = )

The next step I need to take is to test the code. Something that, thanks to the current site's limitations, I can't test live online. This means I get to do something I haven't tried in Years - Running a Local Server! It's not a terribly hard thing to pull off but I know my luck. So far, I can get the relatively easy stuff like PHP and MySQL running like champs. Now I just need to read up on using them to build a database that I can work with and where/how to drop my files so I can actually, you know... Do the whole "Website" Thing.

Before all that, I have one last strip to finish and Maybe think of something for Biff's 17th year dealie coming up later this month. Stuff to do and stuff to think about. = )

Remember: Stay Safe. Wear a Mask. Get vaccinated if you can. Get a booster if you're already good on all that. And remember to keep your head up.

'Till next time! = )