Mochi Moshi Dev Log #30: The Update Where I Don't Really Talk About the Game (Patreon)

Okay, I want to completely preface this with the fact that all of the information about the game itself will be done in the first section following this intro bit. Nothing after that will be directly about Mochi Moshi and will be more about how fucked up the last bit of this month has been just to kinda get it off my chest, while also talking about PC issues/solutions and setting up a formal office in the states, since I'm back home now. If you care more about the game than you do my personal well being, just read the next block of text and then leave a cool comment maybe. That last sentence isn't really supposed to be biting, I honestly don't expect most people to care if it's not about Mochi Moshi proper. Anyways, I've prattled on long enough, on with the update.

The Mochi Moshi Part of the Update
Ultimately the game's status has been fantastic. A lot of conceptual work has been sifted through and what the game is supposed to look like is at least forming more of a visualizable shape rather than a foggy "we have to have it be this." There's no prototyping of this yet, just written guides as it's still a bit far away. But still, having a sort of idea and writing it before that's part of the stage is still helpful.
LAW is coming along well, and the co-writer is up to her own business. We're supposed to have a meeting now that I'm back in the states. That'll be set up for next month and the next month's update should be about that if there's mind shattering progress (A joke, but it'll be nice to report what's discussed). I'm going to be honest, I would have written more if I wasn't on my way out of Sweden and if the nightmare of returning home wasn't as bad as it was. Which is why...

Airline Nightmare
I've had problems with airline delays before only once. I had my flight from Icelandair get fully canceled and replaced with a Finnair flight that was only about 5 hours delayed. A shitty situation, but I only had a 3 hour layover on that flight instead of the beast of a 17 hour layover this time. More on that in a second. As you guys know, I have a beautiful girlfriend who I visit in Sweden very often, once a year for about 90 days (the max limit without any legal extension or visa). I was leaving Sweden on the 25th at about 4PM~ and everything was nice and ready to go extremely smoothly, when I got an email saying my flight was completely canceled and rescheduled for a 10PM flight, that then got delayed to 11PM. Great, this meant that I had to figure out what to do and I decided to stay in the airport while my girlfriend kept me company for a few hours. We had an airport date, ate the best McDonalds I've ever had, and she parted but kept me company on call. 
It wasn't until I checked my flight plan again that I saw I had a 17 hour delay in Iceland, a connecting flight. Mentally freaking out, I calculated about a 40 hour awake period if they couldn't manage to get a hotel for me. Called the company, they said they might not have vouchers, and then learned that I'd have to keep receipts. Long story short this day was insanely exhausting. I ended up getting a free hotel visit where I slept 6 hours and I haven't been able to sleep a full 8 hours, or more, in the past 4 days. Working has been tough because of this entire situation but I'm not trying to make excuses. It's just been a huge missing part of my last week.

Computer Nightmare
As you guys know, I put a huge call out for help on funding a new Laptop and PC. Some people have reached out and given me some cash to help fund that a little (about 250~ USD), which isn't a full PC price but I never expected people to fully grant me that amount of cash. I appreciate the help and I also appreciate the subscriptions that allow me to keep doing all of this. Thank yous aside, PC problems still exist but I'm managing to work through the beeping and power downs while still not having corrupted drawing files. I'm just adding this in here to reiterate that the problems have not been fixed and that I am continuing to work through them as I secure funds from you guys and my other job.

Office Space
I've said somewhere before that my prime operation in the states consists of working in the living room of a home I share with two other people who can see everything I'm doing on my screens at any given moment as it's the path from the bathroom to the kitchen. I'm mitigating this so I can work more in the middle of the day. A partition has been acquired, shelves have been moved and rearranged, and things have been dusted. Right now I'm 50% done with the space and I started the day I came back. I won't share pictures in here but on my main twitter I might if I think it's cool enough to share. If you don't know my main twitter don't worry about it, but for some reason it's in Metrack's game Hackweight, if you played that.
The goal is to be fully done with the new desk setup in a day or two, this should speed up progress on Anis who may or may not be delayed a day depending on how well drawing goes tonight. As you can tell, it's almost 11PMCST, again I can only do work like this late. I don't work in secret it's more of an embarrassment and environmental comfort/control situation. I cannot work when being talked at or involved in a conversation with someone else.

Things are Going Well
All things considered. Sure I wish I could be with my girlfriend in person since that's a huge emotional health boon on top of this woman being the love of my life, but after all that the transition back to the states, aside from the abhorrent airport experience, has been smooth enough. I don't mean to make excuses, complain or even make it a habit to post about my life instead of talking about the game. It's just difficult to really bring myself to talk about the game when most of the time I dedicate to doing the game I've had to use messing with other things. I know that's quite literally an excuse, but excuse me this once. It's not like I didn't get any work done, in fact I've done pretty much as much as last month, but I always wish I could do more and this was a situation where that could have reigned true. Instead I've dedicated that time to other things and ultimately, my life and health will be better for it and a happy life means a better state to do things. You should have seen me yesterday though, I couldn't operate with any grammatical prowess. I think I literally was talking like I had an IQ reduction fetish.

Thank you
Thank you for supporting me these past months. You never know what kind of things can go wrong and what delays bring you. I won't apologize on the behalf of something that owes me one, but I hope the silence and possible delays in my own work don't effect you guys in any way. I appreciate all the support you give me, allowing me to make my life better as I take actual action to make it better. Next month will have more substantial progress, maybe some screenshots of text I find funny that I write, and talks about the report that I did with my co-writer. Thank you, and have a great rest of August. Stay safe, stay cool and have fun.