Kel the Purple @kel@witches.town

I have spent the better part of three days just going through the Undertale pages on TVTropes and I am nowhere near done.

It is helping me realize I REALLY need to do more planning before I release the actual demo of my game.

I am excited, but I ABSOLUTELY don't want it to be an Undertale clone tbh?

That's no good for anyone

6. All action must be confined to the natural environment of the two characters — the southwest American desert.
7. All materials, tools, weapons, or mechanical conveniences must be obtained from the Acme Corporation.
8. Whenever possible, make gravity the Coyote’s greatest enemy.
9. The Coyote is always more humiliated than harmed by his failures.

1. The Road Runner cannot harm the Coyote except by going “beep-beep!”
2. No outside force can harm the Coyote — only his own ineptitude or the failure of the Acme products.
3. The Coyote could stop anytime — if he were not a fanatic. (Repeat: “A fanatic is one who redoubles his effort when he has forgotten his aim.” — George Santayana)
4. No dialogue ever, except “beep-beep!”
5. The Road Runner must stay on the road — otherwise, logically, he would not be called road runner.

I made an agender heart for a friend

CC0, as is usual

https://cybre.space/media/2U-0_f2sNPOgB5w_FoU

still deep in that monster mood
#mastoart #art

by this time the shift's almost over so it's like, whatever, I tell the supervisor about it and start cleaning up etc.

but I suppose it's fitting that this tale of workplace mishaps should have ended in fire

a very tiny fire burning pure hydrogen

but still, a fire

one of Loki's favorite things

*puts out the metaphorical cigarette*

well, better get ready for tonight's shift

and then, just to finish this story off right

once it's all cleaned up we go back to our routine duties and the red-haired guy ask me to finish what he'd started in the lab, which was running a sample of biodiesel through the GC

I resume his sample preparation and get a little ways and then I notice that the flame ionization detector on the gas chromatograph has gone mad

it's been doing this lately

just outputting a high signal

I grab some gloves and head back to it, usually I don't like cleaning up other people's messes but this one's really not _too_ bad (I'd rather clean up spilled water, even dirty and greasy water, than spilled biofuel or god help me spilled oil), and I'm in a rare mood now

and on the way I just start _laughing_

"Loki you are a mean one", I tell them

because they're with me now, and laughing too

when I got to it water was pouring out the top of this tote, which because it had been used for other crap probably had a little bit of oil or biodiesel or something in it that emulsified with the water pouring into it, so all this milky yellow-white water was puddling everywhere

I hastily turn off the water and go back to the lab

"hey, uh, were you doing this thing?"

"yeah"

"well, you'd better come look, you made a _big_ mess"

he was...quiet

he'd put a big 250-gallon plastic tote in a metal framework (looks like the pic below) near the columns and stuck in a hose to fill it up with tap water. it takes forever to fill up the whole 250 gallons in this way so he'd evidently gone off to do something else, like go to the lab and complain about its cleanliness

meanwhile forgetting about the hose

anyway I say some commiserative thing and then head out to the factory floor

well

we got these big columns filled with ion-exchange resin beads for "dry washing" the crude biodiesel, removing soap and glycerol from it. it's a shitty system IMO but whatever

the glycerol gets entrained in the beads and has to be washed out with water periodically (and eventually the beads go bad)

red-haired guy was setting up to wash one of these columns

this morning I'm in the little chem lab at the factory, sittiing and waiting for some titration or other to finish, and the ginger guy is there, and of course he finds something to complain about

someone had left a beaker with a bit of biodiesel in it lying around after using it to prep the stuff for the gas chromatograph. "Why don't people clean up after themselves blah blah"

I don't like it either but it's like a minute to do the cleanup myself

so there's this guy at work I've complained about before

red-haired beardy gamer geek, appalling taste in entertainment that I get to find out about every night shift—and he _always_ works nights. I've been kind of afraid of him because he complains about little things all the time

lately though I've been getting on better with him. HRT has helped there, because now I find it simply easier to talk with people in general instead of storing it up

but more generally, Loki seems to have an interest in teaching me to be more mindful, to use time and actions more efficiently, to be more careful and forethoughtful (because that's how you get to be a better sneakthief)

and I have to admit, that's a pretty nice skill to polish up at a job like mine that, although it has its routine side, consists largely of dealing with the unexpected

well, I got a little lesson in that earlier today, and so did this particular coworker!

some while after I put that up, I had a spiritual experience with Loki (they drop in on me maybe every couple of weeks, at least...it's not a certain thing) and they _said_ that, whoever else I'd been intending to honor in that spiritual space, the fact that I was doing it sneakily, basically doing a crime, meant that they were now involved

as I've mentioned before, Loki seems to have some interest in shaping and taming my tendency to lawlessness and petty theft